Borthwick:
"this world of flow, of streams, contains a very different possibility set to the world of pages"...
"watching a 30 min delay on a stream — is somewhere between weird and useless"...
"Defined use case vs. open use case.. If Facebook is the well organized, pre planned town Twitter is more like new urban-ism — its organic and the paths are formed by the users...
"Eno: It’s a misunderstanding to think that the traces of human activity — brushstrokes, tuning drift, arrhythmia — are not part of the work. They are the fundamental texture of the work, the fine grain of it."
SH note:
The Now Web is synchronous -- and synchronous tends to favor urgency over importance, drama over efficiency. Phone calls and IMs are to email what the NYT Stream is to the NYT home/front page: More now/synchronous/exciting, but arguably less efficient. Do we choose the excitement of urgency -- over importance? The excitement and human drama of waiting in line at the Apple Store -- and watching a crowd draw a crowd -- is less efficient than waiting a couple days to buy the Apple Thing a couple days after launch with no line. When does excitement & drama trump efficiency? And when does it not?
"this world of flow, of streams, contains a very different possibility set to the world of pages"...
"watching a 30 min delay on a stream — is somewhere between weird and useless"...
"Defined use case vs. open use case.. If Facebook is the well organized, pre planned town Twitter is more like new urban-ism — its organic and the paths are formed by the users...
"Eno: It’s a misunderstanding to think that the traces of human activity — brushstrokes, tuning drift, arrhythmia — are not part of the work. They are the fundamental texture of the work, the fine grain of it."
SH note:
The Now Web is synchronous -- and synchronous tends to favor urgency over importance, drama over efficiency. Phone calls and IMs are to email what the NYT Stream is to the NYT home/front page: More now/synchronous/exciting, but arguably less efficient. Do we choose the excitement of urgency -- over importance? The excitement and human drama of waiting in line at the Apple Store -- and watching a crowd draw a crowd -- is less efficient than waiting a couple days to buy the Apple Thing a couple days after launch with no line. When does excitement & drama trump efficiency? And when does it not?
