.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } HAL Beta 0.66, originally uploaded by jurvetson. I’m back from the ELI Annual Meeting in San Antonio, wading through the emails I’ve been ignoring, looking in on Twitter trying to recapture […]
Read more "Habits of mind, new media studies and the curriculum"Henry Jenkins ELI Keynote address is podcasted here. Jenkins opened with the sensible observation that contrary to media reports, Middlebury College’s much ballyhooed “banning” of Wikipedia was in fact a reasonable first step toward generating a dialogue, and an opportunity to open up the research process, one that can be conducted grounded in reason, not […]
Read more "Wikipedia and new media literacies – a perfect test case is already underway"It’s a huge treat to be in San Antonio for this year’s ELI Annual Meeting. The first morning was more than a little overwhelming as I’ve met a succession of some of my favorite people in the field, and a remarkable number of people who I had never met personally but felt like I knew […]
Read more "ELI Annual Meeting, Web 2.0 Storytelling"…but a couple of thoughts prompted by reading this post from Gardner Campbell: I think there’s a strong streak of Aristotelian propositional method in the idea of a data-driven web. Read the Poetics and wonder at Aristotle’s indefatigable defining, analyzing, parsing, specifying. The man never tires, never even hesitates in the face of the enormous […]
Read more "This barely qualifies as a post…"This remarkable short film from Peter Fischli and David Weiss, usually translated as The Way Things Go would seem to me a classic example of a work you need to see to get it, the piece really defies description. Though Arthur Danto does pretty well… It’s a real-world application of Rube Goldberg effects, the kind […]
Read more "Fischli und Weiss: Der Lauf der Dinge – in DivX!"