RafaelFajardo

Tag: Emergent Digital Practices

  • emmacooper: Charlotte Moorman plays Nam June Paik’s “TV Cello”

  • 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,…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • emmacooper: Charlotte Moorman with Human Cello” performed with Nam June Paik.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • emmacooper: Fluxus Manifesto by George Maciunas, 1963

  • bmdesign: Giant Robot Prints Chairs From Ground-Up Refrigerators [Video] | Co.Design

  • 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…