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summer
I can tell that it's getting warm enough that my brain has begun to turn off. One symptom is that I have actually begun to look forward to seeing the following movies:
The Hulk
Charlie's Angels Full Throttle
Terminator 3
Another symptom is that I've gotten sucked into browsing through Friendster profiles. If you're a Raccoon reader and a Friendster user, feel free to add me to your network. My e-mail is jeremy@invisible-city.com.
When I was in New York recently I saw Friendster-related graffiti on the Bowery. I wish I'd taken a picture of it: it was a tag that said "Friendster Demons!" or something similar. Rabid fans using Friendster as tribal identification? Guerrila marketing? Anti-Internet religious fundamentalist? Your guess is as good as mine.
Village Voice article on Friendster's impact on real-world socializing, found through this interesting-looking "social software" blog.
Related: in this post (which points to the "relational aesthetics" stuff I blogged on Saturday), Test writes: "As our understanding of social uses of the internet matures from 'is anybody out there?' to 'so what are we going to *do* here?', so networked art is maturing from its initial investigation of the form-factors and politics of the network to an interest in how people are using networked media to connect, and participate in social exchange."
In terms of how network media can inspire exchange, you could do worse than to examine Art of the Mix, a site "dedicated to making mixed tapes and cds" which has the nice side effect of encouraging a gift economy among music geeks... Thanks to Dirk for the heads-up on that one. Labels: internet, networks |
