User Is Content » social networks http://www.useriscontent.com/blog Culture Is Our Business Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:34:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Media Maven Robert Logan’s new $45 book out The Extended Mind! http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/07/28/media-maven-robert-logans-new-45-book-out-the-extended-mind/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/07/28/media-maven-robert-logans-new-45-book-out-the-extended-mind/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:26:35 +0000 synthum molyart http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=177 Logan’s jammed web site for all the free stuff

]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/07/28/media-maven-robert-logans-new-45-book-out-the-extended-mind/feed/ 0 UCLA event UpLoading wars 12:30 PM Design Media Arts http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/28/ucla-event-uploading-wars-1230-pm-design-media-arts/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/28/ucla-event-uploading-wars-1230-pm-design-media-arts/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:10:14 +0000 synthum molyart http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=106 See poster for Theory Series Talks    

PETER LUNENFELD, THE SECRET WAR BETWEEN DOWNLOADING & UPLOADING

THEORY PROFESSOR CANDIDATE

 

April 24, 2008, 12:30 pm

Peter Lunenfeld works at the intersection of media philosophy, design theory, art criticism, and collaborative practice. His books include USER:InfoTechnoDemo (MIT, 2005), Snap to Grid (MIT, 2000), and The Digital Dialectic (ed., MIT, 1999). The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: How the Computer Became Our Culture Machine is forthcoming. As creator and editorial director of the Mediawork project, he produced a pamphlet series for the MIT Press that redefined the relationship between serious academic discourse and graphic design, and between book publishing and the World Wide Web.

 Peter’s Site

 

]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/28/ucla-event-uploading-wars-1230-pm-design-media-arts/feed/ 0 WARK! a UCLA 22 April 12:30 PM talk followUP^! http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/21/wark-a-ucla-22-april-1230-pm/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/21/wark-a-ucla-22-april-1230-pm/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:14:44 +0000 synthum molyart http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=103 Ken Wark gave a mind-blowin’ talk yesterday at UCLA!  Hopefullly, video/audio should be available from D!MA archives. A Wonderful flow of jargon, tags, andnew categories!  Someday we will have tags here on our WordPress app! Wark mentioned WordPress more than once.See a piece here from his new book due out laterfrom Sit 

Game

Sunday, April 13
The Guy Debord that is best known is the one who is the author of The Society of the Spectacle, but in many ways it is not quite a representative text. Lately there has also been a revival of Debord the film maker, but here I want to think about Debord is a slightly different light. So I will discuss not so much his writing or his films, and still less his biography, but a game. Beside being a writer, a film maker, an editor, and a first rate professional of no profession, he was also, of all things, a game designer.http://totality.tv/2008/4/13/game 

MACKENZIE WARK, GAMER THEORY

THEORY PROFESSOR CANDIDATE

 

April 22, 2008, 12:30 pm   » 

McKenzie Wark is the author of Gamer Theory (Harvard UP), A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard UP), and various other things.

http://www.dma.ucla.edu/events/calendar.php?ID=536

 

 

 

]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/21/wark-a-ucla-22-april-1230-pm/feed/ 1 Peak water developments….Our water footprints; see old Water Shed idea http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/19/peak-water-developmentsour-water-footprints-see-old-water-shed-idea/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/19/peak-water-developmentsour-water-footprints-see-old-water-shed-idea/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:54:21 +0000 synthum molyart http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=104

How much Virtual Water is in your shirt?

Virtual Water is a measure of all the water it takes to make the products you use. Waterfootprint.orgcalculates that a new cotton shirt uses 2,700 liters. That’s a tally of the water evaporated in irrigating and growing the cotton, and the water needed to wash away the fertilizers and dilute the chemicals used in the manufacturing process. With worldwide water shortages set to become a major humanitarian crisis this century, water waste is a serious new sin. Read More…

http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/

]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/19/peak-water-developmentsour-water-footprints-see-old-water-shed-idea/feed/ 0 Keep the InterNETS Free! Stanford FCC event for Net Neutrality http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/16/keep-the-internets-free-stanford-fcc-event-for-net-neutrality/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/16/keep-the-internets-free-stanford-fcc-event-for-net-neutrality/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:34:49 +0000 synthum molyart http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=102 online liveJoin the conversation at the Free Press Action Network where we’ll be live blogging during the hearing. We’ll be discussing the hearing, current Internet policies, and what we can do to protect Internet freedom for the future.Live Chat During the FCC HearingDATE: Thursday, April 17TIME: 3- 10 p.m. ET / 12-7 p.m. PTLOCATION: www.freepress.net/actionIn recent months, Comcast, AT&T and Verizon have been caught blocking, filtering and spying on your Internet activities. This event is one of our best chances to tell Washington policymakers that the Internet must remain open. http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/04/16/tune-in-online-to-fcc-hearing-on-future-of-the-internet/

 

    okAn FCC hearing schedule for Thursday at Stanford University will focus on whether ISPs can shape, filter and even block content that travels over their networks. (The public —more than 1.5 million of whom have spoken out against such violations — has a rare opportunity to testify before the commission during the hearing.)http://savetheinternet.com/=stanford 

]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/16/keep-the-internets-free-stanford-fcc-event-for-net-neutrality/feed/ 0 IRC interview with Douglas Rushkoff, Tuesday, April 15th, 8PM ET http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/14/irc-interview-with-douglas-rushkoff-tuesday-april-15th-8pm-et/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/14/irc-interview-with-douglas-rushkoff-tuesday-april-15th-8pm-et/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:32:07 +0000 synthum molyart http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=101 media maven out of NYC  Join us tomorrow at 8PM Eastern as we hold a live discussion with author, teacher, and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff in the #boingboing IRC channel, to talk about some of the work he’s doing to move his studies in a “‘new’ direction,” to focus less on the tech/media sphere and towards the nature of money and corporatism 

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/irc-interview-with-d.html

 tags go along here? 

]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/04/14/irc-interview-with-douglas-rushkoff-tuesday-april-15th-8pm-et/feed/ 0 Six Degrees of Separation/Connection may be in trouble. Why can’t 6/degrees find Osama bin laden? http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/01/26/six-degrees-of-separationconnection-may-be-in-trouble-why-cant-6degrees-find-osama-bin-laden/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/01/26/six-degrees-of-separationconnection-may-be-in-trouble-why-cant-6degrees-find-osama-bin-laden/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:46:56 +0000 synthum molyart http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=87 Six Degrees has problems

ScienceFriday.com’s version

Chances are you’ve heard of the ‘small world’ idea of six degrees of separation. But is it correct?

The idea traces back to an experiment begun in 1967 by Stanley Milgram, in which he tried to trace how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. The result that entered the public consciousness was that in general it took six steps or fewer to bridge the gap between any two people. But is that result accurate? Judith Kleinfeld,

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200801256

tags, 6 degrees, Kevin Bacon Effect, six degrees, Milgram,

]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/01/26/six-degrees-of-separationconnection-may-be-in-trouble-why-cant-6degrees-find-osama-bin-laden/feed/ 0 TVO’s ‘Big Ideas’ – Another treasure trove. http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/01/23/tvos-big-ideas-%e2%80%93-another-treasure-trove/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/01/23/tvos-big-ideas-%e2%80%93-another-treasure-trove/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:38:27 +0000 John http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=86 Big Ideas video podcast TV Ontario produces a lecture format show featuring heavy thinkers. You can subscribe  here. I’m posting links to a particular show I found especially illuminating on the subject of micro-financing and a new book, ‘A Billion Bootstraps‘ by Eric Thurman. Here’s the mp3 lecture but check out TVO’s Big Ideas Past Episodes page – hundreds of hours of pro audio lectures from the likes of Deepak Chopra,and Naomi Klein, as well as many you’ve not heard of before.

]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2008/01/23/tvos-big-ideas-%e2%80%93-another-treasure-trove/feed/ 0 Seminars About Long Term Thinking http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2007/12/02/seminars-about-long-term-thinking/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2007/12/02/seminars-about-long-term-thinking/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:25:56 +0000 John http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=83 I’ve mentioned this before, but these lectures are just SO GOOD I think it worth repeating.
http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/

And check out what’s coming up.

  • 02007
    • Dec. 14 (Friday) – Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais, “The Edge of Art”
  • 02008
    • Jan. 11 (Friday) – Paul Saffo, “Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting”
    • Feb. 4 (MONDAY) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought”
    • Feb. 25 (MONDAY) – Craig Venter, “Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention”
    • Apr. 25 (Friday) – Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz, “Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress”
    • May 21 (WEDNESDAY) – Iqbal Quadir, “Technology Empowers the Poorest”
    • Jul. 23 (WEDNESDAY) – Edward Burtynsky, “The 10,000-year Gallery”
]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2007/12/02/seminars-about-long-term-thinking/feed/ 1 A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2007/10/26/a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2007/10/26/a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:18:34 +0000 John http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=77 Keynote Clay Shirky gave on Social Software at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference in Santa Clara on April 24, 2003

Good morning, everybody. I want to talk this morning about social software …there’s a surprise. I want to talk about a pattern I’ve seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. And that pattern is the pattern described in the title of this talk: “A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy.” more…

And a fun way to read it!  Copy and paste the text into Spreeder and speed read it! You can also change the prefs to suit your speed reading tastes.

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