Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Richard Smith has posted an interesting reply to Igor Faletski's declaration that mobile TV is dead over at new blog Mobscure (duly added to the cknz blogroll). The debate between them is about whether or not mobile video will be a platform more for creation than for consumption.
I could interject ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Bitnotic created this program called Chill that generates ambient music 'randomly' (that would be impossible). It's not bad - but if I could port this to whatever soft synths I wanted it'd be ideal (e.g., the voicing built in to the app appears to be merely Quicktime Instruments). At any ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I had the opportunity last week to present my ongoing research into user-centered technology design (which is what is evolving out of my ethnographic research in the lives of mobile handset users) as part of a panel all about Mobile Muse (where I'm the Program Manager, for those who aren't ...
Posted in Actor network theory, Mobile Muse, PhD studies, SCOT, STS, conferences, critical constructivism, ethnography, mobile, work | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
I've dumped snap.com from this blog. Snap.com offers this little script that you stick in your header. The script offers readers pop-up screenshots of webpages linked to on your page when users hover over the link text, which sounds fun and harmless. However, recently, the company altered their script to ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
In my role at MUSE3 I'm coordinating a couple of related mobile technology projects in Whistler and Vancouver's Downtown East Side that lend themselves well to the "Tale of Two Cities" theme. While there are some interesting parallels between the Dickens novel of the same name and these two contemporary ...
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