Article critical of Wikipedia gets its facts wrong
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007Brilliant. More laughter can be heard here. And of course, here's the story that gets it wrong, and can't or won't correct itself.
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Brilliant. More laughter can be heard here. And of course, here's the story that gets it wrong, and can't or won't correct itself.
Spell With Flickr
Sunday, May 20th, 2007A nifty little mashup, courtesy of Erik Kastner. Example: ...
Don’t let assholes rent space in your head
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Cory 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 ...
Jonathan Coulton, repoproduction, and technological determinism
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007A 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 ...
Wikis, Authorship, and Botdom
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Last 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 ...
Cory Doctorow Leonardo Lecture at SFU
Friday, March 9th, 2007The 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 ...
Cory Doctorow in Vancouver March 8-9
Thursday, February 15th, 2007I'll be attending this. Electronic freedom fighter and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow (here, here) will give two free public lectures at Simon Fraser University, March 8 and 9. (March 8th he'll be speaking downtown, at the Fletcher Challenge (ahem!) Theatre, SFU Vancouver at Harbour Centre (reservations required, call 604-291-5100), ...
Flesh Mobs
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007I've been fine tuning a report on mobile user experience research I worked on last Fall for Mobile Muse, and so I've been trolling around today for any and all articles on flash mobs and other electronically coordinated uses of public space. Most of this material isn't related at all ...
Decenterings and Coalitions: Indie Music
Monday, February 5th, 2007Resonating nicely with my post last Thursday about how the growth in indie music market share is coincident with the explosion of digital music distribution, today Wired writer Eliot Van Buskirk takes a look at the mobilization of indies into a unified political and economic force, variously taking on the ...
eJamming
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Wired has the latest on Ejamming, who have purportedly demoed a soon-to-be released online collaborative platform for musicians that somehow, purportedly jaw-droppingly so, gets around the problem of multichannel audio latency over broadband networks. I will be watching this, as the allegations are impressive to extreme. I own a MOTU 896 ...
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