digital media Archives - Page 6 of 18

Social Web Theory

by natecooper | Oct 25, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, nate, technology, Twitter

For reasons I cannot go into at this time I have been advising over the course of the pass several weeks a person older than myself in the ways us younger people (can I still claim that?) use social networks. Most specifically we’ve been looking at Facebook and...

Why Don’t More Companies Have Blogs?

by natecooper | Oct 19, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, technology

A compelling argument for why companies shouldn’t be avoiding social media. Statistics seem to indicate that individuals want a more open dialog but only a small number of Fortune 500 companies maintain a blog. (via...

Computer Walls

by natecooper | Oct 3, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, culture, digital media, technology

Click the pic for more photos. Kind of an interesting installation from a layout perspective. (via badbanana)

What’s Worth Collecting?

by natecooper | Oct 3, 2008 | books, culture, digital media

The NY Public Library Blog has an interesting article on compulsive collecting. What medias are worth collecting? How much is too much? Interesting thoughts from a librarian + what to do about VHS. From the article: “Several years ago, the New York Public...

A Recipe for web 2.0 success (failure?)

by natecooper | Sep 30, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, culture, digital media, internet, politics, technology

Near Future Laboratory has a great article about the problem of trying to integrate everyday things into a computing paradigm. “There’s a weird conceit in here, that the activities and practices of normal human beings will involve data processing and...