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60. Opening new things, contestable curation, curated lists
It’s alive! I’m conscious that the last time I wrote to you was a month ago! But its been busy.
Seb Chan
Mar 2
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59. Sounds, friction, time
Thanks to Dan Cohen’s tweet going viral after the last episode I need to welcome a lot of new readers! So “hi!” (and thanks Dan!)
Seb Chan
Feb 2
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58. Hello 2021
Hello 2021. Feels just like 2020 with a tiny bit less dread, right? Or maybe just a different kind of dread. I started writing this one several times t…
Seb Chan
Jan 17
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57. Looking backwards to go forwards, words from talks
I’ve been doing a bunch of talks recently and several folks asked me to write them up rather than let them stay ephemeral moments. This shift to the ep…
Seb Chan
Dec 15, 2020
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56. On fictional virtual cities
Things are looking a little different today. Like everyone I know, we anxiously awaited the US election results, constantly refreshing web pages with t…
Seb Chan
Nov 20, 2020
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55. The work / longform / structure
725 to zero. It’s been a remarkable turnaround in Melbourne. The lockdown has been hard and relentless but tonight there is much celebration. Even our …
Seb Chan
Oct 26, 2020
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54. On online communities, conferences, maintenance
There’s a hot wind blowing through Melbourne and for the past two nights the tall eucalyptus tree outside the bedroom window has been rattling the seed…
Seb Chan
Oct 11, 2020
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53. Buckets of data
The recently released new Google Arts & Culture experiment, Gael Hughes’ An Ocean of Books, is a cute but telling example of the challenges of large he…
Seb Chan
Sep 19, 2020
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52. Lost memories
The Whitney’s recent exhibition cancellation controversy is yet another reminder that an art museum is not the same as a social history museum. Power a…
Seb Chan
Sep 2, 2020
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51. Epistolary transformations
August is a cold month in Melbourne. Our rental is particularly poorly designed with only low efficiency airconditioning that pretends to be heating. N…
Seb Chan
Aug 18, 2020
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50. Fifty fifty
Fifty. I didn’t expect to get to fifty of these little missives when I started writing them. When I started this writing there was no real goal in mind…
Seb Chan
Aug 4, 2020
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49. Lockdown, labs, shadow libraries
I had hoped to get some of this out earlier but change is happening so fast at the moment. Things have escalated again in recent days and we are in a n…
Seb Chan
Jul 10, 2020
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