Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-09-04 Thread helen varley jamieson
yes, i do see that - people have easily accepted the sales-pitch of convenience & supposed improvement, & don't want to look under the hood at what is really going on. however in germany there is quite a lot of discussion & media reportage around issues of privacy & security; perhaps there is more

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-09-04 Thread Tamar Schori - Doflash
Hi, I believe that we have lost the ability to get lost, and to loose stuff, and to be unseen, and to be unchecked and unattended, unavailable, unattainable... With it we are loosing diversity and the right not to be understood or to be forgotten. Is it still possible to be unique? I'm sure we gai

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-09-04 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks for posting this Tamar. This makes me reflect on the pathology of the hype surrounding the Internet of Things that suggests that life can be improved by knowing where every "thing" is at every moment, and then making it "do" something for us. On 03/09/17 11:27, Tamar Schori - Dofl

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-09-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Tamar, really like this project - you should join the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) at least on Facebook; both of these projects should be documented with them. - Best, Alan On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Tamar Schori - Doflash wrote: Hi Alan,I've seen the list of things lost and was mo

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-09-03 Thread Tamar Schori - Doflash
Hi Alan, I've seen the list of things lost and was moved by it's serenity. I liked the way items of great sorrow and trivial items meet and coexist on the same list. Objects and ownership where disrupted back than and we seemed to notice it more. I'd love you to visit another project that was creat

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-09-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
The difference is fascinating. Not sure if it's clear from the context, but in LOST, the names of the owners are separated from the names and descriptions of the objects; they can't be reconnected. So the objects are untethered in the world (as they are in real life, rarely found again, espe

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-09-03 Thread Tamar Schori - Doflash
I love the "lost" filter many years ago, in the ancient times before social software I created this project: See http://tamar-schori.net/oodlala/ from 2002, a social network for memory objects. some of the stories are really touching... take a look Tamar Schori Tamar Schori 0544-560136 On Thu

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-08-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
Thanks - I sent a 2nd link, perhaps that worked, or is this a third? It was tricky - On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Edward Picot wrote: Alan, That link didn't work for me: I kept getting a 'not found' error. But I managed to find the project on http://web.archive.org/web/20131130140831/http://trace

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-08-31 Thread Edward Picot
Alan, That link didn't work for me: I kept getting a 'not found' error. But I managed to find the project on http://web.archive.org/web/20131130140831/http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk:80/lost/ There's some really good stuff on there, too! Edward On 30/08/17 22:25, Alan Sondheim wrote: (From

[NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-08-30 Thread Alan Sondheim
(From Sue Thomas on Facebook; she headed trAce at Nottingham-Trent; I was the 2nd virtual writer-in-residence. Think this might be of interest here because of the networking involved, which was also a metaphor for lost packets, lost archives, disappearances, ruptures, etc. in online worlds.) Su