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emmacooper: Charlotte Moorman performing Nam June Paik’s “TV Bra for Living Sculpture.”
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Huge congratulations go out to our dear friend and rockstar founder of Adafruit Industries, Limor Fried, on being the first female engineer featured on the cover of Wired magazine! (via Hardware Hero – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories)[emphasis added]
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emmacooper: Charlotte Moorman performing Nam June Paik’s “TV Bra for Living Sculpture.”
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…we got wired coverage but it’s not like it’s ‘96 and people still read wired. Hacker News | I sense a backlash growing. It seems like the only time people take you seriousl…
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Trading Atoms for Bits The most basic way to make materials more ecologically friendly is to simply use less of them. Digital technology, for example, allows us to put songs, books, magazines, newspapers, TV shows, movies, most any kind of media, onto increasingly smaller computer chips. By trading in the atoms of the books, CDs,…
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A while back I heard Jimmy Wales discussing what makes Wikipedia work and he said he rejected the term ‘crowdsourcing’ because the people who write Wikipedia aren’t a ‘crowd’ of people whose role is to be a source of material for Wikipedia: they are all individual people with families and friends and aspirations and ideas,…
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emmacooper: Charlotte Moorman plays Nam June Paik’s “TV Cello”
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Etsy reacts to user outrage, makes changes to feedback system
Etsy has decided to stop linking to purchased items in a user’s feedback in response to the chorus of privacy concerns coming from its user base. In a blog post published Tuesday, Etsy CEO Rob Kalin and COO Adam Freed said that the company’s recent rollout of the People Search tool, combined with public feedback,…
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Picking up the exclusive rights to a television show would effectively make Netflix a network similar to ABC or HBO and would underscore just how disruptive the company has become to the media business. Netflix Is Said to Be Close to Acquiring a TV Show – NYTimes.com
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One challenge is the “amplified effect” of social media, said Ian Schafer, chief executive at Deep Focus, a digital agency in New York, citing how, on Twitter, “you put something out and it can be retweeted thousands of times.” “It’s an age when anybody can communicate to an audience,” he added. “It didn’t used to…