March 19, 2004

Bambi as prog-rock epic. Spastic Ink's prog-rock epic, "A Wild Hare," is a Zappa-esque guitar interpretation of Walt Disney's Bambi; there's a video that maps the music onto cuts from the animated film. Part 1 5.3MB WMV Link, Part 2 4.3MB WMV Link, Part 3 5.3MB WMV Link, Part 4 3.3MB WMV Link, Part 5 6.5MB WMV Link, Part 6 6.1MB WMV Link (Thanks, Fnordo!) [Boing Boing] 9:04:28 PM

Information overload and its discontents. CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks whether the information technology industry will ever get serious about making things easier to use. [CNET News.com] 9:00:29 PM

ATM Media Player. JOEL JOHNSON -- What happens when an ATM crashes and reboots into a regular copy of Windows XP on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University? The world's first Diebold Brand Media Player. Using the touch screen and the character mapper in Windows, the ATM was reprogrammed to play various looping... [Gizmodo] 8:09:52 AM

Discussion with Larry Lessig and Hiroo Yamagata tomorrow. Having a discussion with Larry Lessig and Hiroo Yamagata tomorrow at ICC. It will be about Creative Commons and will have a live video stream. By Joichi Ito joi_nospam_@nospam_ito.com. [Joi Ito's Web] 8:05:30 AM

Inside the Frame-George Lukoff's concept of "framing" For communicators, and for politicians George Lukoff introduces the concept of "framing". "George Lukoff  is professor of linguistics and cognitive science at the University of California Berkeley,  is a specialist in the technique of 'framing,' a communication tool that creates a 'frame' for a message that defines the terms of the debate. The above quote is from an interview with him on AlterNet. The concept of "framing" is direcly relevant to political science, but after I read the above article, I concluded that the concept has broader implications. I think it is worthy of considering related to broad communications planning efforts.   8:04:16 AM

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