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emmacooper: Charlotte Moorman with Human Cello” performed with Nam June Paik.
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Apple’s Role in the Earthquake
Apple’s Role in the Earthquake cameronmoll: An email from an Apple Japan employee and friend of Kevin Rose: 7 hours and 118 aftershocks later, the store was still open. Why? Because with the phone and train lines down, taxis stopped, and millions of people stuck in the Tokyo shopping district scared, with no access to…
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Why does this matter? Not everyone wants their purchases to be made public—and some purchases are definitely more private than others. “I just found a woman who’s Etsy profile comes up on Google as the 5th link. I was expecting 6 or 7 pages down, but it’s on the very first page, right after her…
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emmacooper: Fluxus Manifesto by George Maciunas, 1963
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bmdesign: Giant Robot Prints Chairs From Ground-Up Refrigerators [Video] | Co.Design
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N. Negroponte: “Being Digital”, Bits and Atoms, Chapter 1
N. Negroponte: “Being Digital”, Bits and Atoms, Chapter 1 In the information and entertainment industries, bits and atoms often are confused. Is the publisher of a book in the information delivery business (bits) or in the manufacturing business (atoms)? The historical answer is both, but that will change rapidly as information appliances become more ubiquitous…
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Born Digital? Die Young
Born Digital? Die Young “Our cultural heritage is being set down in digital forms as the primary, first record,” says McDonough, an LIS assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being born on stone, paper, film, or some other substratum known to last for millennia, centuries, or at least many decades, today’s…
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Short Note on Books – Creative Leadership
Short Note on Books – Creative Leadership I will have one of my favorite books on display in Tokyo shortly (will post what book that is after the Takeo Paper Show opens), and was asked to write a few sentences on why a real book matters in the digital age: A book bears the evidence…
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My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 (by Brian Bennett)
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“The @charliesheen account has highlighted the ability of the Twitter platform to enable individuals to build an owned audience, in real-time, in scale, with a narrative that does not need to pass through the traditional media gatekeepers,” said Kerner, who along with colleague Michael Silverstein, is building one of the first research units on the…