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• Olia Lialina: Infinite Séance 2
  New media has switched to pictures, to moving and dynamic images. Besides the obvious market interest in eye candy, there are three more reasons that encouraged this switch.
• **Us & them & them: Robots, Artists and Scientists** « Autonomous Mutations
  The discussion will concern robotics and artists’ engagement with the field. It will focus on the ramifications of artists working alongside scientists on robotics, now and into the future.
• Boing Boing’s Moderation Policy – Boing Boing
• Chúpame el código 2.0. Ciberfeminismo en tiempos de guerra | ptqk_blogzine
  ¿Qué papel nos toca a los otros (mujer, bollera, niño, negra, sin papeles), históricamente excluidos de la producción de discurso, en eso que llamamos sociedad del conocimiento?
• IMG_1576 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  JL made the nicest smartest introduction about my blog i’ve ever heard. muchisimas gracias!

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — People who cheat on online surveys could soon find themselves — or at least their computers — on an industrywide digital blacklist of respondents who are undermining the $4 billion online-research industry.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Many green glossies seem determined to test their readers' capacity for cognitive dissonance by editorializing for eco-friendly action on virgin paper that lugs big carbon emissions behind.

With few exceptions, most retailers are still addicted to the heady narcotic of promotional free-standing inserts, sinisterly delivered through rapidly dissolving print and newspaper media channels.

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — After 10 years of mostly red ink and a revolt led by corporate raider Carl Icahn, Blockbuster swallowed hard and hired James Keyes, the former CEO of 7-Eleven Stores, to turn it into full-service media-delivery company.

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — Location, location, location is the mantra of the emerging mobile-marketing industry. While geo-targeting has been touted as a major mobile-marketing boon for a while now, there have been few real examples. But there are signs the technology is finally catching up to the promise.

NEW YORK (Adage.com) — If you liked last year's fall TV season, chances are you'll love what's on the air come September. Due to the writers strike, many broadcast networks will have fewer new programs to introduce, relying instead on already-established shows.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The ad-spending numbers certainly look bleak. It's enough to make you want to dump your media and holding-company stocks before it's too late. But the numbers belie some undeniable bright spots in the industry.

BEIJING (AdAge.com) — Public sentiment against the crisis in Darfur and Tibet may be escalating in the U.S., but in Olympics-crazed China, protests against the country's support for Sudan or treatment of Tibet are viewed — when they can be seen at all — with surprise, frustration and even anger, but little sympathy.

In "The Crack-Up," F. Scott Fitzgerald said that to effectively negotiate life, you had to be able to hold two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time. Which brings us to Hal Riney.