Believe it or not, I got in a little “work” during the Athfest-ivities last weekend. Taking a break on Saturday afternoon from the crippling Georgia heat, I retreated to Cine, Athens’ cool (literally, thank the gods!) independent movie theater, which was featuring a number of rock docs as part of the weekend’s events. I caught the free showing of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, a film by Brett Gaylor that takes a look at how the age of digital music has opened a can of copyright worms.
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 One of the redwoods on the UC-Davis arboretum trail  A flower along the trail  A little stream action along the UCD tree trail Obviously. I mean, the title of this blog is one, after all. I just came across this piece from VentureBeat (a few days old, granted, but cut me some slack - I’ve been enjoying the hot, sweaty musical fun of Athfest these past few days instead of scouring the Web for interesting tidbits) and got a big kick out of it. All about a new site that helps you create the perfect word for that thing that drives you nuts. A fair number of the things that seem to get under people’s skin are technology-related. I love the suggestions of “maybenet” and “wi-fucked” as terms to describe a spotty internet connection! Jenna Wortham’s post on the Bits blog in the NY Times on the Tweeting of Michael Jackson’s death on Thursday, June 25, sent me right back to thinking about the Twitter phenomenon I had just written about in my post on the Computers and Writing conference. Last weekend I attended the Computers and Writing 2009 conference which was held at the University of California-Davis. This conference is always extremely thought-provoking and inspirational to me, so I think I’ll kick off my new blog with a discussion of what I heard, saw, and learned from June 18-21, 2009. First of all, |
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