For anyone in or around Montreal this weekend, be sure to hit-up Concordia’s 5th Annual International Symposium on Hiphop Culture. While hip hop heads will feel at home here, I would particularly urge those of you who are naive about the history and significance of the art form to attend. If you think that hip [...]
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 October 30th, 2009 |  Tags: alternative media, Art, beats, Canada, hip hop, Montreal, Music | Leave a comment Somewhere between Google Street View and Second Life emerged Wild Style City, an online graffiti application that lets users create virtual pieces and throw ups on the streets of San Fransisco. It’s an interesting idea, as it essentially allows users to participate in this subculture while circumventing the illegality of the art form. However, there [...]
Twitter: good, bad? The verdict’s still out. White House Changes on Versionista By Anikka Weerasinghe A few weeks ago CBC published an online article about the release of the U.S. stimulus package. Accompanying it was a foreboding image of the White House with a dark and stormy sky in the background. I wasn’t sure what the picture was meant to represent, and similarly [...] Launched as a new project by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the Open Net Initiative (which monitors Internet filtering and surveillance), Herdict uses crowdsourcing to track global web accessibility. Users can report sites which don’t work, and can see in real-time if the problem is shared among others. The possibilities for quickly [...] |
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