Thursday, April 2, 2009

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/videohub/esptest.shtml

"Hate them not me"

If you circulate the test and the cheat concurrently.  There is chance for some cross contamination.  The art of misdirection.

The circulation is more important.  Flow.

Circulation vs
Collaboration vs
Consensus vs
Co-Creation

many can overlap, but they are all separate and distinct.

Collaboration vs consensus
- is someone in charge?  
- collaboration with the illusion of consensus
- who brought it up?

Consensus
- everyone gives up something but doesn't feel like they lose
- fewer forms of communication work this way
- further developed than collaboration
- equal part of everybody

Circulation - I make something and if it passes on it passes on

Co-Creation
- Twitter novels, poems
- Other external factors, power influence regret
- overall enterprise

Consequences of participation.
- Start to question what they are.
- Especially if you get deeply invested in it.
- the more deeply invested the greater the consequences good or bad

You betray the solemnness of public space by sharing them.
- lack of community

Photo Scavenger hunt
- see how many hidden spaces that you know
- don't tag but see if others can see
- geomap

Video:
The Future of Communication

Building technology for the sake of it?
what did we do if we don't have easy access to something?  Be creative??

What does mind mean?
- typically thought as thing in yor head
- notion of understanding various forms of info
- interaction and interdependency
- processes that help you understand
- external brain function 
- ecology of mind
- information interacting
- your relation to world around you
- you're co-dependent
- does it diminish your internal
- what are the benefits?  

Emphasize Efficiency?
Orphan Technology?
Doesn't have to be fair if you make money off it.  
Someone makes a choice along the way and makes it so you can't.

Learning process
- inventory your abilities to makes sense what you can do
- predicates what you will do
- amateur production
- expectations of what you can do and what you are able to do
- feeling of amateurishness - what is that feeling, where does it come from?
- pressures of comparing to others
- we just have to make stuff (but we still compare) but we just have to demonstrate what we learn
- accessing resources, accessing what you don't know, filling gaps
- capstone - opportunity to bring everything before and make sense of it.  Culminating skills in an enterprise.
- I can try this, but it won't meet my expectation of ourselves
- I have nothing worth saying / making / even if I did no one will care so why bother

http://theory.org.uk
Can you find the gaps in his video?

We don't think about the majority that suck, but we think about the few that are spectacular as benchmarks.

Tired of seeing everything on a webpage.

Creative Commons
- doesn't translate too much into real world
- conceptions of copyright and ownership

Twitter
Follow pgmilo our class story
http://twitter.com/pgmilo

Homework:
Bring a camera for our scavenger hunt

2 comments:

Sindy said...

hey Francis!
I missed class, so I decided to come hear to check out what I missed. Thanks for the post! now I know I'll need to bring a camera :D

Francis Ngo said...

You're welcome Sindy!
It's gonna be fun :)