Twitter is a service I feel is here to stay. The concept of micro-blogging and sharing short anecdotal stories, news or events have become a popular shift in Internet usage. Twitter provides a platform for users to connect and share information in real time. With the ability to ‘follow’ users who are leaders in communities …
February 2012 archive
Feb 18
In-Class Exercise Feb 2nd – Making Household Objects Social
This post is for the group exercise in class on February 2nd where we had to choose between a hair dryer, a dishwasher or a microwave and give these objects social, critical and feedback capabilities. In my group were Vanessa, Youmna and Conor. Below is a summary of our chosen objects: Hair Dryer – functions …
Feb 16
Social Media Project
I changed my project idea. I though further after the “Why the Future doesn’t need us” reading about uncontrolled self-replication and that Self replication equalling total destruction. That brought me to the word TOTAL. The quality or state of being total. Complete, utter, absolute…however, total can also stand for wrecking completely, demolishing. In visual sense, I am …
Feb 16
Reading Response – Great Wall of Facebook/ Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us/ Why We Twitter
I wanted to iterate on a point I brought up in class that I didn’t really get to explain the other day because I had trouble articulating my thoughts on the spot. I remember coming across the “Great Wall of Facebook” article last semester, and being taken up by the story of the intense competition …
Feb 14
Switch Project- GreedSpider 1.0
I posted about the GreedSpider Project over at my Blog. Here’s a link to follow to my post.
Feb 14
forgot the link
Jonah, Here’s that link to the phonebooth project i referred to in the previous post:
Feb 13
Reading Response
*please excuse any disjointed arguments being made, this is a gut reaction to the readings… Blade Runner In Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner, a test titled the Voight Kampff Test is used to determine if a suspected replicant, an artificial intelligence in the form of a human-like machine, is in fact human or …
Feb 13
Switch: final presentation
Feb 13
Void interaction = if interaction + = media…then ++ ?w!t?f
Been keeping on wrapping my thoughts around the next assignent. Im not in the complete clear. I get the social / object component of it… but am not sure about the media component. In the midst of processing it al, I figured I would linke/add a project I made last semester… I wonder if you …
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