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Networks Paper & Blast from the Past
I did a paper comparing two networks for Thinking About Networks. It was fun to write. I love this class.
Read the Paper
I also uploaded a paper I wrote last semester for Red’s Class. It’s an interesting blast from the past. I can’t believe how much new stuff I’ve stuffed into my head since then.
Read about [...]
From Plasticbag.org
A response to the rhetoric of weblog marketing… (plasticbag.org)
This is a great little rant from Tom Coates, the guy behind one of my favourite blogs.
My favourite bit is his description of people who go around shouting about how some new trend will be the end of the current order and then the path they go [...]
Gender
BBC NEWS | Health | Men and women ‘not so different’
Back in the Day
For Clay’s class this week we read from Jane Abbate’s Inventing the Internet. It’s an interesting account of the early Internet and the personalities that helped to shape it. As with anything that gets really big (and I think I can safely say that the Internet is now “really big”) you often read accounts of [...]
Earshot 9/21
I produce a news radio show on WNYU called Earshot.
This week’s episode was about the UN World Summit. I spoke to a blogger named Anup Shah.
Listen to Earshot
Proposal for Project 1
For the first assignment I want to develop the idea that I worked on with the series of pictures I took for the first assignment. I took a series of 12 pictures during the course of my day. I didn’t appear in the pictures, but they represented things I would see as I went about [...]
Coercion = Manipulation
For Persuasion this week we read the first half of Rushkoff’s Coercion: Why we listen to what “they” say. It’s a mighty fun read full of rhetorical tricks and little stories about mostly loathesome people doing vile things and then justifying it to themselves in ways that make them pathetic.
The bits about customer service and [...]
The Ratings Game
So we had mixed results in the ratings in the first week of original programming in the Primetime game. Academia Erotica came last in its slot with only 16% of the audience and with 26% not watching. Ouch.
When is it OK to “steal” intellectual property?
One IP Right to Rule Them All: Corante > Copyfight >
Holy shit.
Talking back to flat earthers
Challenged by Creationists, Museums Answer Back - New York Times
Interesting article in the New York Times about how Science Museums are training their staff to deal more effectively with Creationists who hector them.
