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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I'm presenting a keynote this Sunday for an event called Open Mobile, presented in part by Mobile Muse as part of New Forms Festival 2008. I'm co-presenting with Roland Tanglao and Jesse Scott (artist info here), who will be my visual accompanists. But hopefully their visuals will override and scramble ...
Posted in Fearless City, Mobile Muse, Whistler, conferences, culture & society, events, mobile, open source, political economy, technology, theory, wi-fi | 3 Comments »
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
This? Oh yeah, we already did that.
& it's true what they say - Reverbnation rules the internets!
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
notes from MobilecampVancouver08, as it happens:
scheduling jam - lots of tech and business, but the turnout is a little more arsty than last time with a good showing from the Fearless community. huge iphone dev track. it's split in two it seems.
10:30 - 11:30 Karen Fung on transit and cycling ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Google Android stands firm in the face of Symbian going Open Source. No one's saying much, so I will. I'm starting to think Symbian will become the dominant platform in our lives, as I've hinted previously. It's hard to argue with Nokia's current 41% worldwide market share. But I could ...
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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. ...
Posted in Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, Mobile Muse, culture & society, freethenet.ca, mobile, video, wi-fi | 3 Comments »
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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