Paying Off Debt (Papers sans respect)
A last fake newspaper for the week. This time, the theme is getting rid of debt, and I had lots of fun doing it.
News(papers) sans respect
Another ethically hacked newspaper. This time, it’s local. Enjoy, again in the spirit of New Media inf115.
What’s in Conversation?
Reclaiming Conversation? Yes, this is a question, inspired as it is by Sherry Turkle’s new book (Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin Press 2015,) and my friend Dan Ausbury’s own reflections which he’ll share with … Continue reading →
Hacking (ethically) a digital newspaper
I am feeling so bad today, with a cold coming out of me, that after sleeping a lot, I decided I wanted to take a break and enjoy hacking a website. Of course, as an example of academic work for … Continue reading →
Last job on planet
When we say we must prepare students for jobs that do not even exist today, are we prepared to see a likely work-force reduction of 50% in the next 30 years? Meaning, the jobs we study today for will not … Continue reading →
Crafting A Story from Audio Recordings
In last week’s assignment you recorded a series of field recordings of people’s responses to our Vox Populi question about Wikipedia. This audio
Unbearable insignificance?
Just finished the latest Milan Kundera novel, The Festival of Insignificance. So I found, appropriately enough, a Flickr photo titled This insignificance is unbearable. flickr photo shared by kainet under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license Here, I am … Continue reading →
Cyberspace
danah boyd‘s piece It’s not Cyberspace anymore resonates strongly. I feel what she wrote, and the short article will be material for my class of New Media inf115, which has a subtitle of Reclaiming the Web. This week EFF members celebrate … Continue reading →
GIFs, revenge for a media assignment
Yes, I had to do two animated GIFs from Once Upon a Time in the West, for inf115. Mr. Alan Levine himself showed how to do that. Bu wait, I have the right to dissent (not that I don’t love … Continue reading →
Audio Toolkit
For use in our audio assignments… Audacity is an open source audio editing software for both Apple and Windows based computers. It is
Asignación #4: Animated GIFs
Estoy seguro que la clase sobre los GIF animados les inspiró a crear unas cuantas. Les invito oficialmente a someter al menos dos
The World of Sound: Recording Audio
This is part 1 of an assignment to get you experience in creating audio content; in this part you will acquire/record audio, and
Asignación #2 / WWW
Es tiempo que conozcamos más sobre la historia y el valor de la Web. Como verán, concer la evolución de esta extraordinaria tecnología
GIF It Up
Animated GIFs– pure fun.. But the repeated showing of motion, natural phenomena, perhaps have a place in science? See a collection of examples
Silly remembrances
The NYTimes article Gainsbourg and Birkin, Fearless on Film at Lincoln Center about a retrospective at NYC’s Lincoln Center I couldn’t view, prompted me to revisit –again– their famed song of then 70’s Je t’aime… moi non plus. flickr photo … Continue reading →