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home-made historiography
Found this buried in an old draft entry: it comes from Historiographic Axioms of Home Movies by Patricia R. Zimmermann and Karen I. Ishizuka. It’s good stuff: Patricia Zimmerman is the most right-on writer on home movies I’ve encountered so far. “1. Hollywood films are the home movies of global capital. 2. Home movies provide…
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New RSS feed
If you’ve manually added my RSS feed to your aggregator, please update it to this one. Or, if you use bloglines: This has to be the end of the geek talk for today!
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Looks like we made it…sort of
OK, here’s a quick and dirty version of my brand new WordPress blog. That banner image is just something I whipped up, there are things that really irritate me about this template (just hover over the title of this post, for example) that I need more CSS nightshift time on. Took me a while to…
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*Gulp*
I just installed wordpress, and am now migrating….cross your fingers. And say, bye bye design, hello big blue thing at the top!
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Guest Post: David Berry on Ethics and Enterprise in Open Source Communities
I’m so pleased that David Berry came through with a response to the WordPress/Google Adwords controversy, and in double-quick time too. By way of introduction (filched from his homepage on the Sussex University website): David M. Berry is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex, exploring the critical political economy of free/libre/open-source culture. The…
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WordPress’s Googlegate and the Politics of Open Source
danah boyd, in discussing WordPress’s Googlegate, raises some very interesting questions about friendship, ethics, and the politics of ‘community’ and commercialisation in relation to FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) and other ‘user-led’ online communities. I’ve asked David Berry to comment on this, because he doesn’t have a blog (but should!) and if Mohammed won’t…
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the bubbling up
Richard Powers on the blindness of (1950s) American high culture to American music puts me in mind of De Certeau’s “bubbling up” of creativity: …this country had a music – spectacularly reinventing itself every three years, the bastard of chanted hymns, spirit hollers, cabin songs, field calls and coded escape plans, funeral rowdiness gathered by…
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transparent screens @ flickr
Transparent Screen – alexy Originally uploaded by w00kie. This is not a photoshop trick, believe it or not…kewl.
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mapping vernacular creativity v. 0.1
[updated: see here] Axel has asked me to provide a more concise definition of vernacular creativity so he can link to it, so here is a chunk from my recently submitted confirmation document that deals with what I mean by the phrase, and what I think it can do: The Idea of Vernacular Creativity This…