Author Archives: Joan Vinall-Cox

Remixing or The Perversion of Copyright

Kirby Ferguson’s scholarship is truly impressive, as he packs a well-argued understanding of the problems in today’s use of copyright and patent laws into four brief videos. Share Everything is a Remix Part 1 Kirby Ferguson Wed, Feb 22 2012 … Continue reading

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Th Movie and Music Industries are Hypocrites With SOPA and C-11

I’ve just come across a site about remixing with three superb videos. They are interesting and entertaining, and don’t end when they appear to be concluding, as you can see from the screenshot below. I strongly recommend http://mediaatbrooks.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/open-content-and-is-everything-a-remix/ and here’s the first … Continue reading

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Moving a gMail Draft from One Device to Another

it was fun discovering how I could move from device to device in gMail! Continue reading

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At Midlife I See That …

A Poem – At Midlife I See by joanvinallcox Courage at eighty is different from at twenty But both ages carry their future constantly – A fearsome thrust into an unmapped wilderness. A fearsome thrust carrying life forward blindly At … Continue reading

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Less of an Apple Fan Now

I spent 12 days trying to get my iTunes store to work, with increasing urgency after I received an iPad 2. I got emails and even a phone call from Apple Support and from iTunes Support, and then more emails. … Continue reading

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Christmas After Bereavement – A Poem

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When the Text is Image, What Does it Mean?

In Which I Trace the Shift From Text as Meaning to Context-Dominated Text Inspired by Vandendorpe’s From Papyrus to Hypertext In this video, a Studio Post Productions Demo … Continue reading

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Advent – Waiting in the Dark, for the Light

Advent  Meditation Midwinter is a time of darkness, a time when the light lessens and disappears, a time when we mix hope and fear. The worldly powers compel many, but not every detail of our lives. We can, as this … Continue reading

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My Samsung Galaxy S2 is Home Again

So while I had my HTC loaner, I was careful not to bond with it. I noticed the way it offered suggestions of what I might be typing that I could click on, and liked that. And the way it … Continue reading

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Hello HTC Loaner

The delivery man woke us up at 8:05 with my loaner from Samsung. It’s an HTC Legend (I think). I spent a couple of hours making sure I’d saved everything I wanted from my S2, and reading the instructions on … Continue reading

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