Archive for the ‘art’ Category
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 ...
Posted in DTES, Fearless City, Mobile Muse, Whistler, art, culture & society, mobile | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I was recently asked by the Songwriters' Association of Canada (SAC) to submit a briefing on why file sharing is inevitable, and why a levy system for ISPs makes sense. (The SAC is in the process of submitting a proposal along these lines to the Canadian government, in light of ...
Posted in P2P, appropriation, art, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, file sharing, internet, law, open source, policy, social web, technology, theory | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
So I'm diving straight into my comprehensives now. I'm building lists and checking them twice (and more). While building these reading lists is in many ways a very personal journey, I've decided to blog about the process so that I might get feedback from unexpected locales, harnessing the "wisdom of ...
Posted in 4s, Actor network theory, PhD studies, SCOT, STS, appropriation, art, blogs, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, fandom, internet, online communities, open source, political economy, social bookmarking, social networks, social web, sociology of art, taste, technology, theory, wikia | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
I hope I haven't used this Roxy Music song as a post title before...
While assembling my upcoming conference papers, I've been twiddling with this blog on the side in lieu of regular updates (well, alright, I've also been focused on the dupobs release schedule - you can listen to ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Heya. I am presenting in a panel at AOIR this year (the title of my presentation/paper is "The Technical Micropolitics of the Online Music Industry, 1997-2007", abstract here). For those of you who've followed my blog, you'll know something of what to expect, except that I'll be strictly framing up ...
Posted in art, blogs, critical constructivism, culture & society, indie, internet, labels, mobile, music, online communities, open source, political economy, technology, theory, wikia, work | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 27th, 2007
I delivered a lecture today for my 200 level Communication class on "Copyright, Commerce, and the Creative Commons". It might need work around its rougher edges still, but I'm kinda modestly proud to have gotten it into the shape it's in now. The emphasis is on (1) the historicization of ...
Posted in art, culture & society, file sharing, internet, law, music, open source, political economy, technology, theory, video, wikia, work | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Those who know me well know that with music, I'm a fussy eater. I can be extremely caustic (I recall trashing both Pat Metheny and Bob Dylan within the space of a single week some time ago on LJ, relishing every moment of silver-tongued venom I spat at their hapless ...
Posted in art, culture & society, fandom, music, taste | 5 Comments »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
A nifty little mashup, courtesy of Erik Kastner. Example:
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Posted in art, blogs, culture & society, flickr, internet, open source, technology, wikia | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
This is likely old news for some, but I just came upon this nifty graphic that I thought I'd share (hat tip to the insightful Online Fandom for sharing the link):
Be sure to avoid the "bay of trolls". Heh.
Someone ought to make this taggable (I'm looking at you, Plazes)...
(if you ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
A recent story in the New York Times about the Jonathan Coulton phenomenon (remember - he's the guy who posted a song a week on his blog for a year and so launched an infamous viral campaign interacting with fans who made videos for his songs, and who even recorded ...
Posted in advertising, art, blogs, culture & society, file sharing, internet, labels, marketing, music, social networks, technology, theory, wikia | No Comments »
