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My Open Source City
Last weekend I attended Open Sourcei City, a festival exploring open source practice in the production of media art and music, a collaboration between folly and Sound Network.
I was there to help out, but one of the perks of this type of job is that you get to attend the event and I certainly appreciated the opportunity to listen to the enlightening talks, attend the evening performances and observe the workshops.
A world energy meter?
carbon footprint energy meter AMEEI'll be very interested to see how usefult this is.... http://www.amee.cc
Vienna becomes a little less of an Open Source City
open source green windows Vista
In the same month that folly and Soundnetwork's micro-festival of open source technology, art and culture is launched in Liverpool, Vienna, a city much more advanced than almost any city in the UK, has undergone a regrettable back-slide to using (and paying through the nose for) proprietaryi systems, in this case, Windows Vista.
Artranspennine 08 mixes cyber and real worlds

There's an interesting article on 24 hour museum about how the potential of the internet has helped re-imagine Artranspennine for 2008.
The festival's official site is at http://atp08.blogspot.com (which is where the nice landscape photo above comes from)
updates from Puglia 2008
Puglia Biennale labforculture Digital ArtistsHandbookReports from labforculture blogi:
Exploring the opportunities of digitali tools – part 1
http://www.labforculture.org/en/labforculture/blogitem/27743
Exploring the opportunities of digital tools - part 2
http://www.labforculture.org/en/labforculture/blogitem/27984
Build a 3D printer for £300
rapid prototypingResearchers at the University of Bath have developed a low-cost 3D printer which can create plastic objects designed on a PC. Story here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/04/reprap_machine/
just for fun - sounds to try
sounds meaning british council fun
How to speak English via the British Council's English Online website:
Uh! Ah! Erm ooh
Try it here:
http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/vocabulary-grammar/sounds
DAH at Biennale Puglia 2008
Puglia Biennale labforculture Digital ArtistsHandbook
folly presents Digial Artists Handbook at a workshop exploring the opportunities for digitali tools at the 13th Biennale Des Jeunes Créateurs De L'europe Et De La Méditerranée www.bjcem.org.currently taking place in Bari, Italy.
children in virtual worlds
A new report by Professor David Gauntlett and Lizzie Jackson of the University of Westminster show that virtuali worlds are beneficial for children's development. They are also a "powerful and engaging" alternative to more passive pursuits such as watching TV, said the BBC-sponsored study.
produsage
produsage produser consumer producer web 2.0 Axel brunsAs we are planning to open Digitali Artist's Handbook to wider contributions and discussion (as with Wikipedia) here is a quick overview of the term 'produsage'.
From http://produsage.org






