I’ve been talking to Lizzie Nixon about voluntary simplicity, simple living and simple pleasures (her PhD topic). These terms seem to have regained some popularity as we get used to the idea that that the last few years of over-consumption are an embarrassing binge-drink party that we must now atone for. The problem is that… [Read more…]
October 8, 2009
I’ve been talking to John Brissenden about the apparently exploitative nature of social networks (SNs) and here we might include all the Web 2.0 darlings that rely of user-generated content to produce an audience that they flog to advertisers for profit. John’s line (and the whole ‘putting the consumer to work’ argument is now established in consumer… [Read more…]
February 16, 2009
I like to resist the market, but often I fail utterly.
October 8, 2009
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