Archive for the ‘social bookmarking’ Category
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 ...
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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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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 »
Monday, December 17th, 2007
What is the relation between the technology of single sign-on and community mobilization?
There are two approaches to - or models for - the twin issues of convenience and security in our current era of mass content browsing: (1) single sign-on (OpenID, MicroID) and (2) content aggregation (Jaiku, Pageflakes, Readr). Both ...
Posted in SNS, content aggregation, critical constructivism, culture & society, internet, mobile, online communities, political economy, single sign-on, social bookmarking, social networks, technology | No Comments »
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Nice to be back in the swim of things. I just put a final report out the door on a research project that I'd been working on for 14 months. It was a difficult project - one that didn't always go as planned, that got intermittently sidelined by other events ...
Posted in SNS, babies, blogs, critical constructivism, culture & society, ethnography, events, mobile, music, online communities, personal life, social bookmarking, social networks, taste, teaching, technology, theory, wikia | No Comments »
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Clear Channel didn't get away with it, and now Last.fm is taking heat for not paying out royalties to independent artists. Last.fm, recently purchased by CBS, is now heating up indie music business blogs with this policy, even though it's been in place since the company started.
Why so, asks the ...
Posted in blogs, indie, internet, labels, marketing, music, online communities, social bookmarking, social networks, statistics, taste, technology | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 1st, 2007
OK, I was going to take a lot of time and write a measured and considered manifesto, but in the spirit of the impulsivity, that, according to my friend Jason, haunts, and characterizes the blogosphere, I've decided to have a little blurt and then go enjoy the blistering West Coast ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
This blog launched exactly one year ago. And it's still here. Hooray. Unlike zefrank, it's not ending. 12 months is still below average compared to the 33.8 month average lifespan of the Top 100 blogs. Of course, stats like this are still unreliable indicators - remember that we're only just ...
Posted in blogs, internet, social bookmarking, social networks, technology, work | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Last week I experimented briefly with content syndication on Clicknoise, part of a wider campaign of mine to tinker with Wordpress plugins. I accidentally succeeded in syndicating posts from Inner Ear Infection, where my friend Bruce writes. Surprised to have gotten the php correct, I quickly removed all of the ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
The Faculty of Applied Sciences at SFU warmly welcomed Cory Doctorow to deliver our Leonardo Lecture for 2007 (entitled "The Totalitarian Urge: total information awareness and the cosmic billiards").
It was a packed event, and a great speech (the same one he's been delivering elsewhere of late). Ivaniv at Blogaholics ...
Posted in art, culture & society, internet, open source, podcast, social bookmarking, social networks, technology, theory, wikia | No Comments »
