Tag Archives: ShiftSpace

Interface as a Conflict of Ideologies

Originally written in April 2007. Minor edits: March 2010. Preface In the past 50 years the digital user-interface has become a major field of cultural production, since the innovations of Douglas Engelbart in the sixties (mouse/keyboard/video-screen) through the personal computer revolution in the eighties to the rise of the World Wide Web in the nineties [...]
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Help Strike a Win for Watchdog Journalism – Vote for NewsShift

NewsShift is the title of the grant application coming from some of us at the ShiftSpace team in collaboration with LittleSis.org. NewsShift basically turns a news page into a node in a networked collaborative journalistic effort. It has made it through the first round of proposals and is constantly trending as one of the highest [...]
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NewsShift: watchdog journalism with a long tail [Grant application]

Kevin Connor & Matthew Skomarovsky from LittleSis.org (an involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited by people like you) & David Nolen and myself of ShiftSpace have teamed up and together with Eyebeam have submitted an application for the Knight News Challenge. It is a cross between what LittleSis and ShiftSpace do best, applied to [...]
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ShiftSpace Commissions Program

ShiftSpace Commissions 10 grants of up to $2000, deadline: Feb 25th [ --- Please circulate widely between your friends, peers, students, blogs and lists --- ] November 5, 2007 Turbulence Commission: “The ShiftSpace Commissions Program” by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv http://turbulence.org/works/shiftspace Turbulence has commissioned ShiftSpace and now ShiftSpace commissions you. Ten development grants of [...]
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ShiftSpace Thesis Presentation

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Highlights Space

Just finished the design for the new Highlights space which I will develop with two of our Open-Source community members, Avital Oliver and Dudu Buchbut. User Scenario: The user launches the space through the shift-menu The Highlights tool-bar opens allowing the user to: highlight by drag+drop on text (the cursor changes to this icon) repeat [...]
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Trails – the story so far (+)

Trails is the upcoming main addition to ShiftSpace it is an an interface for mapping information in the world of ShiftSpace. the idea is that shift (ShiftSpace annotations/interventions/user-generated-content) left on different pages will be trailed together into information maps. We have been drafting tons of mockups, trying to figure out how should it work, what [...]
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The Borders of Free Speech?

Video Presentation at Van-Leer, Jerusalem.
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Interviewed on We-Make-Money-Not-Art

Regine from We-Make-Money-Not-Art interviewed me for her new-media blog/magazine. We talked about most of what I’m working on and have been working on in the past year or so… If you’re interested in what I do you might find this interesting. Go Make Money Not Art
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Border Conflict

This is my personal statement, it gives context to what I am interested in and is a pick into what drives me.
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