Another stirring video ethnography of the Web from Michael Wesch, anthropologist of mediated cultures and creator of The Machine is Us/ing Us.
This one looks at the material redefinition of information in the digital participatory age.
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An interesting and effortless opportunity to practice personal sustainability, care of EcoIron and Rising Phoenix Design.
Consider a simple calculation:
- According to the U.S. Dept. of Energy, an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.
- At 200 million queries per day, Google (white), is displayed about 550,000 hours per day.
- Black Google would save 750 megawatt-hours a year.
If Google is your homepage, try using this instead.
Promote energy-efficient web design. Go black.
Here are a couple of adjacent images from Google’s new ‘Street View’ in GoogleMaps.
As of this writing, you can walk the streets of New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami–maybe more. The automated stitching of panoramas from different days and times makes for some high-tech surrealist photography. Continuing the twisted translation of reality into the Googleverse…. Just wait until these are fed by realtime surveillance/web cameras and the most-recent geotagged Flickr photos.