Before I start though, Disclaimer: I work for flickr, these are my personal views don’t necessarily represent those of flickr.Yesterday (I think it’s all a blur) we announced two changes…. The second is a limit on the number of Tags you can have (Machine Tags having a separate limitLike being agile again on a large scale.
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I’ll get onto that in a later post though.This is a quick one about the new groovy Machine Tags and upcoming.org, it’s been there a while but with the roll out of Machine Tags, Kellan added a little boost the the upcoming integration.Over on the left is a snippet from the Ocean Beach Geo Walk at upcoming…. another great way of discovering a different viewpoint of and photographers at events you went to.I also suspect it’s one of those things where the value will slowly come out after a while, as more people do it, and possibly more tools/intergration appear to make it even easier.
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This one is for Jonathan over at The Map Room.2007 Web Trend Map from Information Architects.
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While we’re about it, Visualization Clusters on Flickr.
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Apparently, according to ‘how to blog’ blogs I need to work on my post titles to not only convey what the post is about, but also throw some keywords in there too…. Other people say you should make sure the first paragraph has all the key elements for the post, so as not to lose readers in their RSS feed or whatever.
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Seems I’m just about riding on the wave in the light of recent rumors (as always comments ultimately more rewarding)…. Figured it was just about time I got round to reading it.On the plus side the commute is so quick and easy that it takes no time to get from one end of the trip to the other.On the down side it means it’s taking me forever to get through it.So no telling me the ending, ok!
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Via the API you could not only find “flickr:user=revdancatt”, but also wildcards, I can find all photos tagged with a “flickr:user=”, or any namespace that happens to have “*:user=revdancatt” or even anything that points to “*.*=revdancatt” and other various combinations.They are called “Machine Tags” because we expect them to generally be added by automated systems and later sucked up and processed by machines.Example: I have my psychotic photo taking Spime out in the wild…. Dishes could have other classification types layered over the top, allowing people to find Dishes to put together into a Meal.By stepping back through the values held in the tags it’d be possible to calculate the total calorific value of the meal, without having to store that anyplace, adjusting the amount of an Ingredient in a Dish would alter the final value.Anyway, the above example may not be that exciting, but does illustrate how 3rd party developers have more power to do stuff.
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I confess to not understanding a word from the blog post over here …Reblog> Zones, images & bordersI think that Fremont-Freeman’s installation is quite impressive 1) as an example of in-world art that is an absolute expression of a synthetic world, the media; and, 2) I think the artist invented an efficient representational infrastructure (the means through which the body/avatar discovers the show’s contents) that is a minimalist and intense expression of an intimidating social and political context But also, it is the fabrication of an elegant physical space that sucessfully vacillates between RL images and virtual world (im)materiality, to create a destabilizing perceptual, psychological environment.I do however like the pretty pictures, and so should you …Glib comments aside it does give me a chance to introduce a blog I’ve been meaning to link to for quite a while.Metaverse Territories (http://metaverseterritories.com/)Which is kind of mapping but with a virtual world art wonk to it…. But that doesn’t stop me from trying anyway, which hopefully is all I need to be getting on with.Getting back on track, links in and around the blog post that started it all offSLATE – Border ArtJohn Craig FreemanImaging Place Second Life: The U.S./Mexico Border at Ars Virtua.[Disclaimer: I’m not saying Google Earth isn’t smart, because it is, I’m just saying that focusing on clever (data layers) isn’t enough.
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So while some other blogs cover Google sending a small plane over parts of Sydney on the 26th (the place not Jennifer Garner) I’m rather taken with these …From Plasticbag.orgAnyway, one of the fun things that happened over the weekend was that Chris DiBona announced that Google were going to be doing a flyover of the campus and that we should take the opportunity to make some interesting art projects that would subsequently be visible from Google Maps and Google Earth. So we did.The rumour is you’ll be able to see this in context on the sites and services concerned sometime in the middle of February, but Chris has been gracious enough to send me a Creative Commons-licensed snapshot of the entire campus showing both the project that Cal, Simon, Paul, Heathcote, Suw Charman, Biddulph and I put together (with help from lovely people like Jane), and the competing project that Chris and Jane masterminded themselves.
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Taken in Logroño, La Rioja by Elfo Tógrafo
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