Tag: Advocate
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Who is McKenzie Wark? The Future of the Book
McKenzie Wark is a well-know Australian newmedia theorist. He is the author of three books, Virtual Geography, The Virtual Republic and Celebrities Culture and Cyberspace. He was a co-editor of the Nettime anthology Readme! and with Brad Miller co-produced the multimedia work Planet of Noise. He lives and works in New York (see more here…)…
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What is Podcasting? Ask a Ninja
Ever wondered what Podcasting was? Well here is an explanation from a Ninja. And the funny thing is, if your search via ‘Ninja’ on youtube, you fill find lots of copycat Ninjas. In fact there is a whole cult of Ninjas (but this one appears to be the chief Ninja). Thanks to Andrew G for…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.