nettime Incident at YYZ Toronto International Airport

2013-05-01 Thread Alan Sondheim
Incident at YYZ Toronto International Airport We were in Toronto for the HASTAC Conference at York University. We left Sunday late afternoon. At the airport we checked our bag. We then took the bag through customs. We went through several stages. We had the bag tagged. We showed our

Re: nettime No Soap! Radio?

2013-05-01 Thread Newmedia
Ryan: I'm wondering if you can elaborate on something here, as I find what you're saying to be important, of course. in applying language, like McLuhan's environment to technologies or media, how do you disentangle our understanding of them from the environment itself? Carefully?

Re: nettime No Soap! Radio?

2013-05-01 Thread John Young
Stahlman's is a pretty good critique of Eric Schmidt's and Jared Cohen's The New Digital Age, which features exemplar Internet successes, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. And blurbed enthusiastically in advance by Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, General Michael Hayden, Madeleine