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World news attention

Hard not to love this. Ethan Zuckerman has a system that watches Google News (among others) for mentions of the countries of the world, and then plots their frequency on a map of the world. This is a very simple, and very clever, thing to do. I was ready for some cringeworthy wild assumptions about […]
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BlogTalk 2.0

I’ve sworn off conferences for 2004. I don’t know if I’ll be able to hold to that, but I did watch the deadline for the International Communication Association come and go, which was a little strange. Perhaps not as strange as failing to deliver an accepted paper at HICSS this January, but that had more […]
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Pirate Free Sharing

Wired News has a piece on ibiblio (nee SunSITE). The tail end of the article meshes nicely with a post I made earlier this week. Over a plate of North Carolina’s finest pulled pork, Jones told us about a Colorado conference on file sharing he spoke at a few years back. Music industry executive Don […]
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High speed into the past

I’ve been mulling over a question Alex Peng has recently written on, the role of recorded memories. What does it mean when people have their own personal reality TV programs, i.e., the Real Real World. Clearly, memory is something other than a 1:1 map of one’s personal history of perceptions. The technology recording the world […]
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