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• Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

  by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

  June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers

  Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

  June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments

• Bookmark 5 Things Old Media Still Doesn’t Get About The Web

  Earlier this week, the New York Times company forced the iPad Pulse News Reader app to be pulled from the App Store. The reason? It took the Times’ RSS feed and…

  June 17 2010, 4:06am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark On The Media: Transcript of "Panoramic View"

  Writer Dave Eggers’ publishing house, McSweeney’s, recently released a one-off newspaper called Panorama. The 328-page paper was meant as a celebration of the print form and a demonstration of why newspapers…

  April 27 2010, 6:42am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Missing link between man and apes found

  The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week. Scientists believe the…

  April 4 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art

  "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

  March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 11 2010, 3:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Flickr Las bicis de Ana y Juande.

  January 15 2010, 10:14am | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark We have a message from another world

  In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described…

  December 11 2009, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Wave is Changing the News

  It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still…

  November 23 2009, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark What happened to Second Life?

  Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. Once upon…

  November 21 2009, 4:20am | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Profane Prisms

  November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Bookmark HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web

  Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of writing…

  September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

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• Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

  by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

  June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers

  Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

  June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments

• Bookmark 5 Things Old Media Still Doesn’t Get About The Web

  Earlier this week, the New York Times company forced the iPad Pulse News Reader app to be pulled from the App Store. The reason? It took the Times’ RSS feed and…

  June 17 2010, 4:06am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark On The Media: Transcript of "Panoramic View"

  Writer Dave Eggers’ publishing house, McSweeney’s, recently released a one-off newspaper called Panorama. The 328-page paper was meant as a celebration of the print form and a demonstration of why newspapers…

  April 27 2010, 6:42am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Missing link between man and apes found

  The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week. Scientists believe the…

  April 4 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art

  "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

  March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 11 2010, 3:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Flickr Las bicis de Ana y Juande.

  January 15 2010, 10:14am | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark We have a message from another world

  In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described…

  December 11 2009, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Wave is Changing the News

  It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still…

  November 23 2009, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark What happened to Second Life?

  Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. Once upon…

  November 21 2009, 4:20am | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Profane Prisms

  November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Bookmark HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web

  Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of writing…

  September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

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