The New Spatialism: A Talk From Reboot

The folks at Reboot have (finally) gotten around to uploading the videos from the 2009 conference. Here’s my talk on New Spatialism: Reclaiming The Social Web.

- via Reboot

More of our social interaction in moving from the primitive but relatively open and egalitarian world of the blogosphere onto a set of closed or at least controlled applications. How can we — as a community or culture — influence actions or product decisions that companies like Apple, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube are taking that could ‘enclose the commons’ and disrupt or rework the Web that we have been making?

And how can we devise a movement in the web development community that is like the New Urbanism movement of city planners and architects, that took the human being into consideration, that brought human scale and needs back into the picture?