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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags usability & theory

December 2006

New Media and Cyberculture library resouces

Library Resources for communication studies site; here, suggested keywords for searches, reference works, periodical indexes, web sites, professional associations, journals and trade publications, statistical sources. updated 2004.

Digital Web Magazine

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see Nov. 27 06 and earlier, "The Rise of Flash Video" by Tom Green; many articles of interest to both designers and theorists in this ejournal

Gene Pool

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a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"

November 2006

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

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very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

tiara.org

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blog by woman interested in feminism and social uses of technology, including marketing, politics and pop culture

THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop

complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"

NMEDIAC : THE JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE : nmediac.net

papers and audiovisual texts on "the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses"

October 2006

Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Lisa Parks

Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading

Anxious Libraries

wonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic

July 2006

Read/WriteWeb: Archives

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useful in-depth articles, usually one a day; not all of equal interest

Read/WriteWeb: Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search

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upcoming ways to do searches more precisely for your needs

essay on limitation of blogs

"Goodbye, Blog: The friend of information but the enemy of thought." by Alan Jacobs