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Mason, Publishing (HTLit)
"Everyone wants content to be as cheap as possible for consumers, but we still need to provide artists with incentives to create." Stacey Mason surveys the field for viable elite publishing models.
digitalculture  publishing  business 
21 days ago by donutage
Rowland, Hate-Reading (OVERCOMPENSATING)
Tallahassee: "Jeffrey you gotta stop hate-readin' stuff. You *gotta* stop it, you're gonna catch a disease."
comics  JeffreyRowland  digitalculture  hateReading  sadButTrue  theInternetRuinsEverything 
7 weeks ago by donutage
Mason, Culture Games (HTLit)
Stacey Mason muses on gamer/nerd culture, 'scenes', 'cred' and feminism.
articles  criticism  digitalculture  games  socialAspects  feminism 
11 weeks ago by donutage
Stevens, The only copy protection I need... (Joe Biden Fan Club Tree House of Furor)
"The only copy protection I need is the fact that tomorrow’s comic doesn’t exist yet and my brain’s the only place that bakes that cookie." (reblog of a tumbl of a comment Stevens made in his Kickstarter campaign).
digitalculture  business  copyright  creativity 
11 weeks ago by donutage
Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater: Statement
"I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood."
business  digitalculture  LouisCK  disintermediation 
december 2011 by donutage
Simmons, The Readable Future (inessential.com)
"I love the web, the web based on http and HTML and CSS, the web that appears in web browsers. The extent that I, and people I know and people like me, already avoid this web is shameful — but we do it because we like to read. The shame is not ours."
articles  digitalculture  reading  webdesign  readability  critique 
november 2011 by donutage
Dibbell, IRS Taxpayer Advocate’s Remarks on Virtual Worlds
"The following text liberates pages 213-226 of the National Taxpayer Advocate’s 2008 Annual Report to Congress from the PDF file in which they were delivered to the public like bugs frozen in amber."
digitalculture  economics  taxes  government  MMORPG  virtualMoney 
april 2011 by donutage
Doug Engelbart & Ted Nelson come to dinner - HowardRheingold - blip.tv
"On August 18, 2010, I had the great honor of entertaining Doug Engelbart and his wife Karen and Ted Nelson and his wife Marlene at my home. It isn't a high-production-values video, but they are such interesting people in person that I thought I'd share a little bit of the magic with the world. It felt like having Newton and Galileo over for dinner."
video  people  digitalculture  TedNelson  Engelbart 
march 2011 by donutage
North, Dinosaur Comics - February 18th, 2011(qwantz.com)
T-Rex: "It's this new form of terrible, insecure, needy writing, and yet it's suddenly EVERYWHERE."
comics  dinosaurComics  digitalculture  writing  critique  needyWriting  sympathyRage 
february 2011 by donutage
Bernstein, The critic as troll
"Nick Carr is becoming the Rob Enderle of literature."
articles  criticism  digitalculture  literature  hypertext 
december 2010 by donutage
*Balak01, about DIGITAL COMICS (deviantART)
Interesting meditation on digital comics as form in digital comic form. Post-McCloudian criticism?
comics  criticism  digitalculture  flash  interactive 
june 2010 by donutage
Gruber, The Kids Are All Right (Daring Fireball)
Gruber replies to Doctorow's anti-iPad moan. "If you could go back and show my 10-year-old self an iPad — millions of colors, video, photographs, gorgeous typography, a touchscreen interface, networking (wirelessly!) — and offered to let me write web apps for it in exchange for my agreeing never to touch an Apple II again, I’m pretty sure I know what the answer would be."
articles  technology  programming  digitalculture  iPad  opensource  daringFireball  CoryDoctorowIAmLookingAtYou 
april 2010 by donutage
Lopp, A Story Culture (Rands In Repose)
"Imagine if Twitter forced you to follow certain people. What if Facebook randomly added folks to your friends list? You know what you’d have? The evening news. Random stories from folks you don’t know and probably don’t trust."
articles  rands  information  storytelling  socialSoftware  theMedia  infoManagement  writing  digitalculture  twitter 
february 2010 by donutage
Stokes, The future of scholarship? Harvard goes digital with Scribd (Ars Technica)
"Today, with the announcement that Harvard University Press will publish 1,000 digitized books on Scribd, the academic world took one more step in its glacially slow march into the digital age."
articles  academia  publishing  digitalculture 
july 2009 by donutage
Remiel, tweet at 8:54 PM Mar 5th (Twitter)
"It's real simple, guys. @Ev et al. proved a protocol for 1-to-many, short form, real time messaging to be a Fundamental Thing. NEXT CHAPTER." -- Best definition of Twitter ever.
tweets  definition  digitalculture  socialSoftware  twitter 
may 2009 by donutage
McCrum, Misreading the end of literary culture (Books < guardian.co.uk)
Refreshing dose of perspective on the Terrible State of Books Today: "Myth Five: There was a Golden Age. There wasn't. Nor is there an End of Literary Civilisation as We Know It." (via @librarythingtim)
articles  books  digitalculture  critique  techresistance  publishing 
may 2009 by donutage
Kottke, In defense of Twitter (kottke.org)
"And anyway, the whole breakfast question is a huge straw man periodically pushed across the tracks in front of speeding internet technology.... Can we just retire this stupid line of questioning once and for all?" Amen.
articles  digitalculture  socialSoftware  twitter 
april 2009 by donutage
Rosenberg, Mark Penn's fuzzy pro-blogging stats (Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard)
critiques the Mark Penn WSJ article on professional bloggers: "The methodology of Penn’s piece seems to be: gather as many numbers as you can and don’t worry about the fact that they are from many different sources at different times using different methodologies and even differing definitions of what it means to “be a blogger” — just toss them all together and start drawing conclusions. " (via @jilltxt)
articles  digitalculture  blogging  stats  critique  business 
april 2009 by donutage
Penn & Zalesne, America's Newest Profession: Blogging (WSJ.com)
"The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income." (via @jilltxt)
articles  digitalculture  blogging  business  stats  USA 
april 2009 by donutage
North, on the newspaper comics page (LiveJournal)
Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North looks forward to the demise of newspaper comics: "What I am dissing, what I'm prematurely celebrating the death of, is the standard newspaper comics page: that ambassador which, for whatever reason, ended up privileging blandness over interest, sameness over change, safety over risks."
articles  comics  analysis  publishing  change  digitalculture 
april 2009 by donutage
Kennedy, Truly Groundbreaking Marketing Research: Understanding Twitter (McSweeney's Internet Tendency)
"Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies." (via @sfkeydel via @magnetbox)
articles  funny  twitter  analysis  subjunctive  digitalculture  socialSoftware 
april 2009 by donutage
North, dinosaur comics - May 27 2008 (qwantz.com)
T-Rex: "There are not enough internet acronyms. If I want to speak entirely in internet acronyms like LOL and ROFL -- WHICH I DO -- then my emotions are limited to the crudest of feelings!"
comics  funny  dinosaurComics  digitalCulture  language  acronyms 
may 2008 by donutage
Paul, UK retailers to record labels: DRM is killing us (Ars technica)
"the Entertainment Retailers Association ... which represents retailers who sell music and DVDs—blames draconian digital copy protection technologies for the slow growth of the digital music market." [originally posted Nov. 21, 2007]
articles  business  music  DRM  copyright  digitalCulture 
april 2008 by donutage
Jacques, Part of this Balanced... Something (Questionable Content #1023)
"Hey kids! Tell all your friends their lunches are now non-notable, 'cause you've got WIKIPEDIOS!" Also: Slash-Dotz "They're +5: delicious!"
comics  funny  socialSoftware  advertising  wikipedia  digitalCulture  subjunctive  QC 
april 2008 by donutage
Holahan, Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM (BusinessWeek)
The last of the Big 4 announces they will sell "at least part of" their catalog without copy protection. (via lsherman on Twitter) [originally posted Jan. 11]
articles  business  music  DRM  digitalCulture 
april 2008 by donutage
North, dinosaur comics - February 11 2008 (qwantz.com)
T-Rex: "it seems instead of a computer I've got this MAGIC FEELINGS BOX on my desk, and when my feelings box feels like I deserve music, I get it, and when it doesn't, I don't It's voodoo, Dromiceiomimus! It is voodoo,"
comics  funny  computer  technology  determinism  digitalCulture  dinosaurComics 
february 2008 by donutage
LOLCat Bible Translation Project
from Gen. 1:3: "An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz"
digitalCulture  weird  religion  lolcats  funny 
january 2008 by donutage
paulthewineguy, Understanding art for geeks - a photoset on Flickr
Classic art meets geek culture. Recommend #5 (Mona Lisa), #30 (Garden of Earthly Delights), and #41 (Oath of the Horatii) especially. (via Adam Engst on Twitter)
art  mashup  digitalCulture  geek  funny  images  Flickr 
january 2008 by donutage
EVE Online
sci-fi MMORPG. Now has Mac (and Linux) client.
fun  games  scifi  MMORPG  digitalCulture  mac  EVE 
november 2007 by donutage
Costikiyan, Jack Thompson, Civility, and Freedom (Play This Thing!)
On the state of game-censorship. "We are *already* living in a regime of effective censorship, which the like of Thompson merely wish to extend to some illogical extreme." (via Mark Bernstein)
articles  games  censorship  religion  theocracy  etiquette  digitalCulture 
november 2007 by donutage
Fake Steve, Mind-blowing refrigerators (The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs)
"Imagine the world that Google would create for us if Google could have its way and run the entire planet. Is that a world you want to live in?"
articles  digitalCulture  design  advertising  google  FSJ  subjunctive 
november 2007 by donutage
Fake Steve, This Hollywood writers strike cracks me up (The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs)
FSJ nails it: "It's the beginning of the death throes of the network system. At some subconscious level you clueless fuckwits have begun to realize that the future has nothing to do with the system to which you're attached."
articles  tv  business  digitalCulture  critique  funny  subjunctive  FSJ 
november 2007 by donutage
Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian Computing
An ongoing series of postings calling for a fundamental change in the way we design and build software.
articles  technology  software  digitalCulture  criticism  creativity  intriguing  design 
october 2007 by donutage
Spalding, Magical Thinking at Harvard (Thingology)
Thoughts on the power of naming in response to Harvard Coop's ejection of ISBN copiers. "Secret and proprietary numbering systems pose a serious challenge to the benign potential of the internet."
articles  books  business  copyright  digitalCulture 
september 2007 by donutage
How Much Is the Pay Rate (TuneCore: FAQ)
Company that acts as go-between for copyright holders and digital music stores provides detailed info on pay rates of various stores. ITMS seems to be ~5% more generous than other major stores. (via Daring Fireball)
reference  business  music  ITMS  digitalCulture 
september 2007 by donutage
Fake Steve, Just think of the leverage we'll have (The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs)
"This is the beginning of the end for the TV networks, the last big lurch of the dinosaur as it gets dragged down into the tarpit. This is the last great spastic battle of the old pre-digital media giants. It's going to be both ugly and hilarious."
articles  subjunctive  business  tv  digitalCulture  ITMS  NBC  FSJ 
september 2007 by donutage
Fake Steve, We're thrilled about this NBC download service (The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs)
Fake Steve FTW: "Bring on the big media cluster fuck. Roll out all the different systems that don't work together.... Right. When you're good and tired of that, we'll be here waiting for you."
articles  subjunctive  tv  business  ITMS  NBC  digitalCulture  FSJ 
september 2007 by donutage
Carter, NBC to Offer Downloads of Its Shows (New York Times)
More evidence NBC are greeduy idiots: 'But, Mr. Gaspin said, “piracy was and is our No. 1 priority.” He said that the music industry had been devastated by the free exchange of music, much of it facilitated by iTunes' (via Daring Fireball)
articles  tv  business  digitalCulture  ITMS  infuriating 
september 2007 by donutage
Duguid, Material Matters: Aspects of the past and futurology of the book
Critiques both utopian and dystopian pronouncements regarding the death of the book. (via Humanist-L)
articles  academic  history  digitalCulture  technology  technophilia  techResistance  criticism  humComp 
september 2007 by donutage
Fake Steve, A boring rant (The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs)
"Well done, TV networks. When you finally die, the world will celebrate. Because you'll deserve it. Totally." (via Daring Fireball)
articles  tv  business  theMedia  ITMS  digitalCulture  subjunctive  FSJ 
september 2007 by donutage
Munroe, Rule 34 (xkcd)
"It's Rule 34 of the Internet: If you can imagine it, there is porn of it." Discuss.
comics  digitalCulture  web  erotica  funny 
august 2007 by donutage
Stross, Unpacking the Zeitgeist (Charlie's Diary)
Explaining WoW news to someone from 1977. "This Russian doll of a news item contains some rather scary pointers to where we're going, and a harsh warning about the difficulty of accurately portraying plausible futures in literature." (via deusx)
articles  digitalCulture  web  technology  writing  MMORPG  analysis 
july 2007 by donutage
Munroe, All Your Base (xkcd)
"Someday, decades from now, people will have forgotten. It will be fresh again. Retro. And when that day comes... I WILL BE READY!"
comics  digitalCulture  allYourBase  meme  retro 
july 2007 by donutage
Shell, The Web Will Not Replace the Desktop (Griddle Noise)
"If you don't understand the true value of native applications, professional applications, personal data, then you don't understand the desktop's power. As such, you're not going to kill it. " mentions Tinderbox.
articles  software  web  digitalCulture  infoManagement  mac  tinderbox 
june 2007 by donutage
Steampunk Internet Ouija Board with Lolcats (TopatoCo Item Boutique)
Shirts , mouse pads, tote bags & hoodies. All with imprinted with the "Al Gore Magical Thinking Box INTER-NETS Mystifying Tubes" ouija board.
clothes  shopping  funny  digitalCulture  supernatural  lolcats 
june 2007 by donutage
Bangemann, CBS wants to be an "audience company," buys Last.fm for $280 million (Ars technica)
"All of CBS' recent acquisitions and licensing deals have been aimed at broadening the broadcaster's audience—a crucial task in an age of declining TV viewership."
articles  business  digitalCulture  music  Last.fm  theMedia  youAreACommodity 
may 2007 by donutage
Schroeder, Why Google Is Making Us Dumber (Mashable.com)
"The Internet is so useful - despite its quite chaotic organization - and Google is so good at retrieving information, that we don’t bother to remember anything anymore." Socrates made this argument against *writing*. Can we just get over it? (via deusx
articles  technology  techresistance  digitalculture  searching  irritating  google  memory 
may 2007 by donutage
Singer, Why Doesn't Microsoft Have a Cult Religion? (Microsoft Blog<InformationWeek)
On the lack of passion for M$. The comment thread is a long and tiresome parade of pro and con kneejerks. (via deusx)
articles  digitalCulture  M$  religion  passion  software 
may 2007 by donutage
Great Firewall of China
"Test any website and see real-time if it's censored in China." Admits to some false-positives.
digitalCulture  web  censorship  tools  china 
may 2007 by donutage
Munroe, Map of Online Communities (xkcd)
From the Gulf of YouTube to the IRC Isles, a complete map of online communities. ("Do not use for navigation") (via wordwrap)
comics  funny  maps  digitalCulture  socialSoftware  xkcd 
may 2007 by donutage
Thompson, What Type of Game Cheater Are You? (Wired)
Differing opinions on what constitutes cheating in video games tied to different philosophies of what the game experience should be. (via ourboldhero)
articles  games  criticism  digitalCulture  cheating 
april 2007 by donutage
Wesch, Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us (YouTube)
Video essay on 'Web 2.0'/Social Software. Intriguing in both form and content. (via LibraryThing amng others)
video  digitalCulture  hypertext  socialSoftware  tagging  theory 
february 2007 by donutage
Scott, The Calibration (ASCII)
One man draws the line and walks away from Vista. "Meetings you weren't allowed to attend and which claimed to be in your best interest were adjourned and the minutes all said the same thing: Praise the user's money. Fuck the user." Intersting thoughts on
articles  digitalCulture  technology  DRM  Vista  windows  M$  userRights  critique  angry  technophilia 
february 2007 by donutage
Snell, What You See’s Not What You Get (TeeVee)
Digital distribution is starting to call into question what the 'offiicial' version of a TV shiow is. References recent episodes of The office and BSG.
articles  tv  digitalCulture  analysis  business  ITMS  editing  BSG 
february 2007 by donutage
Fisher, Microsoft: Forget about PayPal; how about a MasterCard killer? (Ars technica)
Microsoft is diving into micropayments (no firm details). Finally, somethign I'd like to see them succeed at.
articles  technology  business  finance  M$  micropayments  digitalCulture 
january 2007 by donutage
Anderson, Indie labels combine to form a "virtual fifth major" (Ars technica)
Indie labels form a new licensing authority—Merlin—to bargain for them. Have already signed a deal with SNOCAP to sell unprotected MP3s on MySpace.
articles  music  business  digitalCulture  labels  indie 
january 2007 by donutage
Best of Technology Writing 2006 (Brendan I Koerner, ed.)
First annual collection of technology writing, from University of Michigan's 'digitalculture' e-publishing imprint.
books  technology  articles  digitalCulture  free 
january 2007 by donutage
Lenmhart & Madden, Social Networking and Teens (Pew Internet)
"More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites" also, girls are using more than boys (via Jill)
research  digitalCulture  socialAspects  socialSoftware  stats  report 
january 2007 by donutage
White, Understanding hypertext cognition (First Monday)
"This paper uses literature on hypertext theory to evaluate our reading strategies in an online environment.... [and] recommends a new form of pedagogy for hypertexts based on Walter Ong’s concept of ‘secondary orality’." (via Jennifer Little)
articles  academic  hypertext  reading  digitalCulture  media  theory  pedagogy 
january 2007 by donutage
MiT5 call for papers
CFP for 5th Media in Transition conference (abstracts Jan 5) (via Jill)
conferences  academic  digitalculture 
december 2006 by donutage
Game studies (Jesper Juul, ed.)
"Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games."
journals  academic  games  digitalCulture  research  theory 
december 2006 by donutage
2rusky4u, WOW-numa numa (YouTube)
World of Warcraft characters dancing to the 'numa numa' song
video  MMORPG  digitalCulture  numa  mashup 
december 2006 by donutage
Templar, Arizona (Spike)
Ongoing, character-driven webcomic about a vaguely dystopic Arizona town.
comics  dystopia  digitalCulture  comicsIRead  TemplarAZ 
december 2006 by donutage
TRANSFORMATIONS
"Transformations seeks to publish new writing that addresses the transformative processes of new technologies and mediating practices that change the way we think, feel and interact with others both in a contemporary and historical sense." (via vogmae)
journals  academic  digitalCulture  technology  media  change 
december 2006 by donutage
Harry, Creators, Consumers, and What’s “Right?” (Blogature)
"Suffice to say that in this era, no matter your media, creators and consumers are always in close contact. Generally, this has demystified the process of production. " (via deusx)
articles  digitalCulture  web  socialSoftware 
december 2006 by donutage
MITH Digital Dialogues (University of Maryland)
New podcasting series from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (via Humanist-L)
podcasts  academic  digitalCulture  humComp 
november 2006 by donutage
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One
60 works of hypertext/codework/multimedia/etc. Issued under Creative Commons license (Attrib.-NC-
NoDerivs 2.5). Edited by Katherine Hayles, Scott Rettberg, Nick Montfort & Stephanie Strickland (via HUMANIST-L)
digitalCulture  literature  hypertext  poetry  free  open_access  media 
november 2006 by donutage
Anderson, Microsoft's advertising practices are subject of FTC complaint (Ars technica)
"The Center for Digital Democracy and the US Public Interest Research Group have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission accusing Microsoft of creating a "digital dragnet" of surveillance technologies that track users' every online movement wi
articles  digitalCulture  law  privacy  business  M$ 
november 2006 by donutage
Bernstein, Where Are The Hypertexts? (Eastgate)
Mark Berstein's notes and other artifacts from Hypertext 99 (Darmstadt). Includes slides from Mark's keynote presentation.
reference  conferences  hypertext  academic  presentation  research  theory  digitalCulture 
october 2006 by donutage
Ito, Is YouTube "Web 2.0"? (Joi Ito's Web)
"One of the central themes of Web 2.0 is the ability for users to control their own data and the ability for people to share and remix. In this context, many, if not most good Web 2.0 services allow users to download, link and reuse all if not a substanti
articles  digitalCulture  socialSoftware  sharing  definition  theory  critique 
october 2006 by donutage
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