“A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.” Video created by Andrew Huang. Sometimes things just seem to happen all at the right moment.

Great discussion on the (un)reality of multitasking and how our uses of new media might be affecting our ability to concentrate even when we aren’t plugged in.  Rebecca Roberts speaks with Lee Rainie, Founding Director of Pew Internet & American Life Project, and Clifford Nass, Stanford Professor and Founder and Director of the Communication between [...]

In my relatively short time in the consulting world, I’ve unfortunately already encountered the stalwart of entrenched, outmoded school policy that effectively undermines attempts by teachers, however well-intentioned, to pursue a pedagogy centered on increasing media literacy.  Far from being a tech evangelist, I do think thoughtful uses of technology (esp. in the classroom) can [...]

Via SmartMobs and blip.tv – Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, on how tech has changed Politics.  Many great points here and it leaves me wondering not only about the future relationship between tech and politics, but how participatory democracy will in turn shape the tools that helped it emerge.

Henry Jenkins of MIT’s Comparative Media Lab discusses how many of our students today are being de-skilled as they enter schools where the digital tools they are using outside of the school environment are invalidated.  Not only are many critical online resources blocked by crude filters but  “[teachers] tell kids again and again that what [...]

A week or so ago I blogged about how awesome intelligent-object recognition apps for the iphone are and their potential to influence consumer behavior.  Here’s a BBC article about Bokodes.  New, more sophisticated barcodes that just might change how we interact with objects in our world in a big way.  Still no mention of using [...]

I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public.  According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]