Monthly Archives: May 2004

Remaindered Links

* Nokia 3220, with “wave messaging.” (Via Joi Ito.) * Bush keeps the gun they found Sadam with in the oval office and shows it to visitors. WTF.
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Circus

Hadn’t run across this one before… When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. - Edward R. Murrow
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Cleaning up my office

I advise my grad students who are looking toward an academic career to have a Plan B. Part of that process is to think about the kinds of companies and kind of work you would be interested in doing. I just found a list of companies I would have loved to work for seven years [...]
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Big Brother

I figured I’d better document this before one of the half-dozen threatened creative defacings occur. It was made using the rasterbator, but don’t follow that link right now unless you want to encounter the nastiest 404 ever devised. Hopefully it will come back. Why did I do this? (1) I had more deadlines than usual, [...]
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Some weird stuff

Steven Kurtz, on the faculty at UB’s school of art, and a member of the Critical Art Ensemble was detained when the FBI decided his art was a bit too dangerous-looking. OK, I get that his art might be, in the words of the local TV correspondent, “it is some weird stuff,” but isn’t there [...]
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Blogs as News Filters

Steve Rubel is going on a one-week Blog-Only News Diet. In other words, all the news he gets will be from blogs. At the Blogging Ecosystem workshop at WWW last week, someone asked whether people went to the web before news, and almost everyone raised their hand, and then someone asked whether they relied entirely [...]
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Link Catchup

* C. Marlow’s ICA paper looks at linking authority via blogrolls as opposed to “in text” permalinks. (In case you haven’t seen it yet.) I have a big chunk of comments there, which I won’t duplicate here. * Blackboard (popular course delivery system UB uses) is getting a wiki. * “Blogging is a pastime for [...]
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