rad collection of tumblrs!
There's definitely been an explosion in the area of glitch-tumblrs the last year.

i'm not one to claim "firsts", but I feel I should give props to a very early glitch tumblr: http://kittenglitches.tumblr.com/ launched Nov of 2009 by Jake Elliott + partly inspired by the Satromizer: (http://satromizer.com/) (a project with many iterations by Ben Syverson and Jon Satrom = (http://satromizer.com/sOS/))

regarding "theory about the practice", i've been working on a collaborative-modular-project (GLI.TC/H) which has put some serious effort into producing collecting such theory, we released a book (as part of last year's festival/conference/gathering) .pdf available here: http://gli.tc/h/READERROR/ +++ you can check out (and partak in) our open-research wiki here: http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php?title=Main_page (with theory page here: http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php/Glitch_theory)

/* Jake Elliott + Ben Syverson + Jon Satrom are all Chicago based artists (at times collaborators) who've been working in&&around the vector.view dubbed Chicago "Dirty-New-Media" (http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/ruth-catlow/jake-elliott-dirty-new-media) which may also lend some perspective regarding the theorie[s]/historie[s]/practice[s] */

rock
../n!ck

1st: luv to see these discussions in a space like rhizome + thnx for the insights joanne, you raise sum good points. I'm (slightly) ashamed to say that a cracked iPhone screen (on my beautiful 4S) would kill me. I'd like to chock it up to being generally a bit obsessive... but the reality is I'm not this way with other devices. duncan, you raise sum excellent points, but there's more than just the price tag keeping me so reverent w/apple.

2nd: like probably most of the peoples here, I've got a luv/hate relationship w/apple...
jbwhaley, I'm writing this on a mac and as I already mentioned I hav an iPhone, and I can say (as a developer && new-media artist) apple is definitely not "as hackable." as a user, this couldn't be clearer than with tablets: my HP Touchpad is far more hackable than an iPad, and perhaps more importantly, the eco-system is far more tolerant (in HP's case they embrace it) of the hacking. What apple calls jail-breaking HP calls "a home-brew community" -- where apple voids your warranty, HP lends developer support.

...even apple wouldn't deny these things. These are two fundamentally different approches. What's getting "really, really old" is our complacency.

thought I'd share this project we (@branger_briz) recently completed and exhibited at Miami Art Basel. "A Charge for Privacy" is an iPhone charging station for the festival which functions as a metaphor for the online services that we use. Services that are thought to be "free" but are in fact paid for with a new digital-age currency, our privacy. Our charging station gave users a "free" charge in exchange for all of the photos on their iPhone, which at the moment of connection, were downloaded to the station and projected publicly on the wall.

watch a video here: http://vimeo.com/34575655

read about it here: http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/a-provocative-installation-highlights-our-lack-of-online-privacy.html

-Nick Briz-
http://nickbriz.com
http://brangerbriz.com