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Lifeblog Beta Released
I’ve been waiting for this for a while: Nokia’s Lifeblog software beta has been released (for Windows). Background from the BBC: The Lifeblog software automatically arranges all the messages, images, videos and sound clips people capture with their phones. The PC software organises information on a timeline and lets people add to the collection with…
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place and placelessness
I’ve had a nice day doing a bit more exploring around Oxford, including the Natural History and Pitt Rivers museums, followed by a quest for good icecream and some shopping. But being (very) far from home the notion of place comes up again and again, both in conversation and in my head. As I sit…
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Day Three, Four, and Five…!
Seminar notes are coming, but for now here are the powerpoint slides from my own presentation, “Digital Storytelling as an Example of Vernacular Creativity and New Media”.
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Burning Emptiness
experimental electronica label with very cool alternative remuneration schemes for artists: burning emptiness
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Digital Media Project
Harvard Law Digital Media Project
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somuchtodo
fellow panel members snapping at my heels for an abstract, a journal issue to put to bed, and two days of notes to blog…bear with me people, I’ll get there in the end. Or maybe I should try Anne’s trick – seems to work for her. Hey look, I’ve just done it anyway.
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Day Two
Things kicked into high gear on the second day of the OII doctoral programme. Those of us in the “internet and everyday life” subgroup had an enjoyable session mapping out our research projects and identifying common threads – there appear to be two very strong shared interests: firstly social (i.e. human) networks, and secondly non-…
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Day One
Finally got online for the first time in three days today – a strangely unnerving and oddly liberating feeling being disconnected for that long. So after answering all the most urgent work-related emails, I steeled myself to overcome my fuzzy-headed jet lag long enough to write something about the first day of the OII summer…
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An Interview with DJ Spooky
an interview with DJ Spooky about cinema, collective memory, and sampling.
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Now that’s what I call quite good
Finally, I’m happy to have stumbled across these two excellent music blogs recently: The rest is noise (thanks things magazine), and aworks (on American contemporary classical music).