Dom’s thoughts on the camera kernel.
For anyone that hasn’t seen Dom Bui’s blog I highly recommend a visit, definitely an original take without all the blithering I feel is necessary in my sordid writing… Anyway finally got to get his thoughts on Vannevar Bush’s imaginings…
Meme of the week ft. Little Wayne
Ok so this one might be in bad taste, but so is whoever listens to Lil’Wayne. Interesting comment on the divide between Rap’s projected image and what the rest of the music industry seems to be saying..
Project Xanadu, Ted Nelson’s paradise
Ted Nelson sounds like the kind of bloke I’d want to have a beer with. This may sound like a strange way to describe my interpretation of a literary work but let me explain… Occasionally you’ll get stuck with someone…
Beta Sympsoium
Todays “unlecture” in Networked media worked. There could be no doubt from the faces of the students as they filed out of the lecture hall. It might not have been smiles of jubilation and excited shrieks of insight, but there…
Vannevar Bush, sounds nuts in the forties, makes sense in the noughties.
After reading Vannevar Bush’s vision for the efforts of post WW2 scientists I was struck by how his obvious play for what he would consider exotic, is by today’s standards, almost normal. He first addresses how the physicists of the…
The third network media unlecture, third times the charm!
The last Unlecture began in a strange way. Its not easy to offend a lecturer. You can underpay them, abuse them verbally, hurl bannana peals at them from the back row. But whatever you can think of they tend to…
Vine, become a horticultualist on the web!
Vine, is something new. Sure instagram can do it to… But you can put hashtags on Facebook nowadays, so what’s the point of twitter? The answer is, there is no answer but Vine is a great way to do it….
Unlecture 2, sheets to the front.
How often have you been asked a question in a lecture that wasn’t rhetorical? The second unlecture was a fantastic experience more like a Q&A session with a director after the film at a festival. Perhaps not the most efficient…
Do we use or are we used by computers?
Here’s a really interesting article about why we should become properly literate about the tools to which we devote so much of our waking lives.
Meme of the week, journey into the Internets…
The Internet is a place of trends. As a huge distributed network, things move in surges as opposed to more traditional, planned durations. A perfect example of this is the Internet “meme”. A captioned picture that goes viral (or not)….