January 2012
34 posts
Is Twitter a Media Compay? Twitter CEO says no. →
The business of big data →
Breaking down Google's 2011 Ad Revenues →
Twitter's role in revolutionary Egypt - isolation... →
Reading the Riots on Twitter: who tweeted the... →
Blogger bares breast cancer diagnosis
Article by Lauren Rae Orsini at The Daily Dot about blogging illness. Reference to my piece: ‘Blogging and Illness: Recovering in Public’. Nice article. However, I do challenge the typical idea of illness blogging as simply about empowerment and control. It’s better to think of it in terms of an expressive extension of the illness experience through networks of ‘intimate publics’. I’m writing...
Infographics of the Day: How Segregated Is Your...
Racial mapping of cities as info visualisation, by cartographer Bill Rankin, and Eric Fischer - article here by Cilff Kuang
More here.
Cafes and creativity
15 Most Famous Cafes in the Literary World - Hemingway at Le Dome Cafe, Paris; Dostoevsky and Pushkin at St. Petersburg’s Literary Cafe; Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Jean Giraudoux, Jean Paul Sartre at Les Deux Margots; Kafka at cafe Montmartre; Stendhal and Lord Byron at Padua’s Pedrocchi Cafe;
JK Rowling - wrote / writes a lot in cafes, particularly Nicolson’s Café early...
fugitivesound:
92. A Silver Mt. Zion - Dead...
Kodak files for bankruptcy →
“For Manovich the flicker of film was always already a digital flicker.”
– Alexander Galloway, 2011, ‘What’s new in new media? Ten years after The Language of New Media’
A politics of anger
Craig Calhoun offers a bold reading of the vicissitudes of US politics. This section from the middle of his column points to the role of anger as the politics of affect takes over from the politics of … policy and action:
“The issue isn’t whether Sarah Palin really knows anything about foreign policy or Carl Paladino about how to reform the New York Assembly. Populism is generally...
Forced Creativity? Why Daily Writing Works
Via Get A Life, PhD
‘Are you waiting for that strike of inspiration for you to write? Do you keep reading and thinking, hoping that the muse will visit you, and when she does, that you will produce pages and pages of prose? Or, do you wait until the weekend to write, with the idea that you will have long blocks of uninterrupted time? If any of those questions resonate with you, you are...
Less landline, fewer texts, more smartphones in...
Richard Blundell has put together a good snapshot of Australia’s changing telecommunications landscape with analysis of Telstra and ABS data for 2011. The trends he pulls out are:
More phone calls are now made from mobiles than landlines
We are making around 12.5% fewer phone calls than five years ago
Texting is in decline, having peaked in 2010
The average mobile user is now...
Kristian Anderson →
“online cancer star” - odd way to describe a person
December 2011
43 posts
