The recent Slate article “The Wisdom of the Chaperones” starts with “It’s getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater.” You might think that means that it’s moving in a very positive trend, but author Chris Wilson seems to believe we are all being charmed by an ‘illusion’ of democracy at sites like Wikipedia and Digg.
Wilson is [...]
Author Archives: Aubree Lawrence
Just what are we calling for here?
CCTV to ‘virtually’ break new ground
As part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations, Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) will be launching it’s presence in Second Life (SL), an online virtual world. The project is an effort to reflect on CCTV’s remarkable history using a medium that will speak to CCTV’s determination to remain a cutting edge leader in cable access programming.
To help [...]
I LOVE YOU
Image courtesy of Things are better with a parrot
Remember Valentines Day as a kid? You prayed mom would let you get the valentines that had little tootsie rolls in them (because everyone always wanted one of those). Candy or not you diligently wrote the name of each of your classmates on the pieces of glossy [...]
WBOS Axes its DJs and Format
A wildly personal and local outraged blog entry.
WBOS Changed its format and axed its DJs
(except George Knight who will still do a Sunday morning show)
I can’t even give you the link because they’ve axed their website too.
I used to brag about WBOS… George Knight moved to mornings, but I remember saying of him “I actually [...]
CCTV Internship goals
I chose this internship at Cambridge Community Television because of CCTV’s long-standing commitment to community, education, and being on the cutting edge of exploring ways technology can help empower communities to find expression through media tools.
My learning goals for this internship include:
Building and planning skills in Second Life
How to present Second Life in a way [...]
MIT’s not-so-fun-afterall house
MIT’s Stata Center is really, well, let’s just say “Something.” I once heard some one say “The building went up looking like it had just been knocked down.” I’ve always seen the Stata Center as a gross excess of labor, time and materials that culminated in a layout so awkward it’s hard to find the [...]
PBS/Frontline: Growing Up Online
Sounds fascinating, though I’m very curious to see if Frontline can balance its attention-getting (fear-instilling) trailer by presenting the significant advantages today’s digital natives enjoy thanks to the tubes. Has the potential to be the next “Merchants of Cool,” or show the sinking of another organization (please no - you’re PBS) to the sex-sells philosophy [...]
The Iconic iPod
The topic of ubicomp came up over dinner tonight. The conversation started when we noticed that the restaurant’s sophisticated sound system was being fed by an iPod, circa gen 2.
The ubiquity of the iPod is revealed at times in the oddest places. I recently traveled jetBlue and was going over the safety card (for laughs, [...]
Pizza, Prims, and Pictures
The final night of the Emerson College Hub2 class was last night. We spent the evening in style with a last minute building session for next week’s presentation to the City of Boston Mayor’s office, a postmortem debrief of the strengths of the class (as well as ::gulp:: the things we need to improve), and [...]
Smoke and Mirrors: EULAw
A response to Atty and Scholar Andrew Jankowich’s article, “EULAw: The Complex Web of Corporate Rule-Making in Virtual Worlds”
Below is an excerpted response to Jankowich’s article, in an email I sent to him 11/25/2007:
I appreciate that you respect so much that ‘quitting the game’ is not the option that the non-rpg-playing public seems to think [...]
