So, someone in Malmö and someone in the United States are using a blog and video to undertake an ‘amateur’ science investigation into I guess their worlds. They are proposing to use scientific scepticism to be ‘inquisitive about their surroundings’. In the process they are using a blog which has also used a rhizome movie.
Tags: VoggingMonthly Archive for September, 2005
Something I found and deserves rementioning:
Sometimes the best way to find your peers is to start speaking loudly in your native tongue and see who talks back. So here’s a diagram I drew after laughing at this post. I’ve drawn this sort of thing a number of different ways, but never as a Venn diagram. There’s tons missing, but I kind of like how vague it is. Feel free to annotate it here on Flickr. Cheers:
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The Vogme manifesto is included in a French page about podcasting. If only it were in French, then I’d be all excited thinking that the French grok vogs.
Tags: Network Literacy, Useful, One Day...For the teaching portfolio. My essay on blogs and documentary has been set as reading for some students at the Uni. of Auckland. This was in July, only just found out about it now! I guess no one dropped by to actually read it :-). I think it is a group class blog, but I’m not certain…
Tags: documentary, hypertext, Network Literacy, teachingCourtesy of my referrer stats I found Colin McEnroe’s blog. He’s a journo an also teaching a course on blogs. I found him since he mentions the vogma manifesto <waves to Colin and invites him to get in touch if he wants me to participate in any way> and it seems this is the blog that lies at the core of his course. An observation, in this post it isn’t clear what is being quoted (from dailykos) and what is commentary. And the fascination with A list blogs. Wonder what that is about?
Tags: hypertext, Network Literacy, teachingOur contemporary knowledge economies (which are primarily determined by, or as, flow and event) are no longer about representation – what does/did it mean? They are about facilitating – what does this now make possible? It is always a thinking-as-doing, or a doing-as-a-thinking. This is why design disciplines, with a minor history of considering the relation of knowledge to doing, are becoming more valuable. (Well, for me.)
Tags: Network LiteracyThis is from David Kolb, one of the best practitioners of hypertext writing as an academic practice we’ve got:
Still, the hypertext is not the book. Both aim at opening up the reader to new ways of thinking about the topic. The book can do a very controlled presentation of the topic. The hypertext may do more for opening up the reader’s horizons. It contains a greater variety of materials and voices, some of which do not come to any conclusion. It is open to more various types of readers and tries to offer them something wider than the book. It offers a space for wandering and reflecting without being as narrowly focused on the argumentative conclusions, yet it means to get the reader to and beyond those conclusions. (Kolb.)
This idea of wandering, as a writing and reading practice, is what I was slowly getting to the other day. I seek research that is peripatetic.
Tags: hypertext, practiceFireANT has just had a new beta release for Mac (the Windows version has gone through several iterations). It is a RSS client for enclosures (video and audio), and you can try out the current beta from
http://www.getfireant.com/files/Fireant.dmg.zip
Tags: toolsWell, if you click the poster movie below you’ll pretty quickly see that this is demo mode only. This rhizome movie plays one movie continuously (looping) in the left pane, and if you click on this video then it loads another video into the right video pane. The right video pane can support five videos. If you click more than 5, it just rotates around through them all again.
To make it work you edit an XML file. The first field is for the left video (remember there is only one that plays in the left pane), then you can enter five urls which are the five that get loaded into the right video pane. These videos are loaded dynamically, so that video two will only be downloaded to the client if a click event is received in the video pane on the right. This is important to understand – the five child movies are not downloaded to the client in the background while the movie plays, each is only downloaded if and when it is requested. This means each of the videos need to be network friendly, which doesn’t mean short but it does mean fast start and off a bit rate that is going to load reasonably quickly.
Below is a link to download the rhizome template (the mov file and its corresponding XML file) and to the LiveStage Project file.
- Rhizome Six LiveStage Pro project
- Rhizome Six template
