Right, finally got round to getting a camera phone. So first off, a nice sticker I saw at work the other day. Really fills you with confidence when faced with such a warning.
Dear oh dear. Next week, Adders in the coffee machine.
Year: 2004
experiment
Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).
The original posting for this experiment is located at: Minding the Planet (Permalink) — results and commentary will appear there in the future.
Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate — the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.
The GUID for this experiment is:
as098398298250swg9e989298725253
89t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst
(this GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate). Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above). (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)
INSTRUCTIONS
To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and then answer the questions below, substituting your own information, below, where appropriate. Other than answering the questions below, please do not alter the information, layout or format of this post in order to preserve the integrity of the data in this experiment (this will make it easier for searchers and automated bots to find and analyze the results later).
REQUIRED FIELDS (Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)
(1) I found this experiment at URL: here
(2) I found it via “Newsreader Software” or “Browsing the Web” or “Searching the Web” or “An E-Mail Message”: Blogdex.net
(3) I posted this experiment at URL: http://www.koncretedesign.co.uk/index.php
(4) I posted this on date (day/month/year): 03/08/04
(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 10:45:00
(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): Basingstoke, UK
OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS (Replace the answers below with your own answers):
(7) My blog is hosted by: Easily Ltd.
(8) My age is: 27
(9) My gender is: Male
(10) My occupation is: Web Development Executive
(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: Magpie RSS
(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: WordPress
(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 03/10/04
(14) My web browser is: FireFox
(15) My operating system is: Windows 2000
T.V. oddness
“Never Be Alone Again, Chrissie Hynde’s duet with Russell Crowe & 30 Odd Foot of Grunts”….
Saw this on the T.V. last night, thought I had gone mental…very strange…
I can quite safely say that ‘Never Be Alone Again’ is an apt title, the image of Russ warbling away is still etched on my retinas. In all fairness it was quite a solid performance, however I just wasn’t expecting it damn it, there should have been some form of warning.
Other oddities on T.V. last night was some American ‘sportz’ reporter screaming ‘T.V. theatre’ (???) after some geezer smacked a home run. Odd.
Then BBC1 had a great ‘yooth prog’ on news24 in which loads of right-on teenagers asked people why they don’t just get out of their cars and walk….probably coz some future Tony Blair is outside the car door with a camera crew.
Swarm
Back to the issue on Omnipresent Layered Inherent History I posted a little while back. I have started reading a book titled ‘Out of Control’ by Kevin Kelly of Wired fame. I have only just started but noticed a clear similarity with his musings on ‘swarm intelligence’ and Omnipresent Layered Inherent History. Most similar was the concept ‘invisible hand of combinatory systems’ essentially control without overall authority.
A swarm can be defined as:
“a decentralized model, based on the cooperation of autonomous units with a relatively simple and probabilistic behavior that are distributed in the environment and are provided only with local information”
A little simlar to my half arsed attempt at describing Omnipresent Layered Inherent History (“how elements, be they style, emotion, concept or form can be transported in ’spirit’ from one entity to another, mostly due to proximity”).
I feel that models such as art, style, architecture show many similarities with swarms; many practictioners, no overall controll or authority (apart from Saatchi et al).
So if the swarm model holds true, there can be no control of the arts, architecture etc as any undue pressure, will simply be swallowed up by the swarm and either reacted against or incorporated into the whole and evolved. Art can not be destroyed it can only be transofrmed from one form to another. Little similar to Quantum theory (or is that back-action principle of post-quantum theory??; “anything that affects something else must, in turn, be affected by that something else”.) .
Anyway thats my two pennies worth.
Sk8tr Boi
Homer
Homer is quite the hero in our household. So much so that we decided he needed a change of clothes every so often to break from the monotony of blue trousers and a white top. So with the excellent tailoring skills of my girlfriend, Homer got a new wardrobe.
I will post some of the other costumes in due course. First off Zen Homer
The others to look forward to are Mexican Homer, Sk8r Homer and Winter Homer.
Mask
Kinda frightening what one can do with a couple of copies of the Weekend (Grauniad), some scissors and a digital camera. Ladies and Gentlemen I present Mr and Mrs Walken (sort of)
Omnipresent Layered Inherent History
‘Omnipresent Layered Inherent History’, a cracking phrase if ever I saw one. I frequently used this behemoth in various college art essays. Got me bugger all in extra marks, but it made me feel pretty damn special.
Johno
John Simpson of the BBC writes in his book ‘A Mad World, My Masters’…..”this is why, like the movies, tabloid journalism bears no relationship to life as we know it; it is too extreme, too lacking in colmplexity. There are too few categories of existence. The people the tabloids write about are either 2-dimensionally glamorous or successful, or they are victims, or they are ‘evil’…..”
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Really haven’t blogged much recently, what with Euro 2004 and other poor excuses.