Posts Tagged ‘ internet ’
In the June issue of WIRED, Clive Thompson asserts that,
“Automatic-translation software has long been treated as a joke because of how hilariously it mangles phrases. But in the past few years, something has shifted: The technology is now surprisingly mature.”
Read the full article here.
Should educational materials be provided for free? There’s been a large movement over the past several years that says “yes!!”
Here’s a good background article from the New York Times.
Unfortunately, there don’t seem to be many classes in the visual arts – at least not that I’ve seen. I hope that can change.
Access is key!
Health care, nukes – yes folks, he’s made himself a target. So we’re brightening the whole idea up with a version of our own. Enjoy.
# Average user has 130 friends on the site
# Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
# Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
# Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
# Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
# Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
# Average user is invited to 3 events per month
# Average user is a member of 13 groups
Okay – the next phase of the UPP has launched: get in on it on Facebook
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Here is some beautiful digital art-making. It’s giving me some ideas about The Facebook Project (tentative title that I’m not really happy with…). Enjoy.
So we’ve been interested in identity and its implications in the digital age. In fact, a lot of our work has been a version of the analog investigation of avatars.
Here’s a link to an interesting article from WIRED about what happened when one man tried to disappear without a digital trace – into an entirely new identity.
You can really learn a lot reading facebook status updates. A few of my favorite quotes from some of our facebook friends (fbfs):
Dax Tran-Caffee “successfully traded a painting for poetry – creativity is the currency of the FUTURE”
Tif Bullard “life is full of flakes – some snow, some human.”
Joshua Esmanuel-David Slater “I wish I didn’t have to pay rent and medical bills and school tuition and other bills so I can shop all day. But then I would be living in my mama’s basement…I still look good so it all works out.” 
Sent email appeal #2 today. So far, we’ve had about a 7% response rate. We’ll see how this one goes. Click to see all the latest…
