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Pitch Perfect, Seth MacFarlane, and higher education online: Slate’s Culture Gabfest weighs in. - Slate Magazine
Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 212 with Al Filreis, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner by clicking the arrow on the audio player below: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab And join the lively conversation on the Culturefest Facebook page here: The sponsors of today’s…
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Tavi Gevinson’s TED Talk
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Adam Sadowsky’s TED Talk
Adam Sadowsky’s company made the machine for the OK Go Video "This Too Shall Pass"
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Neil Harbisson: I listen to color
Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a world in grayscale, Harbisson can hear a symphony of color — and yes, even listen to faces and paintings.
Neil Harbisson’s "eyeborg" allows him to hear colors, even those beyond the range of sight.
http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color.html
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The Politics of Internet Software: ‘Geeks Bearing Gifts’ by Ted Nelson
When we try do social science on the Internet, it is vital to know what is solid and what is highly changeable. Outsiders and newcomers tend to be awed and misled by the illusions of ‘technology’ - which seem rock-solid and immutable, like a child’s view of home and religion.
But the ‘technologies’ of the computer world are extremely changeable, and give play to motivated assumptions and decisions. Like gasoline mixed with air, this an explosive mix. Fast-evolving software ideas, churned by human political agendas, power today’s wildly changing product and Internet world.
If software is successful, it steers the path that many users take, and selects among many possibilities to further the creator’s agenda.
Suppressing the other possibilities may also be part of the agenda.
[For the present purposes I propose a simple definition of politics: THE CLASH AND RECONCILIATION OF AGENDAS (which agendas in turn may be motivated by prestige, power, profit or ideology). This definition would seem to cover the range: electoral politics, office and palace intrigue, war (Clausewitz’ continuation of politics by other means), and now the steering of products and programs.]
We will glance at some examples of technology politics before 1950 (Brunel, Tesla, Armstrong, von Braun) and then at software politics among some two dozen individuals and companies in the computer and Internet world - the clash and resolution of their agendas (so far).
Software agendas generally play out through projects and products, some of which can change more drastically than others. The digital media conventions (called by laymen ‘ICTs’) are by far the most changeable - and thus political.
Biography
Theodor Holm Nelson invented the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965, and is a pioneer of information technology. He also coined the words hypermedia, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people. His motto is:
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
Nelson is currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, and a philosopher who works in the fields of information, computers, and human-machine interfaces. He founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the goal of creating such a system on a computer network, further documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib / Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines. Much of his adult life has been devoted to working on Xanadu and advocating it.
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Maira Kalman, the illustrated woman
Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper.
http://www.ted.com/talks/maira_kalman_the_illustrated_woman.html
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Decently Funny #122 - Alec Sulkin Speaks
Alec Sulkin may be best known for his work as a writer/executive producer on Family Guy, but we know Alec best as our most frequent Decently Funny guest. Nuzzy & Guy have had Alec on so often, that this time Alec invited them to do their show live from his penthouse Hollywood apartment. Alec talks with the boys about the success of his summer blockbuster Ted, his disappointment in the sales for his book Robots Feel Nothing When They Hold Hands & also tells us about the inspiration for his new television show Dads. Alec also talks with the boys about baby wipes, what it’s like to film inside Fenway Park, his relationship with Seth MacFarlane & what he would do if he started losing his hair. If you liked what you heard, follow us all on twitter @thesulk, @theNuzzy, @theguy, @littleboatjack & @DecentlyFunny.
Download all of our shows Decently Funny on iTunes, listen to us on the go with our mobile app at Stitcher.com/DecentlyFunny and our web home on DecentlyFunny.com. Watch our podcasts live and archived at theTVspot. Decently Funny opening theme song written by Little Mikey and performed by Panic! at the Disco. Cartoons based on Decently Funny by Wayne Tillett.
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How the Internet will (one day) transform government - Clay Shirky - TED Global 2012
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub — so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.
Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible — with deep social and political implications.
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Stefan Sagmeister: Sagmeister Inc. Interview – Launching your Design Career: Design
In this interview, Stefan Sagmeister, founder of Sagmeister Inc, explains how to launch your design career and run your own design company.
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