December 2011
9 posts
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The Real Power of Mobile
[Note: This is the final of five posts related to Nam-Ho Park’s talk and blog post on Mobile Storytelling. Links to my other posts are at the bottom of the page.]
Nam-ho ends his post with thought-provoking questions about the potential of mobile as it relates to identity and collective storytelling:
Our identity is the story we repeat to ourselves. If that is so, what is the story we repeat to...
Enriching our Environment: Collective Stories and...
[Note: This is the fourth of five posts related to Nam-Ho Park’s talk and blog post on Mobile Storytelling. Links to my other posts are at the bottom of the page.]
Nam-ho has a very interesting section in his write-up entitled, “Collective Stories.” Here’s a snip:
Daum Communication, a leading internet services provider in Korea offers a map service with a streetview option, much like Google...
Ushahidi and Mapping Random Acts of Kindness
[Note: This is the third of five posts related to Nam-Ho Park’s talk and blog post on Mobile Storytelling. Links to my other posts are at the bottom of the page.]
I’ve long been a fan of Ushahidi and was pleased to see Nam-ho discuss it in his talk and write-up:
Usahidi, an interactive map-based information collection tool was born out of a need to capture and report post-election violence...
Maps, Place, and Emotional Design
[Note: This is the second of five posts related to Nam-Ho Park’s talk and blog post on Mobile Storytelling. Links to my other posts are at the bottom of the page.]
As Nam-ho illustrates, home and place are deeply emotional. Read what happens when his father looks for the house he grew up in:
When I showed Google Earth for the first time to my dad on an iPad, the first thing he did was to look...
Reflections on Mobile Storytelling
Besides being incredibly easy to use, and the gorgeous way archived posts are displayed, I love that Tumblr feels like a safe place to sketch out and test loose ideas. Its designed to allow users to post interesting quotes, videos, photos, or links they come across, or to quickly post ideas of their own. The culture surrounding Tumblr doesn’t always expect ideas to be fully formed or...
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The Digital Public Sphere: What About Art?
Note: This post originally started as a comment on Jonathan Stay’s excellent piece, What should the digital public sphere do? I reference and quote a lot of his ideas. I recommend reading it first — not only because my post will make more sense — but because reading it will make your mind happy.
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The Digital Public Sphere
Thank you, Jonathan....