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Playing with this tool tweeted via William Gibson, we're totally Twitter BFFs. Cut-up machine works along principles of beat-writer William S. Burroughs' cut-up experimentations. Mixed results below (which still left me feeling thrillingly subversive) of portions U.S. President Eisenhower's famo ...more

Web video goes back to the future

by: Dave Carpenter

June 30, 2009 5:28 PM

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In the supposed cutting-edge business of online video, old looks more and more like the new new, which makes you wonder: is the Web's most evolved content medium actually devolving?Just this week, Yahoo! announced the partial shuttering of Maven, a company they purchased in early 2008 in o ...more

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Stream

by: Dave Carpenter

June 16, 2009 11:58 AM

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"Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes," wrote TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld recently. Pack a lunch and bring your paddle, there's likely no turning back upstream.If you're finding you're spending less time going to big portals such as MSN and Yahoo! for news and em ...more

This is not a game: An ARG primer

by: Dave Carpenter

June 03, 2009 11:00 AM

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If the instructions "Follow the White Rabbit" or numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42 give you a conspiratorial tingle, ARGs may be your bag, assuming you're not already spending your Saturday nights piecing together clues scattered throughout the Web while your pals shoot JagerBombs.ARG stands for ...more

How to Win Friends and Influence People from Your Bed

by: Dave Carpenter

May 26, 2009 10:06 PM

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It's often said that the Internet allows you to reinvent yourself. Even if that's your game, upgrading your identity through a digital persona takes work and some talent.Setting up your goth-themed MySpace page is one thing, but consistently posting believable, angst-ridden declarative statem ...more