projections

by jebni on May 30, 2005

On Saturday night we had Hip Hop Projections at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, an event to launch a few of the hip-hop-based community cultural development projects at ICE. More photos here. An event like this was a long time coming. (…)

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suad amiry = god

by jebni on May 27, 2005

Our Suad Amiry event at the Sydney Writers’ Festival was awesome — I don’t think I’ve ever been in the presence of such a generous, warmly ironic storyteller — the amazing one-liners were so plentiful that I was overwhelmed. I’ll (…)

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tardis in infinite loop

by jebni on May 27, 2005

Last night I had an embarrassing dream that I visited Apple’s headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California. There was a huge Apple museum, which featured all sorts of stuff that I must have absorbed from reading Andy Hertzfeld’s Revolution (…)

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links for 2005-05-26

by jebni on May 26, 2005

fadaiat 2005 “Second edition of the event dealing with freedom of movement and freedom of knowledge.” (tags: borders hackers free-software migration technology precarity cartography tactical-media) MakingThingsPublic ” The main idea behind this show is that politics is all about things. (…)

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not sooooo frustrated

by jebni on May 21, 2005

Blogtalk is winding up. Much better than yesterday, but then again, I nicked off after lunch for Mel‘s seminar yesterday, ditching Glen, so who knows? Feh. I got bogged down with description in my presentation and missed my opportunity for (…)

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metamoblogging

by jebni on May 20, 2005

Gerard presents his moblogging paper.[ tags: blogs, blogtalk, blogtalkdownunder ]

linksluts r us!

by jebni on May 20, 2005

The current PowerPoint slide in Mathieu O’Neil’s Blogtalk paper is “The Structural Meaning of LiveJournal Bashing”. Excellent.[ tags: blogs, blogtalk, blogtalkdownunder, conference, livejournal ]

old commies r us!

by jebni on May 20, 2005

Just had a nice chat to Gerard Goggin, an old-skool Left Alliance dude whom I’d never met. We even used the words “dialectical” and “capitalism” — in the yacht club! Yay![ tags: blogs, blogtalk, blogtalkdownunder, conference ]

increase productivity!

by jebni on May 20, 2005

We are now listening to Thomas Burg extoll the virtues of just-in-time production, competetive technocracies and “repurposing” content for innovation. I’m raising an eyebrow. I dunno if there’s any point even trying to engage in a dialogue about this, because (…)

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bourgie

by jebni on May 20, 2005

Glen and I are at a fucking yacht club. At a blogging conference. Weird![ tags: blogs, blogtalk, blogtalkdownunder, bourgie, conference, wealth ]