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Wired’s Concept iTablet App

my tweet analysis says I need professional help

 
 ...Or: Do I really need twitter to be told that I'm a psycho?

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"I'm Too Busy To Date Your Avatar!" How about that, Felicia?

the new rules (and how to transgress them) [wired]

Create Your Postcard in Google Earth (ace)

By the way, bloggin' is dead, too says Wired

"Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug. Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It's almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter." (Paul Boutin, Wired)

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Regolo writes: "I'm sorry, I know many people agree with you, but this is just not true.  Blog is getting to be different, part of a flow of data that identifies anyone one of us on the web, through twitt, media contents, social life (facebook and friends) and also blogs.  Blogging is just getting more specific, less "it must to be frequent" and less unique, but still more than alive. Stop saying it's all dead and finished, things change, especially online."

I agree with you. Boutin has some valid points, but comparing Twitter and Facebook to Blogs is like comparing apples and oranges.

Will Wright and Stwart Brand at Yuri's Night (April 12, SF)!

See them at Yuri's Night 2008

"Yuri’s Night is a celebration of space exploration—and mankind’s curiosity, scientific ingenuity, technical achievements, and spirit of collaboration that have made it all possible.  This year, NASA’s 50th anniversary, the Bay Area will be home to the largest Yuri’s Night celebration ever, with 8,000 people joining astronauts, artists, scientists, engineers, and musicians to pay tribute to our global space heritage and to celebrate how much more is out there to be discovered!  Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008 will feature talks by Will Wright and Stewart Brand; art and sculpture by The Flaming Lotus Girls and Michael Christian; live acrobatic and modern dance performances by Capacitor; musical performance by Amon Tobin and the special debut of the new band Telstar, featuring Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead; and much, much more!"

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giannicanova 2.0

"La cosa che so fare meglio - credo - è insegnare. Cinema, ovviamente. Mi piace contagiare gli altri con le mie passioni. Mi piace che gli altri mi contagino con le loro. Ho avuto la fortuna di avere grandi maestri. E la possibilità di trasformare una passione in professione." (gianni canova)

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mbftod@y: ongoing changes

Hi, just a quick note regarding the redesign of this weblog. The mighty SixApart recently introduced the long-awaited option to build pages in addition to lists and posts, so I created a few pages (e.g. Advanced Profile, Projects and collaborations, Game Studies resources etc. - all located on the left side of the page) that incorporate some of the content that was previously scattered all over the page. It is a work-in-progress, so expect more redesigning in the next few days. Comments and suggestions for improving the usability and look of the blog are always welcome. And now we can go back to out regular broadcasting...

"Quote me!"

"A web 2.0 tool or service as work of art, “Quote me!” both continues themes of net.art (reusing, recycling, transforming) and simultaneously highlights the redundancy of it as a tool when the content is unoriginal and without context. It draws attention to the highly important exploration involved in these types of recombinatory net.art works, not possible outside of the internet, yet questions the same use of techniques employed in their creation for the critical discourse that surrounds them in our collaborative, tagging, reblogging and ever more copied, unoriginal content of web 2.0." (Garreth Lynch)

Pure genius.

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