I just started writing for Rhizome. My first piece is a look at Philip Ross. It's easy to see Philip Ross as a recent embodiment of an age-old spirit of inquiry, where aesthetics, personal discovery, and scientific knowledge are linked, and ...Read More
Richard Barbrook has an interesting-sounding new book, The Class of the New, about "Netizens, elancers, cognitarians, swarm-capitalists, hackers, produsumers, knowledge workers, pro-ams." In other words, "the new social class emerging from the networked workplace." The book offers Barbrook's introduction to the ...Read More
A piece of amazing reporter gear is described in a story by Media Guardian about CNN's use of said gear, a satellite videophone. The portable satellite phone, around the size and weight of a laptop computer, links to a camera and ...Read More
