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…
 
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(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 [...]

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 [...]

Whether We’ll Weather the Weather Well

I think the best way to go about this is to explain what my project is and then bend it explain how it fits into the framework of the course.  
For my project, I’m “writing” a short story in video.  Another way of writing this would be making a short film/voice collage, but I think the [...]