http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/ new media theory, micromedia, mobile en-us 2007-05-15T09:24:32+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001047.html some weeks ago, Bryan Alexander at the Infocult-blog pointed to an article about "Twitter Time" which is arguing that it is part of the phenomenon towards ever faster, ever more dense urban forms of life, which at some point may... digital life martin 2007-05-15T09:24:32+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001045.html (just having written this summary for print, i thought i'd share this because it makes some points important to me in a rather plain&simple way ...) “Working in a field of constant change, information technology designers habitually deal with evolving... micromedia martin 2007-05-10T11:14:38+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001043.html Abstract for the "Telecommunication Convergence" conference in Budapest. And yes, i know, it is poor English. I just lterally had not a spare minute to work it over yet. At first, "convergence" seems just to be a "natural" phenomenon driven... computational humanities martin 2007-05-08T21:46:45+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001037.html But not everything is converging in the direction of technological singularity, there is also new divergence. I had noted the divergence of visual vs. audio media, and text-based media vs. AV media. (These oppositions are intersecting: "Rich Text" is visual,... digital life martin 2007-04-25T15:50:53+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001036.html another way to look at media convergence is the convergence of End Devices: Smartphones are integrating voice, pictures, txting and Internet/Web, the iPhone is integrating AV-media and Internet/Web, PCs are getting more mobile and are integrating voice and AV-media too.... digital life martin 2007-04-25T15:43:09+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001035.html not only is there not enough difference made between technological access and "experiental" access. there is also the convergence of media: "The term convergence is commonly used in reference to the synergistic combination of voice (and telephony features), data (and... martin 2007-04-25T15:27:06+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001034.html i will fix this or maybe migrate the mediatope-blog in the next weeks. stay tuned, whoever is still paying attention out there ...... blogosphere study martin 2007-04-25T15:24:51+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001033.html If a user-centered perspective is taken instead of a technology-centered one, it is clear, that there are three or possibly four different scenarios of convergence: (1) home scenario (2) car scenario (3) street scenario (4) laptop/blackberry scenario (seated, focused, using... digital life martin 2007-04-25T14:35:45+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001032.html Technological convergence is a concept relating to access: according to this there are 4 channels for new digital services to access a home: TV-line, wired telephony, wired internet, wireless cell phones (quadruple play). (These are not all access-possibilities, but the... computational humanities martin 2007-04-25T14:09:24+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001031.html i will speak at this conference with the interesting title. indeed kristof nyiri, the conference chair, is quoting Heideggers "zuhandenheit" correlated with the Germen pseudo-English word "handy" for "cell phone". (see the introduction in English.) i will try to say... computational humanities martin 2007-04-24T15:43:17+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001027.html a spontaneous question i asked at preoccupations, but may as well put here. Thomas Vander Wal had promised to post about this too (i hope he is remembering) ... "drowning in the plenitude of microcontent-apps, i would be grateful for... digital life martin 2007-04-12T15:11:45+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001023.html Seventeen definitions of "semiosphere", collected by Kallevi Kull (Tartu School) in the spirit of the late Jurij M. Lotman. see paper for details & quotations. prolegomena for a theory of web 2.0. (because web 2.0 is an emergent theory of... GoogleUniversity martin 2007-04-05T09:15:49+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001021.html "When you walk down the street do you subscribe to the thousands of sensory feeds in the information ether? Not at all. You're scanning, skimming, sampling, glancing. As you pass a group of people on the pavement you briefly graze... digital life martin 2007-04-02T09:24:52+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001018.html Twitter, i wrote, feels like finding myself in a Frank Capra Movie for the digital age, coming back to place I never were. The film i thought of is of course the great "It's A Wonderful Life", presenting the view... digital life martin 2007-03-26T00:58:18+01:00 http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/001017.html ... mark twain & jack london and others in his autobiography. interesting. ridiculous discussion of "plagiarism", though.... dylan martin 2007-03-25T22:16:20+01:00