User:ThomasW/Thomas Research

Here I will post a list of all the books and research and things I found interesting regards for my MA self study. PS: This page is currently being worked on. and will not be that up to-date on where I am on the research..

Books

In the Beginning...was the Command Line

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World

The Designer as...: Author, Producer, Activist, Entrepeneur, Curator, and Collaborator: New Models for Communicating

Books to Bytes: Knowledge and Information in the Postmodern Era

How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul

Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium

Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries

McLuhan_Marshall_Understanding_Media_The_Extensions_of_Man

Foucault_Michel_Archaeology_of_Knowledge

Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics

You Tube

The Web Is Not The Net

Digital Archaeology and the 100-Year Archive

Into the Future: Man and Machines

David Rokeby on Interactive Media

Vint Cerf describes Bit Rot

Books, Google and the Future of Digital Print

Ur Digitization Project

BBC Domesday System - Promotional Laserdisc

Flashback - A Story of Flash Memory

Dead Media: What the Obsolete, Unsuccessful, and Experimental Can Teach Us About the Future of Media

Communicating Architecture: Lars Müller in discussion with Teri Rueb + Michael Meredith

Jason Scott - Where are the Files?

Douglas Rushkoff: Present Shock

Rick Prelinger - Online Archives, Creativity & Serendipity

Lars Müller: If this was not the End, what is the Future of Print?

Preserving Grain, Presenting Pixels: Film Preservation and Restoration in the Digital Age

Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time

ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

Defcon 18 - Youre stealing it wrong 30 years of inter pirate battles - Jason Scott -

Podcast/Radio

Triangulation 98 : Brewster Kahle

Web

Warhol digital artworks found on floppy disks from 1985

BBC - Domesday Reloaded: Story of the Domesday Project

Say goodbye to the video store, hello to the non-profit foundation

A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It?

Facebook's prototype cold storage system uses 10,000 Blu-ray discs to hold a petabyte of data

Digital Repository

Library of Congress says it found source code of a never-released 'Duke Nukem' game

Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs

Computing and Historiography, Part 2: Parasitology

Libraries show empty displays in protest against copyright law

Moments of convergence and innovation between documentary film and interactive media: Decade 1970-1980

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Project and ideas

• # The future was today
• Video project about comparing the different videos about "future" technology
• Video example
• # Instagram Book
• Book / ebook complied from my instagram photos of my two years living in London.
• # X Y Pen Plotter
• Make a pen plotter.
• # VHS
• Video project about the the physical impact on VHS movies.
• # Dissertation book
• Current small book project, soon finished.