Monthly Archives: May 2006

Guns: by Negativeland and Peter Neville

By Craig | Published: May 30, 2006

After wading through the ‘funniest home video genre of youtube, it is a pleasure to be directed toward some real gems; like this doco called ‘Guns’ by Negativeland (thanks to Andrew G for this link). Technorati : guns, negativeland, video, youtube Del.icio.us : guns, negativeland, video, youtube Ice Rocket : guns, negativeland, video, youtube 43 [...]

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Who is Mark Amerika?

By Craig | Published: May 29, 2006

Mark Ameika has been around the traps for a while now (he was a visiting fellow at a school here in melbourne that I studied in for a while). One of my favorite works of his is 'filmtext'; certainly one of the most complex and worldly examples of net art that you are likely to [...]

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Blog Manifesto

By Craig | Published: May 29, 2006

This is a 'blog manifesto' from a network of blogs called 'hardbloggin scientists' (thanks to jill.txt).  But I am not sure that I actually like manifestos; they are just a little, well, unsophisticated (perhaps the best ones aren't as obvious, but I'll give this one a go anyway…I especially like the 'spread the love' bit).  Manifest V0.1 I [...]

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Web2.0 O’Reilly versus Irish web company

By Craig | Published: May 29, 2006

There has been an interesting debate brewing in the blogosphere the past few days because O'Reilly of text book fame has sent a legal letter to a company in Cork in Ireland telling them that they can't use the term 'web2.0' for thier seminar. This seems a little, well, petty to me. The term is banal and although [...]

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Is Wikipedia Dead?

By Craig | Published: May 28, 2006

Somehow I tend to agree with this news item by Charles Arthur on the Guardian Unlimited (UK) Technology Blog. I always thought that Wikipedia would be forced to move into nastier, less idealistic territory. This is very interesting. Carr (who wrote “Does IT matter?”) doesn’t mean “dead” as in “offline” (Wikipedia is still very much [...]

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Wikipedia Attempts To Censor Israel News

By Craig | Published: May 28, 2006

Is this a sign of a nastier Wikipedia, or simply the sign of a service upscaling onto the uncertainties of the wordstage? Jerusalem—-May 27……The Israel News Agency, which has been a favorite target of Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al-Qaeda and the Hizbullah, is again in the sights of Wikipedia for a third [...]

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The New Media Reader

By Craig | Published: May 28, 2006

The New Media Reader is one of my favorite books in the New Media Field. It traces the history of ‘newmedia’ through seminal articles from Vannevar Bush, to Ted Nelson, to more recent times. It also contains a disk that has many of the early newmedia software programs.       Technorati : newmedia Del.icio.us [...]

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