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summer mood of mobtagging
mediamatic plans a workshop on the technic and impact of mobtagging under the subtitle ’ Collective Intelligence through the exchange of Metadata’ Mobtagging is called “a revolution in the use of the web.” The expectations are high: it makes information structures extremely flexible and easily adaptable to changing environments. Information is structured along similarities found ...
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mapping and relating mainstream news
Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. It comes along via pasta and vinegar who comments on it the following: These sort of map are more and more relevant with regard to the increasing amount of information we are dealing with (or at least infojunkies are ...
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on: pistols, railroads and european imagination
Lawrence Lessig was invited to Berlin to discuss the ideas concerning his view on new technologies, accompanied by a comment from Peter Baldwin. The talk was organized by the bpb (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) as part of a new series ‘Kontinentaldrift 3.0’ and announced under the title ‘Pistols and Railroads in the American West’ which ...
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Limit-Telephotography
Trevor Paglen describes Limit-Telephotography on his website as trying to uncover what is commonly described with the cliché “out of sight, out of mind”. His site provides material on areas which are that exceptionally hidden or cordoned-off that they are simply impossible to see with the unaided eye. His entire project attempts to provide a ...
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continuing on frames
Unexpected Launching of Heavy Objects (link) is a work of Peter Hovarth submitted to the wartime project . Beautifully done, with some nice moments of timing it also calls up the memory of elder works of ‘net-art’ which play with poping up frames – (just this one here closes them even again) ... This one ...
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lost in translation or the différance of perfection
.. or deciphered as: Lost in translation points to the absence of the ideal. drain magazine published again an interesting opening article in its recent issue Lost In Translation. Gregory Minissale embarks in his essay from Vermeer’s The Lacemaker as an examplary translation of mental activity – transfered into the inbetween spaces of the lace ...
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lost art of screaming
In times of delegation Amy Alexander/deprogramming.us will let you go screaming – if you download the ‘tool’ your screen will answer you … Scream disturbs your Windows interface. But it isn’t aimed just at computer frustrations. In a world where “anger” is paired with “management,” Scream encourages the return to prominence of the lost art ...
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.. and sozializing via GPS …
via near near future comes a tool Rebecca Anema has developed: Social GPS – a J2ME application runs on GPS enabled phones. It communicates with the GPS to find out your location and sends the data to the database to create a social map for the people connected to it. Related posts:mapping strategies of our ...
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visualizing social networks – past and now
danah boyd published information on vizster, a project she developed together with jeffrey heer which allows people to use a playful mode of ethnographic exploration based on the Friendster social networking service. Another interesting appliance is provided by Paul Mutton utilizing visialization modes to show networking structures in Shakespeare’s plays. It uses a tool designed ...