Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project “Quiet” in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.
Heck yea—this made me laugh… it’s true. You got so many people calling themselves “digital strategists” and “social media superheroes” but how does it translate into revenue stream. Just hooking into things is not the answer—but somehow people think that it can unlock a magic door, and people will flood in. Better yet—after they flood in, they will be buying whatever you have to sell like mad… have a laugh and watch this video, and don’t fall for someone trying to sell you—this stuff takes time!
Adobe has launched a Photoshop iPhone App that gives you some of the simplest and also most powerful tools that people love about Photoshop… and best of all, it’s FREE. It works almost entirely off touch-gestures instead of using dials and sliders .etc like most other apps or indeed the desktop versions of Photoshop.
The app will take a little getting use to with the gestures, but one you do, it’s fast, slick and pretty powerful. Click here to download it from iTunes. (it’s free remember!) Oh, you’ll need a photoshop.com account (also free) which allows you to instantly upload or download photos from your cloud account. Just another one of the great features!
I like this article from Organic, adding to the fact that social media done right takes a huge amount of time and dollars. “…Pulling a bunch of feeds together does not create a story about the brand, or open the doors for a new kind of communication.” read about it here: http://threeminds.organic.com/2009/10/admit_it_already_there_is_no_s.html
For big brands it might be a different story, but what about smaller brands attempting to unlock some magic shortcut to sales, identity, or even pulling like-minded people together to realize business benefits. The fact is you can’t be out of the game, but doing it right is much slower than most people think.
