Comments on: Cloudy selves: navigational metaphors (just in time for summer!)

By: Anthrodiva

Anthrodiva — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:55:47 +0000

“This used to be the job of magazine editors.”

So true. I get Vogue, and consistently wonder that they don’t switch from throwing things randomly at the wall to explaining in detail who should wear what when and under what circumstances…

By: Asi

Asi — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:13:15 +0000

Great post indeed.

How about private-curators? What these specialised tastemakers do for me is very similar to the work of the curators – picking the great stuff that is relevant to a current ‘theme’ whether in art, music, blogs etc, I’ve got my dozens of these invisible private curators that feed me with all sorts of goodies.

By: Andrew Walkingshaw

Andrew Walkingshaw — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:22:35 +0000

We’re all tastemakers (or, as Carol says, pathfinders) now.

I’ve done a little bit of club, and student radio, DJing, and it’s got the feel of that. We’re all crate-digging in the little bits of the web-of-human-experience we’ve mastered; uploading, remixing and editing our experience, knowledge and enthusiams for the rest of the world by installments, and forging links between each of the social, and cultural, and intellectual/semantic networks we live in.

I wonder if the thing that’s changed isn’t that the audience can remix the DJs now, because they’re now us, and we’re everywhere, all the time….

By: Carol Gee

Carol Gee — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:26:33 +0000

What comes through to me from this wonderful post (with which I am – naturally – going to link) is the dynamism of the world you so insightfully describe. I am an analyzer/organizer, psychologically, and am inspired by your blog’s regular attention to that style. My network consists, generally, of “like-minded folks,” the most talented of whom walk before me as Path-Finders. They get me to moving, rather than circling in analysis, my way of avoiding. Life becomes action, rather than so much introspection. After all, my own navel is not really that inspiring.

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:47:40 +0000

“Carnies” is too general, the word you’re looking for is “barkers”: the carnies who specialize in yelling.

Great post.

By: M E-L

M E-L — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:03:10 +0000

If you’ll forgive the pun, I like to think of my scouts as “clipper ships.” Sailing the seas of media, and sending back clippings — either broadcast (here’s all the stuff I’m doing and I like) or narrowcast (I saw this and I knew you’d be interested.)

By: debbie millman

debbie millman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:32:57 +0000

brilliant post grant. i love parellel slipstreaming with you.