Hello Paleoposse,
We are working to get this blog rebooted and back into orbit. As part of this effort we are going to be trying out some new formats/styles for the look of the blog, so don’t be too alarmed. Be sure to drop us an email if you see something you really like or, on the other side of the coin, makes you throw up in your mouth.
I just read an interesting dissertation by Leah Buechley and Benjamin Mako Hill from MIT about diy culture as it relates to electrical engineering.
“… when media is easy to create, publish and distribute, production and consumption decentralize. While the 20th century was dominated by large companies who mass produced media that was mass consumed by the public, the 21st century is emerging as a time where media is produced and consumed in an increasingly non-homogeneous fashion by niche groups. These niche groups… use the internet to construct, share, find, and consume material that fits their particular (sometimes very particular) interests.”
Continue reading The Long Tail of Hardware
The census results are in! Now we know exactly how many seats in congress are needed to fairly represent Bikini Bottom. OK, you got me. It wasn’t that kind of census. I’m talking about the Census of Marine Life, the first attempt to systematically quantify all denizens of the inky deep. Three main questions guided the direction and scope of this global collaboration: what did live in the oceans, what does live in the oceans, and what will live in the oceans? Diversity, distribution, and abundance of life have been painstakingly observed, recorded, and now triumphantly reported. Continue reading Census Day