Archive for the ‘resources’ Category

Blue Morph

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Here are some links related to the Victoria Vesna | Jim Gimzewski project Blue Morph:

Thanks to Ashley, who found the link I showed parts of in class:
http://www.sr.se/p1/SRc/bluemorph/index.html

Project website:  http://artsci.ucla.edu/BlueMorph/concept.html

Victoria Vesna’s website:  http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/

Studio 360 radio show presentation on the project: http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2007/12/07/segments/89690

Links to video material on YouTube

Twitter

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

I decided to look a little further into the history and demographics of Twitter after our discussion in class yesterday.  Many of the points and opinions that you made in class are reinforced here.  The Pew Internet and American Life Project may be of interest to some of you.

The link below provides information from a Pew study that includes the demographics of Twitter users: 

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/78505

 

Wikipedia has a detailed overview of Twitter that includes the history of its development and usage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

 

New York Times article on Twitter and its users (25.August 2009):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1

Chicago Bus Trip: 6.October 2009

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Click on this link to find out information about possible things to do, see and visit in Chicago:  http://www.cla.purdue.edu/vpabustrips/chicago_bus_trip.htm