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Hubertus Bigend and The Social Network
By Steve Burnett on Sep 19th, 2010
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"Hubertus, you're easily the richest person I've ever met."...
"It's a by-product," he said, carefully. "And one of the things it's a by-...
reality incursions and alternate realities
By Steve Burnett on Sep 16th, 2010
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I tend to try out websites and domains mentioned in works of fiction partly to see how much background effort the creators went to, partly because...
Consider Unplugging Tonight
By Steve Burnett on Mar 19th, 2010
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The people involved with a film in production called Connected have created a video and poem (adapted from Ginsberg's 'Howl' that I enjoyed enough...
Darwin Days
By Steve Burnett on Nov 5th, 2009
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Yesterday I went to the John Hope Franklin Center for a talk on The Struggle to Picture Evolution: Darwin and Visual Media by Iain McCalman as a...
advertising ARG sparks lawsuit
By Steve Burnett on Oct 19th, 2009
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Others have written on the perils of oversharing your personal information through online quizzes, but here is a new to me consequence: taking a...
The rest is silence
By Steve Burnett on Jun 23rd, 2009
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The rest is silence. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2

The Big Little Show, Raleigh
By Steve Burnett on May 1st, 2009
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Designbox in Raleigh NC is hosting an art exhibit for the month of May called The Big Little Show. From the website announcement:

The Big...
Dan Gillmor: We the Media
By Steve Burnett on Apr 7th, 2009
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On Tuesday April 7th Dan will be at Duke University talking from4:30 - 6:00 PM at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy in Lecture Hall03. He...
We Live In Public
By Steve Burnett on Apr 4th, 2009
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In her award-winning (Grand Jury Prize award in the U.S. documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival) film We Live In Public, Ondi_Timoner...
Tell Me A Story
By Steve Burnett on Feb 26th, 2009
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Cathy Davidson's post yesterday responding to the New York Times article that In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth reminded me...
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Technical writer in the RTP area of North Carolina. I have authored, co-authored, and edited several books on various operating systems and related topics. I perform improvisational music and create sound art under the name Subscape Annex, working in the areas of ambient soundscapes, field recording and phonography using primarily analog electronics and signal processing.

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