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First Monday: Filesharing and Subculture
At First Monday: Digital music and subculture: Sharing files, sharing styles by Sean Ebare. Via hypergene mediablog.
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Newsfeed Update
I’ve just edited my xml feed so that it will provide full posts, including images and links. (And I will definitely have to stick to my plan of using only absolute links from now on). The RSS 1.0 feed is still excerpts only, so take your pick.
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Charles Leadbeater: Users, Innovation, and the ProAm Economy
Hot off my notebad, here’s my version of what transpired at Charles Leadbeater’s seminar at QUT today. Just the main points on the role of users in innovation and the emerging category of the ProAm which Leadbeater thinks is a growing force in the cultural economy. His approach has significant similarities to the standard cultural…
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Planet Patchwork Essay
Distributed Creativity: Speculations on Quilting, Computers, and Art, by Catherine Jones
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Sleepy City: The Interview
I wanted to try something different from the usual formulaic “link+commentary” blog posts, so I decided to conduct a blog interview with the mysterious urban explorer behind the Sleepy City photography project and website. I was very pleased with the insights the interview generated, and I’ll certainly be doing more of them. Enjoy! Jean: First…
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Sleepy City
Images of the bits of Brisbane that don’t match the shiny postmodern marketing at sleepy city: Through the decaying doorframe or that unnoticed metal hole wait adventure and sights few will ever see. All it takes to step across into this parallel world is a torch and a curious spirit. No joining fees, no ridiculous…
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Null Device
Newly discovered LMB (like-minded blog): the null device – music, technology, culture and stuff.
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The GarageBand Controversy
I am just about ready to move on from the GarageBand thing – it will be one of my case studies, but any more consecutive posts on the topic and this will turn into some sort of Apple fansite. And I don’t even have a Mac. However… It seems quite a lot of people didn’t…
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New Australian PhD Weblog
New Australian PhD weblog on Internet Genealogy Research by Kylie Veale. Welcome to research blogging!
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GarageBand: Usability vs. Hackability
I don’t have a Mac, so I haven’t used GarageBand yet, but I’ve been following its release and its take-up by users very closely. To hear the fruits of this explosion of creativity, visit one of the many online distribution channels for GarageBand recordings that have already begun to appear: MacJukebox, iCompositions, or MacJams. As…