by Ned Rossiter

Lecture held at New Cultural Networks: You Google My Second Space, Theater van’t Woord, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Sandberg Institute of Design, Amsterdam, 2 November 2007, http://www.all-media.info/page.php?id=99

‘YourSpace is MyTime, or, What is the Lurking Dog Going to Do – Leave a Comment?’*

You might know my second space, but do you know my first? Do I even know? In this time of ubiquitous media, the territory of offline existence is increasingly harder to define. These days you’ve made it when you’re able to log off. Google narcissism services our curious and always fragile egos, but after 50 pages the attraction has either worn off, run out or turned into Japanese. Like Pavlov’s salivating dog, we return a month later to the algorhythmic mirror to work out what’s gone on in our life. Who’s listening, who’s reading, who’s watching, who’s appraising, who’s attacking? Who knows and who cares?

Just feed me data.

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