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 and harmful.”
“It’s easy to satirize Twitter’s trendiness, and cranky critics have mocked the banality of most tweets and questioned whether we really need such an assault upon our powers of concentration. But right now, it’s one of the fastest-growing phenom…”
Which colours to use when creating webpages which will use the least power when being displayed on CRT, Plasma, or OLED technology. (Not a bad colour scheme, either!)
Given that Order of the Phoenix is my least favourite HP, I’m really impressed by this trailer. It’s the ripest book for jetisoning the narrative fat and focusing on the action!
On May 5, carry a camera: “What happens around the world in one day? In a word – life. Here on Flickr, photographers are sharing what they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, telling stories, capturing beauty.”
Thanks for these great links, Tama! What do you think about the airing of Cho’s material? I agree with Siva Vaidhyanathan, that it was disrespectful to the victims and their families, and Cho’s family.
I have actually avoided looking at the video itself and not just out of respect but also because I think it would be ghoulish to look (sort of like gawking at an execution or something). Also I have to admit I am chicken and don’t want to (maybe) scare myself.
CW, I had really intended to write a proper post about Siva’s take on the Cho video, but I find I don’t really know what I think. While I agree I’m dismayed at the inevitable recycling and reuse of such material, I also think that if such videos exist and they’re not screened by the mainstream media, they’ll certainly end up circulating somewhere (be it a ‘leak’ somewhere in the police, the TV station that received the tapes, or somewhere else) and I think I prefer these images to come via the mainstream rather than other channels simply because, for all their failings, the mainstream media have certain rules and expectations they have to abide by. The same wouldn’t be true of a website that ‘uncovers’ these images and videos.
Thanks for these great links, Tama! What do you think about the airing of Cho’s material? I agree with Siva Vaidhyanathan, that it was disrespectful to the victims and their families, and Cho’s family.
I have actually avoided looking at the video itself and not just out of respect but also because I think it would be ghoulish to look (sort of like gawking at an execution or something). Also I have to admit I am chicken and don’t want to (maybe) scare myself.
CW, I had really intended to write a proper post about Siva’s take on the Cho video, but I find I don’t really know what I think. While I agree I’m dismayed at the inevitable recycling and reuse of such material, I also think that if such videos exist and they’re not screened by the mainstream media, they’ll certainly end up circulating somewhere (be it a ‘leak’ somewhere in the police, the TV station that received the tapes, or somewhere else) and I think I prefer these images to come via the mainstream rather than other channels simply because, for all their failings, the mainstream media have certain rules and expectations they have to abide by. The same wouldn’t be true of a website that ‘uncovers’ these images and videos.