Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
>????????in Grant McCracken's talk at the Arts Club. Here are my notes, rough as they may be, in situ, live...
Dealing with massive technological and media change? Don't panic - it is wrong to think that everything we've already learned is wrong. What's important from a marketing POV is not what ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Just two days before I posted at Mobile Muse about social media mashups around health information, Google announced their Health API and Health Data API. So it looks as though some of the pieces are already in place for the development of tools for managing health information on a personal ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
OK - daughter's asleep...continuing on with recordings of similar vintage (1987 and pre-), to ensure the oldest tapes I have are salvaged first.
More Bucket of Slugs, of course. Unlike yesterday's monochromatically raucous Carnival EP, the follow up LP, entitled Pacifism, oscillates between whispered and barked songs. It appears that parents ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Bucket of Slugs - Different Flavours of Birthday Cake [Sept 1987, 3min 0sec]
OK, the archive project has officially begun, with a warble. Apologies at the outset for the pisspoor quality of this one (the others are in much better shape). I've tried every DIY method I know, and I cannot ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
I had the opportunity to speak to local wireless industry folks at the most recent Mobile Monday Vancouver (presented by WinBC) this week. It's been a while since the last MoMoVan, so I was glad to see a good turnout and to receive an enthusiastic response to my presentation about ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I had another dream about my lost cassettes from 20 years ago (remember? I dreamed about this previously). This time, I was not in a pawn shop. This time, beleaguered campus radio station CiTR (which in this world has had to resort to fundraising in the face of UBC budget ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I exercise 5 days a week, and much of this is running. While I can be found in local gyms on occasion, I try to do as much of this running as possible for free. For in using a treadmill, with its diligent, brainless constancy, I subjugate my running activity ...
Posted in Actor network theory, Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, SCOT, culture & society, mobile, technology, theory, wi-fi, work | 10 Comments »
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