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Make Something Cool Every Day

Members of the Flickr group Make Something Cool Every Day are making cool things every day, in a social experiment that looks like a lot of fun. The group’s rules are simple: ONE upload per day. Each piece must not have taken longer than a day to make. So with these in mind, here is […]

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Web Discoveries for September 22nd

These are my del.icio.us links for September 22nd Members: WordPress Plugin – Handy for one of my other projects where part of a site is ‘Members Only’. Speed Reading Software and tools: Eyercize – I’ve always wanted to be able to read faster. This looks really handy. The Three Rules of QR Codes – Good […]

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Applying Baudrillard

For Jean Baudrillard (1983), “at any moment in the course of our modernity, a particular arrangement of signifying objects and images conditions the way we see the world” (Clark, 1995). “Each major transformation is accompanied by a feeling of disorientation and discomfort over the loss of the previous ‘reality’. This effects a recourse into the […]

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Applying McLuhan

I begin with McLuhan, whose Laws of Media or Tetrad offers greater insights for Mobile AR, sustaining and developing upon the arguments developed in my assessment of the interlinking technologies that meet in Mobile AR, whilst also providing the basis to address some of this man’s deeper thoughts. The tetrad can be considered an observation […]

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Kopimi

An admission to you all – I’ve used Pirate Bay to download stuff for free. A statement of facts – I also believe in protecting the rights of content creators. How do I reconcile my piracy usage of great content with my belief in copyright? The jury is still out on that one, but with the […]

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