- 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
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 [...]
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Nov 29, 2007
ShiftSpace Commissions Program
ShiftSpace Commissions 10 grants of up to $2000, deadline: Feb 25th
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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 up to $2,000 will be [...]
Apr 30, 2007
Interface as a Conflict of Ideologies
Full essay PDF: Interface as a Conflict of Ideologies / Mushon Zer-Aviv (April 2007)
Preface
In the past 50 years 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 [...]
Posted in Recommended Posts, in English Also tagged api, critique, ideology, interface, theory, web 1 Comment
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 the highlight action [...]
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 would [...]
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
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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