I’ve only started doing this blogging bit for a short while, after a few fitful starts. It’s hear because I need a research notebook, and I’m feeling good about making my inscriptions public (if you count the handful of people who skim this a public, why not?).

This two-day event will bring together new media scholars and practitioners to exhibit and discuss the roles of audiences, activists, and producers in maturing networked media ecologies. The event is organized by the Networked Publics fellowship program (netpublics.annenberg.edu) at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication.

Reflecting on Yochai Benkler's insights, we find ourselves pondering the architecture of culture. The traditional top-down structures no longer serve us; instead, we must embrace a model that celebrates the clusters of creativity and connection among individuals. These clouds of cultural production offer a more nuanced understanding of how meaning circulates, allowing us to envision a future shaped by collective imagination and shared experiences. In this dynamic landscape, everyone has a role in weaving the fabric of culture, crafting a harmonious existence filled with possibility.

I’m liking this Theory Object business more and more.

This article was lurking in a Smart Filter in NetNewsWire.

I am just coming back from a round-up quick tour around the South Bay over the last two days. I came up here to San Jose at the invitation of Jyri Salomaa from Nokia, Beijing, who is the Research Manager for Asian Mobile Gaming at Nokia. Jyri invited a few of us out to dinner to discuss the mobile projects going on…

This “Theory Object” business — I’m trying to work out what it might mean through practice, through the activity of making things. As Bruce Sterling said in his wonderfully rabinical talk at SXSW just the other day, “A Theory Object is a kind of Theory Object.” It’s got that geeky recursion, like GNU — GNU is Not Unix.

I did a bit at the Institute for the Future Monday at lunchtime, and then I have a Nokia thing down to San Jose Monday evening and then Tuesday I’m going to meet Rob Tow up to Sun Labs to talk about what he’s doing, what I’m doing. The usual drill.

Nicolas and I have finished our Next Iteration on the Blogject project — our workshop report from Lift06..Read, Ponder, Complain and Disseminate.