Tag: Amazon
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Delivered the Same Day
Seminar Series: Work, Property, Metrics Venue: Coventry University, Lanchester Library, Teaching Room, 3rd floor Time: June 3rd, 2019, 11:00-17:00 Guest Speakers: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Jamie Woodcock CPC researchers: Janneke Adema, Peter Conlin, Valeria Graziano, Gary Hall, Kaja Marczewska, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak Delivered the Same Day: The Post Office and Amazon.com Historically the postal service has solidified as a…
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Posthuman Reading
La Maleta de Portbou is a Spanish magazine of Humanities and Economy, edited by the philosopher Josep Ramoneda and published bimonthly in both print and digital format. The magazine is named in memory of Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide in Portbou in 1940 when he fled the Nazi persecution. Benjamin wanted to launch a journal…
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The Full Monty – For Free!
Two updates on things I wrote about in previous posts. First of all, The New York Times picked up the discussion on the use of You Tube as a search engine, or better yet, as the NYT calls it, as a reference tool. They wrote a very nice article (published in print on January…
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Nails and Books
Happy days for Creative Commons and NIN! Trent Reznor managed to make a huge profit selling his bands 2008 album Ghosts I-IV online, topping Amazon’s best selling list for 2008. Strange enough, the album was legally available for free at the same time (even on the same website). This nice article over at Ars Technica…
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Future Visions
I recently encountered some very nice speculative movies, giving their future visions on the development of the Internet and social media. Go check out the emergence of EPIC, Prometeus and Spirit! “Experience is the new reality” (Thanks to Bernardo and Brave New World) PROMETEUS – THE NEW MEDIA REVOLUTION [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8ZadKgdC0] EPIC 2014 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s]