Media Mindfulness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

This video by Kansas State University’s Mike Wesch explains so much better than text as to why new media are in many ways vastly superior modes of production and communication, which begs the question: how is an education system based on 19th Century modes of thinking going to deal with this emerging reality? More [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwarrIYLJ4

This portrait, “YouTuber,” reflects a mix between the impulse of early actuality films when the form was still novel, and Warhol’s screen tests, which are motion portraits of fame. This video, of course, is an incomplete picture because there is a lot of other stuff going on at YouTube, mainly sharing media detritus and ephemera [...]

What does “convergence” mean?
Web exclusive: ‘Technology and frustration’ by John Browning | Prospect Magazine February 2007 issue 131:
Technically, the internet treats all information flows alike, as digital data which can be edited, linked, searched, displayed or whatever. More important, it provides a common means of transmitting all of that information. While every previous new media [...]

In the world of online gaming and digital spaces like Second Life, there is a parallel, virtual economy. But this translates as cash in the real world, a good example of why we should avoid dichotomizing “real” and “virtual,” and instead see them as supplementing each other.
EBay bans auctions of virtual treasures - Los Angeles [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

Goes to show the cover sometimes is the book. Although I have to admit that as an iPod user, it is an exquisite devise, despite it’s being a commodity fetish and all.
PS This spoof is actually made by Microsoft designers to show their team what not to do.

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An interesting interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales:
Wikipedia Founder on the Web’s Evolution - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com:
What’s the next big thing on the Web?

There’s this very overused phrase of Web 2.0, and now people are getting so sick of it that they’re starting to talk of Web 3.0, but I don’t think they really [...]

Once again we encounter the befuddled world of marketing in which the sales pitch gets misconstrued as terrorism. Is this what culture jamming was meant to be? Read on…
Boston devices a cartoon publicity ploy - Yahoo! News:
BOSTON - Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the [...]