Suffering from digital overload*? Your life socially networked to the point of implosion? Then Simple Station may be for you.
I’m interested in whether the web/internet is changing the way our brains work. Not much conclusive evidence on that yet. But it has certainly changed my patterns of work, simultaneously for the better and the worse. Neil Postman** describes this in a quaintly digi-retro way as ‘cyberspace’s faustian pact‘
How one navigates through central station, uses and abuses it, and extracts from it and well as adds to it is a subject i will probably return to. In the new CenSta header – (a creative social network, made by ISO) – the bulk of the creative and social parts of Cen Sta are made by the users and members, the infrastructure and much of the catalysing is made by ISO. what we do, either individually or collectively with this creative output is one of the most interesting issues at the centre of central station as it links to issues of ideas, ownership, collaboration, the ‘speed’ of the digital world, and the way work surfaces and disappears so fleetingly. I believe Neil Mulholland is also interested in examining central station as a tool and a mirror to some more ‘medieval’ societies/networks, and look forward to what he might do with this.
If any other central members are up for finding interesting new ways of either visualising, mixing, or reverse-engineering the site, please get in touch…
* Fellow NESTAer Gavin O’Carroll and his digital health service may be able to help
** I’m always interested in what other people called Neil are up to. Are you called Neil? Get in touch…
***this is from an evolving and unfinished ‘presentation-blog‘ on some networked aspects of interaction design, for work I do at GSA. the idea is that the blog will connect to itself in a number of different permutations. I still need to sort this out. If you’re interested in discussing the topic please wade in…
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