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Communities & Technologies Conference
Call for Papers: The Second International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2005) Milan, Italy, 13-16 June, 2005. Deadline for full papers: 12 Nov 2004.
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Sour Grapes and Junket
Sour grapes: Everyone is at AoIR in Brighton except me. And Kylie. And, due to cyclone activity, Jeremy (I think). We have repeatedly told our OII summer doctoral program colleagues not to bond without us, but with all that Internet talk, beer and fish and chips (with mushy peas!) by the seaside, it’s not looking…
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The Italian Effect, Again
Just a few days after reading all about the Italian Effect conference (and shrieking with glee over Mel’s unique performance of geeky theory grrrl rebellion), I discovered this passage at the end of Steven Shaviro’s summary of Hardt and Negri’s Multitude: There’s a wonderful passage in Multitude (190ff) where Hardt and Negri write of the…
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cool tool for library geeks
books1 Originally uploaded by jeangenie. This is indeed a flawless lifehack: John Udell’s Library Lookup bookmarklet. It’s so elegant: find a book on amazon, click the bookmarklet, and instantly display search results from *your* library for the ISBN of the book you are currently viewing. I have been playing with it for hours, charging through…
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If you read this, I’ll kill you
Jen and Nancy at The Write Doctors are putting together an anthology of teen writings which includes old diary entries, passed notes, stories, essays, even yearbook entries. I’m interested in this in vernacular creativity terms, of course. And they are calling for submissions: If you?re anything like we were, as a teenager you kept a…
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Geek yourself
Ha! I knew it… You are 16% geek OK, so maybe you ain’t a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you’re probably a pretty…
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spam: the enemy of open content
It is with a heavy heart that I have to let you know I’ve turned on moderation for comments. This means I’ll have to manually approve comments before they can appear publicly. This is a last-ditch effort to compromise between my desire for open discussion and the ever-increasing flow of spam comments (I’m talking 200+…
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Farewell to Johnny Ramone
RIP Johnny. That is, Revel in Punk. Ouch, that’s lame.
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Splendid Isolation
Another very interesting-looking call for papers: Splendid Isolation: Urban and Rural Flows and Counterflows in Electronic Music and Related Media February 10-12. 2005 Berlin, Germany Held in conjunction with club transmediale.05 [BASICS] The relationship between communication technologies and the city has been a long and complicated one, where the density of communicative activity has often…
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Creativity+Politics=No More Howard?
It’s hard not to be cynical and depressed about the upcoming federal election: there seems to be such a slim chance we will see a change of government – ever, it feels like. But a bunch of designers seem to be convinced that the combination of viral marketing, street culture, and archly hip design might…