For those of you who were in NYC in the 1980s, in 1989 you’ll remember the brouhaha over Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc resulted in the removal of the piece from it home at Federal Plaza. Fast forward sixteen years, a lot has changed. The NYT has a piece today re the Serra installation opening this [...]
Archive for June, 2005
Serra Untorqued
Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART on June 7, 2005 |
The Governator Is Podcasting
Posted in PARTICIPATORY MEDIA, POLITICS on June 6, 2005 |
via: Steve Rubel Will follow this for a bit to see where it goes. The feed link is on this page.
I’m Gobsmacked
Posted in SECURITY & PRIVACY, WTF? on June 6, 2005 |
What in fsck sake could they have been thinking sending tapes containing customer data for 3.9 million accounts in such a manner? At least tell me the data is encrypted with a strong key.
Freakonomics; Food and Sex
Posted in REPORTAGE on June 5, 2005 |
Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt in the NYT today. It seems capuchin monkeys and the rest of us have a few behavioural traits in common.
Is This The Way To Vlogging Stardom?
Posted in PARTICIPATORY MEDIA, REPORTAGE on June 4, 2005 |
The Times (London) did a piece today on vlogging. They didn’t get everything exactly right however it will certainly gen a few google enquiries for the word vlog .
Sen. Edwards Vlogging
Posted in PARTICIPATORY MEDIA, POLITICS on June 3, 2005 |
Over at rocketboom Andrew and Amanda are pushing the vlogging envelope. Here’s Josh Leo asking Sen. Edwards his question.
Texas Muni Wireless Precedent
Posted in BANDWIDTH, ECONOMICS & FINANCE on June 3, 2005 |
Looks like Texas has opened the door for the USA start catching up with places like Japan in broadband competition. The flood of FUD (read lobbyists and so-called indie “research”) finally got sucked down the drain leaving incumbent providers high and dry. Bill Gurley sums it up in his 2 June piece, it’s worth a [...]
Chunky T.V.
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, TV & RADIO on June 2, 2005 |
Chunky-style (i.e., 30 minute blobs) is a convention because it has been that way for a while. Conventions are slow to change, it will be interesting to see what new conventions evolve for the rapidly expanding T.V. substitute market. Chris Anderson predicts change. And this could be very good news for shorts filmmakers. Check out [...]
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