1. links for 2008-11-18

    November 18, 2008

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  2. links for 2008-11-16

    November 16, 2008
    • EROTOKRITOS
      (tags: fashion paris colour pattern)
    • MUTE: Simple, Anonymous File Sharing
      MUTE protects your privacy by avoiding direct connections with your sharing partners in the network.
      I very much like the comparison they wrote to describe the simple behaviour of the software:

      Ants display collectively intelligent behavior when foraging for food or fighting off predators. Each ant in the colony acts in a rather simple way, but together they end up doing something clever, like discovering the shortest path between their ant hill and a food source. MUTE's routing mechanism is inspired by ant behavior.

      (tags: p2p software nature biology network collective intelligence ant privacy)

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  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-15

    November 15, 2008

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  4. links for 2008-11-15

    November 15, 2008

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  5. customisation in the age of code

    November 14, 2008

    Interesting reading of Pasta&Vinegar which quotes an academic paper* dividing the widespread of (unconscious?) hacking in three categories:

    Baroque, creolization, cannibalism and technology adoption

    “Baroque layering: The most basic way in which users can appropriate a technology is for them to use the personalization features that are provided to them with that intent in mind. As technical objects, mobile phones come with many such affordances. These include for example the ability to change the ringtone, screen wallpaper, upload one’s phonebook, set up short-cuts for most-often called numbers, download games, and upload one’s music, photo, or video collection.
    (…)
    Creolization represents a deeper transformation, a more profound form of appropriation. It refers to practices where the user recombines or reprograms elements of the technology. In this appropriation mode, by contrast with baroque layering, users are more deeply involved in changing the technology. They now explore ways to adapt the technology beyond the options that have been designed by the phone makers and service providers.
    (…)
    Cannibalism: This third form of appropriation is the most extreme in the sense that it corresponds to practices where the user chooses to engage in direct conflict with the suppliers of the technology (or at least with the power relation as embodied in the technology.) Cannibalism includes modifications of the device that place the user in direct opposition with the providers’ business model, destruction of the device.“”

    (via Pasta&Vinegar.)

    * the academic “Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism” by Bar, Pisani and Weber can be found here.

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  6. links for 2008-11-14

    November 14, 2008
    • ies4osx
      testing your websites on Internet Explorer™ has never been so easy.
      it's as simple as doubleclicking the installer. ies4osx will download all the necessary files and install them in a convenient app package named "Internet Explorer 6.0" on your Desktop folder.
      Once You're done with IE, drag it to the trash, and it's gone.

      note: it needs to have Darwine and X11 installed.
      via Pierre - it looks great! thanks!

      (tags: webdev internet_explorer windows mac wine)

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  7. Twitter Updates for 2008-11-13

    November 13, 2008

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    EDIT: thank you Twitter Tools - it has been a fine mess with over 20 posts created overnight for a single tweets. let’s see how this will perform from now on.

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  8. links for 2008-11-11

    November 11, 2008
    • rosa B
      Rosa B. is a magazine produced by two of Bordeaux’s art institutions – CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux and the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts. Rosa B. will provide a common space of reflection and discourse on artistic practices, but also a point of intersection between, on the one hand, the School’s concerns for the transmission of knowledge, research, experimentation on new approaches and ways of thinking and doing, and, on the other, the efforts of the museum to define a precise, innovative cultural and artistic project that is able to convey to its audience the ways in which artists reflect on the world, apprehend it and transform it, through new works, exhibitions, publications and events.
      (tags: magazine design graphicdesign graphic france)
    • 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs | Wordpress
      35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out

      nice resource of plugins’ links to help setup a multi author wordpress blog

      (tags: wordpress plugin multi_author blog article)
    • Audit Trail Plugin - Keep track of changes to your WordPress site | Urban Giraffe
      Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

      Useful to manage multi author blog (like the future fontnest blog)

      (tags: wordpress plugin multi_author)

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  9. links for 2008-11-10

    November 10, 2008

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  10. Some notes on experimenting with the economics

    November 09, 2008

    A few weeks ago, we launched the &AMP, Ampersand Make Production, a project in which people are supporting the production of cultural products.
    This is an experiment in the economics of production. Our first issue is a poster and a text: AMP001. The content is clearly influenced by the practice we developped to maintain and develop R-Echos (http://r-echos.net) and we called the issue “R-Echos issue 1”.

    * Recently Charlotte from Manystuff asked us to give more details about the ideas around &AMP - below I’m translating in english our answer to her request:

    Financing and the notion of Crowd Sourcing
    Instead of using a single source of finance, grant or sponsoring -we are seeking to establish a principle of distributed funding, like a p2p network. This principle is applied as well to the distribution since each share-holder/participant own a certain percentage of the real thing produced, and each of them is able to decide individually or collectivelly of the future of his or her share of the production.
    A series of economic experiments
    This project is for us a laboratory. The poster and the text of AMP001 (the first issue) are a first test tube. We are just starting to be able to draw early conclusions, it is for us a little bit like a reduced scale LHC: we are launching something and looking at the results depending on the parameters of the launch.
    An extension of R-echos (http://r-echos.net)
    R-Echos is a website, a selection of whatever we find, see, read and collect online, it is our daily best picks; it is a reblog that we have been maintaining for some years now. The poster of this first issue shows tangible objects that belongs to our every day life ans surround us: things on our desks, books in the shelves, visuals references that inspired us for some reasons - we consider those objects as being the sources of the project we develop and realise (like in programmation); we really consider R-Echos like being one of the source-code of Electronest.

    french version:
    le financement et la notion de crowd sourcing
    au lieu de s’en remettre à une seule source de financement, ou à un principe de sponsoring - nous cherchons à mettre en place un financement distribuée comme un réseau p2p. Ce principe s’applique également à la distribution, puisque chaque Share Holder possede un certain pourcentage de notre production et est en mesure de decider individuellement (ou cellectiveemnt) du futur de sa part de la production.
    une serie d’expériences économiques
    ce projet est un laboratoire pour nous. Le poster et le texte de AMP001, c’est une première éprouvette. On commence tout juste à pouvoir tirer des conclusions. c’est un peu comme un micro-LHC pour nous: on lance un truc, et on regarde ce que ça produit en fonction des paramètres de lancement
    une extension de R-Echos — http://r-echos.net
    R-Echos est un site internet, une sélection de ce que l’on lis/trouve online, nos “best picks” quotidien; c’est un reblog que l’on fait depuis quelques années déjà. Ce poster contient les objets qui nos entourent et nous inspirent — c’est un peu comme un code-source des choses que l’on fait, on considère le site de R-Echos comme étant un des codes-source de Electronest.

    * Here is also a short text I put on the facebook group a little while ago, it links the ideas of &AMP and the ones of etoy.SHARE:

    obviously, there’s some sort of inspiration taken from etoy.SHARE.
    In the & Make Production project, shares are project based and they determine if the project is interesting enough to make it to the production step. if not shareholders will be able to decide how they want the money to be used: refund, re-investment in the next publication or in the structure itself, etc.
    Shareholders are sharing the destiny of the project which we don’t control anymore.

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