I am one of those few folk – slippery and stubborn – still dancing evasive maneuveurs around the necessity of the cell phone. I’m not even sure why, except that I dislike phone conversations in the first place. Not true – actually, what I dislike is calling people and being called. The actual talking part [...]
They watch the watchers… “I think there is a campaign against the bloggers here,” he said. “We are exposing what all Egyptians know but weren’t talking about.” Mideast governments for decades have dominated the media, trying to keep a monopoly on information and deter criticism of authorities. But bloggers are chipping away, writing about everything [...]
Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding and Lettering in Public Space May 4-5, 2007 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec Cities are awash in ‘public lettering’: street signs, newspaper mastheads, road signs, high-rise corporate logos, store/shop/restaurant signs, engravings on buildings and monuments, etc. They are at once branding and promotional devices; names (of buildings); labels; [...]
i’m glad there’s many a goodly blogger reporting on what the industry leaders are saying about where they’re heading with the world economy and you know, web 2.0.. wish i could be there.. thanks to bbc’s tim weber at the word economic forum for this: For companies web 2.0 means that they can get constant [...]
If you want to get spun down a dark spiral road of traumatized history and the ethics of the ownership of space you could spend some time as I did today and yesterday trying to ‘get caught up’ on the perspectives circulating around Iraq, Iran and Palestine. …. here’s a bit of the transcript, copied [...]
hmmm… Part video game, part real online community, Second Life is also getting attention from real-world companies that are beginning to stake out their own turf in Second Life communities. One U.S. House member, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), last week even joined the Second Life community to brief a group of invitees on the top [...]
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