Daniel Miller, artist, writer, musician and technologist. "seeking stories beauty meaning love"
- Daniel Miller is an artist, writer, musician and web producer.
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- Hates when society creates occasions for the disappointment of impossible, mysterious expectations. 8 hours ago
- Aptana Studio New multiplatform IDE/dev studio product that has plans to support Rails.
- 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
- Flickr Code Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community
- ma.tt - my "high order bit" keynote talk at Web 2.0 Expo It’s succinct — 10 minutes — and covers WordPress.com and Automattic growth, the possibly related posts launch, and Monotone.
- IT'S A TRAP! Scandinavian Music Journal
- elBulli This restaurant in Spain has its own photography staff. Hunt around a bit and you’ll find a 25 year archive of their creations. The packaging design on the print catalogs are also stellar.
- Twitter Charts
- Ten Thousand Cents Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Worke
- How are Tags Implemented in Wordpress 2.3
- Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008
- My First Experiences with Twine - Blog - Semantic Focus
- Untitled 3 days ago
Worst Cities For Cycling and I’ve spent most of my adult life in two out of the three. Woot. - Breaking news, Twitter style 3 days ago
News 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?”
What is so interesting about Twitter is what it is further exposing about what the web has been showing us for the last 15 years, that is a social experience of hyperconnectedness, attention, and most of all, mediation. - Daniel Miller 4 days ago
The TAG is getting goood with her post! - Better? 4 days ago
Getting 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
iswas 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.See more progress on: be nicer - My Map 5 days ago
My Map from Christopher Baker on Vimeo.Email 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 ago
Etc., 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
When I first read this post I thought it was fav’d tweets across all users, but even just as one (slightly obsessed) user’s fav’s, it is an entertaining proof that Twitter is the ultimate gym for our collective fast-twitch wit muscles. - Make Dallas proud 6 days ago
GodTube Raises $30m for Jesus 2.0 © - ReadWriteWeb:All 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 ago
The Ala Carting of Video on the Net - Will it lead to disaster? - Blog Maverick:So 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
Ten Thousand Cents from Ten Thousand Cents on Vimeo. - And the internets was saved 1 week ago
YouTube has a new player that doesn’t over-compress the video and then stretch it via flash. And there was much rejoicing. - say WHAT?? 1 week ago
Given sugarfilled’s recent rejections from iStockphoto (“too much post” on a photo straight out of the camera), the fact that someone stole 80% of their iStockphoto portfolio off of someone else’s Flickr account—photoshopping the watermark off of a 300kb image already compressed by open source server side scripting code on Flickr’s servers—REALLY PISSES ME OFF.
To the point I think I’m going to use up the rest of my iStock credits and find a new stock image supplier.
This is the other far side from this thing and pisses me off far, far more. - danielmillerband 1 week ago
more graphical nostalgia - sharesomething 1 week ago
stumbled upon this looking for something much more recent. done by joshuarudd.com for integrationresearch.org for christmas 2004 campaign for the best social software ever, smartcommons - Tom Orr 1 week ago
Met this guy today. He’s a badass.
http://www.tomorr.net - Cory Doctorow: A Singular Metaphor 1 week ago
I finally got around to subscribing to Cory Doctorow’s podcast a couple weeks ago, and today while running around I had a chance to finish up his spectacular talk from late last year, A Singular Metaphor (direct mp3 link). Highly recommended. I tweeted a word of the day yesterday while listening to the first part, but the even better term was the Singularity, used with nuance in the second half of the talk. - Lately 1 week ago
Saw Into The Wild last night and it was good, unlike the last movie we saw, which was made in a romance factory in China. I really liked it. I had more to say about it, but I’m in a bit of a rabbit hole consuming more stuff from around it.
Little updater: This is the location of the bus, and, oh, they have street view in Fairbanks!
This morning I enjoyed this exchange, because I have the funniest BFF ever:
“How do you know it’s time for that? Does the government send you a letter or something?”
“I think they send it with your menopause check.”
I uploaded 2 mp3s for ya, too: I Hate Your Blog and It Is Pitch Dark
- MAKELOVENOTART 1 week ago
- More on this later. I have ART to make. HA HA HA HA 1 week ago
gapingvoid: a new direction? From the comments:it’s art. no escaping that. might as well capitalize on it.
Are you kidding me?! Ha!
- Untitled 1 week ago
Cat and Girl on art. via shan. - Art redux notes 2 weeks ago
The “big long post about art” is going to end up being the usual bunch-of-only-somewhat-coherent thoughts here possibly followed by the combination of all those thoughts into some kind of publication.
But for now, my just-barely-too-long-or-numerous-for-twitter thoughts…
So much of art these days just seems like improper masturbation to me. I don’t want to become the curmudgeon or cynic that so heartlessly dismissed/dismisses my own efforts. And I think I differ in that instead of not caring about art, I care about art too much. But seriously, have you read an artist’s statement lately? Especially from someone either coming out of an academic situation or trying to appeal to the academics? It feels like the academies have slowly become degraded. A vocabulary representing meaning has replaced actual meaningfulness. The words that were supposed to communicate meaning have become more important than the meaning itself. And without the actual meaningfulness we lose context. And without context we become vapid. We become an un-unified theory of everything.
There is no language without deceit.
The same could be said for any discipline. I guess I just care the most about art, because art was supposed to be spiritual. The best Immediatist agitprop will leave no trace at all, except in the souls of those who are changed by it (more Bey). But it’s not enough to just say, “All art should be Immediatist,” because while better than ejaculating on the wall and calling up your PR firm, that is not what I am proposing. Bey says, “The game’s payoff lies in its ability to escape the paradoxes & contradictions of the commercial art world (including literature, etc.), in which all liberatory gestures seem to end up as mere representations & hence betrayals of themselves,” emphasis mine, and if you know anything about immediatism you know he means representations of the immediate, the real, the actual, the pre-capitalist, the pre-structural. But I mean to say representations of meaning. Just as many Christians have come to worship the text instead of the God who presumably authored it, we will continue to make attempts at words that will give authority to what essentially amounts to some vaguely aesthetic abstraction of our desires.
Examples will come when I figure out a way to give them without totally shitting on their parades. - ...as dead as O-Ren 2 weeks ago
As 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 ago
The Photoshop Guys RevealedTroy 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
I had a big long post about art all in my head ready to go and then I stumbled across this and realized I’d been beat to the punch. - 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
Computer Arts - Coudal Partners:“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 ago
Email Insanity & the 0.001 Challenge:Any 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
Compliment,
… - Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition. 2 weeks ago
Derek Powazek - Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition:The 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 ago
The 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 ago
Meet 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
Blog entry will go here. We’re out the door to do this atm. - Twitter Account on Ebay 4 weeks ago
Twitter Account and Followers For Sale:I 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
…I mentioned a little while ago…
Well, it turns out the entire thing is run on a salesforce.com product—i.e. “My Starbucks Idea” is a branded, hosted solution via the Salesforce.com Ideas product.
Brilliant. I also like the classic four-word tag-line.
…so glad I went to five… - 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
Textism: Did you really…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
Muji Chronotebook Non-linear Day PlannerThe 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.
Seriously people. - 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.
This blog will become more active and a place for me to jot down thoughts regarding the social and psychological aspects of the web and branding in an always-connected, always-consuming world. The name and description have been updated accordingly. (As for how long it will stay on blogger I can’t say. I do have my own CMS dog food to eat. This blog has just happened to live on Blogger since forever.)
To those who might be reading this post on Sugarfilled, hello! This is one of the blogs that the sugar feed is drawing from. - Why Are Brands in Decay? 2 months ago
Just very well articulated is all. This blog may have a lot more of this kind of stuff on it henceforth, as the threads of hypernarrative, storytelling as a cultural practice, and the “cultural” bits of commerce and business all begin to intersect, both in my own experience and within the general trend of online idea exchange. e.g. the fact that most ARGs are really just marketing campaigns.
Also, this is one of the sources pulled for the Sugarfilled feed. - More Twitter stuff! 2 months ago
A fairly comprehensive list of what Twitter is from “A MSc research on the one thing Twitter asks; what are you doing?”Twitter 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:
Twitter- 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
- Qwitter helps track how much you smoke in order to help you quit
- Commuter Feed puts traffic reporting in the hands of the people
- Twitter Karma lets you know which of your Twitter connections are mutual
- Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular (New York Times): “Of last year’s 10 best-selling novels, five were originally cellphone novels, mostly love stories written in the short sentences characteristic of text messaging but containing little of the plotting or character development found in traditional novels.” This is a Twitter app waiting to happen, there are already sites in .jp that help capture cellphone novels.
- Tweetgift lets you send virtual gifts to friends over Twitter
- plusplus bot lets you rate things quickly over Twitter
- Untitled 4 months ago
What is this game?
via conej - Yes for now this blog is about Twitter 5 months ago
- Random Twitter effect 5 months ago
Mysterious reverse historical poetry of sorts via @ replies.
This exchange occurred during the recording of the last track (number 8 on the record) for Happy Sounding Sad Songs. - Ambient? ("...Technologies" ...cont) 6 months ago
The word ambient is rather ambient itself. All you have to do to find how ambiguous the word is is do a flickr search for it. - Ambient Technology 6 months ago
This oft-neglected blog might appear to be solely about ARG marketing/gaming and digital art, but this thing I’ve labeled as “nonlinear” since 2001 is finding a new presence thanks to Twitter, Last.fm, etc. And this thing is getting a new name; I’ve been calling it Ambient Technology.
I do credit Twitter for getting us all talking about this. The first good description of this compelling ambient was Christopher St. John’s post Trains, Twitter and MUDs:Twitter 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.
{Since then, I have been a huge Twitter advocate, convincing two different clients to use it, and having almost childlike joy when finding someone-I-really-respect-but-don’t-get-as-much-IRL-time-as-I’d-like-with has jumped on the tweeting bandwagon. (Never mind the almost dirty-sounding slang that has come out of Twitter culture.)}
So today this thread appears before me, thanks to boboroshi’s post discussing the extant problem of multiple social sites/graphs.
{A popular subject, one a couple of local friends are working on, and one that those of us at The HopeShow experience every day with the number of sites we visit every day—and we’re slacking!}
So I am introduced to Leisa Reichelt’s disambiguity.com and her excellent presentation on Ambient Intimacy at the Future of Web Apps, and her excellent post on Ambient Intimacy.
Through that I am introduced to the word phatic and the idea of phatic communication, a linguistic structure first developed by Roman Jakobson.
I also discover how much thought the Last.fm people have put into the idea of ambient technologies. They use the word osmotic, which I also like.
The other term I’ve used is Low Threshold Technology. I use it interchangeably with Ambient Technology based on context.
This is a research blog and as such I don’t have much to add to this conversation…yet.
{I have been commissioned to write articles for an unusual publication in another country, and I am going to work this stuff into those pieces and either point to them or republish them on one of my various locations on the web. I’m sure I will have more tidbits and will probably choose to post them here (I have been toying with re-centralizing my web publishing, a cycle I seem to go through twice a decade).}
In the meantime the take home is this: If you are in the business of stealing my attention (which most of us are in some form or fashion), you can do as much of that as you like, given each theft is very small. The shortening of our collective attention span is not a bad thing, simply because it is not a matter of shortening our attention span. It is a matter of freeing more of our attention for what is important and/but allowing as much of what is important through without using up too much of our attention.
(Ah yes I do have much more to say in this area. It has everything to do with media and business, which is my passion and my bread and butter. But…later.)
links tagged attention, links tagged twitter - A New(ish) ARG 7 months ago
1-18-08.com
…something to do with this movie, which looks pretty badaaaaasss!
…but as always I don’t have the time to explore the ARG… :(
http://ethanhaaswasright.com/
http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/
http://mix.jetsetshow.com/forum/topic/search?q=cloverfield - Untitled 8 months ago
Alternate Reality Games: Design, Development And Implementation (Part III) - Untitled 9 months ago
Icetruck.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?
Apophenia: personalized viral marketing - Sharkrunners 9 months ago
In 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.
sharkrunners.com - Photosynth 9 months ago
Photosynth 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/
via St. Vincent, of all places :) - 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)
