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Comments are Toast
I can’t keep wading through 300 spam comments every morning, trying to find any legit comments and deleting the bogus ones. (And I can’t keep looking at the increasingly unsavoury titles of the comments, especially not right after breakfast). So I’ve disabled comments, which I am very angry about. If you want to respond to…
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qualitative research
Nice list of qualitative research methods books from Anne, who is v. good at sharing.
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A Cartography of Vernacular Creativity
Some early morning metaphorical whimsy for you (possibly the result of a little too much Calvino and not enough sleep)… If there were a map of the terrain I want the concept “vernacular creativity” to cover, these are some of the features that would be marked on it: story play conviviviality tinkering collecting remembering sharing…
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Why Pamper Life’s Complexities? A Symposium on the Smiths
How I wish I could find an excuse to go to this…but I haven’t got one. I guess I’ll be left behind and sour…I wonder if they have a vacancy for a back scrubber? Manchester Institute of Popular Culture Manchester Metropolitan University April 8th and 9th 2005 The Smiths have had a singular impact on…
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BBC Digital Storytelling Portal
The BBC website has launched a
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Clock with things on wires
There are more of these wondrous timekeeping contraptions at Klockwerks.
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Hackers are Cool, Conviviality is Warm: Some half-baked thoughts
As avid blog-readers will know, I’ve been reading Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality – a fascinating manifesto which, in the edition I’ve got, comes in a slim paperback volume bound in Revolution Red and lettered in stark bold type that is set on a provocative diagonal. It has occurred to me after reading various discussions…
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Dear Family First: Academics Study Porn
…the Porn issue of M/C: Journal of Media and Culture is now available online. It was co-edited by Andrew King and me. EditorialThe history of public discourse (and in many cases, academic publishing) on pornography is, notoriously, largely polemical and polarised. There is perhaps no other media form that has been so relentlessly the centre…
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Bookcrossing hits the mainstream
I’m shocked – if there was a Most Mundane Local Current Affairs award for Australian television, Brisbane Extra would have to win it. Normally they run shows about when to prune your garden, how to wash your car, and where to buy the cheapest petrol. And yet, tonight they ran an upbeat story on Bookcrossing,…
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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.