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Could NFTs help the media, or are they just a sideshow? Over the past several months, technology journalists have had to get used to a new concept: the “non-fungible token,” or NFT, a concept that has been lighting up the cryptocurrency world, as well as art and media. An NFT is a string of code that, once it has been “minted” (generated by a computer) resides on the Ethereum blockchain, a ledger of every transaction since the currency was created. The “non-fungible” part just means that a token can’t be exchanged for another string of similar code, so it’s unique. What has ma...

SNL’s NFT Sketch Is Now… an NFT – After Saturday Night Live aired a skit last week attempting to explain NFTs (featuring Kate McKinnon as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen), the show has decided to… turn the sketch  into an NFT and offer it for sale. (Does your head hurt yet?) It’s being auctioned off on the OpenSea marketplace; last we checked, the price stood at just under $20,000. The proceeds go to charity. ( Art Dubai Offers a Glimpse of Art Market Future – Last week saw the return of Art Dubai, the first major fair to resume in-person operations after the pandemic ye...

The Convivial Society The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 6   -18:44 “Attention discourse” is how I usually refer to the proliferation of essays, articles, talks, and books around the problem of attention (or, alternatively, distraction) in the age of digital media. While there have been important precursors to digital age attention discourse dating back to the 19th century, I’d say the present iteration probably kicked off around 2008 with Nick Carr’s essay in the Atlantic, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” And while disinformation discourse has supplanted its place in the public im...

Glitch signs collective bargaining agreement with unionised workers US software startup’s ‘milestone’ agreement with employees focuses on job security and labour rights rather than salaries and benefits Share this item with your network: By Published: 03 Mar 2021 15:45 Employees at software startup Glitch have signed a collective bargaining agreement with the company via their union, which claims this is the first time such a deal has been signed by white-collar tech workers in the US. The effort to bring Glitch workers into the CWA is part of the union’s Campaign to Organize Di...

mar 03, 2021 In May 2014, artist Kevin McCoy sold a GIF onstage at Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference to Anil Dash, and published the transfer of ownership of a GIF on the Namecoin blockchain. The data written to the blockchain included a link to the license, a link to the work, a hash (a kind of digital fingerprint) of the work, and a plain English assertion of ownership, as part of a system McCoy called Monegraph. Dash paid the entire contents of his wallet for this early experiment in selling unique digital works via the blockchain, which amounted to $4.  Fast forward to May 2018. Ami...