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March 30, 2007
supplemental reading list for decentralized media geeks and gaia theory crackpots.
I got to hang out with Yury's Major Studio 2 class last night. We talked a bit about the history of communication and community participatory citizen social media. Here's the supplemental reading section:
Manuel DeLanda - Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason
Just skim this. Dial down the bits about "Artificial Life" and you should understand why I think this is an interesting text.
Bertolt Brecht - The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication.
Wikipedia article on Marx's Theory of Alienation.
Howard Rheingold - Technologies of Cooperation [pdf]
Clay Shirky - Communities, Audiences, and Scale.
danah boyd - Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites
Adrienne Russell, Mimi Ito, Todd Richmond, and Marc Tuters - Networked Public Culture
JD Lasica - Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation.
Lucas Gonze - Lightnet
Jamais Cascio - Participatory Panopticon (audio interview on ITConversations)
Mark Hansen - Slogging - Citizen-Initiated Sensing [pdf] and Common Sense [pdf]
They're PowerPoint presentations but you should get the idea.
Julian Bleecker - Why Things Matter: A Manifesto for Networked Objects [pdf]
Also: Regine Debatty's interview with Julian Bleecker for WMMNA
Bruce Sterling - When Blobjects Rule the Earth
This should be a quick read.
Architectures of Control in Product Design by Dan Lockton From Engineering Designer, March/April 2006
Posted by yatta at 4:02 PM
from justin hall to justin.tv
Does anyone remember all the talk around Justin "OMG! I can't believe he's writing about everything in his life and putting it on the internet" Hall when he first started links.net?
I feel like I'm reading the exact same words being spoken about Justin.tv
Posted by yatta at 3:46 PM
March 24, 2007
modern toss on fair game
From a Fair Game interview with the creators of Modern Toss:
FG: "You guys came out with a book fairly recently in the States. Did you have to make any changes to appeal to an American audience?"
MT: "There were two changes: they took the word 'whore' off the cover and put the word 'avant-garde' on the back."
I've been laughing at that one for days.
Posted by yatta at 10:07 AM
March 12, 2007
rocketboom is NOT launching a social network.
First, let's get the confusion out of the way: Rocketboom *is not* launching a social network.
Rocketboom is taking what we see as some of the best features of link voting sites and grafting them into the Rocketboom site to add some useful tools for our community.
There were a couple blog mentions (and a bit of talk) of a Rocketboom "social network" out of the SXSW Production Companies 2.0 panel the other day.
There was never any intention to launch a service based solely on user profiles. Digg-like features by themselves, only seem to work on Digg. (Can you name a single Digg clone that you care about?) Digg-like features supplemental to existing content is interesting. Digg-like features in support of existing content is enriching.
We're using Pligg (aka: the open source Digg clone) to add voting to our story links each day and threads and ratings to our comments and allow our users to accumulate karma that we hope to reward later. ;-)
As Andrew said in Zadi's panel the other day, all of the enhancements we're looking to make with Rocketboom are about the evolution of the RB community.
I'll write more later when I can get a better wifi connection.
Posted by yatta at 12:20 AM
March 6, 2007
see me sleep at sxswi!
I'll be heading down to sxswi later this week as a full on member of Abbey Corps. I've been off of the conference circuit for a while so I have a long list of people to hug. (Yeah, you remember what a Yatta hug is like. I know you do!)
Rocketboom is co-hosting a party Saturday night along with the fine folks at 30boxes and Satisfaction. (Can I tell you how much I'm loving 30boxes nowadays?)
I decided to set up camp at twitter in order to keep coordinated, so follow me if you're going to be down there. (Although like Mike, I want to take precautions to keep the signal to noise ratio low.)
So far my schedule is wide open. Steve and I had talked about putting together a vlogish dinner sometime during the first couple of nights. I'll have to ping him again and see if we can't get this organized.
Posted by yatta at 12:06 AM
March 5, 2007
nin's arg.
During off hours installing the Eyebeam show last week, I started following this thread surrounding Nine Inch Nails' alternative reality game.
Great narrative, great participation, great stuff.
Posted by yatta at 12:25 PM