In Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, author, conceptual artist, and musician Paul D. Miller addresses, “the remix – how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create.”In editing Sound Unbound, Miller asked “artists to describe their work and compositional strategies.”What I will do in the following pages will do what Miller has done for music, for storytelling.I will analyze storytelling strategies and how participatory media has enabled the remix or mash-up of stories, which has created an evolved form of collaborative storytelling that uses appropriated content to reach a mass audience.
This is a presentation to the Library of Congress delivered by Kansas State professor Dr. Michael Wesch. It’s close to an hour long with intelligent analysis on: media, culture, community, privacy, and identity, as they relate to anthropology.
Grab a notebook, let the video pre-load and turn off all interruptions. This one is worth freeing up some brain space to absorb.
Yup as expected Girl Talk threw the best party of the summer. Forget Pemberton, ya’ll should have been at the Commodore to see the cut and paste king (sorry Diplo) mash-up a record number of tracks keeping the ADD cocaine fueled crowd bouncing the whole time.
Check out new album here.
Some video I shot of the madness. My fresh white steps are wrecked now from being trampled on stage. I regret nothing.
It was only a matter of time before the Web 2.0 community started to feel the burn of the US recession. This comes at a particularly bad time. as many newer Web 2.0 companies are still trying to figure out how to monetize their offering. Are we on the bubble of another burst?
The atmosphere was radically different during the day at Web 2.0 Expo, as talk of economic recession was unavoidable. TechWeb’s Jennifer Pahlka, one of the expo’s organizers, told attendees in a welcome address on Tuesday that she thanked them all for coming to the conference “in this time of budgets that are being scrutinized, and some bad headlines.” Veteran entrepreneur Marc Andreessen was grilled in a keynote interview on his use of the term “nuclear winter” as a justification for his start-up Ning’s new round of venture funding.
With investment banks going down and food prices going up, the gloomy economic forecasts have cast a dark cloud over cloud computing (and everything else getting talked about at Web 2.0). Yet tech companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon are posting healthy earnings, and despite talk of an advertising downturn, new digital-ad networks seem to be debuting by the day.
The economic attitude of the Web 2.0 Expo hangs in an awkward limbo: The tech industry relies on innovation, but no one can deny that these economic times demand caution. What’s a geek to do?
