Archive for June, 2005

Sidewalk Closed…Mind Open?

Friday, June 24th, 2005

Taken at Michigan State University, Summer 2005. Artist: unknown. Photograph: Vishal

“I have a lot of trouble with your remote controls. Too many arrows.”

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

This is what Queen Elizabeth II said to Sony’s new CEO. Click here to the article.

Imagine all the people living life in peace…

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

Coming to Broadway Jul 7, 2005…http://www.lennonthemusical.com/.
“Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans”

Pornographic people (and search engines too)

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

A Digital Rhetoric class I took last Fall had some pretty interesting insights into pornogrophy on the Internet. Here is a quick study I did, of how people of different countries, ethnicities etc are pornographically represented on the Internet (I found the results pretty shocking)…Here are the results (for the top 20 images):
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The future of cinema theatres?

Monday, June 20th, 2005

CNN reports that “Batman Begins” debuted as the top movie with $46.9 million, while overall movie revenues skidded for the 17th-straight weekend, tying a slide in 1985 that had been the longest box-office decline since analysts began keeping detailed records on movie grosses…”
“…The slump may be a sign that more people are seeing movies at […]

Innovative copyright/broadcasting ideas- update I

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

A few days after I wrote about the CBS live video, execs at CNN, taking my words very seriously, have bought out free video for the CNN website (http://www.cnn.com/video/). The quality of the video looks good (better than CBS infact) and the interface is decent. Kudos to CNN. Lets see how it goes and […]

One free minute

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

Description from the website:
“One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly more than 150 […]

I’m not an architect but…(prologue)

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

“[Frank Lloyd] Wright evidently wasn’t very sympathetic about complaints. When Herbert F. Johnson, the late president of S.C. Johnson, Inc., in Racine, Wis., called Wright to say that his roof was leaking all over a dinner guest, the architect is said to have responded, ‘Tell him to move his chair.’ ”
Wall Street Journal, Dec 9, […]

Finland to adopt mobile broadband

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/15/finland.mobile.reut/index.html

Innovative copyright/ distribution ideas

Monday, June 13th, 2005

As I sat in my office (without a T.V) desperately trying to get my hands on a video feed of the Michael Jackson verdict today, I eventually reached one of my favorite news website http://www.cbsnews.com. They have video feeds (of reasonably good quality) of many of their stories and not to mention live feeds […]