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Hates when society creates occasions for the disappointment of impossible, mysterious expectations. 8 hours ago
Still really into In Rainbows. Myspace Data Availability and Facebook Connect, on the other hand, I am sick of hearing about after 5 min. 1 day ago
Oops. D-RUNK! 1 day ago
“Dood i’m on the top of the google results, but i’m getting a bunch of spam from india now.” 2 days ago
What happened to Peter Schmidt? 2 days ago
Untitled 3 days ago
Breaking news, Twitter style 3 days agoNews of a possible explosion rippled through the popular online service Twitter on Tuesday, in a preview of what’s to come in the realm of breaking news and citizen journalism. Twitter is a so-called microblogging site that allows users to send and receive short messages.Breaking news, Twitter style
At about 1:37 pm, software developer Dave Winer asked the Twitterverse: “Explosion in Falls Church, VA?”
Daniel Miller 4 days ago
Better? 4 days agoGetting happy something I’m also doing well on, helps with this one. Just yesterday I had the thought, “I used to have this real reputation for being an asshole. I just don’t feel that anymore.” What’s funny is I then had to re-assess my commitment to Sparkle Motion but I remembered this post where I’m all, “I care about art too much,” which out of context is just hilarious. All that to say, seems like in my experience it seemed that being an asshole is was required to be a doer. Now, in a nice convergence of happy, content, immediate, and secure, I have more peace about whatever is to come. I’m in a bit of a restructuring phase, doing a lot of planning, but when the time comes there will be lots of winning without having to plow anyone over on the way. So there.
My Map 5 days agoEmail became an integral part of my life in 1998. Like many people, I have archived all of my email with the hope of someday revisiting my past. I am interested in revealing the innumerable relationships between me, my schoolmates, work-mates, friends and family. This could not readily be accomplished by reading each of my 60,000 emails one-by-one. Instead, I created My Map, a relational map and alternative self portrait. My Map is a piece of custom designed software capable of rendering the relationships between myself and individuals in my address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in my email archive. The intensity of the relationship is determined by the intensity of the line. My Map allows me to explore different relational groupings and periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs and flows in various relationships. In this way, My Map is a veritable self-portrait, a reflection of my associations and a way to locate myself.
The Top 22 Twitter Posts of February 2008 6 days agoEtc., etc…I favorited 373 tweets in February 2008. These are the top 6%, in no particular order:
in the case of the bucket of fetuses last night, a dream is not, in fact, a wish that my heart makes emilybrianna
Macys lady: Didn’t you find any nice purses? Me: They’re a bit mature for me. Her: What about Coach? Me: *points to robots on current purse* ShuffShuff
In this moment, no one in this mall would judge me if i domestically violenced my boyfriend. EffingBoring
I love it when you’re searching for X, Google says “Did you mean Y?”, and then gives you zero results. It’s very French. scottsimpson
Every time you sniff and say somebody has “too much free time,” the part of you that used to love making things for pure joy dies a little. hotdogsladies
Apparently it’s not ‘money’ to cry at a strip club. lonelysandwich
Havent had sex in sooooooo long. Its gotten to the point where i masturbate thinking of other times i masturbated. irc
.5(self-deprecation) + 1.5(nerd terminology) + 2(unspoken shared experience) = twitter success echuckles
Sticking post-it notes on people so I can remember who I would sleep with sober. DieLaughing
Sometimes my heart suddenly catches fire for the beauty of life. (Classified in the DSM IV as a “hypomanic” state of Bipolar II disorder.) serafaery
Today’s lunch special: “Jamaican me crazy! jerk chicken (or tofu)” Which I suppose is better than “miso solly! soup” jimray
Announcing that all major research projects from now on will now be referred to as “Bubblegum Wrappers” so as to lessen the terror involved. ShuffShuff
John: “The Shining is about a Daddy who likes to drink who pretends to write all day.” Jonas: “That movie is about us!” I hope he’s wrong. AmyJane
“Are you making fun of me?” “No.” “That’s your yes voice.” cleversimon
whats a @scobleizer? He just added me. Thats a silly name Makenna
Drove past a bus today whose destination was, according to its display, “Walmart’s”. Say, when does the bus for literate people come by? EffingBoring
Why is there a pinata in the den that looks like me? And why was it filled with printouts from my poetry blog and then beaten with a rake? fireland
I just recently got into Star Trek. It’s relaxing to watch and listen to people who are polite to each other and enjoy their jobs. eliohouse
Make Dallas proud 6 days agoAll content, right down to the comments, is vetted by human editors before it appears on GodTube. That labor requirement, in addition to the prevalence of 30 minute long videos, is sure to eat up a large amount of cash. Fortunately for GodTube there’s advertising revenue to be made from the only other nearly-omniscient party on the company’s radar - Google.
The Money
The investment comes from a company called GLG Global Investment Management, whose website greats US visitors with a statement explaining that the site is not intended for US audiences and that due to regulatory requirements US residents should leave. Presumably the GodTube founders chose to stay on the site. The London based company is a hedge fund that specializes in trading the debts of “emerging markets” (Third World countries). Charming folks.
This lines up exactly with my experience 6 days agoSo where does this leave independent video content on the Internet? Right in the hands of Google and Youtube and black and white hat SEOs.That’s pretty much what’s happened with my former employer, and why design and UX don’t matter to them. Robots don’t care what the page looks like. And that’s the problem when you value statistical growth over actual human growth. But since advertisers value the former, and video production requires significant capital output, I have no solutions for when revenues are required very early in a very young market. All I know is no-one expected to make money with free open-source browsers or search either. I see a near-future convergence in the media industry that includes some market attractors that redefine the game and leave a few people very wealthy. But they will be the people who set themselves up early, putting a lot on the line to be there when it happens…with actual human audiences.
The ala carting of video on the net will benefit those who enable the search for content and can monetize that search. The economics of supporting content will force independently produced Internet content to be dumbed down to levels that create a perfect match for Youtube. There will be SEOs that come up with arbitrage solutions that will drive traffic to parked videos. Content creators will partner with SEOs and create budgets that reflect the CPMs they can earn in and around the video hosted on Youtube against the costs of the SEO driving traffic to the video. SEO support will be the only even marginally effective way to create baseline traffic to a video/show.
Who could have guessed that creating financially successful video on the net would require the same marketing skills as driving traffic to parked domains?
tenthousandcents.com 1 week ago
And the internets was saved 1 week ago
say WHAT?? 1 week ago
danielmillerband 1 week ago
sharesomething 1 week ago
Tom Orr 1 week ago
Cory Doctorow: A Singular Metaphor 1 week ago
Lately 1 week ago
MAKELOVENOTART 1 week ago
More on this later. I have ART to make. HA HA HA HA 1 week agoit’s art. no escaping that. might as well capitalize on it.Are you kidding me?! Ha!

Untitled 1 week ago
Art redux notes 2 weeks ago
...as dead as O-Ren 2 weeks agoAs I said before, I’ve allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons. And the second reason is so you can tell him in person everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know they’ll all soon be as dead as O-Ren.
The Photoshop Guys Revealed 2 weeks agoTroy Hitch, 37, and Matt Bledsoe, 39 — the guys responsible for YSAP and its sequel — met a few years ago while producing a radio ad in Cincinnati, which is 10 minutes from Covington. Bledsoe was the ad’s creative director and Hitch, a polymath, was doing the voice-over (he’s also the voice of Donnie and a real Photoshop expert). They quickly became buddies, started writing funny bits together, and partnered up at a creative agency Hitch later started, Big Fat Institute.Great article, and a model for the kind of work I’m really interested in. Would like to find the time to explore it some more and make some more observations…for now just the link to the article—more links can be found within.
Art 2 weeks ago
If you're chatting up a girl, the last thing you want to talk about is the other girls you've dated 2 weeks ago“So we’ve built our site as a way for a potential client to see what we’re all about as people. Someone here once said: if you’re chatting up a girl in a bar, the first thing you don’t talk about is the other girls you’ve dated. And that’s how we feel about the portfolio.”
Any system without scarcity or limitation will eventually suffer 2 weeks agoAny system without scarcity or limitation will eventually suffer at the hands of people who aren’t overtly aware of boundaries — or who actively choose to break those boundaries because they can.
Spam Salutation of the Day 2 weeks ago
Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition. 2 weeks agoThe Brooklyn Museum is holding a crowdsourced art show. They held an open call for photography on the theme “the changing face of Brooklyn.” They got hundreds of submissions. Now, the crowd is voting on them. The winners will appear in the final show, and even be sized according to their vote counts.
Can the crowd be wise enough to curate a gallery show? We’ll see. You can have your say now through 23 May.
I Want You To Want Me by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar 2 weeks agoThe interactive installation “I Want You To Want Me”, by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, for their “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition.
I Want You To Want Me explores the search for love and self in the world of online dating. It chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, using real data collected from Internet dating sites every few hours.
The piece is presented on a 56” high-resolution touch-screen, hanging vertically on the wall, and was installed at MoMA on February 14, 2008, Valentine’s Day.
American Dream Town 2 weeks agoMeet Ochelata, Oklahoma, the typical American town. Today’s American Dream has changed from white picket fences to clawing for survival. Ochelata shows us what happens when manufacturing jobs give way to service jobs, when the middle class is decimated, and when a dream becomes a nightmare.I don’t know much about this video except that is uses and has the same name as the last song off my last record. My record is Creative-Commons licensed, so you don’t even have to get my permission to use it in noncommercial projects…I’ve already given the permission. Seeing it in a video like this is a lot of fun…
Tom Conlon Apr 20 Dallas House Concert 2 weeks ago
Twitter Account on Ebay 4 weeks agoI really love my Twitter account but I feel like I haven’t been using it the way I want to. Quite honestly, I feel sorry for all of my followers because they wind up with my tweets in their timelines and I haven’t been able to utilize the medium the way I want to. I also participate in another Twitter account over on Rocketboom so I’m thinking I’ll post more over there and start up a new account to do what I want to do next.I have a bunch of other interesting Twitter links to post as well, but this one was time-sensitive. I always like when commerce is used as a social experiment…
It would be silly to just delete this account I have here, especially if there is someone out there that had like interests and had something to say or wanted to get involved in some relevant conversations. In terms of monetary value, I have no expectations or needs at all so I decided not to put a minimum bid on this. Whatever will be, will be.
http://twitter.com/andrewbaron
The winner of this auction gets my account with all of my followers. The account is in my name now, but the winner of the auction can pick any other name that’s available on Twitter for the transfer. For example, you could have http://www.twitter.com/x where x=any name thats not already taken. You can change it yourself at anytime too, one of the cool features about Twitter settings.
So basically it’s like getting a new account with your own name, but having a pre-installed audience.
...A bit more on the Starbucks "ideas" thing 4 weeks ago
Yes it's a Microsoft ad, but it's also good... 4 weeks ago
Very little offered, nothing expected in return. I can get behind that... 1 month ago…there was just something so, ugh, web whatever point whosit class-conscious about it. I mean, I like Maggie Mason and the stuff she does a lot, and even she might agree that that ‘just landed in LA’ on the twitter.com front page has got to be up there among the most unctuously precious things ever. Hey you, mister startup: please don’t try to sell me your fancy new gizmo with the same sort of air-quoted, I-didn’t-say-it-you-did fabulousity with which the dolts at Vanity Fair service the celebrity trade.
You’ll agree that everything deserves a second chance. A few months ago Twitter started slowly making sense. I’m not sure I concur that, as some have said, the constraints of 140 characters will force anyone to think or write in a meaningfully new way, but there’s something attractive about this throwaway stream of rants, thoughts, links, asides. Fragments of the lives of others just drift in, make you smile, or wince, or roll your eyes for a second, and then disappear. Very little offered, nothing expected in return. I can get behind that…
Muji Non-linear Day Planner 1 month ago
The new Chronotebook day planner takes a different approach to laying out your tasks and events—instead of representing your day in a boring sequence of lines or on a grid, it displays time on an axis, like an analog clock. Each page represents either the AM or PM, and you write your plans like spokes on a bicycle wheel.
Oh Dear Lord of Buzzes both Chemical and Medial 1 month ago
From Ad Age:Starbucks is also dipping its toe into the world of social networking. Mr. Schultz acknowledged that the chain has “never had any online presence to speak of,” but hopes that will change with the launch of mystarbucksidea.com.From Brian Oberkirch:
Chief Technical Officer Chris Bruzzo said the new site will present a variety of ideas for Starbucks, allow visitors to vote on those ideas, post comments and make their own suggestions. Votes will be tallied online, and ideas will be assigned a value in points.
I keep hearing horror stories of brands insisting on launching their own social networks. The short version of this post: don’t do it. We really don’t care. Really. We. Don’t. Care.And, um, Starbucks? It’s called Get Satisfaction.
Announcing: Sugarfilled 2 months ago
I have a new project, sugarfilled, a brand umbrella and consultancy that is essentially the combined forces of Carissa Byers and myself. Between the two of us, we have all the creative and technical skills any small business or team might need to create their image, online and off. Brand ideation, logo design, photography, copywriting, web design, and web development. Lots more can be found out at the site, which I must add is still a work in progress…there are lots of goodies yet to come.
Why Are Brands in Decay? 2 months ago
More Twitter stuff! 2 months agoTwitter is more a network than an application. If you ask around you will notice that most people are using different interfaces on different platforms and clients. Because of the API connecting to the network adapts to your preferred way of working.…And some recent Twitter apps and news I’ve bookmarked:
- Is easy accessible
- Is live
- Forces you to focus
- Is broken conversation
- Is open conversation
- Is spam free, like RSS (subscription based)
- Is a network
- Is synchronous / asynchronous
- Is a black hole
- Is a time capsule
- Is a centralized network
- Changes public / privacy
- Is a knowledge base
- Is very unstable
- Is making it very difficult for search engines
- Is platform independent
Untitled 4 months ago
Yes for now this blog is about Twitter 5 months ago
Random Twitter effect 5 months ago
Ambient? ("...Technologies" ...cont) 6 months ago
Ambient Technology 6 months agoTwitter provides a sort of continual background feeling of connectedness, even if the surface messages are often trivial…the act of reading can become unconscious. You just sort of “hear” the messages in the background instead of attending to them in the way you’d read a blog posting or even an IM.I had already grabbed the term (textual) ambient from Matt Webb just a short while prior, but CKS put just the right amount of narrative around the concept.
Looking at Twitter from the outside, I can see how it seems strange to care about the minutia of other people’s lives. But it’s exactly the stuff you’d get if you worked in the same office with those people. The constant background hum of all sorts of information, from who’s pregnant to who’s on a business trip to Portland to who’s broken the build…if you’ve made the decision to have a geographically distributed set of friends, it seems like a very practical solution.
A New(ish) ARG 7 months ago
Untitled 8 months ago
Untitled 9 months agoIcetruck.tv looks like a normal Youtube knockoff at first glance. It has friendly soft blue icons with rounded edges that just scream, “let’s watch dramatic chipmunks all day long.” But beneath the unsuspecting veneer lies one of the greatest viral marketing campaigns to hit the internet since Al Gore invented it so long ago.TV Squad: Dexter promo to die for
The Icetruck site is actually a webvertisment for Showtime’s Dexter, about a serial killer who works as a forensic analyst to help catch murderers. If that doesn’t sound cool enough, it stars Michael C. Hall from Six Feet Under. What more do you need?
Sharkrunners 9 months agoIn the game, players control their ships, but the sharks are controlled by real-world white sharks with GPS units attached to their fins. Real-world telemetry data provides the position and movement of actual great white sharks in the game, so every shark that players encounter corresponds to a real shark in the real world.area/code
Ships in the game move in real-time, so players receive email and/or SMS alerts during the day when their boat is within range of an encounter.
Photosynth 9 months agoPhotosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change forever the way you think about digital photos. More info: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
Jonathan Harris TED talk 9 months ago
an interesting talk by Jonathan Harris, known from impressive information aesthetic works such as universe & love lines & feel fine & ten by ten.
lifted directly from the infosthetics post (infosthetics blog previously gushingly linked to here)