Russ Savage: Digital Art

Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:35:16 GMT

Cross-Cultural Ventures With Digital Artworks. Boundary crossing has suddenly emerged as a hot topic in new-media circles, particularly in the world of art. By Matthew Mirapaul. [New York Times: Business]

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:05:41 GMT

Researchers translate DNA code as music. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

"Imagine the human genome as music. Unravel DNA's double helix, picture its components lined up like piano keys and assign a note to each. Run your finger along the keys."

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:38:56 GMT

Libraries Preserving Our Past.

"The New York Public Library's Image Gate is currently in Beta. However 80,000 images so far out of 600,000 isn't too shabby. Of remarkable interest are the collections (also some here) they have put up so far for your browsing pleasure. Anna Atkins cyanotypes are beautiful, and the Art of the Cigarette Card is joyously quirky. Be sure to check back in 2004 when its all done."[MetaFilter]

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
"The Library of Congress in collaboration with the Chicago Historical Society has added to their American Memory Web site over 55,000 images of urban life taken between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News. Search by keyword or browse by subject." [What's GNU]

[The Shifted Librarian]

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:40:26 GMT

An Exhibition That Borrows Brazenly. The exhibition "Illegal Art" (and its accompanying CD and Web site) asserts that American copyright laws are overly restrictive and outdated. By Chris Nelson. [New York Times: Business]

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:59:05 GMT

Studios Using Digital Armor. Media executives are locking up products with the same types of digital tools that people have used to get the products free. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

The rapidly evolving Creative Commons License framework

Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:34:18 GMT

on the permanence of cc licenses. There's a wonderfully careful analysis of various CC issues at burningbird. Thank you. One point to clarify, however. CC licenses are, at this moment, at least, permanent, in the sense that the term is as long as copyright runs (and we'll see whether that's permanent or not soon enough). That issue was a tough one for us (I, of course, favor "limited terms"), and we're eager for feedback on that issue. But just because you can't revoke a particular license doesn't mean you can't revoke the offer. If, for example, you offer content under a CC license for a month, and then change your mind, you can stop offering the content under that license. Anyone who accepted your offer while it was valid, of course, has a deal. But no one after you withdraw the offer can accept anymore. Finally, my blog is licensed in the xml. Button coming soon. [source: Lessig Blog]

complex law, simple code. I missed a string of comments about CC licenses and software. Shelley raises some great questions. Here's the problem. We're trying to develop tools to enable people to express their preferences as simply as possible. We can't do much to make the underlying law simple. I've tried to answer some of the questions in the extended entry. But I'm afraid Shelley will be right again: The answers will only raise more questions. There's lots here to work out, and we can't do all the working out. [source: Lessig Blog]

Creative Commons License. Over the weekend, I added a Creative Commons license to this weblog, removing the earlier copyright notice with "all rights reserved". I chose the Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 license -- as have Denise Howell and Jon Udell, among others. Denise's logic made particular sense and stimulated me to take action. [Tnx: Dave Winer's Scripting News for the original pointer to Denise's work] [source: Scott Loftesness]

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:19:34 GMT

Reel lives. Film critic David Thomson talks about his masterly survey of movie people -- who's in, who's out and just what makes a star different from the rest of us. [Salon.com]

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:11:08 GMT

Creative Types: A Lot in Common. The Internet is teeming with creative people who aren't famous or rich. A new set of licenses from Creative Commons will allow copyright holders to share their work according to conditions they specify -- and boost their profiles. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:47:42 GMT

O'Reilly Network: Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution. Tim O'Reilly. The continuing controversy over online file sharing sparks me to offer a few thoughts as an author and publisher. To be sure, I write and publish neither movies nor music, but books. But I think that some of the lessons of my experience still apply. [source: Tomalak's Realm]

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:59:34 GMT

Stage curtains painted by Salvador Dali and others

Sun, 08 Dec 2002 16:24:35 GMT

Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).

Sun, 08 Dec 2002 16:15:58 GMT

Twelve Flowers

Sat, 07 Dec 2002 01:15:59 GMT

Sony bets big on XrML digital rights markup language
PlaybackTime, December 06, 2002

Sony is definitely getting all of its DRM ducks in order. First there was the recent co-purchase (with Philips) of InterTrust. Now, Sony has licensed all current and future patents of ContentGuard....

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:05:55 GMT

Two Interesting Digital Art Projects.

"Paul Victor Novarese: 'easel (via haddock) QuickTime demonstration of a live-action art 'sculpture.' It starts out pretty ho-hum, but once it gets going, it's pretty cool. It could be a fake, but my gut tells me it isn't.' " [jenett.radio]
Recursive Portrait [via Daypop Top 40]

[The Shifted Librarian]

Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:22:28 GMT

Online Library Project Plans a Digital and Cultural Trove for Children. The selection includes books with detailed woodcut images that have long been out of print and books from dozens of countries in 20 languages. By Lisa Guernsey. [New York Times: Technology]

Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:51:09 GMT

Blog on.

Just put up a piece on blogging over at the Linux Journal site. It solicits input. Write me if you have some.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Sun, 01 Dec 2002 11:54:33 GMT

Speaking Mind to Mind. Back in 1974, Ray Ozzie realized that the computer was a medium that enabled communication with people mind to mind, regardless of their physical well-being. By Ray Ozzie Written with Glenn Rifkin. [New York Times: Technology]

Sat, 30 Nov 2002 14:17:38 GMT

Blogging 101.

"Saint Leo University is giving wireless-network-equipped laptops (with built-in video editing capability) to every residential student and faculty member." [DV for Teachers]

Imagine what could happen if they also gave each student blogspace and software. What a way to chronicle your college years, and you could come out of it with an incredible portfolio for job interviews.

[The Shifted Librarian]

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:28:17 GMT

Telling All Online: It's a Man's World (Isn't It?)
By Lisa Guernsey, New York Times, November 28, 2002

A few months ago I joined legions of other online narcissists and decided to start a Weblog, one of those personal Web sites where people spout their thoughts for the world to read. Within a few days I was browsing through other Weblogs, commonly called blogs, for inspiration. And within a week, it hit me: the sites I was visiting were all run by men.

The bloggers I knew of, to name a few, were Andrew Sullivan, a writer; Scott Rosenberg, the managing editor of Salon.com; Glenn Reynolds, the force behind Instapundit.com; and Jim Romenesko, a monitor of the media. The sites they linked to were also mostly written by men. Articles in mainstream publications, like one that ran in Newsweek last summer, dropped some of the same names, all male. Garry Trudeau even tackled blogging recently in "Doonesbury," and the blogger he created turned out to be a man.

Where were the women?...

Hint: she finds them. Good review of what is happening at a social, personal, creative level.

Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:42:44 GMT

Books and blogs. A while back I mentioned Erik Benson's All Consuming site. It continues to intrigue me, and I've now signed up for the weekly RSS feed. Inspired by Weblog BookWatch, Erik's service makes books, as well as people, an organizing principle of blogspace. So here's a little experiment. I'm going to cite some books I've read recently, and have been thinking about, in order to see what kind of discussion is reflected back through All Consuming. ... [Jon's Radio]

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:04:31 GMT

The Censor and the Artist: A Murky Border. A conference on free expression and the arts at Columbia University last week focused on new limits on artistic freedom in a high-tech culture. By Emily Eakin. [New York Times: Technology]

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:36:36 GMT

Boston Globe: Calling off the copyright war. Jonathan Zittrain. One is crystallized by Calvin Coolidge: ''The business of America is business.'' The other is captured by Thomas Jefferson: ''He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.'' [Tomalak's Realm]

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:09:08 GMT

Remedial literacy.

I just shelved about a thousand pounds of books, including many I've been missing for years. There's something both reassuring and stimulating about a wall filled floor to ceiling with books. As a blurry background off to my left, they make me feel like I know more, somehow.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:48:26 GMT

Final Cut
Brit artist Adam Chodzko channels the ineffable with photography/DVD installations at ASU
By Deborah Suusman Susser, Phoenix New Times, 11/21-27/02

"This section of space has been charged up with the fact that it participated in this fiction," Chodzko explains. "I was interested in what happens when something participates in an illusion -- the aura that's left behind afterwards. If half a tree is left out of the frame, for example, is that half a tree different somehow, more ordinary?"

Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:46:48 GMT

Assembling the Digital Sky
MIT Technology magazine, by David Essex, November 22, 2002

U.S. astronomers are gathering terabytes of data into a worldwide "virtual observatory" that will be accessible to scientists and laymen alike.

Scientists in the United States, armed with a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, are building a National Virtual Observatory (NVO) that will make the world's huge store of astronomical data available to anyone with a Web browser.