Tag: internet

• Digital Activism 101

  Al Gore from: The Assault On Reason […] “Fortunately, the Internet has the potential to revitalize the role played by the people in our constitutional framework. It has extremely low entry barriers for individuals. It is the most interactive medium in history and the one with the greatest potential for connecting individuals to one another […]

  spcoon

  May 18, 2007

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  activism, Al Gore, America, democracy, internet, leadership

• Deconstructing Musicovery

  If you happen to be someone who thinks all this 2.0 hub-bub about social tagging and meta-data is confusing, I’ve found the perfect domain for us to reverse engineer together. In order to get us on the same page, why don’t you first hop on over to Musicovery—an online radio site with a unique interface […]

  spcoon

  January 4, 2007

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  design, information architecture, interface, internet, metadata, music, Musicovery, tagging, user experience design

• NBC: Kinda, Sorta, Somewhat Getting Web 2.0

  Back in February, NBC made a completely bonehead business move by making YouTube take down the hugely popular video short Lazy Sunday. My instant response was to fire off a salvo at NBC for being old media ogres (NBC: We Get Web 2.0… Sike!) and not working within the limitless parameters of the web to […]

  spcoon

  June 27, 2006

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  business, change, citizen media, corporation, information architecture, interaction design, internet, NBA, TV, usefulness, user experience design, YouTube

• Net Neutrality and Hip Hop

  Davey D An Open Letter to Hip Hop About Some Real Important Shyt Dear Folks who say they Love Hip Hop, I wish there was a way to make this issue of Net Neutrality more interesting. I wish there was a way to spice it up and make it compelling like some sort of beef […]

  spcoon

  June 16, 2006

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  activism, Black Panther, CNN, Congress, corporation, Davey D, Fox News, Hip-hop, Ice Cube, internet, iTunes, Jay-Z, KRS-One, MySpace, net neutrality, Oakland, Oprah, politics, RIAA, Senate, Steve Jobs, telcos, Verizon

• Tree Is Not Arbol (Unless You Add Silly String)

  Bill Readings introduced me to semiotics in my undergraduate days at Syracuse University. His class was Contemporary Literary Theory, a 200 level course, so nowhere near enough knowledge to rest a proper degree upon, which was fine—Bill held space for us to focus for a few hours a week, learning how to both listen and […]

  spcoon

  May 17, 2006

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  Bill Readings, Blade Runner, deconstruction, Ferdinand de Saussure, information architecture, internet, knowledge, linguistics, philosophy, politics, postmodernism, Roland Barthes, tagging