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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 [...]
June 10, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: charity, in-activism, network, search, web . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
June 3, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: accessibility, net neutrality, network . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May 8, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: open internet, proprietary software . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: 2 Comments
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 [...]
May 7, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: control, discipline, fear, gender, Quinby . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May 7, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: collage, post-criticism, Ulmer . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May 7, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: Borges, collage, digitality, Lev Manovish, remix . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
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, [...]
May 6, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: Critical Art Esnemble, digitality, order, performance, power, theatre . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: Lessig, Netroots . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: collaboration, control, Critical Art Esnemble, digitality, Emily Hartzell, interactivity, network, Nina Sobell, video installation . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May 4, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: collaborative video, collage, Critical Art Esnemble, digitality, Emily Hartzell, Lev Manovich, Nina Sobell, post-criticism, Quinby, remix, Ulmer . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: 1 Comment