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Here’s the crib of my 140#conf NYC talk, given on June 15th at the 92nd st Y: I’m here to talk to you about my work on digital audiences, with a focus on information flows. I’m sure that to this crowd I don’t have to stress the potential that social media is unlocking. Whether you’re a [...] With all the excitement about Tunisia and the numerous debates on whether this was/is another “Twitter Revolution”, it was the perfect time to dig into Clay Shirky’s recently published piece ‘The Political Power of Social Media’ in the Journal for Foreign Affairs. I actually like the journal and usually buy a copy, but sadly there’s [...] If you’ve never been to one of the twice-a-year shows held at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, you’re missing the weirdest, coolest, most insanely inspired geek projects around. Red Burns sez ‘ITP is about enhancing the human spirit through imagination. when we grow up we have it knocked out of us and we’re afraid [...] Check out our recently installed piece, the ‘Future of the Book’, at the Berkeley Center for New Media window (next to the free speech cafe). It is a mixed media electronic sculpture, built in collaboration with Judith Donath and Martin Wattenberg. Initially commissioned for the Boston Book Festival in 2009, we reconstructed the piece for [...] I was fortunate to be invited this year as one of the contributing artists at TEDActive. This is the simulcast event that happens in Palm Springs at the same time that the main TED event takes place in Long Beach. The organizers frame it not as “TED jr.” but rather a more intimate version of [...] #CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike is a hashtag created by @mattsly the morning of October 26th. He submitted the following snarky message – ‘Go Phillies. #CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike hoping investment bankers get really huge bonuses of at least 8 figures‘ – hoping to entertain his friends, and possibly get others to participate. Matt had 182 followers at the time, not sizeable [...] New Twitter visualization of the MTV video music awards by Stamen design. I enjoy using the well-designed interface for “re-experiencing” the series of events as they evolved that evening. I like the simplicity of the timeline at the bottom, and just how easy it is to navigate between times. What I also really like is [...] There’s something really wonderful about using the flickr clock interface to browse through people’s moments from around the world. The clock displays only video content and lets you lean back and just click <next> to view another short clip which someone uploaded somewhere around the world. flickr clock I love the horizontal timeline below the image [...] |
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