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HousingMaps save location

I’m looking for an apartment again, which means that I am spending a lot of time on housingmaps.com. It’s a great site. Much easier then my Earthify. The one problem is that it doesn’t remember the location and zoom level of the Google Map when you bookmark a search. This is annoying because part [...]
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Eyebeam Needs Your Help!

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Crowdsourcing Labor: Distributed Democracy or Centralized Sweatshop?

I am giving a talk at The Change You Want To See on November 11th, 7PM. Be there! Facebook event Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location: The Change You Want to See Street: 84 Havemeyer Street City/Town: Brooklyn, NY Upgrade! NY continues its series on open source as it relates to activism [...]
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SXSW Panels

Voting just opened for 2 panels that I submitted for this years South by Southwest – one in the Film category and one in the Interactive category.  If you have a minute, pretty please create an account (it takes 1 minute) on the PanelPicker site, and then give my submissions the thumbs up.  They will [...]
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Invisible Threads at Laboral

The folks at Laboral finally announced the FEEDFORWARD show.  Stephanie and I will be presenting our Invisible Threads project there from Fri, October 23 , 2009 – Mon, April 5, 2010, and I am currently accepting applications to work in our wonderful SecondLife factory.  Apply now!  Keep in mind that it is a sweatshop, so [...]
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Crowded gets Rhizome Commission

Thanks to Rhizome for giving Crowded the thumbs up for the 2010 commissions.  The show is due to start in September, so stay tuned for more info.
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Mixer/Benefit

On the 16th and the 20th of June, Aaron Meyers and I will be presenting our new project and sure-to-be-worldwide-sensation: The World Series of ‘Tubing.  The occasion is the 12th annual Eyebeam Benefit, and the Eyebeam Mixer, which are kind of rolled up into one big, but separate, party. I know I’m an Eyebeam whore.  Don’t [...]
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June: The Month for Talks

I’ll be speaking at the Figment Lecture Series on Governors Island on the 14th from 4:00 – 4:30, and with Kenseth Armstead and Jon Cohrs at the Open Video Conference at Vanderbilt Hall, NYU, on the 19th.  If you come and yell obscenities at me from the audience, I will buy you a beer afterwords.
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Open Studios Pics

The wonderful Christine Butler took a bunch of photos of my stuff at Open Studios last month.  This event led to some random blog action. CNET. Gizmodo. What you can’t see is the crowd of heathens standing and laughing at me as I was knelt down on my kneeler. Here’s the full set
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Double Negatives Show @ Monkeytown

In my other life, I am a teacher at Hunter College.  For the past 2 semesters I have been teaching a class called Tools & Techniques in the IMA program in the Film & Media department.  This semester, as my students’ final project, they have made a series of videos that we will be showing [...]
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