ACADIA | 2012 Conference. "The conference will highlight experimental research and projects that explore the reciprocity and synergy between bits and atoms, the digital and the physical, and between digital code and material logic. The conference will bring together designers, researchers and practitioners who engage, question and aspire to stretch these boundaries. Architects, fabricators, engineers, media artists, technologists, hackers and others in related fields of inquiry are invited to participate."

"Once it is not everything, it can be merely something."

"A national initiative led by 12 of America’s leading research universities with the support of two major foundations will advance the U.S. news business by helping revitalize schools of journalism."

The following is the list of Directories of Content Types and Subtypes. from IANA.

Welcome to 48 Hour Magazine, a raucous experiment in using new tools to erase media's old limits. As the name suggests, we're going to write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.

John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly, Program Chairs and founders, Web 2.0 Summit

Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. "Our JavaScript API changes the way you communicate with Flash. The Flowplayer API is object-oriented and not just a flat list of functions....If you are a jQuery user, you will be delighted by the seamless way in which Flowplayer and jQuery work together."

"'The frantic haste with which we bolt everything we take, seconded by the eager wish of the journalist not to be a day behind his competitor, abolishes deliberation from judgment and sound digestion from our mental constitutions.'" from The Economist.

"In a common place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? I would add: Do we take time to reflect on the events of our day — to add our own interpretation? When things strike us as unusual or lovely, do we take time to note them?" from Harvard Business Review.

People preferred e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes, and they liked to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics.

The capacity to listen, and other crucial human attributes, are being diminished by relentless technological expansion. from The Guardian.

A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego, calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008. The paper — entitled “How Much Information?” — explores all forms of American communication and consumption and hopes to create a census of the information we consume. from nyt.

a wide variety of digital, mobile and participatory media projects are allowing groups of engaged users to grapple with important issues.

Twitter directory and search

Tori's eye is a Twitter visualization tool, inspired by papercraft and origami. It's a visual and technical experiment implemented using only standard XHTML/CSS and Javascript.

Introducing a New Magazine About the Ideas Behind American Culture.

Tweetboard is True Twitter Conversation for your website.

an introductory reading list

a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research.

A set of standardised icons for popular social networking services and tools.

the non-standard embed tag. from a list apart.