I’m proud to feature the digital stories from my Technology and the Creative Artist class. These stories represent the completion of their second exercise, building off of course materials that have been discussing the influence of new media on narrative. You will need Apple’s Quicktime in order to view the stories. Enjoy, and let us [...]
Archive | November, 2005
Robot Censorship?
Speaking of robots outnumbering humans on the Internet, I’m wondering increasingly how I get my information, if I ever do. I have recently contended with a renegade spam filter, an AI of sorts that seems to be motivated by the M$ bottom line and not by the desires of the humans that use the system. [...]
New Classroom
I have been suggesting something similar for years. Along those same lines: maybe students shouldn’t listen to their professors? Long live classroom underlife!
There Is No God
NPR has resurrected a radio series from the 1950s: “This I Believe.” The first essay I heard was Penn Jillette’s “There Is No God”: So, anyone with a love for truth outside of herself has to start with no belief in God and then look for evidence of God. She needs to search for some [...]
Some Items of Note
I have discovered a new web browser that has potential: Flock has landed. While the developer page says it’s still buggy, I have found it to be pretty reliable. That’s not surprising, since it’s built on Mozilla‘s code. One feature I really like is the ability to publish blog entries directly from a browser interface. [...]
The Internet of Things
Via KurzweilAI: Changes brought about by the internet will be dwarfed by those prompted by the networking of everyday objects, says a report by a UN body. As anyone in new media can tell you, ubiquitous computing is not a new idea. Technologies like Bluetooth, nanotechnology, and the Big-Brotheresque RFID will allow us to begin [...]
True Companion
One of my favorite songs by Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen. I might call this science fiction pop music, something I think Fagen might do the best.
