This week, researchers at the University of Notre Dame, University of Memphis, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a new emotion-sensing software that “responds to students’ cognitive and emotional states, including frustration and boredom.” With this, a giant move has been made in the world of the Pinhole. Because this software, according to one...
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The Consumer is The Corporation
Anybody who has read anything about media in the last 50 years or so is familiar with Marshall McCluhan’s warning that “the medium is the message.” As prescient as that...
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Chris Anderson: A Pinhole Pioneer
The “long tail” is an expression coined by Chris Anderson, editor of WIRED and author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, in...
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Less Social Social Networking
Now that Facebook has done it’s best Twitter impression with the latest update “Ticker”, it’s interesting to consider whether social media updates have become too ubiquitous for meaningful engagement in...
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Lessons from the Revolution: You Can’t Determine the Medium
The use of social media in recent revolutions may have reached its zenith with the demonstrations in Egypt. The young protesters there, skeptical of state-influenced traditional media, made social media...
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