MUSIC HURTS is a new online music magazine, supposed to be all quality and such, featuring articles on such things as the rise of female drummers or mapping Iggy Pop’s influence on everybody and their mother. It’s always interesting to follow these things and track how long they can survive for. This one we can watch from its birth, since this is the first issue.
This weekend I saw Edward Burtynsky’s manufactured landscapes photo exhibit and it was pretty much as disturbing and beautiful as they say. It’s on display June 29–September 18, 2005 at the Stanford Cantor Arts Center. For those who are not stuck in Palo Alto like me, it’s worth checking out the exhibition blog. It’s pretty neat, with a discussion forum feature, and it was Michael Shanks’ idea — he’s the director of the quite cool MetaMedia Lab.
i want this t-shirt so bad. Defunker is neat, but a bit overpriced and not as innovative as Threadless.
stolen fresh off of slashdot:
(google stole my idea 
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Google Offers Hybrid Satellite and Map View
Google
Posted by Zonk on Friday July 22, @10:56PM
from the best-of-both-worlds dept.
That’s Unpossible! writes “Google Maps now offers a hybrid view which combines their map view with their satellite view. The Google blog has a notice on the update. It appears to use 8-bit alpha transparent PNGs to make it work.”
… pictures of fallings, don’t try at home.
Forgotten Lunaparks in China — pretty neat and eary (sp) pictures. i want to go see
Ephemera is a journal writing on all aspects of organization, both theory and practice. Their latest issue is devoted to ‘The Organisation and Politics of Social Forums”.
Interesting sites are popping up that try to put a finger on the buzz in diferent areas. The whole concept of “buzz” itself it pretty interesting. I didn’t find any super-thrilling ones yet, but they all seem useful if you’re interested in what people are buzzing about these days. For example, daypop offers a view into the blogs and news as well as a neat feature on Amazon wishlists. SourceForge is more techie, ranking open-source project in progress. Blogdex shows “most contagious information currently spreading in the weblog community” and Google Zeitgeist features most popular searches etc (the list makes you wonder about the state of the world though). I know, we’re all unique individuals and we’re not supposed to follow the herd, but it’s interesting to see what’s going on out there, non?
Some people say that Google is going to conquer the Earth sooner or later. That may not be the worst thing ever, as long as they continue to stick to their don’t be evil spiel. The latest addition to crazy Google expansion — Google Moon!!! Yep, a zoomable sattelite map of the Moon. Well, not the whole thing. Try zooming in all the way though… Will they add lunar driving directions next?
First two are a courtesy of Dan, who “researches” these sites for work. Engadget features cool geeky products and so does MocoLoco, but with more of a design obsession. And, We Make Money Not Art is a classic…
A new keyboard, to be released sometime next year, by Art Lebedev, is just, just, well, i don’t have words. besides pretty neat sleek design, and an additional function/application keys panel, all the keys are individual mini display screens, providing for unlimited functionality and change in function, layout, etc., changing the way we think about pressing keys… yummy.
I hate TV news. If it were like the news on Rocketbloom though, I would watch it. Cause it’s supercool and only about three minutes. I haven’t read the reviews, but I suspect they say something like “a news show with the attention span of a blog drawing inspiration from the Daily Show and Weekend Update meets a bit of Monty Python in the spirit of suck.com.” Oh, and you can put the RSS feed on your iTunes.
Oh my - San Francisco is having a LOVE PARADE - for the second year! How did we miss this? Ah - memories of Berlin and the German summer of parades, fairs, and festivals. Also - Love Parade is not happening in Berlin this year (or else my German is terrible - like the time I thought “canceled” meant “sold out”).
On Monday, July 18 at SRI — seminar abstract: Advances in repository technology have not “solved the problem of knowledge sharing.” The problem does not arise from the “noun-like” properties of “knowledge” but a failure to grasp the “verb-like” qualities of “sharing.” This distinction is related to that between product-centric and process-centric approaches to knowledge management; but the characteristics of a verb-based strategy have origins that precede knowledge management and reach back to the time of Aristotle. Furthermore, they are based not in Aristotle’s investigations of logic but in the principles of his “Poetics.” It is demonstrated how this study provides instructions for making knowledge sharable; and the lessons of those instructions are shown to apply to both work practices and technologies that support those work practices. Keywords: knowledge sharing, imitation, work practices, narrative, Eureka, distributed cognition, learning, innovation, communication, Web-based communities
