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pim wiki garderning

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We the pimmers (post-industrial media) meet to do some wiki garderning on the pim wiki. We discussed seeing a wiki as a non-architecture entity that is link driven. Adrian suggested that we needed to think of a “promicious linking” where as you write you think about what could be written into that writing as way to be constantly cross-referencing. Following this process it is OK to have “redundancy and a bit of repetition” occurring. The pim wiki has been skinned and rearranged after our first retreat in Daylesford. There is a ‘all pages in the wiki‘ page which is great for seeing all the content in the wiki. We also re-worked the PIMcategory page which can be accessed via ‘all pages in the wiki.’ These categories can be seen as tags and we aimed to set up a tagging process as we write.

Resources:
http://media.rmit.edu.au/projects/pim/index.php/PIMWikiPattern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Wikipatterns
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repeated posts

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on May 5, 2008
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I have got most of the clips into the ‘Glasshouse Birdman’ prototype and are now starting to look at how the categories and tags work in terms of how I would like the user to engage with the themes that have emerged in the content. I realised that clips could be kept in separate categories by controlling cross-overs with tag names, but sometimes a clip has something to offer in other categories. For example, giving a clip a tag name that features strongly in another category brings all those clips from that category across with it into the original category that has been selected. Often from my perspective this makes the theme to random if this is not the desired effect. One way around this within this interface design is to post the same clip twice with the same title but in a different category and with a different tag name.

category = birdman; tag = animal lover; clip title = big brown snake

category = feeding; tag = aviary; clip title = big brown snake

This means clips can be repeated to appear elsewhere while still having some control over themes. In a hidden kind of way clips that seemed more important that others could be repeated to appear in a number of places. Repetition becomes a feature of the narrative structure.

thumb candy - blog based documentary

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on April 22, 2008
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Chris let me know recently about a online documentary that he made titled ‘Thumb Candy’ on SMS text culture in the Philipphines that he put together within a blog. He gives Videodefunct a plug on the More about the project page as being an influence on using tagging and a blog to classify the video content.

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video themes wordpress

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on April 20, 2008
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The SIAB people have released a number of wordpress blog themes customised for publishing video:

The Video Producer theme series will feature WordPress themes that are designed from the ground up to break the “blog diary” format and allow video creators to display their work differently from what is usually seen on most blogs, while retaining the flexibility and functionality that the WordPress core already provides.

After some recent writing on videodefunct about what it is, I recognised even more the work VD is doing as part of a growing movement towards customised video themes for blogs. I see in the distant future a plethora of choices as this development becomes more and more accessible.

flickr video

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on April 16, 2008
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http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/09/flickr-gets-video-but-just-for-90-seconds/

Flickr has launched its long awaited video feature, and it’s an interesting addition. First of all, all videos are limited to 90 seconds, and secondly, only pro users can upload videos (everyone can view and embed them though). Why is that?

participatory video

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wikipedia participatory video definition:

Participatory Video (PV) is a set of techniques to involve a group or community in shaping and creating their own film. The idea behind this is that making a video is easy and accessible, and is a great way of bringing people together to explore issues, voice concerns or simply to be creative and tell stories. It is therefore primarily about process, though high quality and accessible films (products) can be created using these methods if that is a desired outcome. This process can be very empowering, enabling a group or community to take their own action to solve their own problems, and also to communicate their needs and ideas to decision-makers and/or other groups and communities. As such, PV can be a highly effective tool to engage and mobilise marginalised people, and to help them to implement their own forms of sustainable development based on local needs.

open book example

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on March 27, 2008
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Lisa Gye posted this open book example ‘The Googlization of Everything’ by Siva Vaidhyanathanto to the fc list. The author Siva Vaidhyanathan uses the open book process (Institute for the Future of the Book) to critique Google. The book is a “book blog” and Vaidhyanathanto lays out some major research questions in the summary:

This blog, the result of a collaboration between myself and the Institute for the Future of the Book, is dedicated to exploring the process of writing a critical interpretation of the actions and intentions behind the cultural behemoth that is Google, Inc. The book will answer three key questions: What does the world look like through the lens of Google?; How is Google’s ubiquity affecting the production and dissemination of knowledge?; and how has the corporation altered the rules and practices that govern other companies, institutions, and states?

Vaidhyanathanto’s other books - Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). The about on the Institute for the Future of the Book:

We’re a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.

Video Vortex video documentation

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on March 27, 2008
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The Video Vortex video documentation is now online. Ogg Theora files are also available for download.

tagging differences

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I have been looking around at tagging and noticed that the ABC online use a specific style of tagging. An example ‘government-and-politics’. They sometimes use 2-3-4 word tags. This style of tagging seems to be referred to as a multi-word tag on the microformats wiki, which are done in varying ways and supported by different social media websites.

Examples of variations (world-politics world_politics world+politics world.politics WorldPolitics) delicious as far as I can tell supports all of these combinations, what microformats calls combined tags (from delicious):

The only limitation on tags is that they must not include spaces. So if your web page is about a two-word place like “San Francisco”, you may want to tag it as sf, san-francisco, SanFrancisco, san.francisco, or whatever else makes sense to you. You probably don’t want to use commas, though, since a comma will be become part of the tag.

On the videoblogging mail list David Meade in the post ‘[videoblogging] tagging posts in wordpress question’ notices some issues with WordPress where wordpress replaces a + with a dash. All pointing to a lack of consistency across tagging. ABC categorises these stories under the following”:

Every one of our stories includes metadata on things like subjects, locations, importance and genre.

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facebook behind the scenes

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on February 4, 2008
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This facebook article from the Guardian Unlimited was brought to my attention on a few lists, With friends like these… written by Tom Hodgkinson. (The Idler magazine) This article does an in-depth analysis on the people behind facebook and their philosophical-economic motivations. It made me realise that joining social media platforms like facebook is like signing up to a company or corporation that you detest. Something you would never do if you understood in advance what they where about, which is where in following what I would call a “social media fashion”, i.e. blindly follow your neighbour, some very bizarre companies are making huge economic gains. These developments also have quite a significant affect on the development of the Internet. For example, connections could be made with MySpace and YouTube.

Some quotes from the article:

Thiel’s philosophical mentor is one René Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behaviour called mimetic desire. Girard reckons that people are essentially sheep-like and will copy one another without much reflection. The theory would also seem to be proved correct in the case of Thiel’s virtual worlds: the desired object is irrelevant; all you need to know is that human beings will tend to move in flocks. Hence financial bubbles. Hence the enormous popularity of Facebook.

Thiel says that PayPal was motivated by this belief: that you can find value not in real manufactured objects, but in the relations between human beings. PayPal was a way of moving money around the world with no restriction.

Jean Burgess Why I am deleting my facebook account