Posted in 3436, 3435, 3434, 3437, 3438, 3441, 3440, 3439, 3433, 3432, an, and, the, 3293, 3429, 3431, 3430, General on Jun 14th, 2008 Comments Off
In the mid- and late 1960’s, Charles Marowitz directed an interesting remix of Hamlet called “Collage Hamlet.” The technique, according to Marowitz, borrowed from Burrough’s cut-ups. It’s also eerily prescient of contemporary remix/mashup culture. I saw excerpts from his production in the A&E Biography episode on Hamlet. I wish I could see the whole thing. […]
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Posted in 3366, 3365, 3364, 3363, 3367, 3368, 3372, 3371, 3370, 3369, 3362, 3361, lives, the, post, article, today, and, a, 2757, an, General on Feb 24th, 2008 Comments Off
Today’s Washington Post features an unusually fine article from Joel Garreau (registration required) concerning the ways in which cellphones have changed, and continue to transform, our lives as a species on this planet. Twenty-five years of cellphone technology have brought us to the point that Google CEO Eric Schmidt can say, “Eventually there will be […]
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Posted in 3348, 3347, 3346, 3349, 3350, 3353, 3352, 3351, 3345, 3344, a, an, the, 2922, 3316, 3343, 3342, General on Feb 19th, 2008 Comments Off
So write Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg.
Corollaries:
An introduction to New Media Studies is a metacourse.
The third pitch we throw had better be a metapitch.
The metalevel is the most generative level, the most frustratingly inexact level, the most emergent level, the level where experts and beginners can have interesting meetings. It can be a wide-eyed level, […]
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Posted in 3197, an, General on Feb 8th, 2008 Comments Off
An abstract for an upcoming talk–sort of an extension of the “digital imagination” material I’ve been working on lately:
Emily Dickinson once wrote, “If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of […]
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Posted in 3130, 3131, 3132, 3129, 3128, 3125, 3126, 3127, 3133, 3134, 3139, 3140, 3141, 3138, 3137, 3135, 3136, 3124, 3123, the, keynote, speakers, my, school, twitter, precious, and, an, 3120, 3121, 3122, 3119, 3118, 3116, 3117, General on Feb 3rd, 2008 Comments Off
For days now, I’ve been mulling over this session, and the Twitter response to it while it was happening. (I was there and in that Twitter stream.) Jim’s post and the extraordinary set of comments it elicited have catalyzed my own efforts at response here.
It turns out that I have very conflicting responses. I’m sure […]
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Posted in 3046, 3047, 3045, 3044, 3043, 3048, 3049, 3053, 3052, 3051, 3050, 2766, 2754, and, today, students, the, an, 2742, 2752, a, 2757, 2756, General on Jan 24th, 2008 Comments Off
Courtesy of the University of Mary Washington Computer Science Department, I and an SRO crowd of students, faculty, and staff got to hear a fascinating talk today by Dr. Eric Miller (CSAIL, MIT). There’s no questioning the depth, intelligence, or intensity of his commitment to a data web; he made the best and most inclusive […]
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Posted in 2951, 2950, 2949, 2948, 2952, 2953, 2956, 2955, 2954, 2947, 2946, the, my, blog, Audio, an, 2935, 2945, 2944, 2943, General on Jan 13th, 2008 Comments Off
This is my 500th blog post.
To mark the occasion, I’m podcasting an interview I did with filmmaker Errol Morris back in March, 1997. The audio, alas, isn’t very good. I hadn’t planned to put the audio out at all, actually; the tape recorder was there as a backup to my notes, just as it was […]
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Posted in apt, title, reason, suppose, derailed, shucks, an, story but, waited, the, post, real, weeks, posting, busy, rest, General on Nov 30th, 2007 Comments Off
It was an honor and a thrill, frankly, to be interviewed by Jon Udell for his “Interviews with Innovators” series over at IT Conversations. It’s taken me two weeks to blog about it because I couldn’t figure out quite what to say. Somehow “Look, Ma!” didn’t seem right, though it’s pretty much the way I […]
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