Week 9 Readings

"When the project was first created in 1999, approximately two percent of the spectrum was searched and 186,100 sites were included in the database."

By 2001-2002, this data was already outdated because it had multiplied and grew so rapidly.  This is amazing to think about, even compared to today, the information from almost 17 years ago has most certainly evolved further, especially with how much technology has changed, making it bother easier and more complex than it had been in 1999.

Week 6 readings

I like how Galloway talked about the internet not being disorganized.  It's interesting to hear others take on it, when I myself have had an exceedingly hard time finding information regarding certain topics.  But it's not disorganized, rather i'm asking too broad a question for the internet.  Instead, you need to have more specific questions in order to narrow down the topics that come up.

Project 4

So I wanted to do something with Twitter and parsing the hashtags, but I ket running into issues with the program not finding the modules which were located in the exact same folder.  I was never able to figure out the issue with that one, so I decided to change my project up a bit and instead make a temperature sensor, and try and get the arduino to tweet the readings.

This is the image of the Arduino Temperature Sensor, it is read in Celsius.

This is the code for the Sensor:

Code for Sending Tweet

3rd project

Basically I am wanting to visualize and compare the stock price of Starbucks and the number of deaths in the world .

This is the code for the image being created, a generic cup and a drop of blood to represent death.

This bit of code is to show the stocks info and price for the given day, I'm still trying to work out the kink to get it to update, but am not having much luck.

Project 3 Proposals

Track album sales/ presales or for certain groups or comebacks;

Twitter, how often BAP’s comeback is tweeted (and use it to create the Mascot?);

Starbucks Stocks and track the increase/ decrease in stock during holiday (fall) seasons (pumpkin spice latte and salted caramel Frappuccino);

            -How many times the Pumpkin Spice Latte gets tweeted about;

-Strange correlation between Starbucks Stock prices during the Holidays VS Murder.

Project 2 Social Hacking

<p>So for this project I wanted to explore Gaiaonline, it's a web based community formed a long time ago, I used to be an active user years ago, but haven't had time in recent years.</p>

<p>This website is almost an anonymous site where users create and avatar to their liking and have discussions, play artwork up, accept commissions, roleplay, there are games and an MMORPG where users can interact and create teams and guilds to defeat monsters.</p>

<p>I wanted to use this site to see how users would respond to an item somewhat rare, that you have to purchase (during a limited time) with real world cash.  The item is going on the market place (Gaia's auctioning system) for roughly 12k Gaia Gold.</p>

<p>I wanted to see how users would react to asking for a short 450-500 word story about a panda, with no rules or writing prompts.  I promised 3 Sacred Keys (give once used you get various items) to the top 3 writers.</p>

Even still it did not seem to get many comments or submissions.  I guess it shows people would rather spend their money on it themselves than take a few minutes to write a short story.

*EDIT*

Even after all this time, still sitting there, nobody commented on the post.  12/18/15

Week 5 Readings

What relational aesthetics can learn from 4chan

4chan is an in the moment type site.  The images are ephemeral, short lived. "Keeps no permanent record of itself,"

“It is up to us as beholders of art to bring [unforeseen associations] to light, [”¦] to judge artworks in terms of the relations they produce in the specific contexts they inhabit” [3] concludes Bourriaud in his 2001 book, Postproduction."

Sociable Media

"In unmediated communication, social cues are communicated through words, tone of voice, gesture, clothing, facial expression, proximity, etc. These cues provide information about a person’s age, race, social class, and gender, they reveal emotional state, and they help to choreograph the interaction. In mediated communication, some or most of these cues are absent, and other cues, nonexistent in the unmediated world, may be present."

Unmediated, meaning face to face, in person, with nothing blocking the actual view or providing cover.  

Mediated, meaning there is obscurity in the vision and it is easier than ever to change what is or can be seen.  Much easier to lie about who you are and what you look like since you are not necessarily face to face.Video-conferencing- is it better to be seen while having the meeting?  You may be seen and your tone as well as feeling may be made more clear, but you don't always have a clear or proper connection.  If that is the case, then wouldn't text based or televised conferencing be better? 

Computer based communication has changed the way we create art and communication.  You have the choice either way of being anonymous, but don't always have tombs choice whether or not your work is preserved for a long period of time.  You can take it down whenever, but in order for the physical piece to stay relevant, then you have to have someone take an active interest.  With media based, you can keep promoting and pushing your pieces all over the place.