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The extent to which local lineage is acknowleged by the current owners - photo of the former proprietor hanging on the wall of a Cairo cafe above. The extent to which it affects the experience of current or would be customers.

With a wider range of experience-capturing and experience-enjoying tools in the hands of, well, everyone, what is tomorrow's equivilent of the photo-of-founder-on-wall? And what does this have to do with the gentleman below? One of the indearing aspects of conducting research in Cairo these last couple of weeks has been the extent to which people have recording us recording them. It's not just that the recording devices are carrried, but the fact that they are valued and used. And it's a small part of an emerging trend, more of which later.

Writing from Cairo | October 17, 2006 | Permalink