Americans More Wired, New-Media Survey Finds

PC World - Americans More Wired, New-Media Survey Finds
NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to a new-media survey from Deloitte & Touche.

Add comment Datestamp: December 28th, 2007

Available Now!

An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Edited by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat
Published by the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press

Boxed set with 160-page book + 10 maps/posters
Cover price: $30
http://www.an-atlas.com

An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration. It pairs artists, architects, and designers with writers to address the role of the map as a political agent. An Atlas of Radical Cartography makes an important contribution to a growing cultural movement that traverses the boundaries between art, cartography, geography and activism.

Maps | An Architektur | the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) | Ashley Hunt | Institute for Applied Autonomy | Pedro Lasch | Lize Mogel | Trevor Paglen & John Emerson | Brooke Singer | Jane Tsong | Unnayan

Essays | Kolya Abramsky | Sebastian Cobarrubias & Maribel Casas-Cortes | Alejandro De Acosta | Avery F. Gordon | Institute for Applied Autonomy | Sarah Lewison | Jenny Price, Ellen Sollod, D.J. Waldie, Paul Kibel | Heather Rogers | Jai Sen | Visible Collective & Trevor Paglen

This beautiful boxed set containing ten unbound 17”x22” maps and a 160-page book of essays is immediately available from the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press @ www.joaap.org.

It is available to bookstores worldwide in January 2008 through Distributed Art Publishers (DAP) @ www.artbook.com

For excerpts from the book and upcoming events, please visit: http://www.an-atlas.com

Add comment Datestamp: December 10th, 2007

Is there a Connection or Not? Back and Forth about the McAdoo Superfund Site and Cancer Rates…

Some of you may remember my email blast a few weeks ago covering the results of the ATSDR’s year-long study in Schuylkill County, PA, into connections between the McAdoo Superfund site and high rates of cancer in the area. The results were, well, inconclusive they said.

Last week, however, Sue Sturgis, writes this:

The medical researchers who conducted the study of the unusually high rate of polycythemia vera in Schuylkill, Luzerne and Carbon counties will be presenting their findings Monday at the American Society of Hematology’s annual meeting. The abstract for their presentation has been posted online, and it indicates they have found a statistical connection between the incidence of polycythemia vera in those three counties and proximity to the McAdoo Associates Superfund site. My blog post about their findings, which includes a link to the abstract, is online here: http://www.hometownhazards.com/2007/12/medical-researchers-draw-link-between.html

BUT, then the very next day this:
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry now says the research asserting a link between the McAdoo Associates Superfund site and a local cluster of polycythemia vera is wrong. Read more here: http://www.hometownhazards.com/2007/12/feds-disavow-superfund-cancer-link.html

Add comment Datestamp: December 9th, 2007