My Favourite Year
December 31, 2007
2007 was superb, not excellent, but superb.
As we close up this calendar, predictions and reviews gather anxiety and hope, I’m dwelling on what next year will relinquish.
Resolutions for the next 12 months are pointless when your focus is on the next 5 minutes, being agile affords the greatest creativity, yet I’m drawn to thinking that so much has been overlooked from this years endeavours. Im planning longer term now, much longer than the year ahead.
I ceased to write here after the launch of the Joneses; quietly I watch as the project unfolded across peoples interests in media rights and production. It’s been fascinating to be able to finally accurately gauge the knowledge about what creativity and production means to marketing, broadcast and technology industries. It’s shamefully low – you know that, yet so little is done to raise the bar.
Possibly because so many people working in these fields are doing it for reasons outside the interest in creativity; many believe they are creative, some are exceptionally divine in producing thoughts, texts, images, code and motion. But so few are within the businesses to learn, to study creativity and boldly move the locus of being creative. Why? Because it’s been so long since we experienced a fundamental change in WHY we make things. Equally, we ignore the restrictions of freedom and play quietly awaiting a pay check. Art in the Age of Network Ubiquities has yet to be written. It’s on my to-do list.
I’m looking forward to the 2nd of January; I looking forward to opening up much of this years learnings, explain how the future can be far more interesting when creativity seeps between industries, aligning production, design and distribution around the users of systems. The opportunity to make useful things that are built upon Common Rights instead of laboured inventions siloing Common Intent.
2007 was possibly my most favourite year because I made something that needed to be made – The Joneses. I gave away huge amounts of business concepts and was rewarded by some of the most interesting conversations I have ever had. In turn, this has become the bedrock to the next series of projects based around Media Clouds.
At this time the WGA are striking over being shafted for their creativity – this runs alongside the Marketing Industries futile attempts to produce mass media, meanwhile product development overlooks the basic of human interests, leaving science and engineering without vision, let alone, values that are relational to needs.
2008 will be the year that we’ll see a congealing of creative rationales that attempt to be the basis of creation. Moving away from user-centricity towards non-authorship, utilising shared responses to temporal descision. Digital will advance the need for destablised platforms; Frail Nets will flourish and reward particpation that does not seek measurement nor reward. A purpose to creativity will be bourne from not disactisfaction but from attempts are designing elegant problems.
Thank you everyone. Thank you for sharing your time and your problems.
links for 2007-12-31
December 31, 2007
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Pattern of Demands 2007
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past futures, and beyond.
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And in it’s place will form a fig tree
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Ze Frank took a break from his long hiatus and posted a video today about the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, which began this morning.
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Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach consumers with video entertainment on the Web.
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And the advertising dollars are following. “As we talk to brands, they’re excited about the opportunity and increasingly interested in how to target the right people and have the data about them,” says Berman, Ford Focus is advertising on “Roommates.”
links for 2007-12-30
December 30, 2007
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This document specifies how to represent and manage profile data about IM users and other XMPP entities using the XMPP Data Forms extension.
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An (other) unconference for creators
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What new economy does syndication suggest? And does Linux point the way? (Classic Text)
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Emotion is about ch-ch-ch-changes
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“Precicely!” chirrups the stout man.
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Nuff Said.
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THE BIGGEST ADVERTISING COLLECTION IN THE WORLD .””
links for 2007-12-28
December 28, 2007
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PHP QRcode generator with various options.. no dependencies apart from GD. uses lots of bitmap templates (via Toxi)
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Downtime is uptime
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In the documentary Cosmos, physicist and broadcast personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in numerals (i.e., “1,000,000,000…”) would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe occupies.
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The video service hosts an increasing number of intellectually redeemable video collections.
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we can imagine a “catch and release” program
links for 2007-12-27
December 27, 2007
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hohoho
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Never judge the book by its cover font
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reverse engineering langauge
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The U.S. Department of Defense is looking at microformats and mashups to aggregate existing data and bring intelligence to soldiers.
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I don’t really recommend the book unless (1) you’re in the business of trading patents or (2) are an executive who deals with cutting-edge technology that is not really web technology (i.e. RFID, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, robotics, etc).
links for 2007-12-25
December 25, 2007
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“Stop making Sense”
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Brad Fitzpatrick (LiveJournal.Dango.memcached) thinks about the social grid
links for 2007-12-24
December 24, 2007
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Watch this great interest.
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Never manged to get to see them live. One of my most dearest favourites in music. Plan to get to as many gigs as possible as a reason to get out to see Europe more.
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Should be easy to do this with Facebook.
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Think about the licence. Read about the oppotunity it affords.
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A battle could be shaping up between the two leading software platforms for cloud computing, one proprietary and the other open-source
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Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data.
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MapReduce is a software framework implemented by Google to support parallel computations over large (greater than 100 terabyte) data sets on unreliable clusters of computers.
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hmmm
links for 2007-12-23
December 23, 2007
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Digital music context isn’t nearly as good as it could be. Context is where the opportunity is and therefore where the innovation will be.
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Dear Santa…
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The goal of the Moseycode barcode symbology is to support realtime spatial interaction.
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You are violently offended by something as mundane as a credit card commercial, that makes you a pussy whimp.
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this means that the people give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order
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Hackable?
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“The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble.”
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Free Minds & Free Markets.
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looks good
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And talking about metrics for measuring success and failure.
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At first, the idea was to have two comedians walking around in New York, making fun of things, and in between you’d have standup bits.
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how the three-camera sitcom got its name and became a popular television art form
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Good, but near in mind that Moz is ‘funded’ by Google.
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Ahhh. Nice.
links for 2007-12-22
December 22, 2007
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Time – He’s waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me boysTime – He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy -
creation and existance are inevitable
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Adam Gee rockin’ the broadcasting model. Nice one fella.
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For physical or physical/digital transactions – what makes for an appropriate transaction signature in what contexts?
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The Guardian also gives a fortnightly column to one of the PSP’s biggest supporters (and potential beneficiaries), Anthony Lilley – a tireless recycler of Web 2.0 cliches.
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oops. sue me.
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An interface describes the behavior or capabilities of a class without committing to a particular implementation.
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Bonkers Good.
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Let’s hope the authorities don’t ruin it…
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Long live the new flesh.
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Art house archive
links for 2007-12-21
December 21, 2007
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Is it about the appeal of music that’s being produced?
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A visual encyclopedia of radio waves that contains a selection of fictional radio ‘species’, such as Bluetooth, DMB, GSM, RFID, Wifi & Zigbee
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Let thenm eat data.
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Why Lessig has changed tact this year…
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Whoa, apparently GOOG-411 is putting us all into the matrix doing unpaid labor for Google. Fascinating.
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This is not an OS but a capture object for “engagment deciphering”
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Grey market of data. Big, very big.
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The site’s operator’s apparently ignored an order to keep server logs of the IP addresses of people who facilitated the trading of files via the site.
links for 2007-12-19
December 19, 2007
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“Design for me is a vehicle for exploring larger social and cultural ideas that I am interested in. “
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Milemeter is a Dallas-based startup that will let you buy American car insurance by the mile.
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All a bit dull, no? That is, no innovation on the actual media – the content, the editorial.
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This is data as improvisation – my son is working on the basis that this information sharing makes the game more interesting.
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Bye Bye Ning
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UGC + Branded Utility + Social Hacking + Plug’n’Play = Smiles
links for 2007-12-18
December 18, 2007
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This isn’t about theory, it’s about practice.
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LONDON — The recently revived Hammer Films will produce its first feature in three decades and distribute it via social networking site MySpace’s Web TV arm.
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Communications are supposed to exist in order to create, communicate and build value for businesses, not for themselves. However, great entertainment rarely asks you to do something else as a result.
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meaning at the point of production
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Good thinking for transaction design
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The popular Italian version of my Brand vs. Brand game on Ning.
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Fab. Not read it, but it’s gold.
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Audio will be the ultimate resource in the information-grey market.
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Nice.
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‘I’m an entertainer, it’s in my blood.’ Yeah, it’s in my blood because a real job’s too hard.”
links for 2007-12-17
December 17, 2007
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Io uses actors for concurrency, a technique rarely used in modern programming languages.
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Copyright is a structure around prohibitions, not permissions, he says. That means it lays out rules for things people cannot do with your work – it does not give you the right to demand permission before any use is made
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it’s kernel time
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Brilliant non-zero strategy game. Like Pool but without the faffing.
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Do you have a platform that I can build a business on?
links for 2007-12-16
December 16, 2007
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“But really what you say doesn’t matter, it’s the social action that’s important. It’s like chimpanzees picking ticks off each other’s backs.”
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We’re on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds.
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Software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating.
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It’s Interesting
links for 2007-12-15
December 15, 2007
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Note the CC-BY licence. Cool.
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“Free people, Free markets, Free thinking”
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“Making the un-missable un-missable.”
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“The Whopper has been discontinued.”
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