Month: October 2013
Protocols are Social
Excellent post about Twitter etiquette. These are rules of thumb for all social media. This is what we mean by a social protocol.... Read More
Unsymposium 0.9
Where a potted history of the subject is offered, we touch on unresolved questions, and try to answer, or at least ruminate upon, the experience that may, or may not, have happened over these common t... Read More
Not in Kansas anymore…
Substitute ‘journalism’ for any other heritage media in this story and it is identical. The opening paragraph sums up this subject. The Guardian is doing well in the digital domain and the... Read More
Culture and Technology and It’s a Mess
Torika wondering what is meant by ‘culture‘ and ‘technology‘. Tony has some observations from the Potts and Murphy and how culture and technology now intertwined. Courtney on t... Read More
More on Mr Manovich
Jackie on the Manovich and the Seaman on database, narrative, and the need to define. Daniel on how database and narrative are different things. Jake happy to acknowledge confused about the reading,... Read More
Thursday Classes
Will go ahead with Elliot.... Read More
Self Assembling Robots
These are small robots that have the capacity to self assemble into ‘architectural’ forms. This is a very big change, and while we can get all whatever about tech determinism the key thing... Read More
Unsymposium 0.8
Carry over questions: (from a couple of weeks ago): Why didn’t Tim Berners-Lee patent the web? We’re used to the idea of the internet being characterised as a democratic, open, non-hierarc... Read More