The Last Minute Blog

by Duncan Rawlinson

Vancouver Marathon Photos 2008

vancouver marathon 2008


This was supposed to be my first marathon. Unfortunately I injured my leg shortly before the race so I was unable to participate. As you can imagine I was very disappointed. Here are the photos I took instead or running.

[Flickr | Vancouver Marathon]

links for 2008-05-01

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 Clay Shirky Cognitive Surplus Video


Clay Shirky:

I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she’s going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn’t what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, “What you doing?” And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, “Looking for the mouse.”

Here’s something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here’s something four-year-olds know: Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won’t have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan’s Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.”

[Blip.tv (mp4) | Clay Shirky | Web 2.0 Expo via Waxy]