Aphorisms, Haiku’s, SMS, Twitter
“What are you doing?” This basic question of Twitter can easily be answered in the limited 140 characters a ‘tweet offers. They key characteristic of the famous microblogging site, it’s short message length, actually isn’t really new. The history of the use of short texts goes way back; an early example of it can
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There is so much going on, on Twitter that it is hard to cover it all after using it for a year. Really, nobody knows the future of Twitter. Even the people who created it have no idea where it is going. Twitter is still growing, and people are still learning how to use it. Twitter is a huge social experiment, in which I have participated for a year. I have been able to observe some of the emerging effects of Twitter. An example is the ways users follow each other, their interactions and hot topics like elections and world news. Twitter means a lot for communication between people, friends, and colleagues and between people and companies, or users and politicians. People meet through Twitter and make new connections.
When I read about Entertainment Weekly Magazine embedding a video advertisement in
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The subtitle of this conference is Responses to YouTube, and at least one alternative to the world’s largest supplier of piano-playing-cat videos comes in the form of ’soft video’, via Australian media scholar Adrian Miles.
Some of the questions he asks: Where does an online video end – at what point is it ‘complete’? Are those limits imposed…
Peter Fischli and David Weiss made a kinetic artwork in 1987, called Der Lauf der Dinge. [Medien Kunst Netz]
My mother was very sensitive and would show this to me and my brother instead of Bambi. I still have good memories. Lately I have been looking for (digital) remediations of this work of art and I found…