LIVEdigitally

I read Gizmodo religiously, and I’m sure that you do too. The “5 stages of Intel Macs” comic strip linked by one of my top blogs made me laugh, and cry. I’m an avid Mac AND PC user/fan. I know I know, choose one or the other you all say, well I can’t… I’m bi-computeral. I was excited the minute that Apple announced they’d use Intel chips, with the same enthusiasm basket ball fans had when the 1992 Dream Team was announced.

Most of my Mac friends (who don’t know I own a PC, and should continue to believe so) went through this exact cycle. Check out the comic strip and see what you think.

A file isn’t something that you can pick up, look at, hand to your friend, or put in your pocket. You can put files onto a CD, DVD, flash drive, hard drive, memory card, or other medium that stores files. Files are physically an entity, yet so intangible that people feel they are simply thin air. Qiu, a 41 year old online gamer in Shanghai, China stabbed 26 year old Zhu to death. The 26 year old sold Qui’s virtual sword, acquired in the game “Legend Of Mir 3”. This is a sad story; $840.00 US is not worth a human life. The real issue I grasp from this act is the fact that Qui went to the police first, and was given no assistance.

“Qui went to the police to report the “theft” but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law.” (more…)

Each morning I jumpstart my day with three tasks: 1.) get up and visit the bathroom 2.) check my email –my laptop sleeps under my bed so I usually check email while still in bed 3.) watch RocketBoom. You may be familiar with the acts of going to the bathroom and checking email, but RocketBoom may be a new concept to you. As I noted before, they are my favorite Vlog (video blog), and today covered a story regarding podcasting and museums together at last.

In New York, NY at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) David Gilbert and a few of his students talked about their spin on podcasting, Art Mobs. The idea is to download a podcast from the internet, then go to the museum and listen to that podcast as a museum audio tour guide. Here’s what David had to say:

“What we’re trying to do is we’re trying to get people to take control of their own information consumption. Rather than being passive consumers of media whether it’s television radio or even a museum guide, we want people to realize that with digital technology they can now produce their own news, their own television, their own radio, and even their own audio guides for museums.”