Real-Time PGL stream

Here is a new stream for the blog: real-time. Diverse things “real-time,” such as mobile communications, machinima production, ubiquitous or big games, and virtual-world play all fall under this rubric. The purpose is to balance the specifics of “global” media investigations (where global means emergent nation) with the applications, objects, and people closer to home––my own local of the U.S. and neighborly vicinities. As we ease our way toward the horizon of first-world ubiquitous computing, it seemed to me that posting between different worlds can help move toward a better bigger picture. The streams influence each other so quickly, whether it is media artists in Tehran talking back to the assembled art world in Berlin or Chinese players on WoW…I reckon feedback is another category I’d add to Real-time.

If you, dear reader and correspondent, sign on for the basic tenet that the IT revolution has a greatly increased the streams of connection and fostered an explosion in means of communication, then I believe that you’re down for the ride of connecting the dots in real-time.

Update and projections: The second field trip to Chine is being planned. The next level research team is coming together. Pieces of the Research Report on Preliminarily Field Trip, Global China, 2006 will be uploaded here. AND site is being redesigned so search tools can work in a more accurate and flexible manner. Good archive for better future.

BC