Good News about GoodSearch

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Like Blackle, a derivative (GS is Yahoo! powered, Blackle is Google powered); instead of saving energy with Blackle, GoodSearch donates ad $ to a charity you get to pick.  Pretty awesome.  
Now, if only GoodSearch came in energy-saving black…
 
www.goodsearch.com 
(PS  I’m officially coning the term “in-activism”, which will mean “internet activism” a large umbrella combining social [...]

The Path to the End of Net Neutrality?

From Kos:
IT’S HERE! TimeWarner caps Tubes with tiered-bandwidth: 5g/$30

 
 
 
 
 
The lowest level of service is a 768Kbps connection with a 5GB cap for $29.95 per month. The high-end package will offer 15MBps with a 40GB cap for $54.90 per month. Consumers will pay by the gigabyte for consumption in excess of the established caps. Customers will [...]

Mozilla and the threat of proprietary media players

 
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 [...]

Virile-Reality: From Armageddon to Viagra

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 [...]

The Object of Post-Criticism

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 [...]

What Comes After Remix?

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 [...]

Recombinant Theatre and Digital Resistance

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, [...]

Lessig at Netroots Nation

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 in Time and Space: Interactive Work

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 [...]

Sculpting a Digital Remix of Armageddon Object(s): Five Articles

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 [...]