I know it’s not completely finished, but still, what a good job we’ve done.
One last thing from me, I promise. The DISCUSSION tab. No one uses it? I saw Valerie said something about there being “too many cooks in the kitchen” (btw I like that phrase, I should use it more) so in response to her comments, I tidied up the Topic list.
Don’t panic, I did not delete your work, I just left the Main Page to have TITLE PAGE links. Like, “Arts” instead of all the stuff inside “Arts.” Coolios?
p.s. @patricia haha wikiSavior. i need one myself.
Thanks to the work Dylan’s done on setting up the structures. I thought I’d outline it a little more step by step to make it easier.
Author as much as you can on a Topic page. See below for topics.
If your topic isn’t there, see if it can be a subheading under an existing topic, and make a subheading.
Example of link to WoW subheading: [[Video Games#World of Warcraft]]
Add topic if it really doesn’t seem to fit anywhere.
Author profiles, all the way at the bottom, is a blurb about you. And maybe your most notable travelogue, not alllllll of your travelogues.
You can add external links at the bottom of a Topic page. Delicious or not.
We haven’t warmed to the idea yet, but the idea of implanted chips isn’t a totally crazy one. Okay it kinda is, but I mean that it’s just an effort to chip away at the obstacle that stands before us in terms of technological advancement – how do we become more “one” with our technology?
We’ve iMac personalized it, we’ve iPhoned it into omnipresence, and we’re currently Twittering it into real-time. Nanotech has made huge strides. A bionic eye gave a blind man sight. Where will human-computer interaction go next?
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hi everyone, welcome to Angela’s 4th travelogue conclusion. I started this travelogue wanting to know more about RFID technology and wondering what happened to all the fuss about VeriChip – the company behind the implantable arphids. After scouring the Net and having a wonderful interview with Meghan Trainor, I’ve come to the conclusion that the bad rap that arphid chips got was kind of because of the word “implants.” Although my interview does mention the buzz word “tracking,” I think the actual act of injecting a pill-sized chip remains a huge turn-off for most of the world, of course maybe excluding certain VIP night clubs.
Yes, the quote is out of context. So listen to the interview (or read transcript?) to find out more.
Meghan Trainor is an artist who completed her master’s at NYU’s ITP, and it currently a doctoral student at U of Washington. She was influenced by Bruce Sterling‘s vision of the future space, which includes spimes, and became one of the first artists to use RFID in her artwork. She was very insightful and a pleasure to speak with.
Note: There are strange blips, and it’s because my editing skills are not smooth. Went from 30 to 7 mins. Transcript ahead:Read More »
After turning SS on and logging in, go to IMDb.com. Open up the SS bar and you’ll see “angemeetsworld” made 4 shifts. Click them and you should see them all at once, which is neat.
Nothing? Then please go to my IMDb trail and click the floating pics.
Still nothing? Then you can see each shift separately: ss1, ss2, ss3, ss4.
If all of that fails, blame Mu — Moi. Me.
As for the intervention, I’ve been using IMDb for years, and I’ve always admired the breadth of the information they’ve been able to collect through research and some collective input. Unfortunately, the accumulation has created clutter. Even though they had a layout makeover a few years ago, I don’t think it was nearly enough. The message boards alone can merit another look at how IMDb needs an update. The search bar is easy enough to use, but the home page could definitely use some streamlining. After hearing that IMDb was looking to add more streaming video content from sites like Hulu, I thought it was ironic that they could really learn a thing or two from Hulu’s design.
Then again, IMDb remains highly popular, so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it?
So I drew a little comic about the implantable microchip arphid. (Arphid is a pronunciation of RFID, just in case you didn’t know, because I didn’t).
It was inspired by the VeriChip Corporation, which hasn’t been doing too well because of the bad implications of implants. They recently created a subsidiary called VeriGreen Energy Corp., in an effort to stay afloat (and jump on the green bandwagon). I haven’t heard much else about them in the news, so I’m looking to interview the guys that implanted themselves with arphid chips here in NY. … Should be interesting.
Well not in this travelogue. So far, I’ve been looking at the ways in which DIY is “totally awesome,” awesome to the point that advertisers got a whiff and started doing it.
But then, after Mushon reiterated the Rushkoff point that there is a “new media elite,” I’m realizing that all I’ve been seeing are popular DIYs (much like the problem with only pop news being top news). Basically just the really tech-savvy recreational projects – none of which would actually benefit the masses of the world. Is DIY really that negligible (/elitist) then?
Cue my stumbling upon Bruce Sterling’s (he has a blog on Wired) huge online conversation, called State of the World 2009, post #42:
*Individuals Versus Big Corporations are just not the issue any more. It’s more like no-profit networked peer-groups versus loose gangs of for-profit contractual hucksters. Two ad-hocracies, both globalized now: the peers are on the net, while the corporations are offshored.
He’s responding to the notion that DIYs don’t really do anything to an industry, because who is going to start DIYing their own organic produce, rice, wheat, and their own clothes? No one. Well maybe 2-3 people, but that’s it. Read More »
I saw this list and was instantly reminded of our discussion today, and I do think all our travelogues have touched on this kind of tone (some are just for fun, others foreboding). 9 Good Things The Internet Has Ruined Forever (abridged):
9. Rick Astley
8. Watching TV w/ other people 7. Cats 6. Motivational Posters 5. Lists 4. Porn 3. Tom Cruise 2. Journalism
1. P r i v a c y
See the unabridged version, with explanation blurbs, here.
is turning 19 this year.
