Posts Tagged ‘ network ’
In the June issue of WIRED, Clive Thompson asserts that, “Automatic-translation software has long been treated as a joke because of how hilariously it mangles phrases. But in the past few years, something has shifted: The technology is now surprisingly mature.” Read the full article here. [ READ MORE ]
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Chicago Premiere Event Saturday, May 1 Stay tuned for more details! [ READ MORE ]
Should educational materials be provided for free? There’s been a large movement over the past several years that says “yes!!” Here’s a good background article from the New York Times. Unfortunately, there don’t seem to be many classes in the visual arts – at least not that I’ve seen. I hope that can change. Access is key! [ READ MORE ]
# Average user has 130 friends on the site # Average user sends 8 friend requests per month # Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook # Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month # Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month # Average user becomes a [ READ MORE ]
Okay – the next phase of the UPP has launched: get in on it on Facebook. [ READ MORE ]
Here is some beautiful digital art-making. It’s giving me some ideas about The Facebook Project (tentative title that I’m not really happy with…). Enjoy. [ READ MORE ]
Do you know how many friends your brain can handle? Well, one guy thinks that it’s 150. And that counts for Facebook too. [ READ MORE ]
This is something I wish I would have thought of myself: “AFP writes that five French journalists have agreed to lock themselves in a farmhouse in France for five days, where they’ll write news based only on what they read on Twitter and Facebook.” You can read a bit more about it here. [ READ MORE ]
So we’ve been interested in identity and its implications in the digital age. In fact, a lot of our work has been a version of the analog investigation of avatars. Here’s a link to an interesting article from WIRED about what happened when one man tried to disappear without a digital trace – into an [ READ MORE ]