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Forget you ever saw this post
A new book across my desk: OBLIVION Marc Aug? Translated by Marjolijn de Jager Foreword by James E. Young University of Minnesota Press | 136 pages | 2004 ISBN 0-8166-3566-8 | hardcover | $56.95 ISBN 0-8166-3567-6 | paperback | $18.95 ?Remembering or forgetting is doing gardener?s work, selecting, pruning. Memories are like plants: there are…
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Tsunami
1. As the disaster deepens and the concerned try to mobilise aid where none has been received, or search desperately for the missing, Flickr proves to be much more than a cool photo-sharing thingy. There is plenty more detail about how online networks (especially blogs) are being mobilised in service of aid for the region…
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receiver magazine
I like Receiver magazine. Although the Vodafone reps at the AMTA congress seemed to “get” the complexity and creativity of their users more than the others, I’m still pleasantly surprised to see something like this being actively used by a mobile telecom as part of their brand-building strategy.
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OurMedia
Look at this: an idea whose time has come, to my mind. There’s a graphic depiction of how it will work here. It’s been a long time since I stumbled across some cool new web project that spoke to a niggling question raised by my research – and there are always a lot of niggling…
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Folk Like Me
Does the world need yet another social networking website? Mine probably doesn’t, as I’ve joined and ditched just about every one of them so far (for research purposes, don’t you know). But I do feel obliged to encourage initiatives that attempt to form interest communities rather than provide icky dating services. So after finding a…
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Remix-a-licious
At Horizon 0, my new favourite online journal (at least for the next five minutes) is an evocative piece on the forms and future of remix culture. Samples from the Heap: Notes on Recycling the Detritus of a Remixed Culture by Bernard Schutze: Mix, mix again, remix: copyleft, cut ‘n’ paste, digital jumble, cross-fade, dub,…
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Creative Computing
There is plenty of stuff to unpack and plug in embedded in Adrian Miles and Jeremy Yuille’s Creative Computing manifesto. TBC…
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Remix Fight
Remix Fight: download cool remixes and read about ’em too. Thanks Jonathan.
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Creative Commons Launched in Australia
We all felt a sense of occasion in the air yesterday at the launch of the Australian bit of the International Creative Commons Project. The Faculty of Law at QUT has had a big hand in translating the creative commons licenses into Australian legal-speak, and there are some exciting cultural applications and initiatives happening around…
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Full Steam Ahead for the Music Commons
New on the Opsound site: open source audio, i.e. many Opsound artists have offered to provide uncompressed source material for remixing. And Creative Commons has released their new Music Sharing License and the Get Content search engine, which allows you to search for remix-ready, sharable, or downloadable music.