Via @timoreilly, Add-Art replaces online advertisements with curated art images via a Firefox plug-in: This will obviously raise eyebrows in the the advertising community, as well as in companies that depend on advertisement revenues. But it also raises important questions about authorship, the dissemination of art, hacking theory, and web site design. Who, for…
this post has been retitled from “it’s a twitter-happy go-go springsteen nation.” Via @courtneybird who retweeted @nickbilton and an email message from my father (who refuses to Twitter but sends me all sorts of Twitter-related news articles), the New York Times has semantically and geographically represented on the continental United States an interactive tag…
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The Readings section of the February 2009 Harper’s (subscription required) has an excerpt from Eula Biss’s “Time and Distance Overcome,” that struck me as appropriate reading for today, a day when the nation is celebrating the inauguration of the first African-American president and the school semester started with discussions about the future of communication…