Tag: tagging

• 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

• 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

• The Life Span Of A Perspective

  SOHH.com, Jane Bolden Ecko Responds to Vegas Mayor’s Thumb Chopping Suggestion… […] Last week, (Marc) Ecko, chairman and founder of Ecko Unltd., approached Mayor Goodman about his comments via a letter titled “Re: Taggers, Thumbs and Graffiti Art.” “You recently suggested chopping off tagger’s thumbs and subjecting them to public canings and whippings,” Ecko wrote…

  spcoon

  May 6, 2006

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  community, expression, graffiti, Malcolm Gladwell, Marc Ecko, politics, tagging

• A Conversation Across Space And Time

  World 2.0 seems to have raised it’s periscope within our culture almost 5 years ago, in the immediate post-9/11 world. Who would’ve thunk it possible? Brad Neuberg on October 21, 2001: The world seems to be hungry for an ideological alternative to capitalism. I don’t know if this is a rational or simply emotional need…

  spcoon

  April 27, 2006

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  capitalism, co-occurance, collective unconscious, conversation, decolonization, tagging, The Cluetrain Manifesto

• Newsvine: The Wisdom Of The Crowd

  The reviews are in: The people are in the drivers seat. Newspapers are already hemoraging readership, as the web has created an extremely rich bazaar, allowing us to shop for unbundled content at every turn, while unbundled advertising models begin to sprout up to support this evolution. Well, get ready for the online replicas of…

  spcoon

  March 5, 2006

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  advertising, AP, blogging, business, citizen media, Del.icio.us, digg, information architecture, innovation, interface, internet, journalism, marketing, Newsvine, RSS, tagging, Yahoo!