Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
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Sony have launched a Japanese YouTube competitor, complete with Creative Commons licensing (something YouTube deparately needs. [More...] [Via Lessig]
(tags: youtube participatoryculture creativecommons copyright evevio sony)
Slides from my MIT5 paper ‘Vernacular Photography 2.0′ [creativity/machine]
Jean Burgess' powerpoint slides (using Slideshare) for her 'Vernacular Photography 2.0' talk at MIT5, which focused on ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
'Super-Earth' most likely to support life [UK News | News | Telegraph]
"Astronomers have found a planet on which conditions are the most conducive for extraterrestrial life of any so far discovered. Gliese 581c is the first rocky, Earth-like planet to be observed where water could exist in liquid form..."
(tags: planet ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The Last Lion King of Scotland [YouTube]
(tags: youtube mashup trailer)
Slash Me, Mash Me, Spread Me... [Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins]
"... [we'll see] more media producers openly embrace fan practices, encouraging us to take media in our own hands, and do our part to insure the ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Material from killer should not have aired - My latest MSNBC.COM column - Siva Vaidhyanathan [SIVACRACY.NET]
Siva Vaidhyanathan: "There is much worth celebrating in our new mashup culture. ... Mashups give everyday people the power to affect public perceptions and deliberations. But they can just as easily be shallow, hateful ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Emotive announces "Push Ringer" [MobileTechNews]
Oh dear, push ring-tones are coming (the new spam is musical): "Push Ringer" allows a caller to push an outgoing ringtone to a receiving phone allowing the caller, not the called person, to set the tone and override the phone's pre-set ringer.
(tags: cameraphone mobilephone viral marketing)
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
"Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. " (Useful juxtaposition of photography-ready Fast Food against the purchased product.)
(tags: advertising photos)
The Blame Game [Cynical-C Blog]
"In case you were wondering who’s to ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Teens arrested over 'trophy' assault video [Technology - theage.com.au]
Two New Zealand teenagers have discovered the downside of Happy Slapping (beating another kid up and post the videos on YouTube) when they were arrested by police yesterday.
(tags: happyslapping youtube digitalculture youth newzealand)
'Ismail Ax' sparks web search frenzy - web - Technology ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Why Online Games Are Dictatorships by Cory Doctorow [Online Games -- InformationWeek]
"Online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life are absolute dictatorships, where the whim of the companies controlling them is law. Doctorow wonders if it's possible to create a game that's a democracy, where your in-world property is ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
I woke this morning to the news that 33 people were dead at Virginia Tech university in the US due to a gunman's "shooting rampage" . Apart from the tragedy itself one line which struck me as odd in initial report I was reading from the BBC (and I ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Ruddock asks states, territories to 'urgently' approve censorship law changes. [15/04/2007. ABC News Online]
While I have no doubt the films in question are offensive to some people, the Office of Film and Literature Classification is more than harsh enough in Australia already!
(tags: censorship australia politics)
Mobile boom, computer doom [Mobiles & ...
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