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Going Public

Posted on March 19th by Shae Davidson.
Inspired by the same interface and knowledge-sharing model as Wikipedia, Wikileaks plans to provide an uncensorable, anonymous forum for sharing information about corrupt or immoral actions in the public realm.  Wikileaks will make leaked ...
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Rights Videos

Posted on February 15th by Shae Davidson.
Responding to the ability of film to capture the experiences of abuse survivors and the videotaped beating of Rodney King in the early 1990s, musician Peter Gabriel created WITNESS to ...

An Opinion: Designing Outrage

Posted on February 13th by Matthew Hockenberry.
As someone who occasionally does design work I rail against spec work and everything it stands for. As someone who is an objective human being - I have a different perspective. I ...
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The One and Only

Posted on January 30th by Shae Davidson.
The Lonely Candidate explores the way in which contemporary political rhetoric has overused a simple word and simultaneously reduced innovation and individualism to a level of triteness.  The blog records instances of presidential candidates (with some ...
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remote graffiti

Posted on December 11th by Leonardo Bonanni.
locamoda’s wiffiti screens are large public displays to which passersby can send messages via SMS. the screens are mounted in public places like cafes, restaurants, and increasingly workplaces. recently wiffiti screens ...
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second office

Posted on December 7th by Leonardo Bonanni.
josh lifton (of pushpin computing fame) presented his work on ‘dual reality‘(pdf) at the moda+tecnologia event. as part of his phd thesis he deployed activity sensors all around ...
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virtual fit

Posted on December 6th by Leonardo Bonanni.
louise guay, president and founder of my virtual model, presented her company’s avatar-based fashion shopping and social networking system tuesday at the moda+tecnologia gathering at the ICA. on-line shopping ...
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Punditry, a Spectrum Thereof

Posted on November 26th by Shae Davidson.
Lying in Ponds tries to quantify political writing by rating popular authors and analysts according to the tone and context in which they use key terms.  Staff members download columns and flag ...

youTruth

Posted on October 26th by Leonardo Bonanni.
perusing the suppliers of the laptop i write these posts on, i came across a supplier to lenovo (as well as acer, dell, fujitsu, motorola,
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user-generated art

Posted on October 19th by Leonardo Bonanni.
rudolf stingel makes installations out by covering the walls of a gallery with panels of celotex tuff-R, an insulated foil-covered foam that invited visitors to scratch, gouge, rip and insert ...
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rainbow builders

Posted on October 16th by Leonardo Bonanni.
colour lovers is social network built around color palettes, where you can upload, browse and vote on user-generated color schemes. and the color palette generator automatically matches any image on-line. ...