pleix. “pleix is a virtual community of digital artists based in paris. some of us are 3d artists, some others are musicians or graphic designers. this website is the perfect place to share our latest creations.” [note: quicktime] [MetaFilter]

This morning before the 802.11 panel, we had a journal editors roundtable arranged by the incomprable Ulla Bunz. The Editors were asked questions about publication an tenure, about new publication opportunities, online publication and issues surrounding online archives and getting your paper published. I think panels like this are extremely important to have at conferences because they get people to think about new publishing paradigms. This is so important because there should be concerned with the possibility of the professoriate both new and old being caught between technologies. I fully support the transformation toward open access peer reviewed archives, and I've worked hard to produce some technologies that were excellent demonstration platforms for that, but still I know that traditions are hard to break and there is a paper fetish still. But what happens when someone is caught between the new opportunity and the requirements of tenure…. who knows? prudence is required, but as we know prudence is a virtue, a practice, and as such it transforms you through its consideration. So the direction that people must use 'tempers' them; changes them, and perhaps makes them less participative in new forms of publishing.

Adrian did a nice paper on the the 802.11 standard is kludge, but Christian is actually making an argument about the 'over the back yard' internet. two years ago i sketched the system necessary to use wireless, microwave, or laser enabled long distance internet connections to overcome local problems such as censorship, etc. It was a 'napkin' sketch of technics, interfaces, and connections. Now i hear that similar things are being institutionalized, somewhat unsuccessfully, but it is always fun to find that other people have the same sort of ideas and implementations.

Craig is talking about his Connective Project at Syracuse that works with broadband infrastructure and such. they did a community technology assessment for rural regions.

AOIR 4.2.3. THE TRIANGLE IS THE BINARY OPPOSITION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Why is it that scholars are suddenly so drawn to the triangular graphic model, as though three-ness eliminates all of the shortcomings of binary logics? Don't get me wrong; I don't intend to be (wholly) snarky here, as I find… [Planned Obsolescence]