Archive for the ‘open source’ Category
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
On Nokia's shrinking North American market share: "(Samsung & others) were quick to meet carriers’ customization demands, an area in which Nokia proved reluctant." (http://bit.ly/zuSN).
But this is precisely why Nokia ought to be lauded - for its efforts in putting out handsets that straddle grids/networks (3g/wi-fi) and balancing different interaction ...
Posted in creative industries, critical constructivism, indie, mobile, open source, political economy, technology | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
I'm hyped about Mesh Potato and I am aiming to be involved in their project in whatever way I can be useful, whether via some connection to Mobile Muse, or just plain old twit-and-post evangelism.
Mesh Potato is an Open Hardware project to create a wireless (mesh) access point that can ...
Posted in culture & society, design, mobile, open source, technology, wi-fi | No Comments »
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
If you haven't seen this already, then go check it out. Terse political opinions fly by with impunity. What to do, what to do...and how does media theory speak to this? I can anticipate hundreds of approaches, from critical political economy to social constructivism to what-have-you ... but then again, ...
Posted in Mobile Muse, SCOT, STS, content aggregation, critical constructivism, culture & society, drupal, mobile, open source, political economy, technology, work | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Exciting times. Right on the heels of our Open Mobile event, the first Google Android handset has been released on T Mobile - the HTC Dream, announced just this morning in NYC.
And it's wi-fi (!!!)
Now if only I had an in over at HTC, or if a Canadian provider had ...
Posted in culture & society, marketing, mobile, open source, technology, wi-fi | No Comments »
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 »
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 ...
Posted in blogs, content aggregation, design, drupal, mobile, music, open source, social web | No Comments »
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
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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 »
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Today is Northern Voice (I'm presenting tomorrow, but today is the unconference, most of which I hope to catch!), but right now I'm riveted to my laptop (poring over comments about torrent tracking) before I head out to UBC. Really good back n forth over at Nicholas Weaver's Random Thoughts ...
Posted in P2P, SCOT, appropriation, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, file sharing, internet, law, open source, policy, technology, torrents | 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 »
