Category: internet

  • O’Reilly — What Is Web 2.0

    Here (again) is the now famous article from O'Reilly that attempts to define Web2.0 (well, it is famous for some of us…and infamous for others). I was wondering, can anyone think of a better term? O'Reilly — What Is Web 2.0 The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point…

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  • Who is Mark Amerika?

    Mark Ameika has been around the traps for a while now (he was a visiting fellow at a school here in melbourne that I studied in for a while). One of my favorite works of his is 'filmtext'; certainly one of the most complex and worldly examples of net art that you are likely to…

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  • Is Wikipedia Dead?

    Somehow I tend to agree with this news item by Charles Arthur on the Guardian Unlimited (UK) Technology Blog. I always thought that Wikipedia would be forced to move into nastier, less idealistic territory. This is very interesting. Carr (who wrote “Does IT matter?”) doesn’t mean “dead” as in “offline” (Wikipedia is still very much…

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  • BBC: Podcast Lectures for Uni Students

    I'm not sure that this is such a good idea. I had the option to do it this semester, but I wonder what the students are actually missing through only hearing oral recordings? They don't get to see me stumble and blush, nor do they get to see my wonderful powerpoint presentations. And I wonder does 'on their…

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  • Google Video Ads

    This is from Rojo.com. It is about the launch of video adds from Google. Google's advertising thus far has perhaps been succesful because it is subtle. What do other think of a louder Google? Get ready for a noisier Web. Google’s adding video ads, and they’ll work like text ads: Advertisers get charged when someone…

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  • The Dumpster: Net Art

    Have you ever been dumped by a text message? Well checkout the Dumpster at the Tate in London. Net art at it's best! It is a portrait of romantic breakups collected form blogs in 2005 (by Golan Levin, Kamal Nigan, and Jonathan Feinberg). If you want to see more commissioned Net Art, see 'Artport' at the…

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