Marginalia – Page 89

Reporting on that election via the phone

5 November, 2008
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Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

The 2008 US presidential campaign is the first campaign in history in which social media have played such a huge role in stimulating voter interest, soliciting campaign support, urging voter registration, and then actually getting people out there to exercise a civic right/duty. During the last couple of days, friends on my Facebook have been

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Give it to me live please!

3 November, 2008
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Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Image via Wikipedia I couldn’t resist posting this, if only to prove how a great play can get sandbagged by good intentions. Here’s Harold Pinter‘s The Dumb Waiter, a brilliant, dark little piece for two actors. It’s been animated and condensed and posted up to YouTube. The point, I hear you ask? Well maybe it

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Give a damn day

1 November, 2008
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Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

A few things have been spinning through the learning web of my head this week. The trick of immersing oneself in the stream of ideas, images and chat flowing through the social networking systems I’m plugged into, can lead to a lightbulb, ‘aha’ moment. I had one this morning. It’s the first of the month

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