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On one nondescript January morning, the Washington Post hired Joshua Bell, a world-renowned violinist, to play anonymously in L’Enfant Plaza. Thousands will stream by over the course of the morning. Does anyone stop to listen for free to a virtuoso who regularly commands over $1,000 a minute? Does it matter?
Take a […]
In this TEDtalk, anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis describes the importance of the ethnosphere, “the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.”
Maybe I’ll turn off Google Notifier and push Mail’s schedule back to checking for new mail “every hour.”
BBC News highlights a study that finds that incessant email/txt/message checking causes people to suffer as if they’ve pulled an all-nighter. An IQ test showed the distractees losing an average of 10-points - “more than […]
The National Recording Preservation Registry released their list of 2006 inductees, and they’ve put together a great montage of this year’s entries.
The National Recording Preservation Board, mandated by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, is an advisory group bringing together a number of professional organizations and expert individuals concerned with the preservation of recorded […]
Giga OM and Iotum take a look at “presence,” one of the supposed killer apps in the next generation of mobile technologies.
Presence will drive a fundamental change in the way that communications networks are used today. Today, callers have no way of knowing whether the party being called is available, or busy, or would consider […]
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a quite extensive NYT infographic depicting the 5 years since 9/11 in the context of important world events, approval ratings, Homeland Security Threat Levels, US troop fatalities, the weight & blood pressure of George W. Bush, Woody Allen films, word frequencies in State of the Union addresses, top baby names, house prices, number […]
Here is the trailer for the new production from Showtime and This American Life.
Compelling stories are explored every day on “This American Life,” the nearly 15-year-old, award-winning Chicago Public Radio show that boasts a devoted weekly listening audience of 1.7 million, and is heard on more than 500 stations nationally. The series, created in 1995 […]
New York Magazine looks at the “Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll:”
There is plenty of variation among this younger cohort, including a set of Luddite dissenters: “If I want to contact someone, I’ll write them a letter!” grouses Katherine Gillespie, a student at Hunter College. (Although when I look her up online, I find […]
I posted this over at the blog I’m keeping for my new media course, but it fits over here as well.
I’ve been meaning to read City of Sound’s post, A New Musical Experience, for awhile now, and finally found some time this weekend. It’s rather long, but an excellent collection of thoughts on music and […]
PingMag interviews Bruce Osborn about his Oyako photography series:
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