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Katherine and I just got our copies of Jeff Noon's new book Falling out of Cars, thanks to Dave. Got it acouple of days ago, and I've been too busy to even email my thanks to dave. Time to do it publically!
Cyborglogs ("glogs") is what Steve's using to describe what he and Joi Ito, and others, are doing in the blogging world... He's always got something new up his sleeve... collecting intel.
And he'll be doing, I think, his first public lecture on Glogging in my KMD1000 class this week. Don't miss it...
As Steve puts it: Cyborg Logs (also known as cyborglogs, or "glogs" for short) are timestamped stream-of-deconsciousness personal diaries often made public in realtime on the World Wide Web. Unlike Web Logs (weblogs, blogs) that are done from a desktop, glogs invite the public inside the life of the glogger, and allow others to communicate with the cyborg by modifying his or her visual perception of reality in realtime.
The Politics of Code: Shaping the Future of the Next Internet is a conference next month hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute.
People seem to think that code is culturally neutral... scary that people can think that value neutral technologies and text can exist.
It is a strange time of year... stranger than you might think. I've had one job interview already, and have at least one more before I head out to Japan. I think I've mentioned it 200,000 times this fall, but I'm going over to spend a month working with Larry Davies at the Future University in Hakodate, Japan. Going over for the month of February. What I wasn't expecting was that February is job interview month. What has been very nice is how accommodating people have been in trying to schedule interviews such that I don't have to fly back from Japan for one.
The world is full of sweetness and light today. Good time to send out some more job applications... Guelph and Ryerson, here it comes!