over at social software. I just wanted to share the links and excerpt with you:

www.doorsofperception.com/In+th...ls/68/

Excerpts:
"We now design messages, not interactions. The world is awash in print, and ads, and billboards, and packaging, and spam. Semiotic pollution. Brand intrusion at every turn.
Our buildings are now about one-way-communication, too. Sports stadia, museums, theatres, science and convention centres. Such buildings do an accomplished technical job: they deliver pre-cooked experiences to passive crowds. ...
Luckily, the era of the creative class is over. Point-to-mass advertising, onanistic art, and big-ticket spectacles, are over.

We are in a transition to a post-spectacular, post-massified culture. Our cities, from now on, will be judged by their capacity to foster collaboration, encounter, intimacy, and work. Much like cities used to be judged, before they fell into the hands of the creative class."

"[M]obile phones and networks do not make the city disappear. On the contrary, they render the city itself more powerful as an interface."


Re: from tribe to neighborhood, and back again
Good one !
I'd like to combine that with this :

www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp...NoO.html