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SitesNOISENOISE ShowcaseColour GalleryPONGolfing Round the WorldBlogsLaylaJennaLibbyJonnyDoug

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I'm just starting to re-think about what I worked on for my MA and what I worked on at NOISE last year. I really just need somewhere to start dumping ideas again and trying to get into a rhythm of working over the next couple of months. Not sure how this is going to work but I need to get the online sketchbook/research going again.

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Another interesting article from today's Guardian, again this was something that I mentioned on the Graphics blog. One of the problems with this idea of death of print or death of newspapers is that online media doesn't alter the content(well it can do if you read Charlie Brookers article), the content isn't dying- the medium is. The journalistic quality of The Guardian is still there and online

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Charlie Brooker article in todays GuardianIt's a funny article but raises some interesting points. There's a relevance to the discussion we had on the Graphics site the other week about the death of print. If publishers are generating revenue through advertising, is this a knock on effect and how does it effect content?And wait, it gets worse. These phrases don't just get lobbed in willy-nilly.

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Awesome, NOISE Peter Saville video being used to back up an argument on this forum

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This stands as a sketch for the future.MURIEL COOPER and the VISIBLE LANGUAGEWORKSHOPBy David Reinfurt"Muriel Cooper always sought more responsive systemsof design and production, emphasizing quicker feedbackloops between thinking and making, often blurringthe distinction between the two. As a result, she alwaysleft room for the reader. This text is an attempt to dothe same."link

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This is really amazing stuff, Mark posted a quote about her Bahaus movie on the Graphics blog. Whenever I find things like this I think a couple of things, one I'm not alone, two am I really stupid and why haven't I read this before."she was beginning to grapple with the converse: how to translate an interactive experience with a computer onto paper, "without just dumping"—an area known

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Neil OwenDraft Learning Agreement“Most often, when people are asked to describe the current media landscape, they respond by making an inventory of tools and technologies. Our focus should be not on emerging technologies but on emerging cultural practices.”Henry JenkinsEight Traits of the New Media Landscapehttp://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/eight_traits_of_the_new_media.html“There is a

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Attended bTween 2008 on Thursday. Really good, more industry focused than Futuresonic. Interesting to see how companies and corporations such as Orange, BBC, Channel 4 etc are adapting to these new forms of media. Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing was very good ,a lot of exciting ideas about the future of all forms of creative media, issues of copyright and distribution. I liked his argument that

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bTween 2008 NotesCory DoctorowDRMNet/Computer perfect toolGeorge Lucas Encrypt ToolBeing able to view content on your own termsOwn deviceFusilierTeen hackersBlue ray- code breakersIntimidation from big companies doesn't workDoesn't stop piracyIs this progress?Working piracy tool would be the same as a working spam filter. Doesn't exist!!“Internet will never forget”Universe ll access is not a bug(

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Neil OwenDraft Learning Agreement“Most often, when people are asked to describe the current media landscape, they respond by making an inventory of tools and technologies. Our focus should be not on emerging technologies but on emerging cultural practices.”Henry JenkinsEight Traits of the New Media Landscapehttp://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/eight_traits_of_the_new_media.html“There is a

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Learning agreementMIT Jenkins quotePirates dilemma quote p27Gerd Lernd describes the web asWeb1.0: get Noise.Web2.0: make NoiseWeb3.0: filter NoiseWeb4.0: Deaf - or SmartNoise?I work in an emerging area of design and media, crossing over from web 2.0(definition oreily)), the making of stuff/noise and into what is becoming web 3.0; the mapping, curating and filtering of all the noise being created

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Following on from the discussions this afternoon about documenting what we we are doing as we do it. This is an article from Nick Bucher. It's talking mainly about blogging as the Apprentice is going out live, allowing people to respond and feedback as events take place.Some quotes, talking about TV in this case but could be applied to other events and media.The Apprentice - 'Social TV'

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Some initial thoughts for this. Well my initial thought is I wish I just designed nice little websites or posters then I wouldn't have to spend most of my time justifying or defining roles.Web1.0: get Noise.Web2.0: make NoiseWeb3.0: filter NoiseWeb4.0: Deaf - or SmartNoise?Gerd Leonhard: Media FuturistMost often, when people are asked to describe the current media landscape, they respond by

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Some initial plans for this.So it will be in book form of sorts, using the 20 proposals I'm preparing. These will be one page A4(?) proposals no more no less.As discussed with Aidan and Graham there needs to be intro text and conclusion. Something similar to the one page summary from last year. Another thing mentioned by Aidan at the presentations was how the book relates to current interactive

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This article in the Guardian on Thursday really struck a chord, especially after spending a day and a half!!! on a newsletter template that simply refused to allow me to insert an image.The worst of it is that even this kind of programming has a corrupting fascination, like a videogame you can't give up: there is always the hope that one more round of changes will take you through to the next

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Sounds like everything I'm working on.VaporwareVaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. The term implies unwarranted optimism, or sometimes even deception; that is, it may imply that the announcer knows that product development is in too early a

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Now this is a bit more like it, an RSS feed built using Adobe AIR.So it's basically a ticker tape of your RSS Feeds but what I like is the portential for doing something more visual with a feed. I'm thinking this is the way to go with the design of the research section of th CAGD site

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Just signed up for FriendFeed, this means I have a Google Reader, a Delicous account, a Digsby account, a Twitter account, a Tumblr account, a Ning account. As well as the usual Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, GMail, AOL, Hotmail and so on. After signing up for FriendFeeder I suddenly felt swampped. And I really don't see the point of FriendFeederOut of all these my favourite is Digsby, for

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A couple of NOISE related October showcase thingsEverything must goFriday May 16, 2008The Guardian Last week, free music site Last.fm made its first foray into original content, with the launch of Last.fm Presents (last.fm/presents), a new series of video interviews with artists including Moby, Santogold, Neon Neon and Spoon. The short chats aim to discover what inspired these acts to make music,

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Quote from Matt Jones One of the aspects of creating social tools that fascinates me is the ability to make the invisible visible, and what effect surfacing these patterns then has on us as individuals and groups. For a while there have been carbon calculators on airline websites and environmentalist websites, but generally they have been about directly showing the impact of an individual

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Building DopplrWe’re sitting on the grass in the sunshine with a bunch of early Dopplr users, including Stowe Boyd and Stephanie Booth - when Stephanie is the first to voice something we’ve heard a lot from Dopplr users since: “make my trips more ‘fuzzy’”.By which, she and others meant that they would like to see coincidences in the surrounding area of ‘social spacetime’ to their trip - i.e. “

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I guess what interests me about this for the publication, is setting up a network, members and non-members. How do you identify members of the group? How do people join the group/network? What are the rules once you join? How do you interact with members/non-members? How do memebers of a group communicate?I also like the promotion of the event, just using stickers, flyers and some info on a

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Original post"Friends The project Friends is a workshop which translates the so-called social web- online services such as Facebook, Myspace, etc. - into a paper-basedform in physical space.All workshop participants contribute a profilepage to the big Friends Book and make their own personal friendsbooklet in which to collect as many friends as possible. With their ownhand-made profile photo

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LinkFSF maps current use of spaces of free and open assembly in Manchester. A map will be created in collaboration with local people through workshops and interviews. The map will provide an index of how 'the social' is afforded and sustained by the physical environments in which we live - in other words, to what extent are the physical foundations of our social lives 'free'?. These will identify

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During Mark Shepards discussion, there was a mention of Warren Chalk and a quote about how external influences which you can't effect alters how a city/ space is used. For example rain on Oxford Road, London means less people on the streets, less activity in the city. Something simple like this has a far greater impact on the use of a space.The whole discussion was very interesting looking at

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Shown by Matt Jones at FutureSoincDopplr Raumzeitgeist 2007: Where we went last year

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Forum post that pretty much sums up Scott Cohens discussion at FutureSonic about buliding a fan base and distributing to that audience Quote from SHOUP: What has happened to Trent? I remember it used to take 5 years on average to put out a new album. Now he's putting out new music every year. Did he get the Jack White creative fever?I am a big NIN fan and probably biased...and although

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Lots of notes from FutureSonic will edit these over the next few days, really excellent conference. Very inspiring and made me more confident about the work I'm doing.FutureSonicMatt Jones2001 Gov Stats=ONSCost of techPeople/kids using (online) Space to hang out- not do thingsUser needFriends offlineTechnology as enablerAnonymity -Group spaceOnline/ offline cross over“Friending” not just friends,

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Following on from this post and work I've started to do on this blog I've finally got a idea for what I want to produce for the learning agreement and assessed work.25 proposals for work, these will cover all aspects of research I've done. They should range from practical considerations for producing online work to more experimental ideas. At this stage I think the final piece should paper based,

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OutcomesRolesConfusionUnclearThe best online gallerySmaller piecesUplaod tools AlgorithmsYouTube Flickr case studies, redesign of smaller sectionsCurationIllusion of users making choicesForcing users to make decisionsUpload one image at a timeUpload one image at a dayMeta dataTaggingPreparing, cataloguing, archiving work for laterHow does this differ from what a gallery curator does anywayHow

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This was submitted to NOISE a couple of weeks agoEATeacakeI don't know why but I really like it, it's pretty straightforward site design (portfolio and blog) I think it was submitted to the graphics section but I just love the whole Factory(both Saville/Wilson and manufacturing)/northwest/ concept/ collective idea. It's also giving me some ideas for presenting the learning agreement

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Ressurected this old blog to use as somewhere to start putting work ideas, visual stuff. I'm thinking of putting together 25(?) rough ideas/ proposals for website designs, interactive pieces and ideas.I'll continuing using this blog for reserach and learning agreement.

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Sound indexBelow is some info about the BBCs Sound Index, there's some interesting ideas about searching for new music and new work. How do you profile users and what people are searching for and listening to but it still comes down to the most popular, most viewed, most downloaded. After a while does it become narrowed down to music and genres you know you like without finding something

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The Futuresonic festival in Manchester in a couple of weeks, looks really interesting and relevant to my current reserach and work. I'm trying to book tickets for the two day technology conferenceFuturesonic Below is the theme for this year festivalComputers have become social interfaces for sharing digital media and collaborating to build online communities and folksonomies. Some technologies

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Returning to old ideas from over the last 18 months.I'm looking at ways of people searching and finding work on the MA space. I want a sort of anti "Amazon reccomends", so you find unexpected work but has some relevance to work you've done or looked at in the past. Not just a random selection.For example on Amazon reccomends if you skipped the first few links of what they reccomend to you and are

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I'm really thinking/ (struggling?) with what to produce in terms of "graphic design" for the MA. I'm also trying to figure out what I want to do in October once the MA is over...Is what Jeff Jarvis does at www.buzzmachine.com media, communication, new media, design, consultancy?Giving up the day job can pay off# Jeff Jarvis# The Guardian,# Monday April 14 2008I wouldn't even argue if there is a

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Sonic Boom: Napster, P2P and the Battle for the Future of Music Whats most interesting is reading about something that happened less then a decade a go but seems a life time ago in terms of technology but with little change in attitude from the record industry. Or am I being cynical and obvious.Digital music: The genie's out of the bottleLabels take note: unless changes are made, the day the

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InterestingAmazon.com Statistically Improbable PhrasesAmazon.com's Statistically Improbable Phrases, or "SIPs", are the most distinctive phrases in the text of books in the Search Inside!™ program. To identify SIPs, our computers scan the text of all books in the Search Inside! program. If they find a phrase that occurs a large number of times in a particular book relative to all Search Inside!

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From Iain Tait's blog I was watching TV last night and an ad came on for continuing education. It’s one with fingers walking around the place. The ad was OK. I didn’t really pay much attention. But at the end of the ad the call to action was - “search for EMA online”. Not visit direct.gov.uk/ema or what you’d normally get, but just search for EMA online.This quote from Nick Burcher's is

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Drag and drop testDead simple feed of tagged Flickr images with a drag and drop effect to allow you to rearrange them. Next step to add an extra canvas to drop selected images into.

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So after a couple of weeks off I'm back and developing ideas for this digital/online/virtual MA space. Keen to avoid issues I've had before about trying to make things harder than they need to be or getting fixed on an outcome I've decided to break the project down it small chunks and see what work evolves.My aim over the next week is to have a page of random images that can be moved around the

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Cedric Price I've been looking at a lot of his books and work recenltly as a way of presenting ideas and proposals for work.Wikicity Rome

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I need to get some work together for the MA. The NOISE project took a lot out of me but I need to get working on something else. I have a lot to write up abut NOISE, design ideas, online promotion ideas that may or may not be used for NOISE. I still need to write up the Portrait of a Nation project and what my role was in that.That site is now officially out there and being

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So the new site is up and running. We launched it a 11 Downing Street on the 26th of February. I'm sure at some point in the next few weeks I'll look back and say fucking hell a site I designed and help build was launched at Number 11 but at the moment I still feel exhausted after what was the most stressful few days I have ever had.Quite simply I need my holiday which is only 10 days away. I

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Screen grabs from the network part of the Portrait of a Nation site. Members are able to customise their individual pages. It's quite funny as there were lengthy discussion about what background colours we should use, should it be the same as the branding on the main site or should it be different. Then when it comes to using the site the members just decided to customise their own page.

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NOISE redesign screengrabs. Incorporating elements video blogging, Flickr feeds, RSS blog feeds, user generated content

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Relying on other people is too damn stressful

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Noise festival comes to SheffieldThe Noise Festival has teamed up with the BBC Open Centre in Sheffield and is looking for talented young artists to submit their work to their website and take part in a national competitionCreative NoiseNoise, an online media arts festival, is looking for new talent and will be coming to the BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Open Centre on 14 and 15 February.

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Above is a screengrab from the current NOISE site redesign. It's tricky as I'm not coding this site but I have a very clear idea of what the site should look like, see the images below. I'm directing someone else in the building of it. It really does feel like I'm an architect and making sure some one builds it correctly. For exmaple I'm not happy with the menu items on the left hand side, there

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Current bookmarked research

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Below is an email that was sent out yesterday at work. What is interesting is the shifting role I have. The festival will only have one website, I don't work for a design company with brief, after brief. And I'm actually pretty happy with that.After the new site launches in a couple of weeks my role becomes generating interest in the site. This involves working across all the festival projects

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Top secret NOISE websites layouts/ designs.Felt really good to get these sorted today, just need to get the damn thing built.

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Too much writing on this blog and not enough pictures, here's a mock up for a success page on the new NOISE Festival websiteVic,I've attached a rough layout for the success page for each category, curators could work in much the same way.It based on the Dazed and Confused layout here www.dazeddigital.com/rise/photography/jannica-honey-(edinburgh-uk)/Left hand side.Mini artist success profile

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Build what you want using BBC contentbackstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's developer network to encourage innovation and support new talent. Content feeds are available for people to build with on a non-commercial basis.Join the email discussion list to tell us how we could improve the service and converse with others about backstage.bbc.co.uk

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This was brought up at the end of the seminar with Aidan on Wed's. Discussing the availability of new technology and how everyone can become a graphic designer, the question was asked how do we find the best stuff. My immediate response was "The best stuff all ways rises to the top...." but that's completely wrong and misses the point.What we should be focusing on is not the obsession with work

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Graphic designers roleYouTubeBBC IPlayerPortrait of NationInfluencing a client. Does this matter?Client, brief, branding.Traditional broadcasting media.Channel 4MA WebsiteFreelance or organsiation?Graphic design or website designGraphic design, website designer or coder?PHP, XML :(Role I see for myself at the end of OctoberHaddock.orgplasticbag.orgelgg.jiscemerge.org.ukSubmissions for the MAMA as

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Why brothers' Facebook homage to Scrabble spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T· Big toymakers claim breach of copyright· Hobby that spawned 2.4m internet addicts * Randeep Ramesh in Kolkata * The Guardian, * Thursday January 17 2008It is Facebook's most popular game, giving 2.4 million Scrabble addicts worldwide a way to get their fix online. But the web addiction that is Scrabulous may be shut down

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This article Tara Brabazon: Bowling Google a googlyAn Australian professor is fed up with essays full of regurgitated Internet mediocrity, she tells Chris ArnotTuesday January 22, 2008The Guardian really made me angry. In particular this quote Her argument is that we need more investment in books. Students must not be allowed to accept as truth anything they can find through Google, including "

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Set up by Vic in the NOISE officeBelow is image to use on our new marketing materials. If your phone has a barcode reader simply hover your camera over it and you will be redirected to the NOISE page. It’s all very exciting. Can be used with or with out textSome background infoThe Active Print project is exploring how printed materials and digital displays can be linked to online content,

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del.icio.us / oweneil I'm going to start bookmarking everything here. It should make keeping track of sites easier as I'm currently working at NOISE in Manchester and the Leeds Met and Leeds Art College.

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I attended this way back in NovemberAdobe Creative Suite 3 - The Creative License TourJoin Adobe and Academy Class for some amazing workshops around the UK. You'll learn the latest tips and techniques for designing and developing amazingly engaging experiences: in print, online or on any device. See the all new Creative Suite 3 family of products along with the latest in cutting edge web

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For the presentation a couple of weeks a go I went back through some of the articles I'd been collecting in relation to the MA.Broadcasters woo 'lost generation' in deal with social networking site BeboBut broadcasters have only recently turned their attention to spreading their programmes throughout the web. Web 2.0 logic dictates that broadcasters will stand a better chance of continuing to

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Scott Berkun "The Myths Of Innovation"Christopher Alexander "Notes On the Synthesis of Form"Jesse James Garret "The Elements of Use Experience" John Maeda "The Laws of Simplicity"Raph Kostet "A Theory of Fun for Games Design"Bill Moggridge "Designing for Interactions"Malcolm Gladwell "The Tipping Point"Lucy Bullivant "Responsive Environments"Barry Shwartz "The Paradox of Choice, Why More is

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Great set of seminars/ lectures form the Arts CouncilThere's a real relevance to the work I'm doing with NOISE Festival in Manchester and looking at using new media to help promote and generate work for the festival in October. This goes beyond simply making a website for the festival. It's about how you use new technology to help create the work, document the process and showcase the final

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I'm going to start to update this blog on a regular basis, as I have a ton of research and work from Manchester that needs putting somewhereWith Friends Like These 15/1/08Briefly my main issue with this article is the assumption that Facebook, Google or MySpace are anything other than a business. Yes Facebook provides a unique way to interact with other people and stay in contact with people. I

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Three projects at the moment Portrait of a Nation is most complete and will be launching at the beginning of FebruaryPortrait of a NationShowcase SiteNetworking SiteNoise Arts Festival for people under 25, an online showcase of workNOISECurrent siteSite is to be relaunched at the end of February.Ongoing MA promotional workStudio spacePoN ScreenGrabs and VisualsArts CouncilAnthony Lilley (Chief

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Portrait of a NationShowcase Site

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Researchhttp://learningagreement.blogspot.com/Curent worknoise NingNoisePortrait of a Nation

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Very briefly, this is work form MIT in America. It was project that mapped in real time the activity of users in a city. In this case Rome.In essence what they did was use mobile technology such as Bluetooth and GPS to turn the city into a social network site. What I am starting to work on is using the idea of a city as a social network and applying some of these ideas and theories to H Building.

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I had an initial six weeks worth of work with Noise Festival in Manchester, which has carried on. They are charity who run a biannual festival of new creative work by under 25's. Work is submitted and showcased online.There site is here It's odd as I've referred to this site a lot throughout the past year. So was pleased to get the work. What has been enjoyable over last few weeks is to be able

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I should really update this.At the moment I have been mostly getting pissed off with a PHP form that should have been finished weeks ago but has been coded it in a stupid, bizarre way; getting exteremly worried about this site and the fact I've not done any work on it for nearly a month. Oh I've also talked to the head of BBC interactive department and been given the contact details for the head

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It's funny this time last year I thought it would take forever to build a site like that, now I could have most of it done in a couple of weeks.Currently being put to the test. Deadline for Portrait of Nation website is two weeks away.

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OK, learning agreement is here. Learning agreement 500 word !!!!summary still to do. Hard copies need burning/printing and handing in on Friday.Exhibition needs finishing this weekend.After a shock to the system first day working for Noise on Monday, I'm getting into it.Basically chucking a whole load of MA related ideas at the Portrait of a Nation brief I've been given. All very Web 2.0.

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Arrgh not enough time and my web server isn't working. Looks like I'll have to come home one night this week to finish this. Bollocks.Questions are all done, work is all uploaded(looks like there's nothing there execpt crappy unfinshed code and bad page layouts) and learning agreement text is done.

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This is another exhibition test.Tag searchUse's Javascript with Flickr. I could add the Lightbox Javasrcipt to it, it needs a user id adding to it, which I can't figure out how to do.It's good as it uses a search form and pulls out the a list of related tags. The design is crap though. The CSS needs restylingI'm also looking at the tag cloud again, it might work if I can add a gallery slideshow

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Struggling to finish this. Might leave it for today, I'm still not clear about the questions I'm going to use, how I'm going to seperate work form here, it's all a big mess (which is meant to be the point) I should really organise it some way but at the moment I feel thats a task for another time.

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This is a rough idea for the exhibition in a couple of weeks. Basically it's a Joomla page with a Flickr plugin. Images are randomly pulled in from a Flickr user and displayed using the Lightbox tool. Javascript refreshes the page every 30 seconds. It's far from ideal, it's only limited to ten image blocks, so you get repeated images. There's no real use of tagged images. But what is good about

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Learning agreement text is here. I had toyed with hosting it on my own space as a HTML page but it needs to go on a blog. As this whole MA is becoming about using web 2.0. I still need to work on the layout of it how it will link to this blog, bookmarks and uploaded work. I also need to work on the questions for the bookmarks and work. I guess I can do that as individual blog posts.

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Quick tag test.Test twoSome ideas for the exhibition. PHP tags look to be a quick and easy way to create a base of images to work with.

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A very intense, bizarre, strange, couple of days.The upshot of which is I'm now working with Noise festival

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NingMA Image GalleryPhotography GalleryphotographyleedsLearning Agreementneilowen.orgGraphics at Leeds MetLoginc7002834s***10036 PhotosUsergroupmonkey_bananasOld site

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Learning agreementTesting layouts for the learning agreement. This uses an RSS feed and a basic Flashr/ Flickr viewer for a users Flickr images.

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Rough text sketch built in ProcessingDemoBuilding an interactive interface or search tool in Processing is my other idea for the exhibition.

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Starting to pull together ideas for the exhibition in September. Probably going to upload and pull images through Flickr. My initial idea was to use an RSS feed or Javascript badge, but you are a bit limited in the user interface and how the images are shown. The images need to open in a separate page but I don't want to take people straight to the Flickr site. I looked at re-using the Lightbox

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I've started to upload all the work from the last year to my own web space and to a new Flickr account.www.neilowen.org will have links to all the work I have done so far.My new Flickr account is here This is solely for ant MA related work (will make random feeds a little easier) I have some rough ideas for site layouts, it will incorporate the RSS feed from here and the feed from Flickr.

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Live test site for photographyleeds Works fine on my machine using Firefox. Not been tested on any other browser's yet.I'm really quite pleased with this. It doesn't look much but it feels like a culmination of a lot of research and work from the past few months. To recap all the images are being pulled in from Flickr using the Javascript from the Flickr badge. Restyled and redesigned using CSS.

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This is the non drupal site front page. Flickr random images from a number of group feeds. Done using the Flickr badge code.RSS Feed code from my Blog account, could be from any blog. Both feeds work fine.CSS styling for both is being re-designed. Should have the live verion of the site up tomorrow. Should also have a mock up of a students page tomorrow.

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I was thinking last night that at this stage for the Photography site I don't need to use Drupal. Sure it's useful to know how to use the software but all I need is a front page with links to Flickr, students names and students blogs. Some interesting RSS feeds on the front page and a group blog that staff can access and contribute to and feeds in to the home page. Maybe it's about keeping it as

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Before I balls up the DIV's and PHP tomorrow here's what the Photography site looks like at the moment. Starting to look worryingly close to the mock up screenshot I posted last week. Log-in postion is a pain in the neck at the moment.

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This is using the Flickr badge tool. Appears to be the esiest way to pull images from a group pool, without getting stuck with the PHP, API tools. Simple cut and paste, strip out Flickr's CSS, HTML etc. Next step is to try and organise the rows, at the moment this is just four pieces of the same code. Also need to add an external links so users don't navigate away from the main page. I also like

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Created by the same people who did the Flickr plug in in the previous post. Teleabsence I This installation consisted of a screen displaying a slideshow of pictures which were being remotely uploaded online with a cameraphone. The sequence of these images was being shown as received, presenting itself as a mobile work-in-progress experience.

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Playing with this plug-in PictoBrowser Plug-in for FlickrSimple way of displaying a groups pool of images using a Flickr widget. Needs to be randomly generated for what I want for the Photography site. There also doesn't seem to be anyway of fixing a Flickr user to it.

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Rather messy work in progress using Drupal Basically looks the same as the old Joomla site which is what I want. Working on the PHP and CSS of the templates, stripping it all back.

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A little summer reading(HOW) DOES THE INTERNET AFFECT COMMUNITY?Cultural Formationsin Text-BasedVirtual RealitiesStudying Online Social NetworksThese bodies are FREE, so get one NOW!: Advertising and Branding in Social Virtual Worlds

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Notes from watching this lecture by Aleks Krotoski.Interesting starting point for Social Learning Theory and Social Network Analysis, based within Second Life. What is of interest to me is the idea of people in power, people with influence, gate keepers of power/influence and the people who are able to innovate. The connections between all these people. I think this could be an interesting way of

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Done on line. A series of links to research work, test pieces, written work etc.This site BodyTag is a good visual reference to how it could look.Work could be categorized by date, research, test pieces, finished work etc. I like the idea of keeping the design that simple, basing it on calander type format.For the work at this stage I have a range of bookmarked research done onlinesee here

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