by natecooper | Sep 12, 2008 | aesthetics, culture, digital media, internet, nate, style, technology
O.K., O.K. I got the picture already about how you shouldn’t format a blog with dark color backgrounds and white text. Hence my white background with black text on it in the new design. Thank you so much Anna and Jess for your endless criticisms — not that...
by natecooper | Sep 11, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, culture, digital media, internet, media, technology, television
Just saw one of the best TED talk videos I’ve ever seen: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com. Basically tells a familiar story of the convergence of web and media that was covered in so many classes I TAed at UCSC and gives a glimpse of what...
by natecooper | Sep 10, 2008 | cool, digital media, humor, internet
Step aside Fail Dogs. Domo nom nom is a blog where updates are in the form of edibles for a bizarre monster. This may be not worth explaining other than to say check it out but it definitely turns the concept of a blog on its...
by natecooper | Sep 7, 2008 | aesthetics, art, digital media, internet, nate, technology
I finally got around to fixing up natecooper.net. It didn’t take that long because I basically just tweaked a standard wordpress template. I thought I might want to build my own from scratch but this seemed like a better way to get a decent looking site up in a...
by natecooper | Jul 6, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet
Fun/disturbing little article comparing word statistics from wikipedia entries. Does the size of the article (in word count) determine the cultural relevance of the material? If so this paints a grim picture of the internet community in my opinion. Some days I wonder...
by natecooper | Jun 20, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, technology
Since the release of the Spore Creature Creator [link] EA is starting the build up to the official release. One novel and funny idea is Spore Vote [link]. Get a bunch of B-list celebs to design creatures and use their creations to promote your product. There’s...