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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, ...

Thoughts on News: Intertextualizing out of the Prolefeed

Posted on October 24th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I've spent a bit of time thinking about news lately. Youtube has an interesting feature. When you're watching a video on youtube it shows you a short selection of related ...
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Connor’s Kameraflage gets noticed

Posted on July 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
A little shout out to fellow collaborative Connor who's work on Kameraflage is getting a lot of attention today. For those of you who don't know: kameraflage is a context-Sensitive ...
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Visualizing Taste in Pixar’s Ratatouille

Posted on July 7th by Matthew Hockenberry.
It's often hard to imagine how we could 'see' abstract concepts, sounds and even taste. People who actually have synesthesia usually taste shapes, so maybe the answer is to represent taste as ...

Back and forth: Ecce Homology

Posted on May 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I happened across this post at information aesethetics that offers a nice juxtaposition of the previous post on using genetic algorithms to generate fonts. Here font becomes the expression of ...
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Preserving the preservers.

Posted on April 18th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Art is not always easy to keep a hold of. NPR discusses the issues with preservation of digital art. Many of these issues come from the inherent connectedness of the medium. ...

Deep Diving with IBM

Posted on March 9th by Matthew Hockenberry.
On wednesday I went down to New York City to participate in part of IBM's Global Innovation Outlook 3.0 for a deep diving brainstorm and discussion session on media and content. ...
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Face the data

Posted on February 8th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Not all data collection has to be tedious, boring, and involve actually going out and talking to people. An interesting and effective alternative from ni9e.com, entitled skymall liberation comes inspired from ...
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Legos are the New Media

Posted on December 11th by Matthew Hockenberry.
How we classify and organize information is a hard problem. Old traditions, with large categories and awkward keywords seem to be giving way to more detailed, precise, but inevitably more complex methods ...