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Laboratory Life: Seeking input from YOU on course design

Friday, November 20th, 2009

So I'm redesigning a course I've taught a few times now (CMNS 253, which I'm teaching right now, too) to transform it from a lecture/tutorial format that uses an all-in-one wiki/blog/CMS (Howard Rheingold's Social Media Classroom build of Drupal) into, well, a lecture/lab course in writing for social, mobile and ...

Posted in blogs, mobile, social web, teaching, technology, video, wikia | 2 Comments »

What 2009 Wireless Market Forecasts Lead Me To Think

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

OK, so I'm reading this thing in RCR, trying to suss out whether I should stay on a career path in the mobile/wireless industry, and, reading past the sway from optimism to skepticism about its future, I come to this sentence: "There is only one Internet and its users do ...

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Simulacre.ca Aggregation Poll

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Not one to miss an opportunity to shamelessly promote my own nascent aggregation site (nor to miss demoing out-of-the-box modules of Drupal simultaneously), I bring you a poll in which you can vote to help determine the balance of content for said aggregation site. So if you're curious about bands, ...

Posted in blogs, content aggregation, drupal, statistics | 1 Comment »

Up In Ur Transient Droopal. With Announcements.

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I've finally taken the plunge into Drupal on the label/company page. I haven't had much need for a main company URL or site, so I'm going to use it as a 'social media' (is there such thing as an 'antisocial' medium?) sandbox - essentially an experiment in multiple feed aggregation ...

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MUSE3, public displays, NV08 & Fusion recap

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I'm chin-deep in MUSE3 planning (excuse the outdated site at them thar preceding link - that's part of what I'm working on), gearing up for our Showcase Proposal Forum this Friday (check back on Friday morning with that link for the webcast), adjusting my Web 2 specs after all the ...

Posted in blogs, comprehensive exams, conferences, culture & society, events, indie, mobile, northernvoice, social web | No Comments »

Northern Voice 2008 Day Two – accreted notes

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

13:30-14:10 Alan Levine. cogdogblog. voicethread. the internet is really big. Lost in Vancouver really hilar cinderella story told through PPT. http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools jumpcut=imovie in a web browser googlemaps api with Flickr, blabberize.com --------- 14:15-15:00 - Kris Krüg and Alex Waterhouse Hayward. "The Other Side of Two Dimensions" lots of pictures. thinking in 3D is what we do with digital photography and ...

Posted in blogs, conferences, culture & society, internet, mobile, northernvoice, open source, social bookmarking, social networks, technology | No Comments »

Northern Voice 2008 – accreted notes

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Rough notes from today's conference... 13:30-14:00: An afternoon discussion with a Vancouver City Planner, a rep from mag.no.lia, some guy from Portland, and many others. the challenges for cities=adopting social media for public participation initiatives. how do people get something back? more than just "thanks for coming". stewardship is important. but how do ...

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Interesting Textures

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I bring this in from my LJ - which is sadly even more out-of-use than this blog. Dupobs got sampled for a PSA for a local noise show that apparently never plays our music. Cool! Listen to it here. It's clearly "Introducing Le Barf Ball", from our Shindig show last Autumn. The ...

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The PhD – the comprehensive exams

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, appropriation, art, blogs, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, fandom, internet, online communities, open source, PhD studies, political economy, SCOT, social bookmarking, social networks, social web, sociology of art, STS, taste, technology, theory, wikia | 2 Comments »

Tapes and Tapes

Friday, December 14th, 2007

The image above depicts the "A List": tapes that are clearly labelled and known to have original music on them. There are 100 more on the "B List", which are mislabelled but suspected to contain original works (e.g., they were recorded atop prior recordings on the blank tapes, but never ...

Posted in archiving, blogs, culture & society, file sharing, music, personal life, podcast, tapes, technology | 3 Comments »