Archive for the ‘open source’ Category
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
An interesting pair of complementary articles have today sprung to my attention from my unfiltered and rapidly growing twitstorms.
First, Readwriteweb carries a story about the research of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. Mayer-Schönberger has synthesized research into open source communities, arguing that radical ideas suffer in networks where there is a greater abundance ...
Posted in culture & society, online communities, open source, political economy | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
I'm attending (and presenting at) Open Web Vancouver next week, celebrating (and problematizing) with many others the many affordances and limitations of open source and open formats in our digitally mediated world. My talk will likely be rather policy-wonkish, as a current concern of mine (and a crucial chapter in ...
Posted in conferences, drupal, events, internet, mobile, open source, policy, political economy, theory, wikia | No Comments »
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
I need to retract a decision I made based on seemingly false news.
Just over a month ago I posted an announcement that Simulacre Media would be removing its entire catalog from the Last.fm service due to the imposition of user fees in countries other than the US, UK, and Germany. ...
Posted in file sharing, marketing, music, online communities, open source | No Comments »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Perhaps it would be more appropriate for me to entitle this post with a reference to Cheap Trick's "Surrender" (given that Isabel has mysteriously begun singing "mummy's alright/and daddy's alright/and baby's alright/bla bla bla etc..." - where'd she get that? her new nanny? SFU childcare? hopefully no one's introducing her ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
MIT students are developing some really interesting mobile apps, on various platforms. I especially like Mobile Trader (no link?) - there's much potential for enabling microeconomies using its "craigslist/1.5 mile diet" mashup for Symbian. However, CashTrack seems designed for cheap people, though. C'mon? Do we really need to track who ...
Posted in mobile, open source, technology | No Comments »
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 | 3 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 ...
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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 | 4 Comments »
