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Twitter, NPR’s Morning Edition, and Dreams of Flatland
In a bit of ragged analysis of the social geography of Twitter this morning, NPR’s Morning Edition demonstrated the survival of hidebound, “a-and-then-the-ring-around-it“-era prejudices about the nature of social media and the Web. Host Steve Inskeep interviewed Shankar Vedantam, who … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged geography, imagined community, mainstream media, Morning Edition, NPR, social networks, Steve Inskeep, Twitter
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The Cryoscope: using networking materiality to tactilize the weather
I love the possibilities suggested by the “Cryoscope,” a project cooked up by R.I.T. industrial-design student Rob Godshaw: Godshaw’s gadget picks up the temperature forecast by zip code and reproduces it within a gorgeous aluminum block; you touch it to … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged Arduino, haptic interface, networked materiality, sensors, tactility, temperature, weather
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Visualizing global art
MetaLAB cofounder Robert Gerard Pietrusko has collaborated with Stewart Smith and Bernd Lintermann in a piece called trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–2011, which explores the impact of the worldwide explosion of art biennials through immersive, panoramic visualizations of data … Continue reading
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Tagged art market, art world, biennials, data visualization, globalization, Karlsruhe, Venice Biennale, ZKM Centre for Art and Media
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In with the new
A nice feature story on metaLAB has appeared in the Harvard GSAS News by staff reporter Bari Walsh. Entitled In with the new, it describes the lab’s foundation, the core founders group, and some of our ongoing research and teaching … Continue reading
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Cooking up some dishes in the Library Test Kitchen
Bibliotheca II, alias “son of Bibliotheca” (last semester’s seminar/studio jointly run by Jeffrey Schnapp and John Palfrey), has now been launched with the help of Ann Whiteside (chief librarian at the Loeb Design Library), Jeff Goldenson (Law Library Innovation Lab), … Continue reading
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