datenstroeme

pivot browsing

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:13:41 +0000

Some people say, any data should be in reach with 2 or max 3 clicks. The concept of pivot browsing intends something completely different. Strolling along from point to point, offering constantly new views and routes to continue. Pivot browsing is not goal driven. The user becomes a flaneur. Or a stalker, occasionally.

myUglySpace vs Karl Rosenkranz

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:21:26 +0000

Feel free to be ugly! Be ugly to feel free! The disucssion about the advantages ofugliness at site like myspace has been going for a while. We take a deep look into the Rosenkranz’s Esthetics of the Ugly for some theoretical background.

skype, twitter and the unused phone

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:21:17 +0000

both skype and twitter build up their network effect on top of unused functionality in telephony. twitter largely got popular in the US by taking advantage of SMS and texting, and their lack of popularity. skype again becomes a very popular instant messenger because people use it for text chat instead of making the classic skype call. both use the omnipresence of the technology of telephony as a background and take advantage through functional regression.

news - data, information or vector?

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:36:24 +0000

is about a, at a time b, at location c, comes from source d, relates to other information e1, is read by f. a+(b+)>d/e->f.
And what about information? An amount of bits according to Claude Shannon. A difference that makes a difference, says Gregory Bateson.

In short: how would we want our favourite news site to look like? (not like a newspaper put on screen, for sure)

status: ongoing research

started: 03.06.07

(web)stars

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:42:34 +0000

They are born & here already. There will come more. The species appears as a result of personalized data mining, no privacy and real-time tracking. Some might be true (whatever that is), some might be fake. They will use sites like jaiku, plazes and twitter. And they will complain about paparazzis, but just to create more news. And we will find hords of fans following their digital traces.

a short history of connections

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:41:27 +0000

Sometimes history can help to find perspectives. A history of the web could be written as a history of overloading and overriding connections. First there were 3 computers linked. This net was overridden with letters and words. Much later html replaced text with adresses. Now social networks override links with persons, actions, places.

To be extended.

l.e.d.ism

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:30:03 +0000

light emitting diodes have become the new light bulbes. the history of diodes from AM radio demodulation to logic gates shows that after a certain threshold a technology which has long been known can become ubiquitous and disruptive making all kinds of uses possible.
the miniaturisation, mobilisation and differentation of LEDs directly connected to electronic circuitry makes light technology part of electronics and finally takes it away from the field of “electric light”. it is the same moment where images deconstruct into large pixels, and blinking or animated RGB light is seen in public places as well as restaurants or living rooms. LEDs also becomes part of a cyberpunk retro fashion as a reference to early digital technology.

monopolize functions

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:39:22 +0000

Many of the recent webservices can be described with a single phrase. They do something. The more specific, the better. The ultimate goal seems to monopolize a specific function.

programme is over. what comes next?

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:33:39 +0000

The fixed time structure of broadcast media may soon look like a nostalgic reference to the 20th century. But even with data flowing freely any time we will necounter parallel events, sequential orders and other specific forms of time.

multiple ranking

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:28:45 +0000

Sorting is a very basic operation. Sometimes websites look as if they run a competition among different ways of sorting. Take a look at Youtube: most recent, top rated, most discussed, most linked, most responded … The dimensions of the activity, time and link density compete with each other.

europe´s google

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:14:47 +0000

google follows a technology driven approach of massive deployment, engineering skills and algorithms and an american culture of an abundance of resources.

wikipedia is based on a collective human driven editing process and relatively small server capacities and the the european project of enlightment.

in order to be able to compete with google the EU shouldn´t fund Quaero but rather organize existing scientific research around the Wikipedia project.

flow

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:48:29 +0000

user centric flow focuses on the emotional experience of interaction. the architecture of flow is based on protocols, formats and feeds. on the data level a time based approach and not storage based aspect of data objects.

net based academy

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:19:19 +0000

how to use the synergy of the ongoing Bologna-process and the long awaited digital turn in teaching and research.

see delicious wiki presentation at the summit for nonaligned initiatives in education culture

time

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:08:05 +0000

two vectors of time
a) time-based links: linking events with time-stamps.
b) time-based archives: holding and displaying data according to time and date. (in contrary to google)

resulting in:
narrative formats, chains of events

status: ongoing research

relaunch non-blog

red — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:33:22 +0000

datenstroeme will be relaunched by june 1st. it will still run on wordpress, but not as a blog. as you can see, we will switch to english language.

new features will be

- daily delicious import on media, net, digitale culture

- new time-structure (non blog, using tags as time-range indicators)

- focused on topics

tune in !

Pit & Stefan