Clicknoise

Map of Online Communities

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 ...

Posted in art, blogs, culture & society, internet, online communities, social networks, technology | No Comments »

Jonathan Coulton, repoproduction, and technological determinism

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 »

Wikis, Authorship, and Botdom

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Last week I experimented briefly with content syndication on Clicknoise, part of a wider campaign of mine to tinker with Wordpress plugins. I accidentally succeeded in syndicating posts from Inner Ear Infection, where my friend Bruce writes. Surprised to have gotten the php correct, I quickly removed all of the ...

Posted in advertising, art, culture & society, internet, music, social bookmarking, social networks, technology, wikia | No Comments »

Cory Doctorow Leonardo Lecture at SFU

Friday, March 9th, 2007

The Faculty of Applied Sciences at SFU warmly welcomed Cory Doctorow to deliver our Leonardo Lecture for 2007 (entitled "The Totalitarian Urge: total information awareness and the cosmic billiards"). It was a packed event, and a great speech (the same one he's been delivering elsewhere of late). Ivaniv at Blogaholics ...

Posted in art, culture & society, internet, open source, podcast, social bookmarking, social networks, technology, theory, wikia | No Comments »

R.I.P. Jean Baudrillard

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Jean Baudrillard has died. For all his warts (e.g., his ideas inspired tons of unwatchable drek such as The Matrix, as well as his light-headed book Passwords, among other disappointing late writings), he was one of the most influential public intellectuals of the 20th Century (right up there with Chomsky, ...

Posted in advertising, art, culture & society, film, internet, music, technology, theory | 1 Comment »

so much depends upon

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I've been doing some preliminary musing on user experience research that I'm involved in over at Mobile Muse, and I thought this might be the appropriate space to expand on my interpretations of mobile phone use in ways that attach more directly to the issues I talk about in this ...

Posted in art, culture & society, internet, mobile, music, open source, technology, wikia | 2 Comments »

More Audio Hoaxes

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

So soon after my groaning yesterday about hoaxes, Beware of the Blog inadvertently shows me up by posting Part Three of its audio hoaxes series (this time about a phony sXe band called Jud Jud). Click around - they've got everything from an isolated Linda McCartney vocal track from a ...

Posted in art, culture & society, internet, music, technology | 2 Comments »

Let’s Make a Record

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

[I promised a post each weekend about music. Here's one.] meet me in the city 24 elders meet me in the city 48 angels - Sister Gertrude Morgan, "New Jerusalem" There's a strange attraction for me to religious music. I'm an atheist in the most uncontroversial sense of the word, but I have this tendency to ...

Posted in art, culture & society, music, theory | No Comments »

FM Podcasts: Broadcast Your Podcast

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Via We Make Money Not Art comes word of Broadcast Your Podcast, a technological mashup enabling people to podcast on their local FM band. These people will send you a handmade FM radio kit to plug into your computer or iPod if you ask them to. Initiated by a group ...

Posted in art, culture & society, mobile, music, technology | No Comments »

Socialight and The Future

Monday, May 8th, 2006

There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code Your private life will suddenly explode There'll be phantoms There'll be fires on the road - Leonard Cohen, "The Future" There's this service that's been around for a while ...

Posted in art, culture & society, internet, mobile, music, social bookmarking, social networks, technology | 2 Comments »