Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
I don't usually post about taxation or provincial politics (do I?). But being one of a sizeable community of technology workers (and workers in many other industries) who are required by law to charge 12% tax instead of 5% tax to customers/clients as of today, I felt that it ...
Posted in creative industries, culture & society, policy, political economy, technology, work | No Comments »
Friday, November 20th, 2009
So I'm redesigning a course I've taught a few times now (CMNS 253, which I'm teaching right now, too) to transform it from a lecture/tutorial format that uses an all-in-one wiki/blog/CMS (Howard Rheingold's Social Media Classroom build of Drupal) into, well, a lecture/lab course in writing for social, mobile and ...
Posted in blogs, mobile, social web, teaching, technology, video, wikia | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Ta-da. I've finally submitted the field definitions for my Comprehensive exams. Here they are. Comments welcome; it helps. I'm writing the Philosophy of Technology exam in October, and the Theorizing Participatory Media exams in December February 2010, during the Olympics.
1. A History of the Philosophy of Science and Technology
Western philosophical ...
Posted in art, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture industries, PhD studies, political economy, SCOT, sociology of art, STS, technology, theory | No Comments »
Friday, August 28th, 2009
It appears that by design or chance, the big Town Hall meeting on Copyright law in Toronto yesterday was dominated by one side of the debate - that side representing the (mostly foreign-based) commercial music industry, that side seething epithets about "lawbreakers" and "pirates", that side representing a tiny minority ...
Posted in appropriation, copyright, creative industries, culture & society, file sharing, law, policy, technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
I've created a twitter poll (something I should be doing more regularly) asking a question of central importance to this blog, to my life, my creative pursuits, and something that's been on everybody's mind since the dawn of music (when wazzat?): how should musicians get paid? If I haven't given ...
Posted in culture industries, indie, labels, marketing, music, political economy, technology, wikia | No Comments »
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
I might start trying to do a "weekly zeitgeist" digest every Friday (or at worst, just paste together some cool links I've found). I'd like to include the sorts of links that contain answers (even partial, or even just plain wrong) to all of our questions, before many of us ...
Posted in critical constructivism, culture & society, GPS, mobile, social web, technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Vancouver Digital Week is coming up soon (May 11-14), and it's a must-attend for anyone in the New/Social/Mobile Media scenes in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, it's an international must-attend event (even GDC is part of it this year, so it's going to be huge in 2009!). So all you ...
Posted in conferences, creative industries, culture & society, events, mobile, Mobile Muse, technology | No Comments »
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 »
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
The Tyee is carrying Michael Geist's succinct report about the upcoming hearings at the CRTC over the future of Internet regulation in Canada. Most of these proposals don't make any sense - imposing Canadian content requirements on commercial Canadian websites is dubious at best - how would web content hosts ...
Posted in creative industries, culture & society, culture industries, file sharing, freethenet.ca, internet, mobile, net neutrality, P2P, policy, political economy, technology, wi-fi | 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 »
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