Street Use

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Kevin Kelly the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and author, considered an expert in digital culture, has opened a new blog called Street Use. Fabulous. [via Smart Mobs]

This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short -- stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, "The street finds its own uses for technology." I welcome suggestions of links, and contributions from others to include in this compendium. -- KK

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Originally posted on textually.org by emily