Learning with the Fang

So, you just read the excellent introduction to Google’s new Social Search by rww but can’t wait to try it out for yourself. You belt over to labs.google.com, opt into the Social Search experiment, do a vanity search but there is no ‘Social’ link when you expand + Options! Making sure you have logged in [...]

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I have just been handed 3×1 hour .wmv files of about 900MB, containing
some very slow 640×480 footage of a glass extrusion recorded to miniDV
tape. The plan is to turn into 5 minutes of fast moving extrusion
goodness.
I know I can set up FinalCut Pro to import the
footage, change the duration of each clip to 1:40 then [...]

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boys and their toys!
Originally uploaded by mandyseyfang
This ‘Vocal Delay’ apparatus was made for Jamie by one of his band mates. It was used to great effect in recent gigs by ‘breakable things on the bookshelf’ – the latest band to grace our rehearsal room and the streets of Adelaide.
The ‘kludging’ of an old PC CD-ROM [...]

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Hats off to @garyphayes for his most excellent Social Media COUNT. I intend to use it in an upcoming presentation – which would be all the better if I could find / show similar figures for ye olde Electronic Mail.
Trouble is, I’m having a tough time finding data (especially historical) on e/mail usage. In addition [...]

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Did you start this?
Know who did?
I would be grateful for any hints leading to the original creator(s) of this work. I think it makes a fascinating study in photographic mash-ups, copyright, creative commons and remix culture in general.
UPDATE:
Thanks to some great detective work by Graham and Leo we now know that the photo was taken [...]

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