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Steve Rubel gives a name to something I’ve been feeling in my gut for a few months now. In his post Attention Crash he ties the looming Web 2.0 financial downturn to a very human reaction to the information deluge the social networking has unleashed.

We are reaching a point where the number of inputs we have as individuals is beginning to exceed what we are capable as humans of managing.

The post is nearly a year old, so I guess Steve is a bit more in tune with this than my own “gut”.

He goes on to quote Marc Andreessen as saying basically the bursting of the Web 2.0 bubble won’t be all that bad. But, maybe the recent news about the downturn in Google’s AdWords revenue and Marc’s own reference to the decline of newspaper advertising will prove otherwise.

Tags: web2.0

Upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.5. Very impressive upgrade. Much cleaner administrative interface, even more up-to-date than the Wordpress.com free service I use for my Retail Distribution Management class. Wordpress is starting to blur the line between a blog/publishing platform and a full blown content management system.

Tags: content management

The Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive is a browser-based digital archive created by the Warumungu community in Tennant Creek, N.T. Australia in collaboration with researchers: Kimberly Christen, Craig Dietrich, Tim Dietrich, and Chris Cooney (me).

This project has been in process since 2005 and was installed at the Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Center this past summer.

Tags: preservation

• www.alessandroceglia.com

  Alex Ceglia’s “The Intruder”, an animated short completed at USC, is now being shown at film and animation festivals around the world. Alex designed the interface for “Digital Dynamics Across Cultures“, a project we collaborated on for the USC School of of Cinema and Television’s Vectors Journal.

Tags: animation, USC

This is just plain brilliant.

Tags: remix

Post on enlightened policy and Eastern State Penitentiary from David Byrne journal.

How could anyone not see that the human is a social animal, that separated from other people the human is not a whole creature — we are completed by our families, friends, co-workers. Without interaction we are like routers with nothing coming in our out — we are just potential.

Tags: interconnection, social

The Aymara concept of time is opposite the common perception of time. So, the past is in front of them and the future is in back of them.

Backs to the Future

Tags: time

I completely forgot about this magazine!! This was a huge influence on my artistic development in middle school.

CARtoons magazine

Spot-on references to high school cartoon style of the late 1980s, Schoolhouse Rock and Peter Max.

The Iroc-X Song

Tags: animation

• Apocalypse Pooh
  Extremely rough technically, reminiscent of my high school film making efforts, but that scene with Pooh and the kite…classic.

Tags: remix, youtube