I’ve been thinking a lot about blogs and wikis. HTML seems so ill-suited to dense intertwinglings of thoughts. Ok for simple document layout, but the chunking/scoping seems at the wrong level for anything very fine-grained. I want to be able to pick this site up by a concept, shake it and see how everything else falls into place around it. Some approximation of that would be possible with heavy metadata and hyperbolic trees, but I feel like the map and the document should be the same thing. At the very least I want those visible interconnections within documents that Ted Nelson mocked up for Xanadu all those years ago…
Here & There
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animation
audio
AV
BigShinyThing
blogging
books
Business
Calendaring
computer graphics
DIY audio
film
geolocation
glanceware
hardware
Heidegger
innovation
intellectual property
interview
James Elkins
laserdisc
London
London bombings
media art
moon
Music
nude media
patina
phenomenology
philosophy
photography
poetics
poetry
snow
social media
social network analysis
software
speakers
surround sound
technology
theory
tools
user interface
visual art
Vivid
wireless (&c)
Listening to...
- Merz
- The Leaving Song (Yorkshire Traction)
- Jordi Savall
- A los baos del amor (anon.)
- Aphrodite
- Cool Flight
- Philip Glass & Robert Wilson
- Scene C
- This Mortal Coil
- The Lacemaker
- Anna Domino
- Not Right Now
- Rjoji Ikeda
- Mothboy
- saucy Mix
- Cocteau Twins
- Bluebeard
- Buck 65
- Memory is Parallax
- Moby
- Soundtrack mix
- Cavemen Speak
- Track 11
- Cat Power
- Still In Love
- Jordi Savall
- Propian de melyor (anon.)
- The Gossip
- Eyes Open
- Young Marble Giants
- Wind in the Rigging
- Tim Buckley
- Phantasmagoria in Two (Live)
- The Dead Sexy Inc
- Track 3
- Dawn Upshaw & The Andalucian Dogs
- Ayre III. Tancas Serradas a Muru (Walls Are Encircling the Land)
- The Dead Sexy Inc
- D Generation
Elsewhere...
Dec 4th 2008
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“mmmm.... Marylebone...” | |
Dec 3rd 2008
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“@mediaczar PostRank: not yet, but might be. What do u have in mind?” | |
Dec 2nd 2008
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“http://tinyurl.com/5luzfe” | |
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“i see everyone is showing off their latest visualisation tools... here's my work-in-progress...” | |
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I posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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Nov 27th 2008
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“Project Komakino are playing in the window of 30a Redchurch st” | |
Nov 26th 2008
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I posted 13 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 20th 2008
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I posted 15 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 18th 2008
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“Thanks to the nice people at Hub KX for letting me squat there this afternoon.” | |
Nov 14th 2008
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I posted 19 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 12th 2008
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I posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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I posted 10 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 10th 2008
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Global Avoidable Mortality | |
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I posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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I posted 4 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Edward Steichen: In High Fashion - The Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937 Edward Steichen: Vogue's gallery - Telegraph | |
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“A wind-driven vortex of leaves. No more. Sadly.” | |
Nov 6th 2008
| Some writing: UNDERCONSTRUCTION 4 November 2008 | ||
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I posted 10 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 3rd 2008
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“Not Enough Bandwidth!” | |
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“A quick juice at the Photographers Gallery between meetings...” | |
Nov 2nd 2008
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I posted 9 pictures on Flickr... | |
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“Mainlining timeshifty TV” | |
Nov 1st 2008
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“Off to the vaults under the Barbican. But not yet.” | |
Oct 30th 2008
| Some writing: UNDERCONSTRUCTION Season 4 | ||
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I posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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“sometimes a 404 is just right” | |
| Some writing: Kit List | ||
Oct 27th 2008
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US Army warns of Twitter danger | |
| Some writing: Polaroid Retrospective | ||
have been busy attempting coding a riff on markov chains for multimedia. extracting inherent metadata and manually applying layers of it to dynamically create hyperbolic trees and hyperlinks (using statistical queues as with markov) … and then “regenerating” some media. basically, i get the feeling that unless your “picture” (=the algorithm behind its generation) has the balls to make some unlikely associations (guesses? “random” matches? …. or what I’ve settled on, mutations) then it’s probably not going to go much beyond a linear reading/hyperlinked association tedium.
have called it evolver. Has associated components:
evolver the main interface
involver a media input method
revolver a media output method, a viewer
devolver a media decoder
envolver a media encoder
the way things snap together is quite vague at this stage.
v0.1 should be done this summer. hmmm. tagline: “i’ll believe it when i see it”
Comment by tim — Thursday 26 June 2003 @ 3:20 pm