January 2007
GD Map - A tool to visualize disk space
by clochix
GdMap is a tool which allows to visualize disk space.
November 2006
jlesage's reviews
by jlesage
my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.
Welcome to Transparency
by jlesage & 1 other
"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"
Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson
by jlesage
Focusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.
Geographies of Responsibility by Doreen Massey
by jlesage
on political implications of considering space within political discussions of responsibility and identity
Video History Project: Resources
by jlesage
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
Alive with Alzheimer's, the first photographic book on AD by Cathy Greenblat
by jlesage
by a visual sociologist, a site for everyone
illusions.html
by jlesage
a page of links to visual illusions and their explanations; kids love these
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
by jlesage
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
Newest Webcams
by jlesage & 12 others
random live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance
Durham e-Prints - Department/Research Group: Cultural and Social Geography
by jlesage
28 papers from Univ. Durham on cultural geography, full text
Department of Geography : Research Clusters / Groups - Durham University
by jlesage
publications of Mike Crang, major cultural geographer and sociologist
Roadside Architecture
by jlesage
documenting roadside architecture in the US, under many whacky categories; this is a favorite theme of mine in photography
October 2006
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by jlesage
artist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet
New Urbanism
by jlesage
website and organization promoting good urbanism, sustainable development, smart transportation, and transit oriented development.
Imaginary Museum Projects - Tjebbe van Tijen
by jlesage & 1 other
innovative uses of image and text in a wide range of projects, many cultural and historical, to create an uniquely online museum-like experience
howstuffismadeblog
by jlesage
manufacturing processes, labor conditions, and environmental issues involved in the production of contemporary goods
Swarming Media
by jlesage
blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture
Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin
by jlesage
"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."
