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The Pleasures of Production
Tom has a typically thoughtful and balanced piece on the pleasures of production vs. the (lack of, for him) pleasures of consumption. When I’m less pressed for time I’d like to engage with it more deeply. I’d especially like to interrogate the idea that production is ever really separate from some kind of consumption –…
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Henry Jenkins articles
What a legend Henry Jenkins is for posting his works in progress and a whole heap of past articles besides online – talk about walking the open source walk. Here are two I found to be very useful for planning my PhD project on “amateur” production and new media: Interactive Audiences? The ‘Collective Intelligence’ of…
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::fibreculture:: [plug]
via my fibreculture subscription, an open invitation: | f i b r e c u l t u r e | || ||| |||| ||||||| || ||| || |||||| ||||| || |||| i n t e r n e t || ||| |||| ||||||| || ||| || |||||| ||||| || |||| theory | criticism |…
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Brisbane and Adelaide/Creative Cities
Gary from Junk for Code has posted some thoughts on Adelaide’s “creative city” policies, or lack thereof, which kind of continues an earlier dialogue on the matter between our two blogs. Here’s some more of my thoughts. While Richard Florida’s bookThe Rise of the Creative Class, and the wider emerging discourse of Creative Industries and…
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monty python in LEGO
In the emerging tradition of weekend blogging, here is a post concerned exclusively with silliness. You have to love Monty Python to get this – and if you don’t love Monty Python, then what, may I ask, is wrong with you? At iFilm you can watch the “knights of the roundtable” song-and-dance scene from The…
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style portal
Via the impeccable taste of invisible shoebox I found linkdup, one of a growing breed of hand-edited portals where the decisions are based unashamedly on the subjective aesthetic judgements of the site administrators. Here’s the manifesto: THE THINKING… Design, content and technology are coming of age on the web and this maturation continues at a…
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Layout-o-matic
I don’t know about you, but every time an attack of redesignitis has hit me, the initial euphoria of a fresh new layout has been quickly followed by hours of late-night panic as I try to repair whatever insults or injuries I have done to my style sheets. If your mental health is more important…
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Genres of “Amateur” Content Production
As well as writing up my Masters thesis, I’m putting together PhD proposals (targeted to the research interests of various universities) on the topic of vernacular creativity and new media – the current version is here if anyone is interested. In trying to work out the areas I might select as case studies, I’m putting…
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electronic book review
Just came across the online journal electronic book review. Some very interesting editorial content, essays and articles on “techno capitalism” and “electro poetics”, including some work by not-so-lightweight theorists, e.g. Mark Poster.
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Blog Glossary
If you have coined a word or expression specific to the blogosphere (there’s one for a start), submit it to Samizdata’s Blog Glossary quick smart, and get your name up in lights. Or if you are a mere mortal, go there and check it out anyway. There were a few there that were new to…