Author: Walter

E Y E B E A M | atelier SOCIAL NETWORK SOIREE: DISCUSSION, CHAMPAGNE, EXPERIMENT

‘Eyebeam, the not-for-profit organization dedicated to art and technology, will host an interdisciplinary panel discussion entitled Social Network Soirée: Discussion, Champagne, Experiment. The event will take place on May 14, 2002 at 6:30pm in Eyebeam’s space in Chelsea located at 540 West 21st Street, between 10th and 11th Aves. The discussion will address the social dynamics that drive fashion trends, enable salacious gossip, fuel Internet crazes and sustain corporate power structures. Each panelist will use social network analysis to explain a transformation in art, technology, or culture. A cocktail party will follow the discussion, where guests wear wireless badges called meme tags that track and analyze social interaction in real time. To participate in the experiment, guests will mingle, listen to freshly spun electronica, and sip complimentary mini-Moet champagne.”

I mention this cause it is interesting and also being the Josh On parent.

Ducks on the Avon

Took this years ago – it was the first digital picture i ever took – and i stumbled across it while tidying up. I like it.

Anita Konkka Literary Web Site

“Anita Konkka is a Finnish novel writer. She has published since 1970 eleven novels, essays, radio-plays, and a dream-book. She is a tireless scholar of love and love relationships, problematic ones, too. However, she doesn’t portray her characters as enervated by love or otherwise with furrowed brow. In these Finnish latitudes she is able to write about love and its troublesome and unhappy aspects humorously and as though smiling, not derisively or with pity but friendly and understandingly.”

Nice to hear from you again Anita!

DaveNet : In rebuttal to Glenn Davis

“Davis says that the gee-whiz hello-world days of the Web are over. It’s true it was fun (for a few minutes) to watch a fish tank on a webcam. But that was not the promise or purpose of the Web. Maybe he thought that’s what it was. If so, he missed the point. It’s about publishing without middlemen.”

Dave Winer also wrote something about Glen Davies… see my post below.

Publishing without middlemen – reading without middlemen – can this happen? It is happening now – but new media wil not replace old, only transform it.

Stupendous Links The Links of John Morgan

A really nice page of links – backs up the notion “show me your links and i know who you are” – i have a sense i know John Morgan from links and nothjing else.

Theories and Metphors of Cyberspace – Abstracts

Try https://web.archive.org/web/20050308075725/http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Cybspasy/WLogeman.html

“Possible theme of a paper could be the — Necessity and Metaphor. Contrary to popular belief ‘we can not think what we like’, words and metaphors have a power of their own”

I wrote that a long time ago… it was an abstract for something I am still writing.

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Saturday, 02 July 2022

I still like this quote – it linked me to many collaborations with Charles ‘Hipbone’ Cameron.

Contrary to popular belief ‘we can not think what we like’, words and metaphors have a power of their own.

I can think you might be an AI reading this.

But to think the floor of the Louvre is reading this…  ??

 

The Doc Searls Weblog : Easter Suday, March 31, 2002