404 City
Los Angeles is the ultimate networked metropolis, and in 404 City blogger Ophelia Chong takes a look at our diverse web of communities, all of them interwoven by freeways, shared history, media, automobiles, and the ever present digital penumbra of cell-phones and computers.
A city is not just height and breadth, sight and smell, it is also sound.
We can take inspiration from the past and the present; we just have to open our minds to the idea that the past is also the future.
Maybe one day I will be there in New York making footprints, and not in Los Angeles leaving a carbon footprint
Our Obsessive Compulsive tendencies used to be private, and they were hidden because we were ashamed of our compulsiveness.
Give a thousand monkeys a thousand typewriters and one of them will come up with the word "The".
Before the internet, change was measured in increments that spanned years, now it is measured in versions.
Conversation has become a shorthand of acronyms and re-working of verbs.
Not in my backyard, or to be more precise, not in my Facebook.
I am all for wire hangers on three hundred dollar phones....
Content is free to view, but should never be free to steal.
I am seeing a future of endless information that has no corral, allowed to roam free until roped and lassoed and branded.
Early Adapters are equivalent to the Cannon Fodder of old warfare strategies.
Reinventing the wheel is what fires our imagination.
By creating a 3D world online, we create a place for the mind to fly while the body remains still.
It's been a few days after the debut of the iPhone 4G and the collective geek explosion of a million khaki cargo shorts has subsided.
We live in a culture that is surrounded by mass production, we don't know if the pair of jeans we are wearing is one of a thousand or a hundred thousand, we don't value rarity.
The computer is a mask that we wear, we have many masks; one for work, one for play and many for when we want to be someone else
This Monday May 31st, hold yourselves still for one moment to remember those who have passed on, on the battlefield and in peace, to remember them in our hearts.
Pablo has taken us on a journey that rode on undulating waves of emotions - the cool medium of the internet found a heartbeat, a pulse that was real and three dimensional.
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