Monthly Archives: November 2008

Dorkbot – Focused Workshop, 30Nov08, Making Noise with the Arduino

By caseorganic | Published: November 30, 2008
This month, the Arduino Cult Induction workshop series focused on sound. This morning I woke up, ate some food, and headed to PNCA, where the Arduino workshop on making crazy sounds was to be. After a short lecture, everyone begin working with electronics, and I am happy to say that the room is filled with crazy [...]
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Measuring the Speed of Social Networks

By caseorganic | Published: November 30, 2008
We can estimate the relative speed of social networks based on profile to response ratio. Twitter has a high profile to response ratio. Each environment and person’s profile is compressed for light transit. Myspace has more social geography. Each user has more visual and textual space. Each space is capable of being altered in size, shape, [...]
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Virtual Communities and Technosocial Relationships: Omnipresence, Omniscience, and Omnipandemonium

By caseorganic | Published: November 30, 2008
To ‘go virtual’ is to free the self from the weight of the flesh incarcerated by ‘heavy modernity’. Cyber Ethnologist Sandy Stone discusses the theoretical benefits of joining virtual communities: Electronic virtual communities represent flexible, lively, and practical adaptations to the real circumstances that confront persons seeking community in what Haraway (1987) refers to as ‘the [...]
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A Discussion of Haptic, Sensuous Architecture

By caseorganic | Published: November 29, 2008
Information is something that we often experience with our eyes or ears, but rarely can we touch information and gain a kind response. The dearth of haptic interaction with our information reduces our ability to interact with it on that dimension. If I were to describe the current reality of haptics in everyday life, I would [...]
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Dorkbot presents Maxwell the Robot – Nov. 24 Meeting

By caseorganic | Published: November 29, 2008
The bi monthly DorkbotPDX meeting was last Monday, and the usual group showed up to check out what kinds of things people were working on. Anselm read news about changes to Google’s Algorithm on the Google blog. Paige and Bram worked on a Favicon for the Makerlab blog. Reid and I checked out a piece of equiptment that [...]
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Here is Some Outside World Authenticity for Your Eyes

By caseorganic | Published: November 29, 2008
It is that time of year. The time when you should see some plants. You are inside, away from the outside. So with these images, I will bring the outside to you. I present to you the NEW, META OUTSIDE! May these recent photos from my photostream calm your eyes into passive relaxation, so that the intense data flow of the [...]
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Transformation and Manifestation of Analog Terminology in Online Spaces

By caseorganic | Published: November 29, 2008
Computers widen the arc of actions accessible to humans. A quick overview of all of the actions that we can do with computers is summed up quite nicely in the lyrics of Daft Punk’s Technologic. Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, melt – upgrade it, charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press [...]
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