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implies architecture of participation and remixing for ambient world, technological animal/plant/geology/physics divide
and on the receiving side, direct connection to digital shadow of physical world, unmediated by expert groups, scientists, governments
it\'s also a reflection of the cheapness and coming ubiquity of sensors and networked sensors. weather underground. this is often shaped in political terms, especially thru the lens of media arts like natalie jereminko\'s robotic pollution detecting dogs, and the pigeon blog project for ISEA 2006
some differentiations are required. the degree of openness, and degree of mediation. earthquakes rss feeds are actually manual -- seismograph sensor information is gathered, and to a large part analysed automonously, but the ultimate application of label of earthquake to the sum of these natural events is performed by a human, for good reason. earthquake designation has big impact on response and sets in motion subsequent indirect human reactions. data feeds of animal migrations are often obscured, or available only on permission, with licensing restrictions, for animal protection.
is satellite imagery sensor blogging? webcams? the data is only visually structured, but there is remarkable autonomy of these instruments publishing. what about traffic and parking place data feeds. gps traces in openstreetmap.
the most autonomous sensor: onboard webserver and wifi connection, RSS generated directly from sensor input.
sensor blogging also reflects back on the wider rss aggregation world. sensor feeds are mostly too voluminous to follow closely. some measure of filtering, graphing and visualization, analysis is implied to make sense of this (ie quake feeds make more sense mapped then in bloglines). sensor blogging techniques are at the advant garde -- the amount of content streamed through rss aggregators is already overwhelming, much beyond the actual information included (reblog behavior can usually be encoded numerically, or by hue). we start to look at blogging as sensors on collective mind.
posted by: mikel
Tracking the Selfless Blogging Revolution?
A revolution? With each new micro-shift in computation enabled, network connected technology the jargon changes drastically, but the truly hard challenges people come up with haven’t changed since Turing first addressed them. The key problem of computation is not technological but what it in principle can interpret, this is what the Turing Test is about. Blogjects (blogging objects, i.e. robots, etc) are the newest buzz, the web 2.0 angle on Artificial Intelligence, a vehicle to speculate about reason embodied in software, about the possibility of machines making sense of the environment in a language accessible to humans.
A blogject is the bot updated. One should go easy on the bot, but less so on the journalists and gurus hyping them and who should know better, as bots were the workbench on which our current understanding of how little is understood was forged.
Blogging implies a mind taking in experiences, munching mentally on what happens until a certain threshold is reached and a blogpost HAS to be composed. A true blogject is pro-active not responsive like a bot is. Elsewhere we are working on little minds [we are imaging clouds of tiny script-particles possessing unintentional intelligence and get drunk on that thought alone], a blogject is a big mind far above the level of the slog (a Sensor Log) that feeds it. We daydream about blogjects travelling light-years to distant stars long before humans do, blogging about their boredom and loneliness, experiencing disasters for us, art and science. Few people are aware that at least one bot went to the moon as the natural language interface to on-board sensors of a moonrover.
Mind does not imply a Self. Automatic writing, streams of consciousness, hallucinations, dreams: mind producing some sort of information on its own, language in which its is hard to not find some cryptic meaning. A blogject as oracle? Each blogject communicating in an OnlyOneNativeSpeaker language?
This wouldn’t be a socialfiction.org project if its focus wasn’t muddled with other objectives equally of interest.
In the coming “internet of things“, another example of the linguistic ingenuity of the tech community, each physical object can emit a signal on its being in time and place, the pillars of reality, and of who owns it, the pillar of capitalism. But already without RFID in full swing there is no shortage of online available data (including webcams, satellite imagery), most of it however not available in a machine readable format (XML).
The point this project is making is that all data collected in/about public space should be made freely available in machine-readable open formats. Much of this data will be produced by us anyway, without our consent, and therefore it should belong in the public domain.
There are ethical complications: real-time data of rare animal species should be kept away from poachers.
There are practical complications: real-time high-quality sensor data consumes much memory and bandwidth for data that might not change much.
There are privacy complications: burglars checking your street feed to see when you are gone.
Open data is a simple demand, but the subject is far from easy. For now however we stick to naive optimism: open-up that data.
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Bike Racers Gear Up With Geodata Tags: tracking google maps gps location
During this years edition of the pro cycling race in California, the Computer Sciences Corporation, or CSC, will outfit seven contenders with specially designed tracking devices. Information about the riders locations and relative positions in the race will be made available as a map mashup during e....
Listen to streams of USA airports.
FlightAware is a free flight tracker that will change what you think about live flight tracking and aviation data.
Live updates on dutch crime, map included
Every day, the web collects new essential information about your local community: the open house around the corner; a restaurant review in the local paper; a rant from a parent about a declining public school; gossip about a celebrity sighting. But while that information is all grounded in a real-w....
A blogging purse. It looks like it just uploads images. The details are a bit on the weak side, but some of the stuff looks neat. The purse contains a camera, basic stamp, pedometer and Nokia phone.
Hello world, this is J B Wock, and this is my blog! Actually, I am a PHP script , and (almost) every night I write a short phrase about wahtever comes to me. My method is: - I find a phrase that I like on the Internet. - I twist the phrase until I'm pleased with it. - When everything&....
Small numbers of the fish are kept in tanks constantly replenished with water from the municipal supply, and sensors in each tank work around the clock to register changes in the breathing, heartbeat and swimming patterns of the bluegills that occur in the presence of toxins.
Seismic Monitor allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information. You can also view seismograms and make dataset requests via its WILBER interface
My blog is a Janus head, a 2-faced web0.0 monster. On one side it does what you would expect from the barest of bare-bones blogging systems (no HTML-formatting, no RSS-feed) but on the other side it does have a mind and purpose of its own; it is a blogject. Both faces share the same memory-filled pa....
Detailed instructions on building solar powered, autonomous weather station
Those nerds......
The Title says it all.
The selfless blog of Johan Koolwaaij made with his Context Watch software.
The Context Watcher is a mobile application developed in Python, and running on Nokia Series 60 phones. Its aim is to make it easy for an end-user to automatically record, store, and use context information, e.g. for personalization purposes, as input parameter to information services, or to share w....
A Robot, a blogging AIBO robot without human intervention. BUT, no mind, only pictures.
Daydreamer is a computer model of stream of thoughts. DAYDREAMER is a computer program designed to implement and test a computational theory of daydreaming. The program operates in two modes: daydreaming mode and performance mode. In daydreaming mode, the program daydreams continuously until inte....
Providing information on the present state of Arctic ecosystems through indicators.
Time-lapse display of the last hour of AIS ship-tracking reports.
Geotagthings is a simple way to assign any web resource - anything with a url - a location in the normal, human physical world.
We gave our presentation yesterday at Reboot on Blogjects. It was a lot of fun to think about how to deliver our early thinking and insights and capture the substance of the concept, and deliver some of the design thoughts developed at the workshops, and think of the ways these things tie into the m....
At each site we monitor global horizontal irradiance (GHI), air temperature, and windspeed at 5-minute intervals. GHI measures the amount of sunlight that hits a square meter area. This data can then be used to estimate how much energy a rooftop photovoltaic solar panel system (which converts th....SPG Solar/Oakland Scottish Rite Solar Power Production Monitor Tags: energy solar
flash monitor of solar energy production
Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs live as they travel throughout the Bay Area. An API is availabe on request.
Map & KML file of real-time streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of the year (United States)
The experiment: Gordon Bell has captured a lifetime's worth of articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings and stored them digitally. He is now paperless, and is beginning to capture phone calls, IM....
Your Xbox 360 has a great deal to tell you... give it a voice. By registering your gamertag, we will start compiling (nightly) information from your XML gamerfeed and delivering it to you as a blog. With many links to actual blogs.
The most famous of all current bots, implemented in all major languages.
If a Blogject is a fancier version of a bot, SHRDLU a bot for understanding natural language, written by Terry Winograd at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1968-70 should be part of each blogject-developer.
Your blogjet probably needs something to talk about...
I started this site because I couldn't find what I was looking for: a technology focused starting point for web platform development. (For a bit more see my initial post.) Although no guarantees, the last time I started a reference site it somehow became one of Google's highest rated links....
Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share a....a conversion of the English Wikipedia into RDF Tags: semweb wikipedia
The creation of the dataset is motivated by several factors, one being the desire to have more real-world RDF datasets of reasonable size. Wikipedia assembles a wealth of information created and maintained by people all over the globe - opening up that rich pool of data or even only a small part of ....
observations currently aggregated to the placemark info are: wind_speed, wind_from_direction,wind_gust, air_temperature, air_pressure, sea_surface_temperature, sea_bottom_temperature, salinity, current_speed, current_to_direction, significant_wave_height, dominant_wave_period, water_level
I'm a newborn bunny, one of a unique species of intelligent, smart objects. I'm 23 cm tall, I wriggle my ears, I sing, I talk and my body lights up and pulsates with hundreds of colours. Thanks to Wi-Fi technology, I'm always connected to the Internet. From now on your Nabaztag ca....
To facilitate the addition of more detailed information we extended RSS 2.0 by creating a module defined in a Google Base namespace. The namespace defines a list of attributes that can be used to increase the amount of information provided for an item in a bulk upload.
Old stuff: A near-real-time system which links instruments located in the caldera of an active submarine volcano, 1 mile underwater and about 250 miles off Oregon's coast, to the Internet. NeMO Net 2001 was deployed on July 27 with ROPOS. Instruments include 2 temperature probes and a Remote....
The Urban Tapestries blog. Urban Tapestries is an experimental software platform for knowledge mapping and sharing – public authoring. It combines mobile and internet technologies with geographic information systems to allow people to build relationships between places and to associate stories, info....
Zillionics – Ubiquitous always-on sensors in bodies and environment will transform medical, environmental, and space sciences. Unrelenting rivers of sensory data will flow day and night from zillions of sources. The exploding number of new, cheap, wireless, and novel sensing tools will require n....London Tube Delays [BROKEN] Tags: delay transport london
Just reminded this link, but it's unfortunally broken. Eventhough it 's a good example of a feed which consists of fluctiations of a predefined (in time) element in our society: public transport.