Derivative Works

Year: 2006

  • Vizual Edge: Weight Training for the Eyes

    Here’s a story on ESPN.com about my long-time client, Vizual Edge. The story quotes Dr. Barry Seiller and Kathy Puchalski, the driving forces behind the product: Seiler believes that after the program, visual deficiencies are improved and players will see better results in their performances. "A lot of times you can have athletes in any…

  • More on the NYT Anonymity Project

    So I have been dutifully collecting my "because clauses"– the reasons why sources have been given anonymity in the New York Times. It’s been a fun project because it is a good expression of the kind of art I have been interested in making over the last few years– derivative works art— art that uses…

  • Vote for TRUT over at Urban Dictionary

    So a while ago I coined the word trut in an an article that I wrote for Rudy Van der Lans over at Emigre Magazine in the mid 90s. I think it’s a pretty useful word and is much more sublime than Colbert’s truthiness. Anyway, I logged the word over at Urban Dictionary to try…

  • New Netscape Beta is Live

    This is good. The new Netscape.com, which is now in beta, is a Digg clone + human editors. See NYT story here for further explanation. Basically this takes the good stuff from Yahoo! News (actual humans deciding what stories run, not mute algorithms Google News-style) minus the rancor of digg (at least until the nasty-community…

  • My Subscriptions > Second City Cop

    In my second installment of My Subscriptions, what rose to the top of my Bloglines account tonight. Here’s a general look at what this is from my first post: So what I’m going to do is go through day by day, look at the first entry in my list (sorted by most recently updated), and…