Aula 2006 is an event about the direction of society, culture and technology. The theme Movement points to mobile 2.0 (mobility meets web 2.0), the overlapping of the physical and the virtual, and the social movement-like nature of new technologies. On a personal level, movement is about not staying still but taking action to shape […]
Turbulence blog reports: New Scientist reveals that the Pentagon’s NSA in the form of ARDA (Advanced Research Development Activity) are interested in the information people post about themselves on social networking sites like MySpace and are funding research into it’s mass harvesting. The W3C WWW2006 conference accepted a paper entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, […]
There is an article in eSchoolNews today about “safe” social networking that spends a lot of time looking at the usual concerns expressed about kids in schools using these sorts fo environments… Amid rising concerns over popular social networking sites, a new crop of “safe” sites is currently emerging. These “safe” sites hope to limit […]
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Tech-savvy militants from al Qaeda and other groups have modified video war games so that U.S. troops play the role of bad guys in running gunfights against heavily armed Islamic radical heroes, Defense Department official and contractors told Congress. gamepolitics blog reports on a bizarre US Congress blunder surrounding a machinima film made by a […]
I’ve just been reading a series of linked discussions about the connections between real-world and virtual-world economies and marketing practices. The gist of the discussion is that virtual world inhabitants, in the form of avatars, are being framed as consumers and offered products that effectively exist only in the virtual world. we make money not […]
A useful little offering comes from Protopage. You are offered a free start page where you store all sorts of material. I find it especially useful for maintaining a list of sites, RSS feeds and other material for my students at university. I can quickly add new information anytime I’m online. I can create new […]
I believe Stelarc has added arms and ears but not amputated anything. He has speculated on the worth of the wetware we are born with and whether or not we might be better off replacing it with hardware. You said “My main concern is I guess to suggest that maybe there should be boundaries to […]
The people at Symbiotica have to follow very rigorous ethics protocols – they form part of the school of Anatomy and Human Biology at UWA – http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/ and have to meet all the ethics requirements of any other research program.  What interests me about their work is the excision of arbitrary boundaries on knowledge – […]
Well, here’s the update… I can finally start doing the practical phase of the work. ECU have granted ethics clearance. I hope you will all be able to make the times and dates I propose – demand for space is at a premium. The planned Process Drama sessions are: Tuesday May 30, 2006  7:00-9:00pm Thursday […]