eastward
The things in my office seem to be sticky like glue. It’s always the same, whenever I enter the office, and even if it is just for fetching something, not wanting to spend more than one or two minutes there, … Continue reading →
Yearly Archives: 2005
off to cyberspace 2005
There was no Internet-connection at the ↑Fighternight VII, you guessed it—but I will write something on it later. In a minute I will be on my way to the ↑Cyberspace 2005 Conference, where I will give a talk about ↵The … Continue reading →
three songs
The location of the ↑Fighternight VII is somewhat strange—well, it’s ok, but it definitely hasn’t the ambience ↵Wolfenstein had. The tables have a crude wooden top, so you have to use a mousepad. That’s not the problem, but the hall … Continue reading →
fighternight VII
All right, I am about to dive into the next round of making my fieldwork multisited ;-) [see ↵ wolfenstein] Just now I am packing my equipment and am about to leave the office for the ↑Fighternight VII—a ↵LAN-party starting … Continue reading →
cybernetic megastructure
The above picture is taken from the section ↑Mapping Cyberspace Using Geographic Metaphors of ↑An Atlas of Cyberspace. The image is a result of research analysing the geography of Internet address space by Martin Dodge and Narushige Shiode [↑Working … Continue reading →
circle of the year
Another reason why Malinowski’s postulation that the fieldworker should stay at least one year in the field should be transposed to the online-fields, too. The festivities, you shouldn’t miss the festivities and their consequences. In order to celebrate Halloween Google … Continue reading →
spooknik
On 4 October 1957 ↑Stephen King was at the cinema. Together with the other ten-year-olds clustered around him he watched the morning performance of ↑Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Just as the flying saucers started their attack on Washington D.C. … Continue reading →
faster
For the first time ↵I was faster ↑than Industrial Technology & Witchcraft, but of course still ↑way slower than boingboing ↑and slashdot.
Continue reading →writing hypermedia
The secret of the stairs at Aragon Essentially, hypermedia is a non-linear multi-media document. By its inclusion of data stored by using the more traditional technologies of representation (film and text for example), in a user-directed, non-linear publication, hypermedia creates … Continue reading →
ethnographic hypermedia
↑ANDERSON, KEVIN TAYLOR. 1999. ↑Ethnographic hypermedia: Transcending thick descriptions. ↑SIGHTS: Visual Anthropology Forum. Working paper from the visual anthropology workshop and course Transcultural Images and Visual Anthropology organized by ↑The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, 3 to 28 August, 1998. Canberra: … Continue reading →