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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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Yo! Bloggers are Rappers (and viceversa)

"Rap music and blogging are populist, low-cost-of-entry communication forms that reward self-obsessed types who love writing in first person. Maybe that's why both won so many converts so quickly. If you want to become MC I'm Good at Rapping, all you have to do is rustle up a microphone and a sampler. If you want to blog as AngryVeganCatholicGOPMom, bring a computer, an Internet connection, a working knowledge of Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, and a whole lot of spare time" (Josh Levin, from Slate).

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Academic Bloggin'

The Guardian has a very interesting take on academic bloggers:

Creating a blog to track the progress of your PhD thesis might seem like the ultimate delaying tactic - a way to avoid ever actually writing the thing itself. But for Esther MacCallum-Stewart, currently doing a D.Phil thesis on popular culture during the first world war at the University of Sussex, the opposite has been true. [...] Over the past decade, academics have used mailing lists, discussion boards and learning journals, but these have usually existed behind university firewalls. In contrast, blogging can invite the rest of the world into the common room - and some believe that can only be a good thing.

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