social powerpointing, or, the darker side of flash
SlideShare is a new web application that lets you upload PowerPoint (.ppt and .pps) or OpenOffice (.odp) slideshows to the web for people to use and share. The site (which is in an invite-only beta...
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an excursion into old media
Last summer on a trip to Canada I picked up a copy of Darren Wershler-Henry’s The Iron Whim: a Fragmented History of Typewriting. It’s a look at our relationship with one particular piece of...
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the library project: a networked art experiment
Digital collaboration with me-jade, dou_ble_you and others in the Flickr Library Project As he recently reflected upon here, Alex Itin has long been working at the border zones of art forms, moving in...
View Articlethe power of collaboration and remix culture — the exquisite corpse goes video
Yet one more reason to check in to Alex Itin’s remarkable blog if you haven’t recently or ever. As you may have read here several weeks ago, alex started a group on Flickr, The Library Project, for...
View Articlejonathan lethem: the ecstasy of influence
If you haven’t already, check out Jonathan Lethem’s essay in the latest issue of Harper’s on the trouble with copyright. Nothing particularly new to folks here, but worth reading all the same — an...
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moby-dick animated
Alex Itin has done it again. Here it is: “Orson Whales,” an intertextual fantasia on Moby-Dick and Orson Welles set to the savage drums of John Bonham. Each frame is a page of this edition of the...
View Articleaudiovisual heritage double play
Two major preservation and access initiatives just reported by Peter Brantley over at O’Reilly Radar (1 and 2): 1. Reframe (set to launch in September ’07) The Reframe project is a new initiative of...
View Articlebritney replay
Sorry to sink for a moment into celebrity gossipsville, but this video had me utterly mesmerized for the past four minutes. Basically, this guy’s arguing that Britney Spears’ sub-par performance at the...
View Articlea safe haven for fan culture
The Organization for Transformative Works is a new “nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan...
View Articlehmmm. . . . please discuss
The following quote was in AP story i read in MIT’s Technology Review this morning about Microsoft licensing Adobe’s mobile Flash and PDF software. “Flash content is the most prolific content on the...
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