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{ Daily Archives } Sunday, October 2006

Collecting Digits – The Upgrade!JHB + Digital Soiree Panel Discussion

As usual a thorough post from Christo on our last Upgrade!Joburg, via the atjoburg site: The Collecting Digits Panel at Wits Digital Arts. From left to right, Franci Cronje, Warren Siebrits, Nathaniel Stern, and Clive Kellner. The first Upgrade! Johannesburg panel discussion brought together an exciting group of speakers to deal with the topic of [...]

SAarts Emerging Exhibition, 2006

The SAarts opening, walkabout and panels went extremely well – the former attended by at least 150 people through the course of the evening. There are walkabouts every weekend (see schedule) for the next three weeks, and the show and catalogue look great, so I highly recommend your chaecking it out. Below are some photos [...]

MOVING SALE – update

We are selling pretty much everything except our laptops and our daughter (but there is a laptop in there somewhere). Cheap, cheap, support our char lady. Here’s the PDF list (150kb), open house next week, or call to purchase. Kitchen, bedroom, computer, entertainment, furniture stuff. Help me help you. UPDATE: List has been updated – [...]

It’s no joke: IU study finds The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to be as substantive as network news

Christo sent me: Not surprisingly, a second-by-second analysis of The Daily Show’s audio and visual content found considerably more humor than substance — Stewart himself has insisted that he is a comedian and not a journalist. A similar analysis of network coverage found considerably more hype than substance in broadcast newscasts. Examples of such hype [...]