“Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space.” —Sir Timothy Berners-Lee Sir Timothy “Tim” John Berners-Lee, the legend who … Continue reading →
As a result of my fighting hard against the virulent ↵wandering astray online—the getting lost in the cyber trenches—I finally started to fill up the ↵machinima-section of my collection of artefacts created by members of ‘my cyberian tribe’, the ↵MP-modding … Continue reading →
Pitfalls of virtual property (↵Bartle 2004) The power of gifts: organizing social relationships in open source communities (↵Bergquist & Ljungberg 2001) Anthropological perspectives on technology (↵Schiffer 2001) Technology as the anthropology of cultural practice (↵Aunger 2003) Ethnologie des joueurs d’échecs … Continue reading →
Just for the record. Today I finally found time—still way too less—to delve into my fieldnotes-folders on the HDD. At least I managed to post eight fielddiary-entries from back in 2002 and 2003, when I struggled hard to create the … Continue reading →
The last weekend was dedicated to dealing with rubbish. The flood in Munich—have a look at the ↑photos by 2R—had powerfully hit our basement, too. But till Friday the hip-high waters had been pumped off. So, on Saturday morning I … Continue reading →
Today I augmented the very first chapter of maxmod’s projected chapters, which is called ↵access—straightforwardedly worded: I beefed it up without adding much content, well there’s some new text, and now I am pimping it shamelessly. It may not have … Continue reading →
Sometimes my babbling indeed hits furtile ground, so I had to update my blogroll: ↑anthronaut [astronauts, argonauts—got it?] is a weblog by “an Anthropology undergraduate student at the LMU Munich. Starting from July 17th 2005, I´ll spend two months working … Continue reading →
Due to heavy comment spam I remove the comments function until I’ve fixed the matter. Nothing of the comments so far is lost—everything will be back online soon. UPDATE: Thanks to g33k of the w33k and general blogwizard ↑KerLeone, digital … Continue reading →
Finally I updated and rearranged the sidebar a bit. The blogroll now has its subsections ordered from most close to my project and specialized to farer away and more general (from the top down). The entries in the subsections now … Continue reading →