Else-If-Then

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  • Teaching alternatives ways of searching

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    I was reading a draft of a paper for Bernard about democritizing web searches.  I won’t go into the details of the paper–it’s not published yet.  But, I do want to mention two search tools that I had never heard about before reading this paper, and I’ll give some short quotes from Bernhard on those:…

  • Also While in SF….

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    I got to hang out with people I know mainly through the Twitterverse, which was really great.  When I was there last October for Arse Elektronika (an entry I have yet to post, come to think of it) I had the pleasure of not only meeting some of the people from Monochrom, (who are Austrian)…

  • A page from the Mirkopedia

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    A page from the Mirkopedia Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver The defense is probably not quite over, but already Mirko’s influence is spreading. It seems he has been recognized as exemplifying many sterling qualities! –Update– Now all is concluded and Mirko has been duly promoted to his proper place as Dr. Mirko.

  • Bastard Culture!

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    My good friend, Mirko Tobias Schäfer is defending his dissertation today. In fact, by the time many of you read this, he may already be finished and recognized as Dr. Schäfer. 🙂 It has been my pleasure for the last 15 months or so to read Mirko’s manuscript, Bastard Culture! User participation and the extension…

  • News From Comparative Media Studies at MIT

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    I never thought I’d see it, but Henry Jenkins is leaving Comparative Media Studies at MIT and moving to the Annenberg School at USC. The full story (or as full as will ever be made public, I’d guess) is on Henry’s blog. I express surprise, but in another way I’m not surprised at all. The…

  • Florian’s moment of revelation

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    Florian at Ars Electronica 2007. Note, visit Ars Electronica 2007 for more info. about Florian winning the Prix Ars prize for theory. I was still a student in 1995, in Comparative Literature, and there was a conference in Berlin. It wasn’t really a conference so much as a public culture event, and it was called…

  • Florian Cramer on the problem of new media paradigms

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    Florian at Worm in Rotterdam, Summer 2007Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver We moved on to discuss “new media” as a discipline and I mentioned how both Sher Doruff and Renee Turner had said one thing that attracted them (among other characteristics) was the lack of constraints on the field, because no body knew what was possible…

  • The secret origins of Florian Cramer

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    Florian during his interviewOriginally uploaded by cuuixsilver Ok, there aren’t really any secrets but I haven’t seen any really biographical interviews with Florian anywhere else, so maybe it will be some kind of revelation. 🙂 I’ve known Florian for a long time now, about 15 years, but when working on my projects in the Netherlands,…

  • datadirt

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    A quick note to thank Ritchie Pettauer (whom I met through Facebook!) for asking to publish my Facebook paper on his blog, datadirt. As he describes it: the main focus is (pro)blogging, WordPress and online marketing with the occassional media theory twist. I also like to blog about music and funny stuff on the net…

  • Brenno de Winter

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    B. de WinterOriginally uploaded by cuuixsilver I should also note that Brenno is starting to establish quite a journalistic reputation when it comes to reporting on IT and issues of privacy, freedom on information, and related matters. For example, he has relentlessly pursued the privacy problems with the OV Chipkaart. You can see the most…