The Organic Art Factory » networking

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.

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.

Sage Wisdom, cont.

Kate — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:15:59 +0000

We were babysitting my 12 (soon to be 13) year old niece this weekend, and I couldn’t help but watch and wonder at her communication forms and habits. She was generally texting and on facebook at the same time, but she only used the telephone as a phone (a live voice transmittal device) twice: once to ask her babysitter for the week if there was more baloney, and once to let her friend know that she was leaving the house and would see her in about 5 minutes (said friend lives about 3 blks away).

Anyhow, it’s got me to thinking a lot about the way that we will communicate in the future – will any of our communication be technologically unassisted? Is a voice-conversation turning into a nostalgic event? (This is also something we’re exploring as part of the UPP) Anyway, here’s a quote from an interesting article in the NYT:

“But the children, teenagers and young adults who are passing through this cauldron of technological change will also have a lot in common. They’ll think nothing of sharing the minutiae of their lives online, staying connected to their friends at all times, buying virtual goods, and owning one über-device that does it all…”

Read the full article here.

Universal Patronage Project

Kate — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:07:31 +0000

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…

Distinctions in digital

Kate — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:30:28 +0000

A nice, simple schematic for students and others confused by all the talk about Web 2.0 and social media. It was created by Dave Briggs. I found it Jeremy Gould’s blog, Whitehall Webby.