Monthly Archives June 2006

invisible sphere - data visualization & visual culture - information aesthetics

invisible sphere - data visualization & visual culture - information aesthetics: conceptually interesting. I’d love to see how this works in a gallery setting. I also admire the artist for doing tech support on something this massive. What a pain!

ZapZap - Home

ZapZap - Home: like digg for podcasts.

My Gnomedex Talk

I’ve been thinking about what I want to talk about at Gnomedex later this week, and I keep coming around to a blog post I made about the intrinsic monetary value of digital content, and how it is ascribed.
The $39 Dollar Song and 6 Cent Ringtone didn’t really light up the charts on the TechMeme [...]

OpenOffice.org Ad Action

OpenOffice.org Ad Action: I don’t mean to be crass here… but why the fuck would you advertise a revolution in a dying media? Its like advertising mobile gaming on a Milton Bradley game box. WHY? Can’t this money be spent doing social insurrection? Viral and guerilla marketing?

Digg Drop

Digg Drop: yay for YouTube being Kazaa part II.

talkinghub now

Blogoforum | Web 2.0 tag-based folksonomy blog+forum | Employ the
power of many: a pretty interesting take on how to do discussion boards. I think that boards are ripe for a rethinking. I need to get on that

The Survey Generation

When I was teaching up at UCSB, I had a moment that was equal parts enlightening and scary. Standing at the front of my class one day, I looked at each face and mentally ran through everything I knew about each person. Now, when I was in college, my TA could have done this, but [...]