*Oh my gosh! Compuserve! We hardly knew you…. CompuServe Requiem The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down...

*Look at the scary demographic microtargeting in my new blog ad here! How do you suppose a grim message like this was lurking, lurking, sniffing RSS feeds, ready to pounce?

THE INTERNET PAVILION 03 June - 22 November 2009 Started by Miltos Manetas in 2009 Curator - Jan Aman Producer - Art Production Fund 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di...

Below we present 10 recent developments in the field of user experience design. Most techniques may seem very futuristic, but some of them are already reality. And in fact, they are extremely impressive.

"...most people born within the last 10 to 15 years won’t even know what this thing is but the detail is nice on it and it even makes the clicking sound..." (((I wish they'd used a better model of the rotary dial -- the kind with big lettering,...

http://www.guttergeek.com/page184/october2008/motioncomics/motioncomics.html “The biggest issue of motion comics may be that they’re trying to fill a niche that simply doesn’t exist.”

*Okay, first, just have a look at THIS: “Tears of the Black Tiger,” a modern Thai cinema effort: http://henryjenkins.org/2009/11/on_the_pleasures_of_not_belong_1.html (…” “Paradoxically, though, genres have had a tighter hold on our imagination in...

Avatar Machine 2008 from MARC OWENS on Vimeo. http://www.marcowens.co.uk/index_frame.htm “Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in...

*American pop music used to be full of white middle-class Anglo kids who had taken some LSD and gotten all “weird.” Nowadays we’ve got pop music by extremely dissociative, utterly globalized networked kids who enjoy backpacking in the Hindu Kush while...

*Hey wow! Neat surveillance hack! *Can’t wait to see the law and order surge as girlfriends of prominent Tory politicians are marked “of interest.” That would sure make great fodder for another anti-Tory “desperate housewives” sex blog. *In fact,...