I was doing a search and came across some old notes/presentations that I wrote back in 2003 (references)
- CTIN 511: Social Software, Theory and Practice
- Social Software: Theory and Practice – A brief overview of “Social Software”
- Next-Generation Distributed Social Software Networks: Designs and Applications – A presentation on designing (and reasoning behind) a distributed (decentralized) social network concentrating on infrastructure and development
- CTCS 505: New Media and the Consumption Cycle
The arrival of widespread digital and inter-networked media has dramatically reshaped the nature of spectatorship and cultural and media consumption, alternatively amplifying, accelerating, shifting, disrupting, and in some cases, inverting the consumption/production/distribution cycle. This cycle has become increasingly interlinked, and the distinction between these activities increasingly blurred.
Honestly, 5 years isn’t a long time ago (time flies), but it’s interesting to look back at my thinking at the time, and also to see where we are. There are some things that have happened that I wasn’t expecting, and some that I would have expected to have happened by now (honestly, I expected Digital ID consolidation by 2008, and that’s not gonna happen anytime soon)… Good times.
One thing led to the next, and soon I was looking through an old Recommended Reading List I had started making. That actually seems like a good idea, and I’ll be working on one as I have time (I’ll post about it once I’ve hashed out the basics).
Along the way of all this searching I found a dead link to an old UNIX tutorial I had written. I have a tarball of it somewhere, but honestly, it was much easier to just grab it from the Wayback Machine. So, here it is, for later reference: Stupid Unix Tricks.
It looks like it’s aged pretty well (better than these old webdev workshops I also taught), although it does remind me that I need to publish my latest bash setup sometime (and maybe start writing down the new things I pick up before I forget them). The only big change (vs addition) is that when I’m not using cmd-line file transfers on OS X these days, I use Cyberduck (an open source SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, S3 client).
And lastly, where would a nostalgia post be without some old music? I’ve recently finally started digging through old boxes and am encoding all the CDs I lay my hand on. Here’s a track, part of my “catching up on rock” period in the early 2000s: