Carmel vaisman’s research is utterly fascinating. She is a phd student in Israel, writing a dissertation on the Israeli blogosphere, specifically the Isra-blog platform. Israel is considered a technology leader, quickly adopting widespread use of new applications and online norms. Blogs took off in Israel only in 2001, with the creation of Isra-blog, the largest [...]
|
||||||
|
Passover is probably the only holiday that I get truly excited about celebrating. Not only because its great food, but for its many little customs. The Seder takes place on the first night of Passover. A time to get together with friends and family, eat well, drink lots of wine, sing and tell the story [...] This is a poster right outside a Hot Pot restaurant in Shenzhen. You can also spot these types of images around Hong Kong – huge posters of full roast ducks smiling out from bus stations across town. The Chinese have absolutely none of the Western hypocrisy around seeing what animal their meat came from. On [...] Once I crossed into China at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border, I spotted these signs everywhere – ‘No U-Turns’ and ‘No Refluence’! I’m fascinated by just how the Chinese authorities chose these words. Definitely not a gwailo working there and most probably translated from a Mandarin-English dictionary. Mandarin is so poetic, seems reasonable that they chose [...] This is a fashion store in Shenzhen, China. Lots of Hahley-Davidson fashion items for an L.A.BOY like me If I could be anyone at this moment, it would definitely be Jan Chipchase, Nokia researcher extraordinaire. Chipchase travels around the world and focuses on user centered design for mobile phone in third world countries. I’ve been following his blog for a while now, and was excited to read Sara Corbett’s article ‘Can the Cellphone [...] Playing the News is an educational/artistic project by Nora Paul and Kathleen Hansen, designed to teach journalism through a gaming platform, seeking to promote a more interesting, intuitive, and interactive method of teaching the principles of journalistic integrity and efficiency. The purpose of the game is to simulate the decision-making process inherent in journalism, as [...] Saturday I gave a talk on Mediated Presence through Physical Objects in the Dorkbot-socal meetup at Machine Project gallery, LA. I chose to focus mostly on imPulse, the heartbeat sharing devices that Christian and I built and redesigned over the past two years. It is an artistic exploration of intimacy through mediated space, seeking a [...] A friend put it nicely as we were sipping our 7-11 champagne out of plastic cups in front of Mes Amis, right after the Hong Kong Sevens final game. She said ‘This city is like living in Neverland; you never have to grow up, and nobody thinks you’re ridiculous for doing things your own way’. [...] |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Giladon-line - All Rights Reserved |
||||||