EDUCEDGE,

I am so very excited about this. I just got news that I was approved to join the MUVEnation free online course. This is also the perfect excuse to come back here. I have been ignoring this blog since the pressure has been on to prepare for the proposal defense.

So to get back on track: the latest news: PRoposal defense is set for Nov 3rd. yet right around the corner. I’ve got my ‘Logistics’ doc on Google so that my chair and I can make sure that I am not forgetting anything. I just emailed him my powerpoint yesterday. and I uploaded my slides on my screen on my parcel. Now I need to script my presentation and my avatar gestures so that I demo what I am defending.

More on the MUVEnation later. in the meantime, here are a few pics I took when I flew over the land earlier today

http://tinyurl.com/3fcvog

Check out page 15!!!

Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media. 333 pages. 2001 MIT press.

I just started it, so I’ll post my comments on it later.All I can say right now is that this book is a must for anyone interested in new media functions and effective applications, such as 3D VW whic borrow extensively from old media and innovate on the old conventions.

In the meantime, here is the editorial summary:

“In this book, Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He palces new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media’s reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame adn mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address hte viewer, and repressent space. He shows how categories adn forms unique to new media, such as interface and database, work wiht the more familiar conventions to make possible a new kind of aesthetic. [...]“

re-post from my RezEd blog: http://www.rezed.org/profiles/blog/list?user=2qi5tvpwy0crk

Nice looking app. Not sure it provides anything new to the social networking world, but it’s a good looking application. Make sure to choose a background theme that’s not too busy otherwise you are bound for a major migraine.