Courtesy of UPitt and the BBC (click over for some slightly boring and un-embedable video):
Monkey’s brain controls robot arm
And as if that wasn’t enough to scare you into settling a new planet…
Monkey thoughts control computer
Two DKos diaries on
1) Myspace and the Law (Federal MySpace Indictment May Threaten Web “Anonymity”)
2) the social impact of blogging (Does blogging make a difference?)
And, this nifty little social networking/consumer power/green video, Carrotmob Makes It Rain (think flash mob, but with… carrots?).
Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.
(Above link is for the long version, as WP [...]
Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight ‘agenda’
By David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, News.com
Posted on ZDNet News: Apr 30, 2008 7:21:27 AM
Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.
Speaking at the Internet World conference in London on Tuesday, Tristan Nitot claimed such applications threaten the [...]
As you will no doubt see when my grand project is revealed, Armageddon and Viagra go hand in hand with viral video collage. This article, however, turned out to be more about gendered digitality than apocalyptic fear.
Quinby is quick to cut in the meme of internet Utopianism, anonymity of users and the optimistic empowerment supposedly [...]
I’ve been fascinated with this article for awhile, but still battle to wrap my brain around it. That’s the mark of quality, to me. My interest lies in the combination of critical and creative that Ulmer urges. This is especially pertinent to me, as I’m seeking a PhD in Creative Writing and this program seeks [...]
I’ve been wanting to read Lev Manovich since I had the pleasure of publishing (and interviewing) UWM MFA student A. Bill Miller. He does some interesting (provoking, pretty) gridworks and 3D video/sculpture that have a lot to do with digitality, language and – ta da! – transcoding. Check it out (and buy the new cream [...]
I don’t remember what search criteria found this on JSTOR, but it was the right combination. By far, my favorite article of the group (still waiting on that message board-to-scriptwriter article…), as it has a unique understanding of digitality, allowing that concept to be extrapolated into a rich and pertinent (for me) discussion of collaboration, [...]
Per Netroots Nation at Daily Kos:
Lawrence Lessig to Deliver Netroots Nation Keynote
Great news! Netroots Nation is proud to announce Lawrence Lessig as
one of our keynote speakers for this year’s conference.
Professor Lessig, who has been called one of the “leading minds in
tech” and open-source democracy by the American Prospect, is the
founder of Creative Commons, and spent [...]
Sculpting Time and Space is a self-review of the interactive video installations of artist Nina Sobell and her collaborations with Emily Hartzell. The particularly intriguing elements of this article were the elements of video, interactivity, performance and collaboration – all aspects I consider constitutive of my project. Questions of access, surveillance and participation are present [...]
I have to admit that I wasn’t sure where I’d find articles that were of both interest and applicable to my project. The interesting qualification would clearly be the easier to meet; but, how many articles on digital video collage* with a narrative overly and a mediated collaboration can there be? Well, through [...]
