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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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"Most New Yorkers try and block out the sounds of the city. But a new smartphone application, along with a collaborative sound project called UrbanRemix, is encouraging city residents to transform the recordings of screeching subway cars, hawking vendors, rowdy teenagers and other ambient street sounds around Times Square into music." [Urban Remix project was created by School of Literature, Communications, and Culture Digital Media professors Carl DiSalvo and Michael Nitsche, and Jason Freeman in the College of Architecture who helped create the free iPhone and Android aps UrbanRemix Recorder.] Source: WNYC, May 12th, 2011.
