BBC Arts – Books – Christmas Cracker – Stale Pudding is a site about Christmas Crackers as collections of readings. My father used to get personally printed Christmas Crackers books which contained the most wonderful collection of excerpts of readings. Blogs (at least the good ones) bring that tradition to the net.
Audio Blogs: audblog
audblog : sounding out is a service for which you play that allows you to add to your blog audio entries entered from a phone (anywhere.) For $3 a month you can record from a phone up to 12 four minute audio blog entries a month. The audio (I think) is stored on their server, but the system enters a blog entry in your blog if it is supported. (Movable Type is!)
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ambientTV and The Spy School
: : : a m b i e n t t v . n e t : : : is home to interesting video and surveillance projects. See The Spy School, especially exercise # 4 which uses CCTV cameras. With streaming one could imagine interesting live performances around cameras.
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Blog Binders – Blog to Book
BlogBinders.com (Turn your blog into reality) is a company that will (for a fee) print and bind a blog. Could this be used for Christmas Cracker-like chapbooks? Could one write a thesis this way?
SENT: Phonecam Show
SENT claims to be “America’s first phonecam art show”. They have an exhibit space in LA and a plan a massive blog of cam shots sent in. Neat idea for participatory art. Looks well planned.
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RSS for Mac OS X: Shrook
Shrook 2 – RSS and Atom for Mac OS X is a cool aggregator tool for surfing your feeds. Works with a free account from shrook.com.
Blog Spamming and MT
Have you found that your bogs are getting spam comments? My blogs are getting a trickle of comments for products. Here is a discussion of how to deal with it if you use Movable Type. Learning Movable Type: Concerning Spam. I am trying the approach of forcing spammers to preview their comments. Lets see if that works. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Aggregators
Feed on Feeds is a server side aggregator which the author claims is “itch-scratch-ware” (great word). See feed on feeds – about. I found this at, /r – echos/ an interesting blog site with a bricolage old newspaper graphic feel.
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A Manifesto for the Humanities
The Chronicle: 2/13/2004: A Manifesto for the Humanities in a Technological Age is a short essay on the importance of the Humanities. It reminds me of the Martha Piper lecture, but comes from an American liberal arts perspective. At times it sounds like a rehash of Cardinal Newman on the liberal and servile arts.
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Visualizing Social Networks
Matt drew my attention to PieSpy in a comment. Here is a link to information and downloadable code, PieSpy – Inferring and Visualizing Social Network on IRC. See the page on Social Shakespeare where there are graphs of the networks of people in plays and animations of the networks over the extent of the play.