We Build Our ToolsAnd They Shape Us:
How Lifestreaming Is Shaping Web Culture
Stowe Boyd
Author, /Message, Front Man for The /MessengersSocial tools and their impact on business, media, and society
Apologies
“We make our toolsand forever after they shape us.”
Marshall McLuhan
Social Tools
“A new category ofsoftware is emerging,software intended toaugment socialsystems. […] I call
these social tools:software intended toshape culture.”
Tools
Streaming, Part 1
Social = Me First
Social Scale
Culture
Streaming, Part 2
Flow
Time
Media
Society
Work
The War On Flow
Stowe [email protected]
www.stoweboyd.com
CreditsNew York Stock Exchange Floor by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 1963 (LOC) - Pingnews.com -http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/508717757/
Messerschmidt Blueprint - Synapse - http://www.flickr.com/photos/synapse/1384561426/
Color Animated fractal ........TendrillonGsr06102006 - SantaRosa OLD SKOOL -http://www.flickr.com/photos/santarosa/261923723/
The finest flow ever - Populux!! - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/56571568/
Creative Media Jam - Hospital - Factoids - http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoids/194864309/
Carp Streamer - m louis - http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-louis/140402492/
Passport - Gravitywave - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravitywave/366712496/
Crowd walking to buses and cars after the fireworks - Jill - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lij/1739672/
Closeup of newspaper stack - Binarydreams - http://www.flickr.com/photos/binarydreams/251690096/
Close Quarters - NNNNIC - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqrt/907934275/
Glider With Maneuverable Wing Extremities - Curious Expeditions -http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/962399228/
Self-Centered? - TruthLying - http://www.flickr.com/photos/truthlying/30486286/Late evening sunlight through clouds - reinholdbehringer - http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinholdbehringer/448792619/Water Streaming Past - Inkswamp - http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkswamp/97457480/
Untitled - pjvandi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pejmanphotos/731315170/
Town Clock - joesflickr’s - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joesflickr/711358450/
Aidan’s First Airline Ticket - Aidan Love - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidanlove/369638970/
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