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hmm… though a bit tedious to go back and data enter all the paths & dates the embed easy features throughout the profile page are attractive.

Documented self-portrait within the Digital Domain
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in this video i am thinking about synchronicity and how different actions leave different fingerprints or markers. when ants communicate they lease chemical markers along the trail for themselves and any other ant that might go by. not unlike some kid with a marker in the city.

actual timelapse failed. but here is another timelapse from previous day: http://vimeo.com/5228444

0:22 I took a photo. the photo is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixmilli…

0:40-1:07 I sent a tweet. The tweet is archived on friendfeed here: http://friendfeed.com/danpaluska/9799…

My public google latitude feed is here:
http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/b…

And you can see my current location on my website: http://plainfront.com “

The above quote comes from this report on the BBC on January 16th referencing Janis Krums tweet which travelled around the world before the media could get a chopper out to cover the story. It’s this kind of instant access and transfer of knowledge which is revolutionizing the way we receive data and it is altering our behaviour within our social networks. Is the microblog significant? 140 characters did the trick in this instance to swell the hearts of millions around the world. Do we need 24 hour CNN overlayed with twitter streams, overlayed with our geo-located journey, overlayed with our portfolio stocks refreshing, our friendfeeds, our streaming music? Are we moving towards visual parameters like a WWC screen.

How come, in a world of 24 hour CNN I missed how dangerous life is in Sri Lanka? I have in the back of my brain the knowledge that there is unrest there but actually it seems to be running much deeper.

Have I been obtuse to what is happening in the world or am I just not receiving the right information? Can these microblogs filter into countries in China? Can the tweets from these places reach us? The DoGoSee.com Project at one time could not be seen in China, can it now? And why was it blacklisted? Is Burma still imposing limited access to the internet, ie. limited to the government officials? The digital domain allows us to reach out, extend our identities and to retains contact as well as to participate in contributing to the intense data flow, but how do we keep up? How do I access what I need to know, to make sure that I know what is going on everywhere? Is the Twitter ‘citizen journalism/lifelogging contributing verbal diarrhea to the ether?
RSS??!!!

Are journalists frustrated with the term ‘Citizen Journalism’? The concept of what journalism is, is changing radically because lifelogging is becoming mainstream. Thanks NOKIA, SONY, APPLE,… you have made a product that is replacing the cigarette, and it has changed our depth of view. You had me at hello.

Twitter VFD Display

Originally uploaded by Quasimondo

I’ve ben spending a lot of time thinking about how to make an interactive twitter experience and there are two models that I am imagining. One is a visual text output onto an LCD screen which displays the most recent twitter. The other, is to make a collection of memorable statements onto LED grids. (Apologies if the lingo is not accurate, I’m trying to get my head around all of this and just using this blog to articulate and record my thoughts.) The first one I would make would be “u twit!”, and then maybe “Where’s that pot at the end of the rainbow?”.

Now that I have this entry I will try update this entry with more of these statements. I have also considered making them in neon… but the whole thing boils down to the fact that I don’t have a sugar daddy to pay for all my imaginative adventures.

Ok, so actually Quasimondo has linked an arduino to VFD cashier display which relays twitter updates.
To further build on idea 1 I’ve been trying to see if I could link a webcam to take constant pictures that relay to twitter. I have this in mind to propose to New Media Scotland’s Twitterer in Residence Programme, and also for the installation/space/performance planned for the near future, where a camera could be a fly on the wall which visually updates my activity within my 3D browser installation.

Also, worth noting here I wish I had had a Kickbeeby Corey Menscher, while I was making Child. This would have added one more dimension to the piece.

And, tying to previous post on sensecam, it would be perfect if all that data could relay to twitter too. I would love to be the guinea pig if someone could do all the building… but may have to try to put it together myself.

[update 14:35] Lady Ada has a tutorial on her site for linking an arduino to LCD, then there is talk of linking to twitter in her Botanicalls Twitter Kit. Does Ben have any of these spare parts up in Headingley, must ask?

I have been using Insta Mapper on my iPhone to trace my geo movements in order to match multiple data, like Edwige Pronovost performances and engagement with research projects. In Belfast I was at the mscape conference presenting Our City, Our Music. In New York Edwige performed in Time Square and outside the MOMA, starting her performance at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at
Parsons The New School for Design. I had some work showing in the OURS:Democracy in the Age of Branding exhibition, photo below.