TechnoActivism
How to make “Internet TV”
By cdharris at August 1, 2008 | 2:23 pm | 0 Comment
Simple online guide, sponsored by Participatory Culture Foundation, on how to create and publish video to the net. more...
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Scold Cams and Surveillance
By cdharris at April 28, 2007 | 2:01 pm | 0 Comment
Great Britain is already estimated to have installed CCTV cams at a ratio of about 1 camera for every 5 citizens.? Now some of the cameras are designed to detect certain conditions and direct the surveilled person to do an action.? Call them "scold more...
Tracking the Congressional attention span
By cdharris at February 20, 2007 | 12:08 pm | 0 Comment
Arstechnica reports: "While text mining 330,000 New York Times articles poses an interesting challenge, it's not as interesting as sifting through 70 million words (from over 70,000 unique documents) found in the Congressional Record. A team of political science researchers found that their software was able to answer questions too difficult for humans to more...
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The “Amazon Noir Caper”
By cdharris at February 20, 2007 | 11:04 am | 0 Comment
Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard stole copyrighted books from Amazon.com by using sophisticated robot-technology as programmed by Cirio. Amazon sued the group and a settlement was just announced. The "Amazon Noir" Robots manipulated Amazon's "Search Inside this Book" feature, forcing the feature to provide the complete volumes more...
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Sousveillance
By cdharris at February 20, 2007 | 10:46 am | 0 Comment
Commenting on a decade of silent performances in front of surveillance cameras,? The Surveillance Camera Players have just published a new book.? The major themes are:? right to privacy, the militarization of the police, the ideology of transparency, the mass psychology of fascism, the society of the spectacle, the PATRIOT Act, Rudy Giuliani, September 11th, face more...
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If it bleeds, it leads
By cdharris at December 20, 2006 | 10:47 am | 0 Comment
An installation by Caleb Larsen, is a compelling commentary on the public love affair with tragic stories and dramatic deaths.? In the piece, software continuously scans news headlines of 4,500 news sources, looking for mentions of human deaths. Each time it finds an article, an algorithm determines the number of deaths, and relays an instruction to a ceiling-mounted more...
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Public Broadcasting in a Cart
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:27 am | 0 Comment
Ricardo Miranda Z??iga, instructor of Digital Arts at College of New Jersey, introduces recent immigrants to his Public Broadcast Cart. It is a shopping cart outfitted with all the technical ingredients that enables any pedestrian to become an active producer of an audio broadcast. The audio stream is available to anyone online and simultaneously transmitted via speakers, more...
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Mobile Performance Group
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:10 am | 0 Comment
The Mobile Performance Group,? founded by Matt Roberts, is a collective of new media artists interested in finding new ways to present art outside of traditional venues. MPG disseminates their work by using automobiles, video projection, cell phones, FM transmission, wireless hotspots, and any other technologies that allow artist to engage the more...
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ParaSite Shelter
By cdharris at October 1, 2006 | 11:03 am | 0 Comment
American artist Michael Rakowitz's paraSITE project proposed to take advantage of the exterior ventilation systems on existing architecture to give the homeless a temporary shelter,? and to serve as protest against the government's unwillingness to solve the homeless problem in its more...
The Critical Browser
By cdharris at August 8, 2006 | 1:08 pm | 0 Comment
Ever feel like talking back to a website?? Then the Critical Browser is for you! With this tool, you can contextualize your surfing by selecting from a variety of slogans, declare your dissent or fidelity by creating a "visual petition," and?essentially "hijack"??websites to give people a piece of your mind. Developed by De Geuzen, an art and design more...
TED Presentations now online!
By cdharris at August 8, 2006 | 10:14 am | 0 Comment
If you've heard of the "TED" conference, the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design extravaganza that draws the stars of the IT firmament,? plus those willing to pay $4500 a ticket?on top of?the airfare to Monterey, California...? you are probably already a technology insider.?? But even insiders might find it difficult to get to TED.?? The conference is known for more...
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Bush to Take Unscripted Audience Questions
By cdharris at April 4, 2006 | 9:50 am | 0 Comment
That the Associated Press and New York Times both featured a headline entitled: "Bush to take unscripted audience questions" merely shows how very far we have come from the journalistic and democratic ideals that many believed to be in operation until this administration took power. The stories report: more...
Spin in speeches can be detected
By cdharris at January 22, 2006 | 7:46 pm | 0 Comment
There are more ways to tell if someone is lying these days. A Canadian research team from Queen's University (Ontario) have developed an algorithm that parses the speech of politicians and identifies what they call "deception-linked words" within them. For individual speeches as well as averaged across a number of speeches, the politicians are then more...
Just don’t annoy me
By cdharris at January 22, 2006 | 7:36 pm | 0 Comment
A new federal law, passed earlier this week, states that when and if you "annoy" someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity and cannot be anonymous. "Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the more...
Why Botfarms and zombies are important to us
By cdharris at January 20, 2006 | 5:53 pm | 0 Comment
Although it has been well known for quite some time now that the curious profession (formerly "hobby") of cracking was become infiltrated by organized crime interests and criminals in general... we now have our first big prosecution of the enablers of this phenomenon. It turns out to be...A 20-year-old hacker who pleaded guilty this week more...
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