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January 26, 2005
The Annenberg School of Communication is holding a conference called “Ready to Share” (not “ready to wear” …get it?) to explore the way the fashion industry remixes styles without anyone getting their ultra-glamorous knickers in a twist.
We have something to learn from the fashion industry. If it were like the music industry, someone would have claimed a copyright on wearing your cap backwards.
It’s crappy out and getting crappier. Um, I mean, Boston is being blanketed with innocence made crystalline. So, I’m postponing tonight’s Web of Ideas session until Feb. 2.
Damn snow.
Rageboy discovers some found art (finds some discovered art?) on a site that sells stock images cheap.
January 25, 2005
Tonight I’m going to lead another session in the semi-regular series at the Berkman Center. This time, I’m going to try out a presentation I’m giving in a couple of weeks at a conference. The topic has something to do with taxonomies and tagging. (Yes, it will repeat some material in the dinner talk I gave last week, and a bunch of stuff from the Library of Congress speech. But it will have new stuff on tagging.)
It’s 6-7:30pm at the Baker House (map). It’s open to the public and pizza will be served.
Bill Koslowsky has posted some remarkably good photos taken with his Treo at the Museum of Modern Art.
Joi has posted a remix of Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales talking at the WebCred conference. Its 41 seconds of audio delight. (Hint: “NPOV” = neutral point of view.)
I readily acknowledge that with this screen capture I’m indulging in cheap irony and that the real question is — as Dewayne Hendricks said in forwarding the link — why the US doesn’t have an initiative like this Canadian one. Nevertheless, you don’t turn down a chance to blog cheap irony, do you, especially when that’s our only way of maintaining our sense of national superiority…?
It’s not that we need more proof of the point, but James Carroll, columnist for the Boston Globe, today gives a particularly good example of the politics of categorization. He writes that the first New York Times story about Auschwitz, on May 8, 1945, is surprisingly detailed and blunt about what happened in the death camp where 2 million people were murdered. There’s only one major omission: “…in defining the identities of those victims, the story never used the word ‘Jew.'” He adds:
The New York Times index did not cite stories about concentration camps under the category “Jews” until 1950. It was not until 1975 that the index category “Nazi Policies Toward Jews” appeared.
By the way, the Times story was written by C. L. Sulzberger and appeared on page 12.
Technorati tag: taxonomy
January 24, 2005
Benjamen “Theory of Everything” Walker has moved the mp3 of my after-dinner speech to a new home.
Thanks, Benjamen, for recording it and posting it.
David Berlind posts a photo of what could be the start of ZDNet’s podcasting empire. You saw it here (uh, there) first!
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