Archive for the ‘theory’ Category
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 ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Heya. I am presenting in a panel at AOIR this year (the title of my presentation/paper is "The Technical Micropolitics of the Online Music Industry, 1997-2007", abstract here). For those of you who've followed my blog, you'll know something of what to expect, except that I'll be strictly framing up ...
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
I delivered a lecture today for my 200 level Communication class on "Copyright, Commerce, and the Creative Commons". It might need work around its rougher edges still, but I'm kinda modestly proud to have gotten it into the shape it's in now. The emphasis is on (1) the historicization of ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Orange will soon debut this nifty looking wind-powered charger for mobile phones. For those who want to be ostentatious about their environmentalism in a very geeky way. Represent!
Solar powered solutions for various charging tote bags, purses, and even golf bags will also be available soon.
The price tags are significant, but ...
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
In today's NY Times there's a story about Andrew Kuo, super-fan extraordinaire. He's created some mind-boggling charts (pictured right, click the image for enlargement) of indie music appreciation indices (centering around a recent Bright Eyes concert-stalking binge), all of which stem from a very eccentric self-absorption with his own taste. ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Cory Doctorow wrote an excellent piece about trolls here (from which I took a phrase to furnish the title field for this post).
Here be sage advice. Life's too short for meaningless quibbles with people who are either pathologically argumentative, or who will simply never understand your point of view. Ignore ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
A recent story in the New York Times about the Jonathan Coulton phenomenon (remember - he's the guy who posted a song a week on his blog for a year and so launched an infamous viral campaign interacting with fans who made videos for his songs, and who even recorded ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Jean Baudrillard has died. For all his warts (e.g., his ideas inspired tons of unwatchable drek such as The Matrix, as well as his light-headed book Passwords, among other disappointing late writings), he was one of the most influential public intellectuals of the 20th Century (right up there with Chomsky, ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
The demise of the independent sector has been rapid, brutal and in inverse proportion to the rise of downloading and the digital revolution. [source: Belfast Telegraph]
And, no, I'm not contradicting myself. The independent music sector is alive and well, though changing. The decline of indie record shops all over the ...
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