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Henry Jenkins is the director, Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. In this viral-info-snack he discusses the power of media in a 21 century trans-mediated world. A world where converging technologies and cultures give rise to a new media landscape.Thanks to the ever wise Cross-Media Specialist @ChristyDena, I checked out Henry Jenkin’s short video on ...
Looking back at the emergence of popular social networks, I’m quite convinced that much of their success happened not through incredible planning and foresight, but by accident and adaptation. Youtube was supposed to be a video-based HotorNot.com, Flickr was spawned off a MMORPG multiuser chat service with real-time photo exchange (called FlickrLive; I was there), ...
Authors: Jason Gallo, Matthew Kane, Eszter Hargittai Citation Hargittai, E., Gallo, J., & Kane, M. (2008). Cross-Ideological Discussions among Conservative and Liberal Bloggers. Public Choice. 134:67-86. Abstract: With the increasing spread of information ...
MARCH/APRIL 2009Texting Toward Utopia Does the Internet spread democracy? Evgeny Morozovvia bostonreview.netWhy assume that Chinese Internet users will suddenly demand more political rights, rather than the Friends or Sex in the City lifestyles they observe on the Internet? Posted via web from kevinlim’s posterous Similar Posts:Posterous: Blog via email, complete …
The Obama Way: Using Online Social Networks to Promote Your CauseView more presentations from Kevin Lim.For Fundraising Day 2009 (which coincides with Earth Day), I am giving a primer on how President Obama used online social networks (among many communication tools) to empower supporters and raise an incredible amount of public funding for his 2008 ...
Thanks to @JessManocchio and @joonian, I’ve got my first issue of MINE. It’s an experimental, personalized magazine from Time Warner Inc. Is it a worthy mashup or a frankenstein of a magazine? See what I’ve to say.What is Mine magazine?A free five-issue, 10-week, experimental magazineUser-mashup of five Time Warner/American Express Co. magazinesPersonalized …
With more of us from the University at Buffalo now on twitter, a UB tweetup was in order. Everyone met each other for the first time, and we exchanged ideas on how we used it for our various causes. There are currently about 10 twitter accounts affiliated to the University at Buffalo. After our tweetup, ...
I’ve been stressed at work while my dissertation progress lingered back home. Supervisor Robin sends out the following email…- - - - -Notice to all employees:Workloads getting to you?Feeling stressed?Too many priorities and assignments? Due to the hard economic times and otherwise depressing state of the world today, all personnel will now be required to ...
BBC’s Matt Frei visits a cyber cafe just outside Tokyo, where some homeless young people are choosing to live in the tiny cubicles. Some take-aways from this short, depressing BCC report: 60 x “coffin-sized” cubicles for rent at around US$500/month in Tokyo No windows to the outside world, except for computer Cubicle residents mostly young, ...
I’m strolling along sunny Phuket beach in Thailand remotely from Buffalo, New York. Approximately 8651 true miles away, my holiday experience is mediated via Mapjack.comI asked friends to come along, by twittering where I was (via URL). @Prissyhan sent me a coconut to drink, but since it was viscerally lacking, I closed the loop by ...
I recently discovered the high-quality street view experience of Mapjack.com, and learned that their virtual experience extended beyond the roads, and onto narrow alleys as well as even indoors. That beats Google Street View which has so far been limited to vehicle-mounted panorama cameras as seen here.Having heard that Mapjack’s street-view rig was wearable, I ...
Talk about Geek Nostalgia! Walk with us in this 20 minute historic journey into memory devices lost and found. Science librarian Ben Wagner gives us a tour of their new Retro-Media exhibit which features all kinds of recordable media over the past century.Everything from computer punch cards, to floppy disks, to magnetic tape for data ...
While @briancaldwell of Squidder thinks that their latest creation reeks of “Big Brother / 1984” overtones, I beg to differ… it looks incredibly useful (and fun)!Last month, they created these Augmented Reality Twitter Shirts…It clearly combines twitter, augmented reality (Papervision) and of course, t-shirts. But it didn’t stop there… …
I know GE’s augmented reality marketing gimmick work because I’m seeing at least 35 Youtube video submissions from folks amazed by it. Here’s a great video demo from DoobyBrain.Try it with your webcam at ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality.Tip: Try blowing into your webcam and see what happens…Augmented Reality has been used in a number …
Thanks to the WNYmedia folks, I totally enjoyed Barcamp Buffalo. You’ll see and hear why from my voicethread above.I decided to use Voicethread to show Buffalo News journalist, Michelle Kearns, how she could take her trans-media story DVD project a step further. Voicethread makes multimedia storyboards accessible (embed anywhere) and collaborative (allow viewers to add ...
As a sneak peek at BarcampBuffalo, UB undergrad and web developer Joseph Hsu of josephhsu.com demos his prototype Live Stream Monitoring webapp written with Ruby on Rails. Yes, he says it’s an untitled work It’s very alpha right now, merely aggregating information streams. His next phase would be to process these streams in order to ...
Nice to see Associate Editor of Lifehacker.com, Kevin Purdy, make a trip back to Buffalo to join in our first ever Barcamp Buffalo. For his quick demo, Kevin tells us how he transitioned from newspaper journalist to an being Associate Editor at the ever popular Lifehacker.com. As part of his transition, he shows us the ...
Photo by the incredibly ramblinglibrarianInspired by the ramblinglibrarian, I’d like to share my experience in virtual attendance of my first BarCamp, namely BarCamp Singapore 3. Organized by Preetam Rai, and helped by many others including @claudia10, @shenheng, @cneil, the event has over 200 registrations, with just over 150 participants by lunch time. How #BarCampSG3 …
View more presentations from Kevin Lim. (tags: gaming howto)Thanks to Alexandra Pickett, Associate Director at SUNY Learning Network, I’ve been sponsored to speak at SLN SOLsummit 2009 held in Syracuse, NY (a good 2hr 21mins drive).What’s SOLsummit about?The SLN SOLSummit, sponsored by the SUNY Learning Network (SLN), is an annual SUNY-wide conference specifically …
There seems to be undying affection for the upcoming Dragonball movie, which might explain the whooshing stars and Buffalos I’ve been seeing of late (j/k).BarCamp Singapore IIIDate: Sat, February 28, 2009Time: 9:15am to 6.30pmLocation: Ngee Ann Polytechnic Blk 27, Level 2, 535 Clementi Road, Singapore 599489I’ll be joining my fellow Singaporean netizens in …
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