..Quantum leap..
visions of the Spime World.. but don’t believe the hype
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..Coming to Britain first cellphoneonly music single..
from PhysOrg Coming to Britain first cellphoneonly music single “Stop Me” by the Anglo-Italian dance group Planet Funk is to make a bit of music history when it becomes the first single in Britain to be distributed solely by mobile phone. British cellphone operator 3, a wholly owned unit of Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa group […]
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from BBC NEWS Download heads for history books Crazy by Gnarls Barkley has been tipped to make music history this week by becoming the UK’s first number one single based on download sales alone. Until this month, download sales could only count towards a chart position if it was also available to buy in stores. […]
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from The Globe and Mail Teens like to hide identity on Net, study finds Almost six in 10 teenagers are disguising their identities on the Internet, according to a new study that looks at a generation of Web-savvy young Canadians. Whether it’s pretending to be older or a different gender, those in Grades 7 through […]
Read more "the kidz are still using handles or wot?"Rogers weighs in on the video iPod and how 4GM it is
The video IPod, of course, is a miserable idea. I’m one of those who believe people associate certain types of entertainment with certain viewing habits/places — one of the reasons downloaded movies are grifted by far less than 1% of the population, and the reason XBoxes and PS2’s bury PC games in sales. The flat-screen G5 is the real darling here, engineered to match our established viewing habits. Only 20 inches, though? Wonder what’ll come out for Christmas, hmmmm?
Some have e-mailed me to tell me that my 4th Generation Media has arrived. This is not technically true (and hey, I should be getting rich from this, right? Where are my filthy monies?). In my formulation, 4gM is a media, not a distribution, philosophy. To recap our central metaphor:
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Biologically inspired by the common carp, the new designs can avoid objects and swim around a specially designed tank entirely of their own accord.
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from ABC News Shanghai Bans Chinese Internet Slang Terms The language police in Shanghai, China’s largest city, plan to ban those and other Chinese Internet slang terms from classrooms, official documents, and publications produced in the city, newspapers reported Friday. “On the Web, Internet slang is convenient and satisfying, but the mainstream media have a […]
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from Wired 13.08: START The not-so-secret trick to succeeding at EverQuest, the popular multiplayer online game, is to hit the black market. In the thriving world of message boards and auction sites, players can buy and sell virtual in-game objects – weapons, currency, even whole characters – among themselves using real cash. But this summer, […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 