try ecto for easier blogging...

try ecto for easier blogging...

Wired discovers one of my machinima favorites, namely This Spartan Life: "The Late Late Show, Live From Inside Halo" - also in the same issue is the talk John Seely Brown gave here at Irvine for my new media conference (click here for our MP3 of it).

PC World reports that the first generation HD optical disc players won't allow copying or streaming to other devices. Another strike against open media architecture.

In one good example for an open media ecology, the Sony's announced PS3 consoles will launch region-free for games. Now if only the same company had not messed up so badly with the illicit crypto-DRM on their music CDs... One step forward, one step back?

listen to princeton professor ed felten on the topic of last class: "rip, mix, burn, sue" - a quicktime audio file.

STARTING OVER: NOT EASY BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE

A Plenary Lecture and Reception Sponsored by The Department of Information Studies and
The Center for Information as Evidence
April 5, 2006 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Room 111, GSE&IS Building, UCLA

Featured Speaker: Ted Nelson

Here is some essential reading for an understanding of the Panopticon in its relationship to Enlightenment and Modernity, and its roots in architectural thought:

Immanuel Kant: 'What is Enlightenment?' - Michel Foucault, "Panopticism" [from Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books 1995) pp. 195-228] - Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon [also see the wikipedia entry] - Felix Stalder, 'Privacy is not the Antidote to Surveillance' (Surveillance and Society 1:1 Autumn 2002) - CECUT Project - PBS Documentation of Krzysztof Wodiczki - Anacam - Jennicam archive - Gilles Deleuze. "Postscript on the Societies of Control"

In addition, of course the high-tech examples from our reading are worth exploring further: IP logging, bluetooth, ID cards, RFID tags, GPS and so forth.

Here in all brevity are some of the other links I showed and/or mentioned in this week's class: Electronic Frontier Foundation - Slyck - All of MP3 - Newsgroups - File Heaven - Free Culture - Xbox modding - more on mod chips - boycott the RIAA - Pirate Bay - Velvet Strike.

And just a cursory look at some recent news items shows you the range of topics in digital culture touched on in last week's and this week's class: France may force iTunes open - Pirate Bay here to stay - Bluetooth Dating - data mining perils.