tiles.ice.org facilitates the construction of collaborative online art works composed of individual ’tiles’. Each registered visitor contributes by creating a tile which is combined with others to create a work. This site has been online since November 2000 so there is a considerable amount of material to view. Artists that have participated in this project are often untrained but appear enthusiastic about the combination of interaction within the group and creating the ‘quilts’.
October 2005
Monthly Archive
October 11, 2005
October 10, 2005
This morning we will look at have a class discussion on Cluetrain and the gluetrain . It’s six years on from the publication of the Cluetrain Manifesto as a website but the ideas contained within it have been a key influence.
The creators are Doc Searls , Chris Locke , David Weinberger.
OK before we delve deeper into their ideas as all good internet researchers we take a look at who these people are.
So gleaned from their various bios are these snippits.
David Weinberger. has a Ph.D. in philosophy, founded the marketing company, Evident Marketing, joined Open Text and helped “move from one of the first Web search engine companies (the engine behind Yahoo!) to market and thought -leadership in Web-based collaborative software”. He is author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. “
Professional experience includes serving “on the AIIM Emerging Technology Advisory Group, the Seybold Conference Advisory Board, the World Congress of Philosophy Advisory Board, the Virtual Business advisory board, and the Xplor Business Strategies Advisory Board. He serves on product and advisory Boards of well-known companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo! as well as smaller, innovative companies such as Technorati, Metacarta and SocialText.”
JOHO and Many 2 Many are two of his blogs.
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, public speaker and author. Doc Searls has been a consultant for Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Migros, Nortel Networks, Sun Micrososystems, Xoriant, Borland, and SpikeSource. He also serves on the advisory boards of Jabber, Inc., PingID , SocialText and Technorati. And of course he writes the extremely popular Doc Searls Weblog
Chris Locke is editor/publisher of the well known webzine Entropy Gradient Reversals . ” Now based in Boulder, Colorado, has worked for Fujitsu, Ricoh, the Japanese government’s “Fifth Generation” artificial intelligence project, Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, CMP Publications, Mecklermedia, MCI, and IBM. He has written extensively for publications such as Forbes, Release 1.0, Information Week, Publish, The Industry Standard, and Harvard Business Review, and his professional work has been covered by Fast Company, Wired, Advertising Age, Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many others.” Chris Locke also keeps a blog all noise all the time
Articles about the cluetrain/gluetrain :
Katharine Mieszkowski in Clued In? Sign On! summerizes the key idea ” At the heart of the manifesto is a simple but radical proposition: The interconnection of hundreds of millions of people via the Web doesn’t represent just another sales channel (e-commerce) or merely another opportunity to do the same work faster (email). Rather, it offers the potential to reframe some fundamental questions about business.”
The long conversation isan interview Giles Turnbull held with the authors.
A critic is John C. Dvorak who suggests that cluetrain is a cult in Cult of the Cluetrain Manifesto .
Stuff to think about. How may “Markets are conversations,” influence a studio based artist. How does presenting yourself as a real person online and engaging in communication is between real people influence a career in the visual arts.
October 5, 2005
Favicons are the little 16×16 pixel icons that appear to the left of a site’s URL. The term comes from a cut down of favourites icon. They also appear in the tabs of firefox and in bookmarks on some browsers which means these are handy little icons draw the eye to a site when listed in a list of bookmarks. HTML Basix has provided instructions on how to do it. Also housed on the site are various tutorials, handy tools and generators.
October 4, 2005
The Typophile Wiki is a ‘user-created encyclopedia of all things type and design-related.’
After our discussion on Wikis in class last week I think students will find this interesting.
October 3, 2005
The CSS Creator looks to be handy as it generates a layout for your website.
This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.
