November 2011
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The Millions : A Wanderer in Poem Forest →
Marni Berger’s peripatetic report from Jon Cotner’s Poem Forest, a “a self-guided, twenty-minute, walk through the woods” featuing “15 numbered signposts along Sweetgum Trail at The New York Botanical Garden.” More information about Poem Forest. Marni wrote a post-script to the piece on the Millions; you can read it here.
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WatchKickstarter promo video for iheart poetics. The app lets you “create and share interactive visual poems called poetics that merge text and imagery as one.” Interesting idea, aggressive funding goal. Here’s a video of the installation that inspired the app.
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WatchKickstarter video promo for FJORDS, “a multidisciplinary performance by Manual Cinema and Chicago Q Ensemble based on the poetry of Zachary Schomburg. […] FJORDS will consist of thirteen short pieces of music and shadow puppetry adapted from Schomburg’s book of poems, FJORDS, forthcoming from Black Ocean.”
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“The fabulously over-usage of light-polluting electricity in advertising finds...”
– Ptak Science Books: Big Writing With Light (via @alienated)
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“IF A GUY FAVORITES ONE OF MY TWEETS AFTER WE WENT ON A KIND OF LACKLUSTER DATE A...”
– Tiny Advice: Twitter Favorite-ing?! | The Hairpin. Phatic communication is tough in the era of Twitter.
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Reading and writing Jeopardy!
Fascinating presentation from Roger Craig, who currently holds Jeopardy’s all-time record for most money won in a single game:
In the presentation, he explains and demonstrates the tool that he used to train for the show. The tool takes all of the questions ever asked on Jeopardy (as collected by J! Archive), categorizes them, and then drills the user on the weak points in their...
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The New, Convoluted Life Cycle of a Newspaper
Lauren Rabaino writes on Media Bistro:
The big questions I see popping up in newsrooms like my own are:
Do we tweet if we don’t have a link to direct users to?
Do we send an email alert if we don’t have a link to direct users to?
When do we write a story as a blog post vs. a web story?
When do we append an update to the top of a post vs. writing a new post?
When do we stop writing blog post...
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“[I]t’s awfully hard to engineer in enough knowledge to handle all the...”
– Language Log’s Philip Resnik on sentiment analysis
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How to do things with tweets
Rip Emson on Techcrunch, writing about Sell Simply:
To make a Chirp payment, all users have to do is send a tweet that says something like “@SellSimply #pay @ThePayee $200 for [said item]“. Users can make payments that are as little as $1 or as high as $2,000. (And this is how Sell Simply makes money: The startup charges a 2 percent transaction fee on every one of those purchases.)
This is an...
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“Wireless, is not well
understood here, just you, in
the shower, dying.”
– Excerpt from More Free Grass on Gnoetry Daily. The “Free Grass” series is made from mashing up Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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“ThinkUp is the first free app that lets you to archive your Twitter, Facebook,...”
– ThinkUp Hits 1.0! - Expert Labs
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Using Wikipedia to generate word clouds from an... →
From the abstract:
[W]hat may be produced from a brain image if the mental content is not amenable to pictorial rendering[?] This paper attempts to answer this question by introducing an approach for generating a verbal description of mental content. We began with brain images collected while subjects read the names of concrete items (e.g., house) while also seeing line drawings of the item...
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Danielle Sucher › Jailbreak the Patriarchy: my... →
Danielle Sucher:
Jailbreak the Patriarchy genderswaps the world for you. When it’s installed, everything you read in Chrome (except for gmail, so far) loads with pronouns and a reasonably thorough set of other gendered words swapped. For example: “he loved his mother very much” would read as “she loved her father very much”, “the patriarchy also hurts men” would read as “the matriarchy also...
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“If the engineers can take that collected, flowing data and send it to an...”
– CNET’s John Scott Lewinski speculates on a possible use for this new camera tracking technology from EPFL.
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WatchThis is beautiful: SpellTower, a word game for the iPad from Zach Gage (of Bit Pilot fame). Arrives November 17th. Instant purchase.
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“[I]t’s ludicrous to make sense of a complex topic like the Iraq War by looking...”
– Jacob Harris in his excellent screed Word clouds considered harmful. A must-read for anyone doing journalism, visualization, text analysis, or generative/appropriative writing.
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“Sycorax is a Twitter client, written in Python, that choreographs the online...”
– Sycorax: Bring Fictional Characters to Life on Twitter, another bad ass text-related project from Leonard Richardson.
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[The clerk in rapture. I, in short, observed] «... →
The clerk in rapture. I, in short, observed the spirit very much. The ghost. The hand
in my profession by the rules. The hand in my profession by the man. The hand
in his affairs. The noise in this. The hand in which the ghost, the poor, appalled. The hand
in my behalf, upon the bank. The hand in my employment, and a lustrous belt,
the ghost, the children bade the hands the hand...
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“it flCl id £)i^.g,v^U&> t\ ^**2 ^G f/f **pLn,s*pLj %kiffi^£$&~...”
– OCR output of “Codex Seraphinianus” (via @zarfeblong). A PDF of the codex had been available for download, but it’s unfortunately no longer available. Sad. 