Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Today Roland and I mounted our Nokias (running Qik and Nokia Sportstracker Beta) on our bike helmets and rode around False Creek (see this map of our route, and see my Qikstream here). Due to rain, Scott (who was to supply our connectivity on a third bike, pulling a trailer ...
Posted in Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, freethenet.ca, mobile, technology, video, wi-fi | 5 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Just two days before I posted at Mobile Muse about social media mashups around health information, Google announced their Health API and Health Data API. So it looks as though some of the pieces are already in place for the development of tools for managing health information on a personal ...
Posted in Mobile Muse, culture & society, cyborgs, health, mobile, technology | No Comments »
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I exercise 5 days a week, and much of this is running. While I can be found in local gyms on occasion, I try to do as much of this running as possible for free. For in using a treadmill, with its diligent, brainless constancy, I subjugate my running activity ...
Posted in Actor network theory, Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, SCOT, culture & society, mobile, technology, theory, wi-fi, work | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Bitnotic created this program called Chill that generates ambient music 'randomly' (that would be impossible). It's not bad - but if I could port this to whatever soft synths I wanted it'd be ideal (e.g., the voicing built in to the app appears to be merely Quicktime Instruments). At any ...
Posted in cyborgs, music, technology | 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
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 ...
Posted in blogs, conferences, content aggregation, culture & society, mobile, northernvoice, social bookmarking, social web, 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 »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Wow. Mieke Gerritzen gives a very provocative presentation on "Next Nature" - which, in its prophetic look at nature and culture combined, is one part Haraway, two parts Latour.
Is the Lift Conference always this interesting? Gerritzen breathes from the same bong as Ray Kurzweil. Who'da thunk it?
Posted in conferences, culture & society, cyborgs, design, futurism, technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Survey results paid for by Texas-based company AppTrigger (the study itself was conducted by LM Research & Marketing) suggest that UK mobile operators could be doing much more to promote adoption of advanced mobile services among their subscribers. The data purportedly support the conclusion that
mobile phone operators are largely locked ...
Posted in content aggregation, culture & society, marketing, mobile, social web, statistics, technology | 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 »
