This article by Cindy  Cohn
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James  Grimmelmann argues for a distinction between code and law.  Code can be law with no values, no interpretation, no room for the human uses of things.  As so many aspects of life are coded now, I wonder to what extent designers will fight to keep code from users.
To the extent […]

Categories: copyright

Doesn’t it seem as thought companies are getting more bold in their privacy invasion practices?  What we won’t give up for perceived convenience…
As noted at TUAW, iTunes 6.0.2 contains a new feature: the MiniStore. It’s neat, at first. Sort of.

But not really.

Each
time you play a different song, the MiniStore features information
about the artist currently playing, […]

Categories: Music

In this interview, Rob Shields proposes his view of the emerging field(s) of urban studies.
Link: Eurozine - Articles.
How do we "know" the city - under what conditions does the urban come to be "knowable"? Of course, the city is not an object, properly understood. In everyday life we accept and play along with the […]

Categories: mediated urbanism