Posted at 3:31 AM on 7-21-09 by Rob T Firefly
The very first Wiki-Conference NYC is happening this weekend, July 25-26. The event will be hosted at NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia NYC.
In addition to keynotes by Jimmy Wales and Ira Brad Matetsky, the event will feature presentations of interest to local Wikimedia, Creative Commons, and Free Culture enthusiasts. If there is a particular subject you would like to present about or see presented, suggestions for panels and presentations are still open. More info can be found on the event’s Wiki page.
tags: events, nyc
Posted at 5:20 AM on 7-8-09 by Rob T Firefly
A local film location scout has posted about what appear to be Manhattan’s last four public telephone booths.
The classic-style outdoor booths are all on West End Avenue, on the corners of 101st, 100th, 90th, and 66th streets. They even appear to be in good repair and working order; something which could not have been taken for granted even when phone booths were ubiquitous.
The Payphone Project also boasts a nice series of photographs of the booths.
Hypothetically speaking, if we were to set up a field trip one of these weekends to visit, use, and photograph the living heck out of these, would you be into it? Let us know; if enough of you express interest, we’ll make it happen.
tags: history, nyc, telecom
Posted at 5:57 PM on 7-6-09 by Rob T Firefly
Local art & tech space Eyebeam has a panel discussion coming up involving fair use, copyright, Creative Commons, and creators.
This Thursday, July 9, 6–8PM at Eyebeam, there will be a panel discussion on fair-use and appropriation within activist and creative practice moderated by Creative Commons product manager and Eyebeam research associate Fred Benenson; artist/curator Mark Tribe, audio-visual remix artist Jonny Wilson (Eclectic Method), Postmasters gallery director Magdalena Sawon, and Eyebeam resident Jon Cohrs.
There will also be a barbecue in front of Eyebeam at 5PM.
(via Creative Commons)
tags: events, politics
Posted at 1:09 AM on 7-4-09 by Rob T Firefly
We at NYC2600.net wish our fellow Americans a happy and safe Independence Day!
Here’s Gothamist’s look at some local Independence Days of the past, and tonight’s major festivities.
Finally, here’s some insightful critical commentary on one unforgettable moment in local Independence Day history.
tags: events, fun, history, nyc
Posted at 12:22 AM on by Rob T Firefly
Since many in our community seem to agree that there’s something to this newfangled Twitter business, we have decided to make it easier for the Twitterverse to follow the NYC2600 scene.
Check out @NYC2600 for our official mindless RSS-regurgitating bot account. Why a bot, you didn’t ask? Well, we already post everything we wish to announce via this site. This way we can sneak our posts into the microblogosphere without creating more work for us overtired admins.
Users of Twitter are also encouraged to use #nyc2600 as a hashtag in order to consolidate NYC2600-related tweets into one big happy microblogging amalgam, like so.
tags: resource, site
