The Long Tail
Important points thus far: Touching the Void/Into Thin Air – Amazon recommendations and the way they’ve revolutionised the e-retail industry using preferential algorithms “For too long we’ve been suffering the tyranny of lowest-common denominator fare, subject to brain-dead summer blockbusters…
Blogging, multi-sequential readings, and the hypertext revolution
Admittedly, I’m a bit late jumping on the week five readings bandwagon. But hey, better late than never. Last week we were instructed to watch three videos in place of the lecture. One of them, produced by Michael Wesch, dealt…
Irrelevant of the future, technologies of the present are outlandish enough for me.
This week’s discussion of design fictions got me thinking about technologies and products we now accept as commonplace that say, twenty, even ten years ago, would’ve seemed completely and utterly inconceivable. Google Glass, for instance. Video: Project Glass: One day… Google…
Networked Media & the Boat Metaphor
In my opinion, the boat metaphor is going to be of about as much use to my blogging experiences as this leaky old boat was to these asylum seekers. Call me a pessimist.
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