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//cellBYTES
While flickr is more modestly a “cool photosharing thingy” and textamerica is slightly more ambitiously a “camera phone moblog community”, //cellBYTES is not only sophisticatedly punctuated, it’s also: a virtual community of digital artists interested in handheld technology + public works. As mobile phone technology advances //cellBYTES will be a contemporary + archival reference of…
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Google scholar
I’ve been playing with google scholar. I’m pleasantly surprised that even some of my more vague and/or obscure search strings yield largely meaningful results; at least, far more so than the databases our library subscribes to. And, if people take it up as part of their overall research strategies, google scholar clearly has positive implications…
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A Creative Swarm
I’m working up a theoretical model of vernacular creativity in digital culture, so… Every culture proliferates along its margins. Irruptions take place that are called “creations” in relation to stagnancies. Bubbling out of swamps and bogs, a thousand flashes at once scintillate and are extinguished all over the surface of a society. In the official…
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more keyword haiku
Inspired by Matt Borondy, I constructed these using of some the google search strings that have led people here in the last 24 hours: 1. what influenced the streets to write music? organic creativity bohemian urban tribes 2. Pictures inside my head the sounds of silence fruity loops cracked They would have been a lot…
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upload mobile video clips
finally, somewhere to upload and show off video clips shot on mobile phones.
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new fogeyisms: scrapbooking and the commonplace book
It seems a large part of my PhD research has in some way to do with finding and remixing analogs for new media buzzwords, leading me back to fogey-esque, almost premodern, words like “vernacular”, “conviviality” and so on. I’ve yet to completely work out why I like the fogey-esque terms so much, but I’ll let…
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DiGRA 2005: Call for Papers
Call for papers for the Digital Games Research Association?s 2nd International Conference Changing Views: Worlds in Play, June 16-20, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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the poetry of the everyday
Beautiful, often poignant fragments of everyday life at The Department of Me: The almost daily ritual includes a photo of the day (PoD) and a haiku of the day (HoD): Wet grass after rain – the fertile damp of dark dirt smells like green to me. I can relate to that after our recent deluge:…
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flickr tags
Currently in love with the following flickr tags: squared circle, pink, type and stencil.
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Canada 2.0
Apparently a lot of disappointed Americans are joking about moving to Canada (which I guess is analogous to us joking about moving to New Zealand). Personally, I’d rather go the whole hog and move to Norway, but of course the other solution is to simply redraw the borders. Thanks Carlos, who really should start a…