by natecooper | Sep 23, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, technology
About a year ago (wow! I’ve been blogging pretty consistently for over a year now with nary a hiccup!) I posted about the overabundance and annoyance of Facebook invites due to their inclusion of an apps interface. A year (and a Facebook redesign) later the...
by natecooper | Sep 16, 2008 | cool, culture, digital media, internet, music, technology
Found this nifty little muxtape-like site on pan-dan. It has a much better interface, graphics and is easier to share [on facebook and all over] than muxtape as well (rest its soul).
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 12, 2008 | aesthetics, art, culture, digital media, technology
Near Future Laboratory Top 15 Criteria That Define Interactive or New Media Art (via kottke.org) Argg for yet another repost from Kottke but I feel this is very apropos as to my future graduate studies (fingers crossed) and anyway the feed is already in my Google...
by natecooper | Sep 12, 2008 | cities, culture, politics, technology
If this election year had found me in California and you happened to be within earshot you would already be sick of hearing me talk about this. But as an ex-patriate and defector I find myself just tracking from afar. In a democracy, however, it is important to spark...
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...