Andreas Schlegel currently lives in Singapore. He likes to write programs that generate audio, visual, and physical output. He enjoys doing projects with syntfarm.
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- #["Five measures prove to be useful: A, the area of the isovist, which gives us a measure of size (in 3-D this is a volume); P, the perimeter of the isovist, which gives us a measure of the boundary length (in 3-D this is an area) excluding the horizon and excluding Q, which is a measure of the length (area) of the radial, component of the isovist boundary; M2, which is a statistical measure of the variability of the boundary’s distance from x; and M3, which is a measure of the asymmetry of M2." From Benedikt]
If we dimensionalize the data from any given social framework online, could we apply isovistic theory to the quantification of perceptual awareness around a user in this textually augmented reality we now find ourselves?
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Infra-mince, Duchamp declared, cannot be defined, but can only be described by examples, such as the difference in displaced volume between a clean shirt and the same shirt worn once, or the taste of one's mouth lingering in exhaled smoke.
Infra-mince was a new way to think about physical and temporal dimensions (decades before Mandelbrot discovered fractals). Holes in some of Duchamp's artwork link the 2nd to the 3rd dimension. Sometimes he shot the holes out with bullets, echoing infra-mince again in the delay between the sounds of the shot and the impact.
Add this to the isovism concept and you basically describe a social network.
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- #A single isovist is the volume of space visible from a given point in space, together with a specification of the location of that point.
Isovism is an interesting concept when applied to the creation of a website. Quantifying the perception of space in a given point. How far can you see from your homepage for instance into the larger n-dimensional world a site creates?
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- #The new iPad has lots of space. The screen offers 1024x768 pixels.
via tuaw.com
What excites me the most about the iPad, I think, is that it takes paradigms and approaches and lets us expand them. Good art, whether visual or interface, comes from working against constraints imposed by the medium. The iPhone imposed very strict constraints and amazing new paradigms of interface design came out of that. These new approaches have bled their way into Mac OSX apps, Windows 7, etc. I expect the same to happen with the iPad.
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- #The funny thing is, if Adobe does not take the steps to make tools to address a future with HTML5, what we'll be left with is tools others create. And chief amongst those others will most likely be Apple. Flash's stance here reminds of Microsoft's during the creation of Blackbird and later their migration toward Visual Interdev and Frontpage. When you build the walls so high around your garden, the fall will just kill your plants.
[From Flash, iPad, Standards – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report]
- #Rest in piece little buddy.
[From xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe]
- #Idiotic. Copy paste wasn't missing because of an ideological reason. It was missing because it wasn't ready. Same with an SDK and an App-Store. Multitasking presents a usability challenge that I wager they are nearly set in addressing. I bet the camera is supply chain related (same with the iPod Touch). WIth Apple products, what is MISSING is the interesting part, as it usually leads to exposure to ideologies, challenges or works in progress.
[From What We Learned About Apple Yesterday]
- #I wonder if they are also seeing concurrent apps running from the same device, and that's how they know? I imagine the Tablet will be able to run multiple apps in a grid of some sort, given the screen size.
[From Apple Tablet: The Second Stage Media Booster Rocket ]
- #A pretty big deal I think, especially considering the move from entertainment companies from "impression" based metrics to revenue.
[From Boxee Blog » Coming soon: Boxee Payments]
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I’m not even one of the ones you have to worry about
I honestly couldn’t believe how upset ppl were at that presentation. I guess I haven’t been in the middle of a lot of those DRM flamewars 
I think what a lot of ppl were particularly upset about was your avoidance of some of the questions you were asked. That presentation would have gone over a lot better if there was more dialog. It was totally a battle between two entrenched sides, eh?
There is a lot more that could have been said had I had more time, and not wanted to monopolize the discussion. Also do realize I work for a big company, this blog is a little more candid.
That being said, I don’t like DRM, if you read here, you’d know that, but what I tried to say is this:
1) We compete with free every day
2) You can’t compete with free
3) DRM is a very small problem in the midsts of a VERY large issue, that effects not just us, but every wannabee web 2.0 company, blog, etc out there. Especially small software developers actually.
I knew DRM is contentious, and people don’t like being told that their simple unidirectional venom toward it is actually a much more complicated issue. So be it. Much bigger issues to face. DRM disappearing won’t help or hinder or change the fact that they have to be faced and handled and thought about.
I work at Muchmusic.com so I feel your pain about competing with free. We have a restricted-rights media player (axs.muchmusic.com) that must compete with all the DRM-free, unlicensed places where you can watch music videos out there.
But we find that fighting the social networks and the blogosphere is a losing game. Instead, we try to embrace them as platforms that get our content out there, with Muchmusic.com as the central hub. The people out there have decided what platform they want to use to talk about music, and it’s IM/Myspace/Facebook. Why are you trying to work against that free promotion of your brands? Why don’t you embrace it?
We do embrace it, or did you not hear me talk about open source, open websites, integration with Facebook, etc? Our deal with YouTube, Brightcove, Pandora, Last.fm, etc? Where do you see us NOT embracing it?
We fund open source projects for god sakes (check the Invision integration module on Drupal.org)
How does contributing to open-source software help music-lovers discuss your content?
I see you not embracing it whenever an internet radio station is forced to go offline (I know, that was an easy shot) or a podcaster can’t discuss your music because he’ll get sued if he somuch as plays a sample
I focus on what I can control. I do not control the RIAA. I work at Warner Bros. Records, and try to make our artist sites and presences online as good as I possibly can.
Isn’t the RIAA representing WB Records?
I understand your position as the huge machine, that is the record label, struggles against the web. I think a lot of people just find it frustrating that they’re still fighting their customers tooth-and-nail over this. Also, if you are one part of the record company trying to embrace this, it’s confusing to see the other side of the company suing people for making a mashup.
Welcome to the weird world of anti-racketeering laws, corporate legal issues, US copyright and the music business. I fight the battles I can, and am the squeeky wheel on the others.
I live in a world where artists should get fairly compensated for their work, Labels should succeed based on the merit of their artists and not by superior market clout, and the public decides what they like instead of overarching marketing
Like I said, I understand your position. As someone working in the traditional media space myself, I fight the battles I can too. What’s missing is a dialog on these issues (not in the form of a lawsuit or copyright-law), and I appreciate your effort to contribute to one today.
I try to contribute to the dialog as much as I can in and out of my role at WBR (hence this blog). And I use big words doing so
That’s the former college professor in me.
m.. nice post dude!
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