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danja vasiliev | 1 Aug 13:22
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Say NO to augmented reality of Google empire

hello nettimers,
i thought i share my recent development.
since many use gmail here it might come useful,
esp regarding to the recent CIA/Viacom logs intrigues.

> GOOLASH keeps you logged out from the search engine of Google,
> regardless of any other "G" services you might be using, like Gmail
> for example. GOOLASH keeps your web searches disassociated from your
> Google username, meaning that the results are not being filtered
> according to the profile Google has on you, neither the context of
> your requests is being attached to your persona. Doing some trickery
> with cookies GOOLASH cuts the tentacles of monstrous corporation away
> from your brain and CPU. Say NO to augmented reality of Google empire,
> embrace unfiltered content!

Download add-on:
http://k0a1a.net/goolash/goolash.xpi (Firefox 1.5-3.0.*)

Page: 
http://k0a1a.net/goolash

p.s. vegetarians - don't be afraid, those juicy chunks are probably
tofu!

best,
Danja

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Donata Marletta | 1 Aug 15:13
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On-line/Off-line Communities and Digital Arts Festivals...my PhD

Dear Nettimers, I need your help.

As I'm undertaking a PhD research about the emergence of virtual communities
based on the common interest for digital and experimental arts, I would like
to ask you to post comments, suggestions, reflections and anything that
could be helpful for the understanding of this contemporary phenomenon. My
hypothesis is based on the assumption that virtual communities based on a
virtual interaction, enable the emergence of a transnational flow of people,
which meet physically throughout the year during the taking place of digital
arts festivals.

Your contribution is very much appreciated.
Donata Marletta
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta | 1 Aug 16:01
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'The Rest of Now' at Manifesta 7

Dear All,

(Apologies for cross posting to readers at Nettime, Spectre,  
Fibreculture, Crumb, Kafila and the Sarai Reader List)

This is to share with you news of 'The Rest of Now' an exhibition  
curated by us, the Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica  
Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta), at the ex-Alumix factory in  
Bolzano / Bozen, for the seventh edition of Manifesta: The European  
Biennale of Contemporary Art, which opened in the Trentino-South  
Tyrol region of Italy on the 19th of July. The exhibition will stay  
open till the 2nd of November, 2008.

Manifesta is an itinerant biennial that changes location every two  
years. The  artistic strategies of Manifesta 7 take the landscape,  
history, industrial heritage and socio-cultural environment of the  
Trentino-South Tyrol region as their points of departure. The five  
different venues: - the fortress in Fortezza / Franzensfeste, the  
Manifattura Tabacchi in Rovereto; the Ex-Peterlini  factory and the  
railway station in Rovereto, the Ex-Alumix factory in Bolzano / Bozen  
and the former Central Post Office in Trento - will all be open to  
the public for the first time in their new incarnations as spaces for  
the exhibition of contemporary art.

The artistic content of each Manifesta is conceived and developed by  
a new team of international curators. This edition of Manifesta is  
curated by Adam Budak (Graz / Krakow), Anselm Franke (Berlin /  
Antwerp) / Hila Peleg (Berlin / Tel Aviv) and Raqs Media Collective  
(New Delhi). Adam Budak curates an exhibition titled 'Principle:  
Hope' in Rovereto,  Anselm Franke & Hila Peleg curate an exhbition
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olivia solis | 2 Aug 04:10
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Re: On-line/Off-line Communities and Digital Arts Festivals...my PhD

HI

im a really passive nettimer, but i have to answered your request because
maybe is going to be interesting for you my situation ...
First of all im from Cuba , i recently finish university studies ,
situation here  about internet is really complex , basically there is a lack
of all kind of free accessibility or normals ways of getting the services ,
but there are also a big amount of people who actually are hungry for this
and good artist potential ...
Ok on my side i was studding this phenomena of social networking and virtual
communities trying to explain here from top to bottom how this is working
...
im actually a  designer , and also main part of this work was to create and
develop a concept for a web site , The frame was to concentrate all kind of
creative people in it , and develop different kind of modules who orient the
web site to the content generation and cross working projects. This artist
oriented, came with the idea of making this site some productive platforms.

so if there is something interesting for you on my project ? be free to ask
... im already working on it i think on 2 month will be done

hey !!! thanks to actives nettimer i really appreciate all the info here

;)

oli
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Florian Schneider | 2 Aug 14:05

breakthrough for open video on the web

It was my last day  at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to
have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the
panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street
smiling all over the face: "I have great news" he screamed. "Firefox 3.1
wil support OGG Theora!"

In other words: This is most likely the breakthrough for open video on
the web! OGG THEORA is the only open source video erncoding suite. It is
available for general use after the bitstream format for Theora was
frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1. <http://theora.org>

Native support in Firefox means that end-users on proprietary platforms
like windows or mac do no longer have to install additional software in
order to watch OGG encoded video. If you want to publish a video you
can  just use the <video> tag like for any image. There is no need for
additional  javascript or flash!

Slashdot writes:
<http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1752206&from=rss>
"Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 <video> tag is in the Firefox 3.1
nightlies. Theora is the only video format allowed on Wikimedia Commons,
so Wikimedia people are pushing Wikipedia readers to download a nightly
and try it out. Break it, crash it, report bugs, get it into good shape
and nullify Apple and Nokia's FUD the best way possible. They may have
gotten the words 'Vorbis' and 'Theora' removed from the HTML5 spec, but
the market will tell them when their browsers are sucking."

Christopher Blizzard wrote in his blog
<http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492> "Mozilla is committing to
include native support for OGG video and audio in its next release that
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Alan Sondheim | 2 Aug 17:06
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How to move through the exhibition space at Odyssey fun

How to move through the exhibition space at Odyssey fun

This presumes you have downloaded the software, which installs itself
automatically; after that, use the URL below and then read on.

If you go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 to view the
Odyssey exhibition, try tuning the interface; it works best if you set the
time at midnight through the Environment Settings in the World directory
of the menu. If you use the environmental editor, you can set the
atmosphere/image at Pirate and increase the mist. If you use ctl-alt-t,
you can see invisible objects (perhaps). If you begin the video, and it
ends as you move through the space, start it again; there is different
video in different parts of the space, and the same goes for the audio -
except for the 12 small invisible audio cubes. If it's running slow, open
the menu, go to Edit/Preferences/Graphics and lower the Quality and
Performance. You may also check Custom, then check Atmospheric Shaders.
When you enter the space, try flying through objects; they will move
out of the way for the most part, for between 10 and 30 seconds. Fly and
turn around and you'll see you've cleared a space. If you see a sphere,
you may touch it with a left-hand mouse click; a sphere above takes you
below, and vice versa. The spheres don't move out of the way. If you walk
through the space, try going between the stairs into the water below, or
fall through the well, or go over the wall bounding the island. You may
not be able to take your avatar there; click on View and then on Camera
Controls; you'll see a small panel open. The controls on the right slide
your viewpoint left or right, up or down; the middle slides it in or out,
and the left turns it about various axes. You can use this to look beneath
the surface of the water where the avatar won't go, or to slide into the
space in order to see the objects without having them disappear in the
presence of the avatar. You can zoom in on the objects or enter into the
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maxigas | 3 Aug 10:35

Re: breakthrough for open video on the web

hi!

just to mention transmission.cc a network of video activists has been
pushing formats, aggregation, online and offline video support and
documentation for some years now.

maxigas

from: Florian Schneider <fls@...>
subject: <nettime> breakthrough for open video on the web
date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 14:05:18 +0200

> It was my last day  at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to
> have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the
> panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street
> smiling all over the face: "I have great news" he screamed. "Firefox 3.1
> wil support OGG Theora!"
 <...>
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Amy Alexander | 3 Aug 22:55

Re: Between Tracking and Formulating

Apologies for coming to thread late - in fact, I don't have Jordan's
original text, and can't find it online (perhaps someone could forward
it?) So I'm trying to piece things together by inference, and my
mental algorithm may have some bugs. </irony> (<-more irony)

But I found this piece of the thread very interesting - the apparent
miscommunication may reveal a lot.  What is the "power of algorithms"
that's under debate here? Quite often in discussions like this, the
algorithm is dehumanized. But algorithms are human decisions expressed
in code. They may be implemented by a computer, but humans have
commanded the computer. The fact that we don't see the human, or even
what we recognize as human language, helps us forget that. Although
code is generally written in the imperative ("blow up country x") or
declarative ("if country x has forbidden fruit then we declare country
x to be a menace") it's often perceived as passive ("it was determined
that due to country x's possession of forbidden fruit, country x would
be declared a menace.") Danged computers, there they go again...

So, I'm a believer in the power of algorithms: they are powerful
expressions of human will that humans can hide behind to dodge
responsibility for their actions. We should keep an eye on these
buggers.

I realize from the other pieces I have of the thread  that the
discussants (Jordan, Brian, Keith, lotu5) certainly aren't ignoring
human responsibility. But as there appeared to me to be a "humans vs.
algorithms" component to the discussion, I just wanted to comment on
that aspect.

-Amy
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Amy Alexander | 4 Aug 07:37

In the Future, No One will be Famous or The Downsizing of Celebrity and its Possible Effects on the Future of the New York Times Online Edition

Howdy,

I started out wanting to forward the article linked below with a few
loose thoughts, and I ended up writing an informal essay.
So, here it is. I posted it as a PDF too, since the endnote references
don't work in ASCII.
The PDF is at: http://thebot.org/notbot/text/no_one_will_be_famous.pdf

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In the future, no one will be famous.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/business/media/28askthetimes.html?pagewanted=all

Marc Frons, chief technology officer, digital operations at the New York
Times, answers reader questions about the technological direction of the
Times. It's an interesting read.  Throughout the column, Frons and the
readers seem to be trying to reconcile technological innovation with print
convention while attempting to avoid lapsing into cliches of "progress"
vs. "tradition." One passage in particular caught my attention. Frons
writes:

"We will be offering a way to personalize a small part of the home page
within the next few months so that you can see headlines from sections that
would not ordinarily appear there while leaving the rest of the page
intact. But a completely personalized version of the home page isn't
something we have seriously contemplated, at least not yet. There are a
couple of reasons for this.  First, such a page would probably be daunting
for most readers to set up and maintain. Second, and more important, I
think most readers who visit the NYTimes.com home page go there because
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alexander nikolic | 4 Aug 13:42
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In-Between Castles and Baracks... from the Return of the Gastarbajter

Today is Sunday and Sunday?s in Serbia are usually very relaxed days.  
Too much for my taste, so I want to use this occasion to share some  
impressions with you. Our workshop now lasts for more than 2 weeks  
and that days have been very densed in terms of content. We have been  
introduced to the City of Pozarevac by few individuals and local  
active people, and have been well received here. After the first  
week, where we met local industrials, politicians, activists, people  
from various local cultural or social intitiatives, I face  
difficulties to find a way to relate with our workshop subject. What  
is somehow a burning subject here, is the disapearance of the middle  
class, so I walk arround between castels and baracks. If you press  
the gallery in this post, you will find few images, from the seminar,  
from the first steps arround the town, from our close encounter with  
the International Roma Union of Serbia, but also images from our  
visit to a local illegal settlement, inhabitated by IDP?s (inner  
displaced people) from Kosovo.

My initial motivation, to participate in that Workshop ?the Return of  
the Gastarbajter? was to have an broader overview on that phenomena,  
that is also part of my own story. My parents were migrants from  
Yugoslavia, and I was born and raised in Austria. People in Serbia,  
often claim that the reasons for migration were always only  
economical, and that only non-educated, almost illiteral people moved  
towards Western Europe and further. In my case, my parents had an  
decent education, and they managed to somehow focus to live, where  
they are, and not to build castles for a imagined future, for an  
uncertain return to the places, where they moved from.

Here we have here loads of houses, i call them castles, build by the  
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