Posts Tagged ‘ network ’
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.
Chicago Premiere Event
Saturday, May 1
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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!
# 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.
This is something I wish I would have thought of myself:
“AFP writes that five French journalists have agreed to lock themselves in a farmhouse in France for five days, where they’ll write news based only on what they read on Twitter and Facebook.”
You can read a bit more about it here.
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.
