Epistemographer

With the announcement of the iPad yesterday devoting a substantial portion of the time to a demo of what books and reading will look like, I’m wondering about the business model for books in the iTunes Store, and whether there will be an opening for circulating (particularly public) libraries or not.

So, I just got a G-mail account: epistemographer@gmail.com. How, you ask, did I manage such a thing? Well-connected friends? Winning a contest?
Nope. I went to Gmailswap.com and offered to mail someone a fresh NYC bagel for a Gmail invite. Literally within two minutes, I’d recieved a response, and tomorrow morning, a plain (and an onion, [...]

So, I’m apparently a bit behind the curve here (or maybe I just ought to stop reading political blogs compulsively and add some more techie ones to my daily circuit)…seems that the eagerly-anticipated Movable Type 3.0 is out, at least in a Developer version. Meanwhile, all hell has broken loose over the licensing structure (just [...]

filed under “Things on which to follow up once I’ve finished my dissertation”:
Dangermouse, the Jay-Z Construction Set and the Videogame Content Creation Model
I would hope that, in the near future, artists and publishers will see the value of releasing not only polished works, but the bits and parts used to create a work, including those [...]

Just downloaded a new RSS reader (FeedDemon) as well as a Movable Type publishing tool (Zempt). We’ll see if these tools are an actual improvement over my old everything-through-the-browser routine…

So, I’m checking out the keyword searches that have brought people to this fine website (as an aside, I’m not sure why five people have googled “Oprah AND Tivo”)…anyhow, I’m looking at my server stats and find that a good 35 people found my site by googling “Joe Trippi.”
(FYI, Joe Trippi is Howard Dean’s campaign [...]

Alex’s post on Amazon wish-lists as performance art reminded me of a project I did a few years ago for a seminar taught by Cornell’s Geri Gay on Computer Mediated Communication. I’d been meaning to put this online for a while, so here it is…
The project was an analysis of the ways that people were [...]

There seems to have been an ARG (alternate reality game) unfolding across the Internet for about 6 weeks now, centered around the release of Matrix:Revolutions. As best as I can tell from a cursory look around, the game seems to revolve around a company that creates immersive gaming software and their latest product, which may [...]

As if switching up to Movable Type wasn’t enough, Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall now has a modest proposal up on his site:
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to going to New Hampshire in January to cover the primary – probably for the last ten days or so before the actual vote on January [...]

I guess I’ve hit the big times, now – just got hit with my first five pieces of comment spam. Within minutes I had Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist plugin up and running, so that should take care of that. Anyone dealing with the same should check it out…