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I love the shapes it does. Techno-Abstract art.
I used a javascript thing I found via Google reader that tracks the movement of your mouse on the screen. I’m not sure what the dots mean. It might be where I have left the cursor.. or maybe it’s clicks? I think it’s a bit of both.
In the past few weeks The Guardian has published a few articles that I generally refer to as ‘Our Digital Future’. These are important takes on the future of digital consumption, archiving, and rules, which, in my opinion, everyone should read and consider.
Cory Doctorow tells us that… the corporation is endangering its own future by letting the Hollywood studios set the rules for its HD broadcasts.
Steve Plunkett explains how milestones such as Project Canvas will bring together broadcast television and online media.
Victor Keegan on The issue of copyright is a global nightmare for anyone interested in digital preservation.
and also:
Cory Doctorow asks in part 2 of his article: Is crippling our sets, and handing over our cultural regulation to a foreign cartel, the best way to get viewers switched on to high-definition?
*** Update: a new article has been added.
John Naughton writes in The Observer:
The web may be global but sovereign states still make up the rules.
– Let me know what you think.
A great conceptual campaign by Aten Design Group. Self promotion in an almost genius way:
Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as “IE6,” is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.
Funeral services for Internet Explorer Six will be held at 7pm on March 4 at Aten Design Group, 1629 Downing Street, Denver, CO 80218. Those unable to attend the funeral are asked to send flowers.
If you want to find an up-to-date map of Haiti, then there is only one place to go. It is not Google Maps or any of its competitors. It is the admirable OpenStreetMap.org (OSM), which is being updated even as I write by volunteers all over the world.
(via Meet the Wikipedia of the mapping world at The Guardian)
"But something bigger is going on here…Facebook is eating the web.
Yes, Facebook is becoming the web for millions and millions of people. As I have written before, there's already a wealth of amazing things you can do within the site without ever leaving. What's more, as I also speculated, the site giving rise to headless media companies like Zynga that don't need a web site to succeed.
In short, I believe Facebook is unstoppable. They aren't just the next Google. They're the next web."
“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.”
- The Google Apps Team (via hannahkc)
This is going to bring the MOOs and the MUDs back into web2.5
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