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21 December 2008 | 15:25 - By Stefano Boscutti

Sometimes the web is most satisfying when it confirms a cliché from the world offline.  Like those captivating street-style photoblogs, which display snapshots of chic pedestrians in cities around the world.

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Such blogs exist for Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Moscow, Sydney, Seoul, Berlin, Dublin, London - you name it.  Survey them one morning over coffee, and you'll feel like a boulevardier of the whole world, breezing past one stunning creature after another, free to cruelly assess or dumbly gaze - at supreme leisure and invulnerable to reciprocal scrutiny.  What can be learned from a global anthology of fantastic-looking people?  First off, looking at people on city streets is almost a perfect allegory of web browsing.

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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.

Stefano Boscutti is an executive creative director and strategist. He's like a better looking version of Todd Sampson. He also has an abiding faith that stories and wordplay (and not powerpoint presentations) will change the world.

 
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