- Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, educator and media activist from Tel Aviv based in New York. This blog attempts to serve as a platform for discussion about a variety of topics from new media to politics, from open source to design.
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Tag Archives: ShiftSpace
Feb 11, 2010
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 [...]
Tweet this Dec 18, 2009
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 [...]
Tweet this Nov 29, 2007
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 [...]
Tweet this Apr 9, 2007
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 [...]
Tweet this Apr 8, 2007
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 [...]
Tweet this Jan 29, 2007
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
Tweet this Jan 28, 2007
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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Interface as a Conflict of Ideologies