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Participatory Urbanism

Posted on April 23rd by Shae Davidson.
Interested in the ways in which mobile technology influences social development and the urban landscape, research boutique Urban Atmospheres has built an ongoing project on the belief that cell phones and other ...
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Imaging Beijing

Posted on April 11th by Shae Davidson.
John Craig Freeman's Imaging Beijing, part of the 2008 Mixed Realities exhibition at Turbulence.org, uses remote sensing technology and place-based narratives to examine the effects of electronic and cultural ...
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City Lights

Posted on April 7th by Shae Davidson.
The Helsinki-themed collaborative media and art project CityWall allows users to explore images and data gleaned from the Internet--particularly items from YouTube and Flickr.  With help from the Ubiquitous Interaction ...
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Audio is sticky

Posted on March 3rd by Matthew Hockenberry.
Leo introduces AudioSticker, it is admittedly a pretty hacky project (a complex process to get a seamless playback of audio on flickr) that could have been handled in other ways. Still, ...
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Text Mapping

Posted on February 29th by Shae Davidson.
For the past decade, artist Peter Cho has explored the boundaries between text and images and the visualization of data.  The collection of his work at TYPOTOPO focuses on the relationship between technology, data, ...
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Chatter

Posted on January 21st by Shae Davidson.
Disembodied Voices traces the changing nature of personal and public space, exploring the ways in which the evolution of communications technology has expands the private sphere while eroding the public realm.  The ...
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Networked News

Posted on October 5th by Shae Davidson.
Buzztracker traces the connections between major cities and current events by visualizing news coverage as a series of interconnected circles, allowing users to see the ripple effect of important stories.  The ...
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Listening Post

Posted on September 17th by Shae Davidson.
Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin's Listening Post uses fragments from public forums such as chatrooms to create a real-time exploration of text dissociated from traditional communication.  The project displays the text on more ...
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The State of the Union

Posted on August 3rd by Shae Davidson.
Political rhetoric and the ebb and flow of language itself are key concerns in democratic societies. The role of language as a social and political tool has intrigued everyone from ...
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Web 2.0 Building Blocks

Posted on July 4th by Matthew Hockenberry.
One of the interesting things we attempt to think about at Creative Synthesis is how the tools for pursuing artistic, social and scientific pursuits continue to evolve. The complexity of the tools ...
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Making Money off Mashups

Posted on July 3rd by Forrest Diamond.
People have been building exciting and creative web mashupss, but most mashup developers haven't yet figured out how to make them profitable. Fortunately, IDELIX Software has developed a new ...

[release] Personal Zeitgeist

Posted on April 25th by Matthew Hockenberry.
The personal zeitgeist is a small project that builds on top of SimplePie to offer a personal rss aggregator to the distributed individual. We might be doing a little more with this ...

CHI - Design of Spatial Applications nearly Full

Posted on March 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
If you are attending or thinking of attending CHI 2007 this year, my course offering "The Design of Spatial Applications" is almost full. If you think you are interested in ...
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[mashups] Lots of coal, but the engine is full.

Posted on March 26th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Read/WriteWeb points out that mapping continues to be the dominate API used for mashups, and wonders if mashups have lost their luster: There are few surprises in this information. Google Maps is ...