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Mushon

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About Mushon

I'm a designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY & Tel Aviv. I am the co-founder of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; ShiftSpace.org – an Open Source layer above any website; YouAreNotHere.org – a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel – a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Collaborative-Futures.org collaboratively authored book; and the Tel Aviv node of the Upgrade international network. I'm is an honorary resident at Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York. I have been teaching new media research at NYU and Open Source design at Parsons the New School of Design and in Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem. I blog at Mushon.com.

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    Comment #2383929

    Yes, the videos are on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/user365623/videos I really really enjoyed it last year's 7on7, if you're in NY you really don't want to miss this one. I wish I was t…

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    Who invented the "program a robot to leave the class" CS thought experiment?

    Who invented the pedagogical experiment where Computer Science students had to "program a robot" (played by their professor) to exit the class? I have heard about it years ago, hav…

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    Comment #2268534

    Thanks :) I'm actually working with illustrator Galia Offri on another project along the same line as this thread. It is called Wikipedia Illustrated ( http://WikipediaIllustrated.…

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    Comment #2268046

    Replicatorblog's response made very good points. Though I think the FLOSS community should start by appreciating the huge differences between developing code and developing design.…

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    Comment #944704

    You can charge for GPLed software, the only thing wrong with this one is the restriction of use. People (even highly talented and educated ones) just don't get the GPL... By the wa…