Research & Practise

Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of Internet by Sherry Turkle p.183: “Yet this new writing is a kind of hybrid: speech momentarily frozen into artifact, but curiously ephemeral artifact. …typographic conventions known as emoticons replace physical gestures and facial expressions. For example, :-) indicates a smiling face and :-( indicates an...
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Just found a site – OpenPaths (https://openpaths.cc/), with the mobile application available for iPhone and Android, it can track your gps location and upload to the server. It can also export to csv, kml and json. You are required to register with username and password. There is API for future apps development. Besides, I...
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Moodjam is an online diary that allows people to express their moods and feelings using patterns of color. It has visualizations of your moods and other people’s moods. The portal is developed by Ian Li. I had the concept of tracking the clothing color as well as document my own mood index (number) in...
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extension of digital text / properties of digital system: Algorithm-driven operation -> digital objects with the machine-language instructions Reactive and interactive nature -> Computer code is based on conditional statements (if… then) that execute different instructions, depending on the state of the system or on external input. I call a system reactive when it responds to...
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Just want to document some discussion on the web talking about the replacement of HTML5 over Flash: Well actually Adobe has to be forced to follow the html5 standard nowadays, and they announced just in Nov, 2011 that they will put more resources in html5 tool rather than flash. The major problem for flash...
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The book is about digital story telling. “I am assuming that this movement is analogous to the invention of the movie camera a hundred years ago, and asking: if the digital environment (multimedia, networked, desktop, VR, arcade, etc.) is the ‘camera,’ then what will be the equivalent of the ‘movie’? The holodeck provides one...
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Finally get the method in accessing the data in sina’s weibo (weibo <-> processing) , but the problem is they need to re-register with ‘REAL’ name! What will be the data about then?   Share on Facebook
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This is a facebook app launched by Heineken, it requires you to grant access to facebook’s contact in order to grab your contact data and combined into the x’mas tree. All things are automatically done, what you need to do is to click to grant access and click to share with your friends. You...
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#1 Simple Viewer,  is a free, customizable image viewing application. Lightweight and easy to use, it features smart preloading, a resizable interface, thumbnail menu and optional description text. Features: 50 images / gallery, also with wordpress plugin support. Example works: http://studentpages.scad.edu/~salema20/ | http://www.chapterone.com.hk/Wedding%20gowns/weddinggowns.htm #2 Mosaic: automatically generate sliding box and captions #3 arbor.js:  a graph visualization library with particle system Will...
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Ian Bogost introduced the captioned reading, see full pdf here: Philosophy is now also looking for practice-based , experimental or new approach to expand their field, I do agree on some of the mentioned suggestion as below. However if it ties closely between Philosophy and public market policy/economists, it may risk the the original...
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