It's Blogmonday!

Mark Story over at The Intersection tagged me in his most recent #blogmonday post, which means it's now my turn to start spreading the link love. Mark started blogmonday to help uncover some of the bloggosphere's "hidden gems."

I really enjoy exploring the web, when time permits, and finding sites that entertain, inform, educate and inspire me. I hope they'll do the same for you. And without further ado:

We Make money Not Art
This site continues to impress me, they are really on top of modern art, and the intersection of art, technology and society. They cover topics like sousveillance, ubiquitous computing, wearables, video art, installation pieces, activism, architecture, social media and design.

 

 
Grinding.be
This site regularly features art and technology which blends online with offline, organic with inorganic and covers topics like ARGs (alternate reality gaming), activism, surveillance, nanotech, tactile computing and augmented reality.

 

 
/Message
My good friend, and one of the most intelligent people I know, Stowe Boyd, writes about social communications and computing often from a sociological, anthropological and ethnographic view point. His thoughts and views on networked society are great food for thought.

[from Message, August 1999]

A new category of software is emerging, software intended to augment social systems. Not to change the company inadvertently, like email did, when the electronic analog of interoffice mail became something else, grew into something else by changing the way people communicated, and led a change in the structure of the company. No, this generation of software is intentional, designed from the start to guide human behavior into new paths and patterns, to counter prevailing ways of interaction. I call these social tools: software intended to shape culture.

 

 
Mixergy
I dig Andrew Warner, he's a startup guy with a heart of gold and a real knack for gathering and spreading wisdom. Andrew interviews entrepreneurs, communications experts and technology rockstars on his Mixergy blog and posts them in video, audio and text formats on his blog. Andrew always asks exactly the right questions, getting to the heart of what the interviewee has to offer.

There are so many more, but I must save some for the next #blogmonday!