SanFranPlan
===Field Zine
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Initial idea was to collect found sounds from people around the world and have interviews with field recording artists. Expanded idea is to make the zine about found photo, sound and video. Each issue could focus on a different aspect, or each issue could incorporate all three. I can see photo and audio easily being part of all of them.
Some questions: print or web only? frequency of issue?
===Photo Proj
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I'd like to continue on with photography. Learn Bryan's wisdom and keep tackling the project I began as my final photo1 assignment. Do more printing in the dark room, but also start learning how the digital stuff works. Buy the Gimp book?
===P2P Hacker Socializing
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Meet some of the people building these networks. Find out why. Collect network data, meet people who can supply data.
===Research Institute
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This is the main reason I'm going back to S.F.
- Why do you want to start this institute?
- What are your goals for the institute? your pipedream?
- Is there another organization to model after? (PARC, MIT Media Lab, ...)
- How will work and money be divided?
- How will we present ourselves? Web pages, etc. How much public? private?
- What legal status do we need?
- Create institute as a legal entity.
- Begin work on a project.
My pipe dream for the institute would be that it is garnering enough funding to support its researchers. This would create an income stream for the researchers no matter where they were in the world. At this time, I do not see a reason to make the insitute tied to a particular location. Instead, I would like to see the research institute express its physical existence through conferences hosted world wide. Like Burning Man, for a few fleeting moments the institute would really exist and provide for its attendees.
==== RI :: Friendster proj
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I'd like to completely dissect friendster. Apply as many of the robust social networking measurments as we can and in particular look at extending this to measure the dynamic properties. A lot of social network scientists have focussed on the poperties of static networks, or network snapshots. How can we analyze these growing networks? I want this to go beyond plotting points at steps in the growth. I want to take all those points and say something about the network dynamics as a whole. Is this possible? Am i just rewording what really is already being shown by graphs?
I think friendster makes a good network to work on for two reasons besides its hipness:
- Since it's completely tied to friendship networks I think we can write papers on a few different levels. More qualitative results could be aimed towards journals of sociology or psychology while quanitative and theoretical work could be aimed towards computer science and condensed matter journals.
- Friendster is holding an event in SF. This could be a good opportunity to talk to some of the main people involved and discuss receiving anonymized data from them. Maybe emphasize a trade of anonymous data for a, free, in depth analysis of their network.
==== RI :: Enumerate different classes of mutable web content
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This might be a more personal project. I want to break down the different classes of mutable web content. I see three right off hand:
- Gas -- Wiki : completely mutable.
- Liquid -- Comment/Annotation/Blog: main, unmutable text with corresponding comments and annotations. These comments and annotations can also harbor varying degrees of mutability.
- Solid -- traditional web page: completey unmutable.
Last Edit: Fri, 30 May 2003 02:05:01 -0700 Revisions: 8