TXTmob demonstrated the efficacy (and weaknesses) of SMS/text messaging as a communication tool for coordinating direct action during the 2004 RNC. This weekend, I’ve been following the Cold Snap legal team’s twitter feed. Chilling updates like these have been coming in all day:
Mass arrests on Jackson & 9th, including Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif […]
I’ve been watching this video of DJ Ramsey scratching tapes daily since someone blogged it a couple weeks back. (Can anyone link the original post? I can’t find it.) He works the pause button and volume knobs with his fingers while manipulating the spindles with his thumbs.
Working with cassette tapes appeals to my affection for […]
Observing a 9th grade history class yesterday, I witnessed two interactions that blew my mind.
1. During lunch, several students used discarded lunch trays, staples, pens, and tape to craft foam Sidekicks and ENVs with sliding, flipping, and popping ’screens’. They then wrote notes on paper, folded them up, placed them inside of the closed phones, […]
Why is it that I’m finding more and more media companies use the promotions budget to finance activities that clearly fit elsewhere? Pre-release tracks to mixtape DJs. Transmedia writing contracts. I’m implying something here…
Sketchy.
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