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Last post: 2 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Jun 23, 08, 7:48 a.m.
- NewElpaso
everything about the internet is starting to bore me.
anyone seen anything good on the internet worth writing home about?i'm thinking semantic websites, interesting use of datas, incredible app mashups, visualisations of data.
Newsmap & we feel fine are fucking old now...
whats this years we feel fine? is it just anything yugop does?
let's make ONE thread on QBN of actual interest - besides pic of the day! :D
inspire me kids...
- Jun 23, 08, 7:48 a.m. – Permalink
- capsize
why is "old news" held in such contempt on internet messageboards? why are we so quick to invoke the timeline, and with such vehemence? Why is being the first to learn of second-hand occurences held in such high esteem, when it, too will be "old" in a few minutes? Has primacy in information receipt become our only currency?
- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 7:50 a.m. – Permalink
- BaskerviIle
I heard that google has announced a webmail service. It will be called 'g mail' - the g presumably standing for 'google', looks set to rock aol mail and hotmail. watch this space:
- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 7:51 a.m. – Permalink
- elpaso
no but on a related note Baskerville
i'm quit einterested in gmail's new gestural interface..
anyone tinkered with it?
ie. right click and drag to see next email or right click and drag down to go to top of email list.
shit like this..
come on people - you live on this bastard interweb.. you must see somthing worth noting! :D
but really - what d'yall make of the gestural interface.. is it worth it? intuitive?
- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 8:37 a.m. – Permalink
- trooper
www.icanhascheezburger.com
www.b3ta.com
www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.h…
www.askaninja.comwhy not just re-visit some old favs
- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 8:45 a.m. – Permalink
- elpaso
tough crowd..
mmkay.. ill just post shit i find interesting (my own delicious i guess)
http://www.isoma.net/games/goggl…
http://www.masternewmedia.org/ne…
http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 9:22 a.m. – Permalink
- Spookytim
Tis true, the internet is boring. So is new music. New art, new design. New movies, new ideas.
New ideas are so passé, its all been thought before, discussed before, disseminated before and rejected before as last week's new ideas. Also, old ideas have been re-worked and are now old hat. Old hats are also last week's news. Last week's news is now passé. Passé is no longer retro. Retro is no longer modern. Old music and old ideas, old modes of conduct, old tribes and old fashions, old styles, old approaches, old ways and old fun have all been re-visited, re-done, re-worked, reconsidered, re-invented, re-invigorated, re-contextualised, re-spun, refreshed, rebirthed, rewound, rethought, revoked, revised and rejected. We had the future, then we had the past, then we remixed, then we re-sampled, then we had a mash-up, now we have mash. Tastelss, colourless. No nutrition.
Old old things, Old new things, new old things and new new things are all boring. all the same. All without effervescence or vitality. The greatest most remarkable thing we can muster barely elicits a mumble from the comatose depths of our artistic appreciation.
It is the death of our creative journey as a species. What can be done has been done, and what can be done differently, has. What can't be done is, oh, I can't be bothered.
We are spasticated, crippled like aged athletes with worn out joints, propped up on technology which gives us the impression of making small, staccato lurches forward into new creativity, yet all it does is provide us with the same old ideas seen through tweaked software. We are a weightless carcas, a jogging suit holding a brittle skin and a few fluted bones, all wet and weak and dribbling nonsense, all dragged behind a bubblejet printer which jerks and twitters its way along the corridor, responding to the instructions of a random code, pre-programmed by someone who thought it would be cool to let the software make the picture. The wonder of computers, tha magic of code, replicated and passed on, copied, facsimilied, and passed on, and diluted, and re-interpreted, and passed on. And passed on and on until we are sick. Sick of the same old things, twenty minutes after they were fresh and new and exciting.
What can be done brand new, previously unheard of, unthought, untried, unenvisioned can exist like that for just one tiny nanosecond before being assimilated, dissected, diluted, disseminated, passed on, passed up, and passed over as last week's thing by the jerk and stutter of advancement.
Next week's thing is last week's thing, same as the week before.
The unique ideas and the artistic endeavours of the individual mind must be met by a sense of apathetic disregard in order to realise how truly limited and unremarkable mankind's imagination actually is. Only then can it die naturally of old age and allow the cult of the individual and its spiritual aspirations to be laid to rest.
Only then can mankind achieve its greatest leap.
Face first, into the propellor.
Knack knack.
- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 9:50 a.m. – Permalink
- neue75_bold
NewElpaso, your ad in my profile is performing well... the metrics will be available shortly...
- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 9:59 a.m. – Permalink
- elpaso
8 Ways of visualising the news..
(LIFTED SHAMELESSLY FROM 10,000 words!)
When journalists first began using Flash to produce multimedia stories, it changed the way news could be displayed. Hyperlinks and long blocks of text still exist (in a much cleaner form), but they are now supplemented by the new form of storytelling. The following news aggregators are the next step in the visualization of news and how users will interact with content in the future.
1. the photo stream
Instead of displaying the news as a series of headlines and links, the photo stream simply displays news photos aligned in a eye-pleasing grid. Hovering over a photo will display the full headline; clicking on the bubble icon takes users to the comment section where they can discuss the story on the photo stream site; clicking the arrow will direct the user to the story’s original source. Using the site is intuitive and easier on the eyes.
2. Newser
There are multiple ways of digesting the news at Newser, but the centerpiece of the site is its tiled news headlines. Photos dominate each box and when each is moused over, more detailed information about the news story pops up. Newser’s most admirable feature is its toggler which brings up harder or softer news stories, depending on the user’s preference. For example, hard news stories today concerned the Iowa floods and the stock market while soft news stories included narratives about prom and cuddling chimps.
3. Spectra
MSNBC.com has taken its RSS feeds and turned it into Spectra, a visual newsreader that adds a little color to the news. Spectra likely gets its name from the different news categories that line the top of the browser in a rainbow-colored spectrum. Users select their topic or topics of interest from such categories as politics, entertainment or sports. The stories are then pulled into an orbiting collection of squares. The interface is simple, but still takes a minute or so to get used to. Nevertheless, it is a lot more fun than reading the news in a normal RSS reader.
4. NewsWorldMap
NewsWorldMap mashes up a full browser Google map of the world with Google News and GeoNames to create an interactive way of searching for news in a specific country. The latest news headlines for countries around the world are available in seconds by simply clicking on the location. Because the headlines are culled from Google News, there are a variety of news sources represented on the site.
5. Visual Dictionary Online
Unlike the previous sites, Merriam-Webster’s Visual Dictionary Online isn’t a news aggregator, but it is a different way of understanding the concepts behind news stories. For example, someone watching Tuesday night’s NBA finals could get a better understanding of the game by searching for basketball player positions or even an interactive graphic of a basketball player with links to further definitions. The Visual Dictionary isn’t just limited to sports; the site contains interactive graphics for everything from portable sound systems to crustaceans to Stone Age weapons.
6. 10x10
10x10 is an old standby, but remains every bit as impressive since its launch several years ago. The interactive site displays the news in a ten by ten grid of photos. Each photo represents a news subject and clicking will bring up stories about said subject. Dig a little deeper and you can find a visual representation of the news of every hour, every day, and every month of the last four years.
7. Times
If all this talk of newspapers going the way of the dodo bird makes you clutch the printed product even closer, the Times newsreader wants to ease your pain. The virtual newspaper seeks to mimic the feeling of flipping through pages and is highly customizable, according to its vendor. Bad news is it is available for Mac OS X Leopard only, which means it has gone untested by this PC-using journalist.
http://www.livenewscameras.com/
LiveNewsCameras.com has done an amazing job of culling a great number of live web broadcasts from around the world. The site enables visitors to find out the weather in Philly and seconds later watch live news feeds from Sky Italy. It’s additional live features — an ongoing chat in the site’s sidebar and an embeddable live newscast created by site producers — makes LiveNewsCameras a go to stop for any news enthusiast.
- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 12:04 p.m. – Permalink
- elpaso
taken from http://www.10000words.net/2008/0…
- Dog-earJun 23, 08, 12:05 p.m. – Permalink
