This wired news post from imomus is a delightfully skeptical take on ubiqcomp (or some variety of the term).  He questions the relative value of these technologies and makes an argument that is reminiscent of Georg Simmel’s notion of the "blasé attitude."  The ubiquity of information-laden objects might, in fact, reduce a subject’s ability to […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · ubiquitous computing

This post on I d e a n t is worth reading.  Ulises Mejias has posted another section of his dissertation on networked proximity.  His concerns are very close to mine (I’m thrilled that he’ll be coming to Emerson to speak at one our Floating Points events) He’s investigating the relationship between the human and […]

Categories: web 2.0

In cooperation with Amoration AMO Studios, NMC Campus is hosting a large scale art event February 11-13, 2007.
The NMConnect Visual Symposium will be the largest collaborative art event ever created in Second Life! Connect the Dots with hundreds of artists as we Illuminate and innovate together to weave new networks. Structures of artistic expression […]

Categories: second life

Link: …My heart’s in Accra � Unpacking Linden’s “open source” announcement.
Linden’s taken a great step towards opening up their code, but it’s still a huge leap before I would consider Second Life to be an open platform.

Ethan Zuckerman makes a fantastic argument here for the business strategy behind Linden Lab’s move to open source.  Sure, […]

Categories: Weblogs

Below is a working draft of the introduction to the last chapter of my book.  It concludes an extended argument about radical empricism in urban spectatorship.
The Digital Possessive:Social Mapping and the Personal Ordering of Urban Experience
In 2006, Time Magazine named “You” the person of the year.  As part of what they called a “revolution” in […]

Categories: mediated urbanism