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Gnomedex 09 Cyborg Anthropology Caseorganic

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:28:52 -0700

This is Cyborg Anthropologist Amber Case's look into our strange culture of technosocial objects and processes. It was given at Gnomedex 9.0 in Seattle Washington in front of an audience of top tech bloggers.

Cheapshitcondos.com - Part 2

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:19:28 -0700

The Cheapest Crappiest Condos blighting the Seattle area are now available in crappy blog format - searing the eyes with urban yuck was never so fun! Contains dozens of images and reviews!

Hazelnut Tech Talk | Portland Internet Marketing and Events & Visualizing the Internet Strategy Forum Summit 2009

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:23:34 -0700

A visual report of Jeremiah Owyang and other speakers at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit 2009 at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

Instead of digging through pages of Twitter data with the search term #ISF09, the method here allows the audience as well as speakers to see how their speech ranked in comparison others at the conference. This way, one can see exactly the topics that hit the audience the hardest.

Technology Review: What Your Phone Knows About You

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:16:37 -0700

What Your Phone Knows About You -MIT's Sandy Pentland finds surprising implications in patterns of cell-phone use. December 20, 2007

A couple of years ago, Sandy Pentland, professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, handed out about 100 Nokia cell phones to MIT students and faculty. The phones were equipped with software that helped Pentland's team log interactions between the people carrying them. Based on phone calls and the devices' physical proximity to other people's phones (as measured by Bluetooth), Pentland and researcher Nathan Eagle developed social-network models that were more accurate and more nuanced than those constructed from the subjects' self-reports. A paper on the study is currently under review at the journal Nature.

identity campaigning

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:19:57 -0700

Identity Campaigning

The profound social and environmental challenges that we confront arise importantly from dominant identities (that is, who we see ourselves as being and the values we collectively express). This site provides a forum for exploring ways in which social values and identity can be engaged. It has been developed as part of WWF-UK's Strategies for Change Project.

Supermodernity - Replaying the Senses

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:23:24 -0700

At Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburg, a huggable pillow has been developed that uses "sensing and wirelss phone technology to provide a physical touch" (article source) been developed. It is a device that, once hugged, stores that hug for future playback.

Hazelnut Tech Talk | Portland Internet Marketing and Events & Who Killed Social Media? Reputation, Community Management, and the Future of Branding

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:57:06 -0700

What is social media? 4 panelists and a moderator discuss what's really going on in the transition from traditional to digital media, including what's going to happen to branding. Full transcript of the 88 minute panel with link to the video.

San Francisco | Anthony Holdsworth: Dispatches from the Street

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:54:47 -0700

Anthony Holdsworth paints stunning scenes from the streets of San Fransisco. They have a quality that makes you feel as if you standing right there. His ability to render light and shadow is astonishing.

Three weeks in Cuba a Painter's Perspective | Anthony Holdsworth: Dispatches from the Street

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:50:34 -0700

Beautiful work/blog by - Anthony Holdsworth.

Holdsworth was born in England in 1945. He was introduced to oil painting in high school by the New England painter, Loring Coleman. Holdsworth embarked on a painting career while working as Head of Outdoor Restoration for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy after the flood of 1966. He continued his studies at the Bournemouth College of Art in England where he studied with master draftsman Samuel Rabin and color theorist Jon Fish and at the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied with Julius Hatofsky.

He has shown with major galleries in Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles. He has participated in two exhibitions at the Oakland Museum. He was included in the California Cityscapes exhibition at the San Diego Museum. He was a recipient of WESTAF-NEA fellowship in 1990. His work is in corporate and private collections worldwide.