FollowOkay, I fibbed. Almost two months ago I promised I’d be back blogging regularly. Obviously, that hasn’t been the case — not by a long shot. My summer got eaten up with writing, travel, the Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, lots of student obligations, and a bunch of other things. The blogging never materialized, unfortunately, which seems to be a trend for me in the summertime. Maybe one of these years I’ll just accept this fact and declare a formal hiatus.
Anyway, I have lots of good material to blog about but not much time to do so — at least, not right now. To tide you over, then, I’m linking you to my latest interview with Future Tense, the great weekly radio show on technology and culture produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The topic is cloud computing, which is timely and important given the migration of great swaths of information from people’s home computers and laptops to Amazon Web Services, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Microsoft Cloud Services, and other offsite storage services. Mine is the third interview following the one with danah boyd, with whom I was pleased to share the stage as it were. The direct link to the mp3 audio file of the program is here if you want to cut right to the chase.
This is my second interview with Future Tense. Back in March I recorded a show about algorithms with them, based on my ongoing research on algorithmic culture. What a blast to have a chance to chat again with FT’s great host, Antony Funnell!
So, more anon. I can’t tell you when, exactly, though my best guess would be towards the end of the month. Rest assured — and I really mean this — I’ll be back. You know I can’t stay away for too long!
