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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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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Today we tested our live streaming video and GPS tracked bike commutes, this time using a third bike to pull the wifi mesh/wimax trailer.
I worked for about an hour this morning assembling the mounting clamps for the two phones on two bikes. Both worked very well and withstood many bumps. ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Hey - a plug for current doings at my day job, which is admittedly a pretty sweet gig...but I also thought some of you might be totally keyed up for this sort of thing...
Mobile Muse has issued an Open Call for Prototype proposals in the area of mobile applications that ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
>????????in Grant McCracken's talk at the Arts Club. Here are my notes, rough as they may be, in situ, live...
Dealing with massive technological and media change? Don't panic - it is wrong to think that everything we've already learned is wrong. What's important from a marketing POV is not what ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Just two days before I posted at Mobile Muse about social media mashups around health information, Google announced their Health API and Health Data API. So it looks as though some of the pieces are already in place for the development of tools for managing health information on a personal ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
I had the opportunity to speak to local wireless industry folks at the most recent Mobile Monday Vancouver (presented by WinBC) this week. It's been a while since the last MoMoVan, so I was glad to see a good turnout and to receive an enthusiastic response to my presentation about ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I exercise 5 days a week, and much of this is running. While I can be found in local gyms on occasion, I try to do as much of this running as possible for free. For in using a treadmill, with its diligent, brainless constancy, I subjugate my running activity ...
Posted in Actor network theory, Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, SCOT, culture & society, mobile, technology, theory, wi-fi, work | 10 Comments »
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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