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p.s. I love you…

p.s.: I’m writing my dissertation proposal…any and all witty things I might say here these days have been absorbed by that effort. I’ve reduced myself to occasionally posting things that look interesting. Oh, except I bought an iPhone a few months or so ago and have been having all sorts of fun thinking about what [...]

Click! Photography Changes Everything

This just in from the Smithsonian’s Photography Initiative, further demonstration that they are taking web 2.0 seriously. Also check out the BIGGER PICTURE blog.

Worst-Case Scenario

I received three pieces of advice from my old man, one was about worrying: Imagine what the worst thing to happen would be, then imagine what the best thing to happen would be. Something in the middle will be what actually happens. My best-case scenarios involve me winning either, a truck load of cash on [...]

Men are Misers

Men are misers. I myself am always trying to do something on the cheap, which rarely actually works out that way. Case in point. I first taught myself how to lay woodflooring when I got the quote from the woodflooring store – the wood was $5.50 per square foot, as was laying it. I successfully [...]

Wearable Tech

Wearable tech under development at MIT Media Lab, enabling “the interface between people and the Net – a sixth sense.” And it’s pretty amazing. Watch the video (8 min.) .

Searching Textiles

Researchers in the School of Computing at Dundee are leading the £1.4 million project to develop new systems of image-based retrieval. These are systems which work like a sophisticated visual version of text-based search engines, using pictures instead of words to seek out new images.

Swiss Army Knife or Chocolate Teapot?

I will be in esteemed company in Philly on Thursday April 30 at 2:15 PM, part of a panel entitled Museum Technologies and Trends On the Horizon – A Critical Review. Its a panel reviewing the upcoming Horizon Report for Museums based on New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report for Higher Education now in its sixth [...]

We Love Museums, Do Museums Love Us Back?

Recently Kim’s been obsessing over museums, her new “hobby.” Here she reads from her latest report, “The Creation of Value: meditations on the logic of museums and other coercive institutions.” Ouch: “museum people who decide what gets put into a mueum probably don’t have anything in common with you. Museum people need lots of training [...]

Always Read the Fine Print (Hilarious – or Pathetic – EULAs)

Ages ago I mentioned a great choral version of a EULA (End User License Agreement). But now there’s more fun: A grape EULA A restaurant EULA A kitten EULA And a reference letter EULA with Cory Doctorow’s anti-EULA, too. And don’t forget to speak to your cats about their “reproduction” rights. (Thanks to Michael S. [...]

Music goes down the YouTube

“YouTube is to withdraw all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Right Society (PRS).” “…There are a number of issues to note as a result of today’s action not least is the power that Google and its subsidiaries can exhort and the speed at [...]