824 Posts Tagged "netnarr"

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Digital Cleanup: Letting Go of Old Domain Barges

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A bit late for the monthly round of cleanups, but the mop is out. I have a few legacy domains running WordPress multisite that I am just going to bite my disgust of breaking links and let them go, after making sure they are full rounded up in the Internet Archive. I considered doing the backup to static HTML I have done before and sending to my old web bones yard but can foresee a lot of effort to do […]

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Doing It Daily, The Network, wildDS106

Let’s Go Wild With #DS106

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Hey! It’s a placeholder post! This is in prep for a session in the planning for the Reclaim Open Conference 2025 wiith some theme about rewilding. I am in cahoots with a confabulating group of DS106 veterans and we are going to get y’all rewilding via the DS106 Daily Create. Can you handle the Daily Creates? Rewilding? The DS106 Daily Create is and always has been wild. And just to show how full of crap AI summaries are, if you […]

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Archiving the NetNarr Alchemy Lab

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The other day, my friend, Wendy, asked about the status of an old collaborative project that was done for Networked Narratives, in which a bunch of us created artwork for a 360-degree immersive “Alchemy Lab” project. The project was created in ThingLink, but since I can’t justify the annual fee, the lab is only visible to myself, as the owner. So I decided the best thing I could do is to give a screencast tour of the lab, if only […]

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My twitter bots and apps have been defecated

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Just typing the “t” word brings all the smelly fetid connotations. Still, twitter can be a swell place, Wally. The writing on the wall is happening for a string of my web sites and some silly experiments that likely the world will not suffer to be without. And while this week we are hearing of the withering of the blue check marks (I am proud now of never seeking nor getting one), worse is ahead as the great business minds […]

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Artificial Intelligence, The Network

In The Age Of AI Search, Will We Still Be Curious?

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Poster be curious, second version flickr photo by Ampersand Press Lab shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license When people seek information, we might think we have a question and we are looking for the answer, but more often than not, we benefit more from engaging in sense-making: refining our question, looking at possible answers, understanding the sources those answers come from and what perspectives they represent, etc.  — Bender/Shah, from All-Knowing Machines Are A Fantasy Emily Bender shared this […]

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NetNarr: Voice In Writing/The Arc Of An Idea

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A new iteration of Networked Narratives, with Mia Z., is underway and she posted an in-class prompt — What is voice in writing? — as she and her students grapple with the age of AI, and what impact it will have on our writing. The prompt seeks to suss out the human elements of writing versus the algorithmic text. (see Mia’s university students’ responses) I added my thoughts, with a poetic slant. Voice in writing is the human element, the […]

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Is Making Music With The Machine The Same As Writing With The Machine?

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Music Machine flickr photo by Dogtrax shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license My connected friend, Maha Bali, shared a post about thinking through how to navigate the world of citation in the age of ChatGPT and AI-generated text, particularly if a writer uses the AI chat for parts of their own writing and/or research. Maha suggested a citation format, but I was particularly intrigued by Alan Levine’s thoughtful response in the comments, and when Alan referenced Jonathan Portiz’ insights […]

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Playing Around With A Family of Arty-Bots

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I don’t remember how or when I stumbled upon the collection of Twitter bots by B.J. Best but I suspect it have been during one of the handful of Networked Narrative projects I engaged with (in one session, we all created our own bots and mine is still rolling along as the PeaceLove&Bot). The Artybots collection by Best, a poet and designer, are fascinating, particularly because they were released before this latest wave of AI Art platforms. Here is my […]

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Researching “Research” on Memes

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Mmmmm memes. I love that I do not have to explain them. Yet there’s much more to just passing them around or responding to someone’s tweet/email/text message with one you yank off the web. I’ve tried to make the case that there is a use for silly media (and again). We put them to use in #NetNarr as a creative act and a means of messaging the medium. But this morning one of those little gems happened, when a student […]

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It’s a CogDog Thing: Google Has Crossed The Line Adserving My Name

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We are literally frogs in the internet pan of water, with Google at al just incrementally turning up the surveillance capitalism flame every so gently that we just never notice the boil. So yes, it’s a tad creepy to see ads show up in say Instagram for products I have recently been searching for in Google (never stopping to think how this data is traveling between 2 of the big data competitors). But I keep on clicking, Maybe even marvel. […]

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Kean University 2021, The Network

Prepping for the final

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I’m going to enjoy the concept of the final project, having to write a short-written piece based on the overall theme we’ve been following all semester. We have the guidelines, the parameters, the theming (technology in an academic setting), and the allotted time to do so. It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything creative, I’ve had to put that aside as I’ve worked on other pursuits of life. I am happy to say that coming back to this […]

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