Identity 2.0 Keynote

Another vide referenced in the lecture on 20 March - Dick Hardt on Identity 2.0: this is already 2 years old...!

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Movie referred to in lecture 4 - March 20 2007

The Digital Model - Lecture 4 - 2007

Information covered today:

First we checked out another cool example of a Web 2.0 mashup at twittermap and I fluffed around wondering what possible use it could be even though it was instantaneously showing the street addresses of the people who were using twitter.com to described what they were doing 'right now'

The lecture really began with with two presentations by 'guests' - videos from the web, illustrating the value of / potential of Web 2.0:

the first was a video about the importance of digital text - and its definition(s) - Prof Michael Wesch author - found here on his Digital Ethnography web site and here at youtube.

the second was a presentation in Lawrence Lessig style by Dick Hardt of Sxip on the nature of Identity - proof of identity - identity documentation / verification etc in the 'real' world (Identity 1.0) and in the digital world (Identity 2.0) - found here at youtube (NOTE: there is more on the Lessig style at Presentation Zen.

We finished the first hour on issues of quality control in web publishing - covering topics such as:

• absolute and relative links (again)
• how one writes space in a filename on the internet (%20) - to avoid confusion
• how to avoid this with underline characters
• making filenames informative but not too long
• making filenames have some symbolic easy to remember meaning
• file naming conventions
• digital rights / copyright on the web
• open source software as an inspiration for open drawing formats
• the use of the class blog to upload copies of all the material produced in the course
  
• using tags related to the group (e.g. delta, gamma, eta) to label all project related stuff
• using tags that relate to content type e.g. delta_model or delta_filename to allow sorting later
• using several tags on each item (this blog entry is listed under lecture and bbsc303)

In the second half of the lecture we went on to discuss modelling principles... A separate blog entry - yet to be written

Footnote to Green Buildings article: more new museums

I have just completed a note about an article on Green Museums in the Art Newspaper. There are some very interesting notes on new museums planned in the USA in the body of the article:

• Renzo Piano design for the Art Institute of Chicago which can be found on the web here and here and here and apparently "integrates a range of green features including a photocell lighting system that dims as ambient light gets brighter and a double window facade that provides natural ventialtion and light"
  
• Renzo Piano design for the Whitney Museum of American Art that can be found on the web here and here and here
• Frank Gehry design for the Philadelphia Museum of Art that can be found on the web here and here and here
• Herzog and de Meuron (archInform ref) design for the Miami Art Museum that can be found on the web here and here and here (possibly no details available until much later in 2007)