Re: [NetBehaviour] 7 year old does what CNN can't

2011-10-13 Thread marc garrett
Hi Mark, Amazing that Celia is able to ask 'genuinely', while 'corporate news orgs', themselves choose to confuse the big picture - excellent thanks :-) Is Celia your daughter? marc While FOX, CNN etc. were still scratching their heads seemingly trying to figure out what it's all about,

Re: [NetBehaviour] 7 year old does what CNN can't

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Szpakowski
This is wonderful. Congratulations to Celia for a job really well done. michael From: mark cooley flawed...@yahoo.com To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:13 AM Subject: [NetBehaviour] 7 year old does what CNN can't While FOX,

[NetBehaviour] virus.circus and Autonets: Talks and Performance at UCLA this weekend

2011-10-13 Thread micha cárdenas
Hello, This weekend I'll be speaking on a panel on Friday at the UCLA Queer Studies Conference http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/events/current.html on the topic of Wearable Electronics as Femme Disturbance, discussing virus.circus http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixedrelations-viruscircus and

[NetBehaviour] INVISIBLE FIELDS,GEOGRAPHIES OF RADIO WAVES

2011-10-13 Thread info
INVISIBLE FIELDS GEOGRAPHIES OF RADIO WAVES 14 OCTOBER 2011 - 4 MARCH 2012 BARCELONA Invisible Fields is a major new international exhibition at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona Spain, co-produced by Lighthouse. It brings together over a dozen internationally known artists, designers and

[NetBehaviour] A call to the Army of Love and to the Army of Software

2011-10-13 Thread marc garrett
(from NETTIME list) A call to the Army of Love and to the Army of Software By Franco Berardi and Geert Lovink October 2011. The fight opposing financial dictatorship is erupting. The so-called ‘financial markets’ and their cynical services are destroying the very foundations of social

Re: [NetBehaviour] 7 year old does what CNN can't

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Szpakowski
Hi Mark I hope it's OK, I've grabbed the mp4 from YouTube and I've done a post on this for DVblog tomorrow... michael From: Michael Szpakowski szp...@yahoo.com To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Thursday,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread ruth catlow
Nice! I watched a video of Doug Rushkcoff talk to a gathering of Etsy folk about establishing peer to peer economies. http://www.rushkoff.com/blog/2011/9/22/toward-a-peer-to-peer-economy.html As part of his talk he said that it has taken over 2000 years (after the invention of the alphabet)

[NetBehaviour] CAN'T SEE 3D

2011-10-13 Thread Kim Asendorf
Can’t see 3D is an automated virtual sculptor. Once an hour it grabs an URL from the database and uses the images from that page as source material for the sculptural process. Each sculpture exists just for a very short moment, and just in a virtual space. Can’t see 3D captures an OpenGL

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread dave miller
Hi Ruth Took me a lot longer than 2 weeks, and am still quite flaky. But I really agree we should all learn basic computer programming. Watched a TV newsnight discussion last week on how the UK has lost its IT advantage. Their argument was that many years ago a generation grew up experimenting

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread Andreas Jacobs
Do we need to programme to have a say in contemporary democracy? Well, definitively NO! Why should we/they as if the illiterate are not part of a democratic whole or is your 'democratic' model merely technocratic. How about all those people who cannot read or write? Are they not part of

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread James Wallbank
Hello Ruth, This is an interesting subject. After 2000 years since a standardised alphabet, at Access Space we're still finding that a significant minority of people (10%? 20%?) still aren't functionally literate. Maybe they CAN read, but they DON'T read. Picking out meaning from written

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread james
Back when I was young BASIC (etc) was more or less THE interface. Programming was how you used the computer if you wanted to do more than play games. For me the tipping point away from this was windows 95. James Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange ___

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread Rob Myers
On 13/10/11 16:14, Andreas Jacobs wrote: Do we need to programme to have a say in contemporary democracy? Well, definitively NO! Absolutely. But society is increasingly affected by code, so to *effectively* participate in democracy as an informed citizen, it *helps* to know how to program.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread dave miller
producers v consumers? dave On 13 October 2011 17:29, ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: Back when I was young BASIC (etc) was more or less THE interface. Programming was how you used the computer if you wanted to do more than play games. For me the tipping point away from this was windows 95.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread Rob Myers
On 13/10/11 18:25, dave miller wrote: producers v consumers? And Microsoft. There's a debate going on in the UK about how to teach children computing. At the moment the curriculum is basically MS Office studies. There are calls to include programming. But even supposedly progressive projects

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread Andreas Maria Jacobs
Agreed but apart from being able to oversee the more complex structures dealt within and surrounding the coded environment, programming skills are more a starting point than a goal in itself I also was dissapointed by the meager observations your previous link led me to i.e. the introduction

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread manik
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/85/6308/500/%26Producing%26Consumingcopy%20copy.jpg ...MANIK...OCTOBER...2011... - Original Message - From: dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com To: ja...@jwm-art.net; NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent:

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread Rob Myers
On 13/10/11 19:16, Andreas Maria Jacobs wrote: but apart from being able to oversee the more complex structures dealt within and surrounding the coded environment, programming skills are more a starting point than a goal in itself It's an important step. And one that can disrupt later steps.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread Rob Myers
On 13/10/11 19:45, manik wrote: http://photos1.blogger.com/img/85/6308/500/%26Producing%26Consumingcopy%20copy.jpg I actually laughed out loud at this. It's excellent. :-) This perfectly illustrates one of my concerns with rejection of The Digital Humanities. Image can be a very powerful

Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

2011-10-13 Thread Helen Sloan
This is a very interesting strand. I wish poetry or code were easy for me and I'm on draft 5 of this response so lists aint easy either... Firstly, and I'm surprised, I feel myself largely drawn to Doug Rushkoff in this instance. As someone who probably has the Digital Bildung (and an uncanny

[NetBehaviour] Pioneer of C - Progamming Language Dennis Ritchie R.I.P.

2011-10-13 Thread Fung-Lin Hall
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-pioneer-of-c-programming-language-and-unix-repo/ R.I.P Denis Ritchie - Pioneer of C- Programming language http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-pioneer-of-c-programming-language-and-unix-repo/

Re: [NetBehaviour] Pioneer of C - Progamming Language Dennis Ritchie R.I.P.

2011-10-13 Thread Helen Sloan
Thanks for posting that. On 13/10/11 21:55, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.com wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-pioneer-of-c-programming-la nguage-and-unix-repo/ R.I.P Denis Ritchie - Pioneer of C- Programming language

[NetBehaviour] my hasapi for YouTube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-10-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
my hasapi for YouTube http://www.alansondheim.org/myhasapi.wmv here's my hasapi for YouTube but they won't take it because I'm banned from YouTube until I die and then I won't be able to play this for you, I worked really hard on this and it