So, welcome to the new semester and to the course blog that will hopefully be revived by your thoughtful posts. To start up the line of new additions, I show you how somebody thought to share his reading experience of our set textbook for the course:
Classical music and the digital
Somehow the topic of the relation between classical music and algorithms came up during the discussion
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, J. S. Bach from musanim on Vimeo.
Wikilobbying and Web Life
Here are two new videos from The Colbert Report I found interesting for us:
Stephen has coined a new word “wikiality”, which is the reality created by the editors of Wikipedia, where reality is what the majority agrees upon. (There’s even www.wikiality.com which shows you the world through Cobert’s eyes.) Now he is talking about “wikilobbying”, how… certain companies are taking advantage from it. It’s interesting how many fallacies you can use and still get away with it.
In the second video, Stephen is talking to Nicholas Carr, who says as we are living using the Internet we are starting to think like the Internet. Important argument here is how we can focus our attention.
Flexible screen technology
I expect an even more digital culture as this technology is further developed. Quite exciting.
See the Telegraph Article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/10/03/dlscreen103.xml
Some thoughts on the memex
The memex reminds me that we must be careful about being caught up in current technology. Just as a personal microfilm archive sounds silly compared to our current technology, we should be prepared for our current HTML standard to be equally out-moded. A recent article about Google partnering with Proquest to digitize newspapers echoes this sentiment with an ironic twist that
[Google is] very creative at throwing technology at problems to build solutions,
but
Read MoreProQuest stresses that the agreement does not affect long-term preservation plans for the microfilm collection. “Microfilm will always be the preservation medium,” Cowan said, noting that, while digital formats are constantly changing, “film that’s handled appropriately can last several hundred years.”
The Future of… Private Life
We've been talking about the possibilities on how technology may create new areas in sexuality. Here's a funny interview with a guy called David Levy who wrote a book about his vision.
Enjoy!
Another project goes online
Happily, another project has just gone online and is available to view at http://theinterface.extra.hu, done by the Powerpuff Girls & Professor Utonium. Manovich is cheeky, looking at the whole stuff with half eye closed, but you should go for it asap!
