13/06/2009
Interview
SitesNOISENOISE ShowcaseColour GalleryPONGolfing Round the WorldBlogsLaylaJennaLibbyJonnyDoug

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18/05/2009
Returning..... six months on
I'm just starting to re-think about what I worked on for my MA and what I worked on at NOISE last year. I really just need somewhere to start dumping ideas again and trying to get into a rhythm of working over the next couple of months. Not sure how this is going to work but I need to get the online sketchbook/research going again.

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10/08/2008
Jeff Jarvis on a shared Google pressroom
Another interesting article from today's Guardian, again this was something that I mentioned on the Graphics blog. One of the problems with this idea of death of print or death of newspapers is that online media doesn't alter the content(well it can do if you read Charlie Brookers article), the content isn't dying- the medium is. The journalistic quality of The Guardian is still there and online

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10/08/2008
Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it
Charlie Brooker article in todays GuardianIt's a funny article but raises some interesting points. There's a relevance to the discussion we had on the Graphics site the other week about the death of print. If publishers are generating revenue through advertising, is this a knock on effect and how does it effect content?And wait, it gets worse. These phrases don't just get lobbed in willy-nilly.

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10/08/2008
Blended distribution :)
Awesome, NOISE Peter Saville video being used to back up an argument on this forum

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10/08/2008
This stands as a sketch for the future.
This stands as a sketch for the future.MURIEL COOPER and the VISIBLE LANGUAGEWORKSHOPBy David Reinfurt"Muriel Cooper always sought more responsive systemsof design and production, emphasizing quicker feedbackloops between thinking and making, often blurringthe distinction between the two. As a result, she alwaysleft room for the reader. This text is an attempt to dothe same."link

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10/08/2008
Muriel Cooper
This is really amazing stuff, Mark posted a quote about her Bahaus movie on the Graphics blog. Whenever I find things like this I think a couple of things, one I'm not alone, two am I really stupid and why haven't I read this before."she was beginning to grapple with the converse: how to translate an interactive experience with a computer onto paper, "without just dumping"—an area known

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30/06/2008
Learning Agreement new draft
Neil OwenDraft Learning Agreement“Most often, when people are asked to describe the current media landscape, they respond by making an inventory of tools and technologies. Our focus should be not on emerging technologies but on emerging cultural practices.”Henry JenkinsEight Traits of the New Media Landscapehttp://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/eight_traits_of_the_new_media.html“There is a

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10/08/2008
bTween 2008
Attended bTween 2008 on Thursday. Really good, more industry focused than Futuresonic. Interesting to see how companies and corporations such as Orange, BBC, Channel 4 etc are adapting to these new forms of media. Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing was very good ,a lot of exciting ideas about the future of all forms of creative media, issues of copyright and distribution. I liked his argument that

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10/08/2008
bTween 2008 Notes
bTween 2008 NotesCory DoctorowDRMNet/Computer perfect toolGeorge Lucas Encrypt ToolBeing able to view content on your own termsOwn deviceFusilierTeen hackersBlue ray- code breakersIntimidation from big companies doesn't workDoesn't stop piracyIs this progress?Working piracy tool would be the same as a working spam filter. Doesn't exist!!“Internet will never forget”Universe ll access is not a bug(

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17/06/2008
Draft learning agreement
Neil OwenDraft Learning Agreement“Most often, when people are asked to describe the current media landscape, they respond by making an inventory of tools and technologies. Our focus should be not on emerging technologies but on emerging cultural practices.”Henry JenkinsEight Traits of the New Media Landscapehttp://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/eight_traits_of_the_new_media.html“There is a

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09/12/2008
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17/06/2008
More learning agreement
Learning agreementMIT Jenkins quotePirates dilemma quote p27Gerd Lernd describes the web asWeb1.0: get Noise.Web2.0: make NoiseWeb3.0: filter NoiseWeb4.0: Deaf - or SmartNoise?I work in an emerging area of design and media, crossing over from web 2.0(definition oreily)), the making of stuff/noise and into what is becoming web 3.0; the mapping, curating and filtering of all the noise being created

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10/08/2008
Nick Bucher on the Apprentice and live event blogging
Following on from the discussions this afternoon about documenting what we we are doing as we do it. This is an article from Nick Bucher. It's talking mainly about blogging as the Apprentice is going out live, allowing people to respond and feedback as events take place.Some quotes, talking about TV in this case but could be applied to other events and media.The Apprentice - 'Social TV'

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09/12/2008
Draft learning agreement
Some initial thoughts for this. Well my initial thought is I wish I just designed nice little websites or posters then I wouldn't have to spend most of my time justifying or defining roles.Web1.0: get Noise.Web2.0: make NoiseWeb3.0: filter NoiseWeb4.0: Deaf - or SmartNoise?Gerd Leonhard: Media FuturistMost often, when people are asked to describe the current media landscape, they respond by

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09/12/2008
Learning agreement
Some initial plans for this.So it will be in book form of sorts, using the 20 proposals I'm preparing. These will be one page A4(?) proposals no more no less.As discussed with Aidan and Graham there needs to be intro text and conclusion. Something similar to the one page summary from last year. Another thing mentioned by Aidan at the presentations was how the book relates to current interactive

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26/05/2008
Programming is destroying my capacity for reflective thought
This article in the Guardian on Thursday really struck a chord, especially after spending a day and a half!!! on a newsletter template that simply refused to allow me to insert an image.The worst of it is that even this kind of programming has a corrupting fascination, like a videogame you can't give up: there is always the hope that one more round of changes will take you through to the next

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21/05/2008
Vaporware
Sounds like everything I'm working on.VaporwareVaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. The term implies unwarranted optimism, or sometimes even deception; that is, it may imply that the announcer knows that product development is in too early a

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09/12/2008
Snackr
Now this is a bit more like it, an RSS feed built using Adobe AIR.So it's basically a ticker tape of your RSS Feeds but what I like is the portential for doing something more visual with a feed. I'm thinking this is the way to go with the design of the research section of th CAGD site

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09/12/2008
Too many feed things....
Just signed up for FriendFeed, this means I have a Google Reader, a Delicous account, a Digsby account, a Twitter account, a Tumblr account, a Ning account. As well as the usual Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, GMail, AOL, Hotmail and so on. After signing up for FriendFeeder I suddenly felt swampped. And I really don't see the point of FriendFeederOut of all these my favourite is Digsby, for

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09/12/2008
NOISE Showcase
A couple of NOISE related October showcase thingsEverything must goFriday May 16, 2008The Guardian Last week, free music site Last.fm made its first foray into original content, with the launch of Last.fm Presents (last.fm/presents), a new series of video interviews with artists including Moby, Santogold, Neon Neon and Spoon. The short chats aim to discover what inspired these acts to make music,

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09/05/2008
More Dopplr
Quote from Matt Jones One of the aspects of creating social tools that fascinates me is the ability to make the invisible visible, and what effect surfacing these patterns then has on us as individuals and groups. For a while there have been carbon calculators on airline websites and environmentalist websites, but generally they have been about directly showing the impact of an individual

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09/05/2008
Cluster Cities
Building DopplrWe’re sitting on the grass in the sunshine with a bunch of early Dopplr users, including Stowe Boyd and Stephanie Booth - when Stephanie is the first to voice something we’ve heard a lot from Dopplr users since: “make my trips more ‘fuzzy’”.By which, she and others meant that they would like to see coincidences in the surrounding area of ‘social spacetime’ to their trip - i.e. “

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09/12/2008
Rubbing Shoulders
I guess what interests me about this for the publication, is setting up a network, members and non-members. How do you identify members of the group? How do people join the group/network? What are the rules once you join? How do you interact with members/non-members? How do memebers of a group communicate?I also like the promotion of the event, just using stickers, flyers and some info on a

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05/05/2008
Friendsnetwork "online"! Aram Bartholl Performance
Original post"Friends The project Friends is a workshop which translates the so-called social web- online services such as Facebook, Myspace, etc. - into a paper-basedform in physical space.All workshop participants contribute a profilepage to the big Friends Book and make their own personal friendsbooklet in which to collect as many friends as possible. With their ownhand-made profile photo

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09/07/2008
No 20: NOISE Festival hub

9/07/08An extract from the gRaphics blog"Now this is the bit which I find interesting because I dont think this means responsive in the sense of clap your hands and the lights come on or write a comment and it appears on the screen in different coulour. I think in an exhibition these simply become toys and are in fact have a one way application."I agree with this, the bTween conference last week

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10/12/2008
No 19: NOISE October Showcase part 3

Edit:15/6/2008A mock up for the main page of this. This is the sensible, might get it built in time for October version. Involves live gigs, Stickam and Badly Drawn Boy samples.The less sensible version involves first and second life gigs, a second life elements music mixer and an on screen elements mixer. But I'm still working on these bits.Edit:15/6/2008Edit:1/6/2008My initial thoughts with

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