• Guns: by Negativeland and Peter Neville

    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…

  • Who is Mark Amerika?

    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…

  • Blog Manifesto

    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…

  • Web2.0 O’Reilly versus Irish web company

    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…

  • Is Wikipedia Dead?

    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…

  • Bombarded by Comment Spam?

    Looks like I'm not the only one who has been bombarded by comments spam. I just installed this new plugin called Akismet. See what they have to deal with.