Some attention, a bit of (social) readings: For those who use it, Netvibes introduced a brand new iPhone. You can now access your page from any mobile phone. Also via, web-based chat application Meebo has rolled out an iPhone app which finally brings multi-protocol chat to the Apple device (didn’t …
Category: technology
Celebrate the 3rd BlogDay!
If you are a blogger and want to celebrate your own eModus Vivendi – you are welcome to post a recommendation of 5 new blogs, your choice. August 31st, is known as Blog Day, tomorrow celebrated for the third time. Bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of …
Total Lunar Eclipse not ‘Two Moons’
Email that has been circulating in the past few days that planet Mars will be within 34.65 million miles of Earth, 27th August, Monday night and will appear as a “second moon” in the night sky is not true, as we know it. That actually happened on Aug. 27, 2003 …
Sky is the limit? Time is the limit!
I would rather say. And 24hrs is not enough to do all you want, have to. At least, not for me. For all readers who’ve been writing to me, either via IM or via social online networks or some other micro ways – I’ve exchanged short thoughts, information as I’ve …
Readings: expect the unexpected
Here is the list for recently published texts and articles, readings in the next few days for those who are curious and want to entertain their grey cells: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Media Anthropology Network is discussing working papers about socio-cultural aspects of media technology uses within the …
Ignore All the Rules: Wikipedia – 2 million articles
After annual Wikimania – International Wikimedia conference in Taipei, two interesting articles/readings (New York Times): interview with Jimbo Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the other on presentations, panels, discussions during the conference.
William Gibson interview on his new novel, futurism, SL
The sci-fi he novelist, famous for inventing the word ‘cyberspace’, William Gibson, is launching these days his latest book Spook Country . In the interview he reveals the relationship between technology and society ever since his cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, also what he missed in it, why he’s not a technophile, …