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Archives for March 2006
Solomon Revisited
Last week on Earshot we did a show about the Solomon Amendment and the recent Supreme Court judgement ruling it to be Constitutional. Our very first Earshot last year (and pilot!) was about this issue, so it was great to be able to do a follow up.
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Techdirt: Why Aren’t The Telcos Paying Google For Making Their Network Valuable?
Techdirt: Why Aren’t The Telcos Paying Google For Making Their Network Valuable?
Danah Boyd on MySpace and Friendster
Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
This is a great super-long blog entry cum essay by the super-smart Danah Boyd. She’s insightful on social software stuff. Heart.
Chinese Baby Names
Asia, Far East, news and analysis Times Online, The Times, Sunday Times
Some unusual Chinese characters will be banned from people’s names due to technological restrictions.
Eric’s Dragon
This was my first ever videoblog that I made over a year ago with Sonali. I love it, it really makes me laugh and gives a good impression of my friend Eric.
Glasto 2005
This is some footage I shot at Glastonbury last year. On the Friday there was an almighty downpour that lasted for seven or eight hours and turned the site into a mudding hellhole. It was still kind of fun though.
Fair Trade
Just before Spring Break we did a Earshot episode about Fair Trade. This show idea was Annie Myers’s and she made the package, which was her first time editing. She did a great job.
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Seafoid
This is a movie I made for Experimental Approaches to Non-Fiction Media class. Making it was a lot of fun. I should have cut down on the dancing, but I really enjoyed making this movie. It’s an autoethnographic piece.
Databases and Privacy
A couple of weeks ago on Earshot I spoke to Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre about the threats to our privacy posed by databases that store information about us without our explicit knowledge or consent.
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Essays & Autoethnography
I recently read an article by Michael Renov called “Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist” where he discusses Jonas Mekas’s film in relation to the idea of the essay - a piece of work that is not definable, that deals with the word but more importantly with the seeing of the world.
He points to a [...]
