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March 20, 2010
SXSW 2010: 'Is the digital world eating the music world?'
*Man, they don't know the half of that… But on the other hand, we're not halfway there yet. The music world was a kind of aperitif for the maw of digital.
*Kinda typical of the modern situation that British journalists would have such thoughtful coverage of a Texan event.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/20/south-by-southwest-technology-interactive
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"There are definitely two different mindsets. Interactive people, all they do is go to panels with smartphones and laptops and music...
March 19, 2010
Electrosmog is Good for You!
Final Call: Highlights of the ElectroSmog festival
ElectroSmog - International Festival for Sustainable Immobility
Amsterdam / New York / Madrid / Riga / London / Banff / New Zealand / Munich / & on-lIne
March 18 – 20, 2010
The ElectroSmog festival develops a critique of the worldwide explosion of mobility, and investigates the oldest promise of the information age that new communication technology could lead to a radical reduction of hyper mobility, without giving u...
Time and the Post-Information Age
Time and The Post-Information Age
March 2010
Chad Scoville
Technological innovation decimates the fuzzy myth of time. (((Gets the popcorn))
Higher levels of automation, media and communication equate to progressive
levels of information. Humanity has surpassed the point of inundation;
levels of information constitute an obsolescence, a totalization of
temporality where the relationship between information and time has
eclipsed its zenith of interactivity; the completion of time as a
variable in human ...
Happy Sunshine Week and the blogger swarm
From: clift@e-democracy.org
Subject: [DW:] Sunlight's bold move … public = online … I thank the Soviets 
Date: 16 marzo 2010 17:08:08 GMT-05:00
A few years ago when I was in Estonia, I was amazed to learn about
their plans for a "Document Register" which would be an index of all
public documents and eventually provide remote public Internet access
to those documents even in draft form.
I was shown the section of
their parliaments website where they voluntarily published the
salaries of...
Teaching Horror
Schooling Ghouls: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Pedagogy of Horror
Call for Submissions for a proposed book-length collection of essays which present critical perspectives on teaching horror texts, including both written and cinematic works.
Deadline for proposals - June 1, 2010. Please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words, accompanied by a brief biographical statement, to the following email address: seanmo@nipissingu.ca
As studies of horror have increasingly gained...
March 18, 2010
Web Semantics: linguist studies Twitter
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"Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it." (((Yeah, I reckon.)))
Crystal calls this a "moral panic" over "mythologies" – his clearest example being the belief that text messaging is destroying children's ability to spell. "It's all nonsense, but people believe it."
He addressed this...
Katrina Kaif, her life in pics
*This deeply improbable multiracial woman is the most financially dependable female actress in Bollywood today, despite the facts that she couldn't speak Hindi, doesn't look Indian and is in frail health.
*However, she looks like a million bucks and is willing to go through all the motions so, what the heck, Katrina's a major modern star. She has the ad campaigns and the magazine c...
March 17, 2010
Augmented Reality: AR in New York
*Gotta admit I take a boyish glee when augmented reality is all prestidigitatory and full of legerdemain. Magic. Sleight of hand. Pure Illusion. Go for it!
*People say, with some justice, that Europe is cleaning the floor with everybody else when it comes to augmentation, but that scene in New York looks like it's hopping.
"Magic, games, education, even live AR coding – we had it ...
Austin hacker disables cars through web
*Even in a week in which Austin hosted South by SouthWest Interactive, that is some kinda Austin story there.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/
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