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Let’s talk to everyone

Kate — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:00:08 +0000

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.

Kate — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:27:59 +0000

Need we say more?

LOLCats: The Ballet

Kate — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:47:36 +0000

Chicago Premiere Event

Saturday, May 1

Stay tuned for more details!

An Open Education

Kate — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:49:14 +0000

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 Figures – Facebook

Kate — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:34:07 +0000

# 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

UPP phase 2

Kate — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:16:42 +0000

Okay – the next phase of the UPP has launched: get in on it on Facebook .

Decode Exhibition – London

Kate — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:31:52 +0000

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.

Dunbar and Facebook

Kate — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:08:19 +0000

Do you know how many friends your brain can handle? Well, one guy thinks that it’s 150. And that counts for Facebook too.

Friends

Sage Wisdom

Kate — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:45:33 +0000

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.

Disappearance ca. 2010

Kate — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:53:45 +0000

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.