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Cutting their own throats By Charlie Stross
Traditional publishing is dominated by the Big Six publishing groups — folks like Hachette, Holtzbrinck, Penguin-Putnam, and so on. In general these publishers and their imprints refuse to publish ebooks without DRM. It’s a major sticking point with them, in no small part dictated by the fact that they’re subsidiaries of huge media conglomerates, which…
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UCLA Game Lab Blog » Mary Flanagan livestream at Game Lab Karlsruhe
UCLA Game Lab Blog » Mary Flanagan livestream at Game Lab Karlsruhe dinosaurparty: Awesome! ZKM in Karlsruhe is the most advanced and thoughtful institution for the study and exhibition of new media art (in my opinion). And Mary Flanagan’s book Critical Play shaped a good deal of my graduate work on artists’ games. Can’t wait to…
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wilwheaton: “Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the verge of passing a bill that could very well destroy the social web. “This is the holy grail of the entertainment industry—to destroy the internet, and thus, destroy the biggest danger to their business.” PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet (by Fight…
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Why is this emphasis on the myth of monotasking important? Because if we want to change our institutions, we have to believe that it is the institutional structures that are the problem, not the new conditions of life that institutions should be supporting. That is, if we believe that technology is making us dumb, distracted,…
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paperbits: ubergrid: Little Printer by BERG Studio http://flic.kr/p/aMG6F2 http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/ This one is getting a lot of attention today, from many of those we follow. It reifies (or instantiates?) a vision – a theory object – shared by Nicholas Negroponte about highly personalized newspapers and print media.
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Remember when we had to tell graphic designers that they couldn’t control how things looked online? That the lovely page they’d designed might not look like that on someone else’s computer, in someone else’s browser? Soon we’re going to have to do that with everything. Designers are going to have to design things that might…
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Is She or Isn’t She?
lareviewofbooks: JOHN CLUTE on Margaret Atwood and the S and F words. Elevator Girl House F1 © Miwa Yanagi 1997 Margaret AtwoodIn Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination New York: Doubleday/Nan A Talese, 2011. 255 pp. There are a few problems here, which may take a few minutes to sort through before we can get…
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emergentfutures: World’s first pee-controlled video game opens in London bar Developed by UK-based Captive Media, the high-tech urinals come with 12-inch LCD screens fitted just above them. Ads play on the screens until a punter approaches the urinal. Detecting that the punter is in position and ready to pee, the system then switches into gaming…