Archive for July, 2008
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
"Expensive phones are like an enormous test phase, but budget phones are the true launch pad for a mobile technology."
Well said. Read the rest at All About Symbian. It's exciting to see the trickle of smart phone functionality into lower end handsets. Perhaps Nokia's actually been listening to its participatory ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
I made a video. Using Nokia Sportstracker Beta on the N82, I logged my jog yesterday morning, and then uploaded this data to the NSB site (which I've been doing routinely for a while). I opened the KML file of this jog in Google Earth, and so now I've associated ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I've got a new book chapter out (entitled "Musique Concrètization: Music, Technology, and Critical Constructivism") in Social Information Technology: connecting society and cultural issues, which covers the theoretical terrain that underlies a lot of the presentations and shorter pieces (e.g., here, here and here) I've been doing with critical constructivism ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Hey there, just a base touch, with some sharing of things that have recently caught my attention.
First, in disappointing news, Portland's free Wi-Fi network is getting shut off due to the failure of its ad support based revenue model. This doesn't bode well for other urban wi-fi projects with similar ...
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