The invisible …

associating on the repeated appearance of the term from recent developments, which lead to actual contributions of it in different fields. The aspects of the notion come to mind when taking into regard its span from an article by Kareem Fahim The invisible men, associating to Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man to recent tasks of […] Read More

References to a doubling of space ..

In the article The Doubling of Space Moore argues that media as we use it multiplies the situational interconnections that are possible between places. He refers to older assumptions of Meyrowitz' conclusions on 'relatively placeless' situations in 'electronic societies', but constitutes rather a conception of place as pluralized. Read More

Posts on films

.. coming via The Pinocchio Theory and the review on capturing the friedmans via kottke.org remind me that some of these films I really want to see, especially if there is already some good or at least nicely done background info on the website like with the capturing of the friedmans or war of fog. […] Read More

ad strategies and mobile swarms

An article (no online link) in the spiegel magazine refers to young mobile users in the Berlin night as acting in swarm like habit: ‘Biologists speak about emergent behaviour. Nobody has an idea, but suddenly all act at the same moment. The ideas evolve from movement. …’ A more directed movement is suddenly shown through […] Read More

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... wonder whether this will happen

"Blogs are helping us get a better understanding of how things happen on the Internet," said Adar. "We're hopeful that in being able to do this research, we can apply the technology to other information, like e-mail, to improve productivity."
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