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The only thing missing from the blip.tv party is… Mike Hudack?

Leo Laporte crowd surfs at the Big Digg Shindigg

Oren Jacob from Ready Set Bag came on our live show to talk about his film and new web show.

Liz Shannon Miller at NewTeeVee has the story.

The show has been MIA for a little bit because we are in transition with Pop17. We’re busy with the new site launch and setting up a studio at a new location. This is to give you a quick vlog update instead. We’ll be at SXSW through the 17th so you can expect daily vlogs, blogs and tweets all on Pop17.

Nikon is teaming up with yfrog for a site at SXSW. Watchitoo and Nikon are sponsoring Pop17 coverage at SXSW! Yay!

The vloggers who got the most attention at the Vlogvetica gathering were Mitchell Davis and Tessa Violet. We had so much fun!

Jesse Draper runs a show called The Valley Girl where she features the tech elites. Her fun and silly interview style is half acting and half real life. She’s an actress at heart, but has alway carried a special place in her heart for the Silicon Valley business scene. Probably because she grew up around tech and business with her father, Tim Draper.

Congrats to Pop17 corresponded, Rebekah Austin, for winning Hilary Clinton’s Exchanges Connect contest. We will update you on that news soon!

moderation:

Your Computer Really Is a Part of You…

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An empirical test of ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger shows the great German philosopher to be correct: Everyday tools really do become part of ourselves.

The findings come from a deceptively simple study of people using a computer mouse rigged to malfunction. The resulting disruption in attention wasn’t superficial. It seemingly extended to the very roots of cognition.

“The person and the various parts of their brain and the mouse and the monitor are so tightly intertwined that they’re just one thing,” said Anthony Chemero, a cognitive scientist at Franklin & Marshall College. “The tool isn’t separate from you. It’s part of you.”

Chemero’s experiment, published March 9 in Public Library of Science, was designed to test one of Heidegger’s fundamental concepts: that people don’t notice familiar, functional tools, but instead “see through” them to a task at hand, for precisely the same reasons that one doesn’t think of one’s fingers while tying shoelaces. The tools are us.

This idea, called “ready-to-hand,” has influenced artificial intelligence and cognitive science research, but without being directly tested.

(via  Wired)

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