anti-chambre

electronic and tangible peregrinations "transumance"

2006-06-22T04:22:00.000-07:00

these pages wont be updated anymore,
i moved stuff and now the electronic and tangible peregrinations can be found at http://textasplayground.net/assembling

2006-05-20T11:07:00.000-07:00

r-echos

Inside the side bar a sort of micromap of the page has been inserted; it works as follow:

- the color are representative of catageroies, it gives a glimpse of the repartition of the topics on the page , with no clear indications about what the topic is (point to work around and fix)
- on roll over, if an image is present in the post, it's displayed along with the title of the post
- by clicking on the expanded coloured surface you expand the corresponding article on the left

The ideas it brings: The multi-categorised post should possess many colours, or - maybe - a gradient fill. The tags used for each post could modify the hue of the post as well - but on a more subtle way (there it needs a kind of semantic bundles of tags - à la delicious). Also it needs a more restrictive set of rules to distinct and establish colour's categories.
The access to the information leads almost directly to the researched article's page because of the link directly on the title - might be a good idea to move the link to the post inside the layer, and use the javascript which extend the layer there as well, instead. The sidebar should follow the scroll, meta information should be removed from it and transfered to a place right under the Header (where there's already 3 of them recently displaced) - in an unique layer which would be opened/close and populated by some h2 button in the sidebar; the sidebar remaining a simplenavigation tool with no content at all inside.
On another hand, an ajax-like interface might be usefull to populate article on the fly instead of (hard) loading everything from the beginning. This might allow the interface to incorporate much more articles at once. The sidebar could then remains permanent and host some specific tools - like note taking, bookmarking, etc.

r-echos v0.3 b / a color adventure in an electronic presence

2006-05-18T10:27:00.000-07:00

r-echos v0.3 b / a color adventure in an electronic presence

an ongoing experiment around mapping the topics constituting the base ground structure of th incoming info_hub projects leaded r-echos in a slight redesign.

First:
no more black and white for the title, but rather using colors which lets identify the subject/topic/category. Possible feature would be to have more color organisations - thinking about a stronger system. At the moment it's a very simple hack in the r-echos theme based on the id of the main category of the post.

Second:
no more complete view of the whole content in the page, this should clarify the whole thing and allow a different perception of the activity.

Third:
as image consequently disapeared - installed a simple preview of the first image inside the post. This feauture is at a very early stage.

Planned development:

databeautification / textasplayground

2006-04-04T07:01:00.000-07:00

databeautification

desktop realtime electronic presence

2006-03-30T20:02:00.000-08:00

desktop realtime electronic presence

electronic presence trough various websites, part of the info_hub research. reflects activity and logs.

mass media unit (memory)

2006-03-28T15:44:00.000-08:00

The mass media diving (formerly called mass media helmet) project is an experimental device which aim is to transcribe physically information's fluxes from CNN as poetics. This device is driven by an application i've coded which is scanning continuously the CNN website, transforming the informations into raw data, diffused then inside the helmet.

MMD contains a screen, loudspeaker, stroboscope, 2 gaz bottles (one filled with N2O, the other with oxygen) The differents parts of the MMD are activated by the presence and the frequency of words Each word is displayed on the screen during a very short time (eye memory, flicking effect), a sound marks each second creating the base rythm, another sound is played for each displayed word. the stroboscope is activated depending on certain words. the gaz will be diffused more or less fast inside the helmet The MMD has also a camera which will display on an external monitor the head of the user, and 4 tiltswitch giving the user the ability to go faster or slower. After a certain period of time, the MMD will stop itself.

more about mass media unit

alice in switzerland

2006-03-28T10:22:00.000-08:00

notes and comments on a possible to do list for r-echos

2006-03-24T08:13:00.000-08:00

on /r-echos/

stattraq from http://randypeterman.com/StatTraq/ produce stats of access. even if i installed the last version (b), the (a) still is there - weird. side note: it seems not to appreciate the url_rewrite i have installed. still have to investigate but no time at the moment.
common tools are there, so it's fine - maybe having a look to the db could be bring some new alteration in the process.

ultimate tag warrior from http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/ let you insert tag by hand in your post with [tags][/tags]. neat! also it can put the mess in your category to transform them in tags. i did it! it works very well! some older posts completely change of category - which lead me to use simple categories system instead of full range of taxonomy. but still: most pf the oldest post have some weird tags...

url rewrite seems ok for the most recent posts (i'm using /year/month/day/title/ ) - not for the oldest archive; the given link on each post reflects just the date, not the name. certainly during the transfer something got squeezed and broke it.

the zeitgeist and visual_zeitgeist are on hold at the moment. they haven't been transfered/converted to / r-echos /

r-echos v3 online

2006-03-07T15:30:00.000-08:00

and you can find it here: http://www.r-echos.net with the archive of the two former versions, and a couple of improvements, i hope you will enjoy. the tagline is «bits, fragments and traces of an electronic presence» and the subject remains the same, electronic dyi, new technology, art and design, cultural hacking, mapping and taxonomy... surveying/republishing the best bits i can come across. wish you will enjoy, see you there.

r-echos v2

2006-01-26T03:39:00.000-08:00

new frontend for all of you; new back end for me - which will allow collaborations from now on... r-echos has been updated and the url changed: you can now reach it through http://www.anti-chambre.net/r-echos/. there is also a new suggest box from which you can drop me a line suggesting a website... more details soon.

some news from the rebloging frontline

2005-12-30T06:23:00.000-08:00

after a few hours playing/hacking the blogger api, i felt a bit disappointed

finally,
i decided to «hack» wordpress to fit my needs.
It has been a while since i planned to have a deeper look in those blogger's specific cms - it started well before the first lines of the hierarchical cms which on their side kept me away from any intense activity on the experimental side of my work. I'm now transfering/recoding r-echos database to fit wp's criterias, a few mysql queries like copy/pastes on the keyboard, and the work should be over - then, the next step, is to convert all the tools and experiments so that they could survive the arrival of the new system, not as easy as the first step. First things first: the sql queries of feedonfeeds i was using until now... I would like Feedonfeeds to act like the admin of wordpress, letting me consequently post/reblog while away from my beloved powerbook (yes, it happens sometimes). There are still however a certain quantity of issues which have to be solved before the transfer could be officially said done (more especially, the relationship between the opml list from feedonfeeds and the converted posts in wp, also the hit system developped inside r-echos, the tagging system which has to be redesigned as there's only one category per post in wp, ... well... still a few things to keep me awaken).

What were the motivation: apart all the conceptual fuss, i wanted to keep to possibility to have a console online for republishing as well as a tool to read my rss feeds when off from my computer. So keeping Feedonfeeds in its very own place on the server was obvious. The main need which directed this big move has appeared more and more crucial as i was facing more and more rss sources - the need of filters - smartLists à la iTunes. Netnewswire offered this since a while and i was quite happy to buy the bundled licence (nnw2+mars edit 1.0). Now i plan to read most of the stuff in nnw2 and use mars edit 1.0 as an evolved interface to reblog.
Once everything (not only the content of the db, but all the experiments) will be ok_back_in_the_business, i would like to give a go to Ecto.

[tbc.]

2005-12-29T06:27:00.000-08:00

PHP Atom API « Projects « Dented Reality: "PHP Atom API
This is a library of code that you can use to interact with an Atom API based server."

might be interesting to use this with r-echos...

time

2005-10-25T06:51:00.000-07:00

timetable / organisation of the articles on a timeline basis; the days are organized horizontally.

possible development: interface: a topbar, with a representation of the whole space (map), used for scrolling the window's space. list of days: show/hide, load earlier reblogs. tags list: filter the content on the page. trends per day: use the tags to define the keywords for one day, or a couple of days.

using flock

2005-10-24T15:23:00.000-07:00

and testing...

flock is a really nice browser, based on firefox and incorporating the tools to publish and read online - it integrates also perfectly with del.icio.us. Looks like it's really close to some of my thoughts around the info_hub project…

dérive dans une db

2005-10-14T19:28:00.000-07:00

2 new tools to go further in explorating the archive
paging

and timing

back in the business

2005-09-18T04:58:00.000-07:00

some pages - after a sort of close inspection - are back; now the exploration of the database trough the tags & keywords is back after the shortage of the last days.

The emerging ideas are around the tag bundles with a series of fix articles which wouldn't change (too much) and some links taken from the database; searches are taking place also around syntaxic structures and semantic fields, with an analyse of words occurences {depending on}/{classified by} tags uses, and some generative ability.

mysql server

2005-09-06T09:48:00.000-07:00

due to some severe charges on the mysql server, some pages have been suspended (until further notice) and consequently some experiences linked here are not available anymore.

administration tools [notes to self]

2005-09-03T17:20:00.000-07:00

#create bundle with a list of the most recent tags
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/feeder/tags.bundle.create.php

# insert tags into articles which haven't been tagged (`tags` is empty)
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/feeder/tags.add.orphans.php

#create bundles with a list of all the tags + if bundled
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/feeder/tags.list.bundle.create.php

Bundles, tags, zeitgeist

2005-09-03T16:42:00.000-07:00

bundles of tags and their respective ratio=tag.quantity/article.quantity inside the database.

Bundles, tags, zeitgeist http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/tags.bundles.zeitgeist.php

listing the pages - almost lost

2005-09-03T11:33:00.000-07:00

Tags list
#
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/tags.php

Tags browser
# parameter: w -> tag [default: 'antichambre']
# list articles defined by the w tag
- by default
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/tags_show.php
- for inclusion
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/tags.assoc.inc.php
- color mode
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/tags.colors.dev.php
- raw html
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/tags.inc.php

All articles
# display all articles headlines
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/viewallthreads.php

Tags definition
# connect wiki and tags
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/tags.wiki.dev.php

Articles zeitgeist
# included in the main page
# information-rich model
# 10 most accessed articles
# parameters: max [default: "10"]
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/view.ranking.php

Articles/tag browser
# browse article defined by a specific tag
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/tagsview.inc.php?browsetag=gallery

Article dispaly
# show the archived article
# parameter: id
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/view.element.php

Tags zeitgeist
# the most accessed tags
# parameters: max [default: "10"]
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/view.ranking.tags.php

Trends - tags by article zeitgeist
# tags receive points depending on the articles accesses
# parameter max [default: "10"]
http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/inc/view.trends.php

raw information hub - taxonomic reading

2005-08-26T03:03:00.000-07:00

ranking the tags

these series of experiments around ranking give a simple overview of the traffic related to the r-echos articles. It gives insight on trends and zeitgeist.
the main issue with this techniques is that it gives only the most accessed clues, which produce an information-rich model.

What would be the next steps:
1/ the less accessed articles and tags - what is the less trendy? is there a rare pearl in there?
2/ the favorites - there are always a few websites in the whole that interrests me a bit more
3/ the weight of a tag - the more articles are defined by a keyword should affect the whole system
4/ the weight of an article - ...

3 and 4, at first sight, are based on an information-rich model as well; however the datas generated by this bias could be used in a different way

update:
solution 3/: (beta) each time an article is defined by a keyword, this keyword get one point. 10 most accessed tags via articles

tags orphans

2005-08-26T01:36:00.000-07:00

there's still 8064 articles without tags inside r-echos - articles which were rebloged before the «tag scripts»; to correct this, i've written a script to automate the filling of tags for each articles: it scans the content (title+subject/category+content) and get the pre-recorded keywords; however the script isn't (of course) able to get the context. This could be done with a kind of tag bundle (à la delicious) which would give a better semantic aspect to the things. Much more complex to devellop, you guessed right! Anyway at the moment, i have to review each tags form so that it doesn't get tooooooo messy. Be patient, 8064 old articles to read again just to check the classification is right (even if articles are short ones): it takes time :)

For the logs: this morning the new module displayed 408 recorded tracks, which means that in one night a 360ish articles have been accessed.

raw information hub

2005-08-25T04:40:00.000-07:00

«most accessed article» are now integrated with the main page

what is anti-chambre

2005-08-24T14:17:00.000-07:00

Mainly, anti-chambre is an experimental space, recording thoughts and projects, reading and ideas; it is a laboratory - originally intended as an archive space for my m.a. at écal, lausanne - in media and interraction design; it is still an experimental spave, but now evolving toward experiences related to some of the main pieces:
on one hand: r-echos, a magazine. More exactly a reblog: a daily (or almost) selections of articles, links, images. As the subtitle says: "Daily news, digested and reinjected".
On the other hand, zeitgeist is related to the electronic RE-presentation.

Here, on blogspot, you'll have access to a sort of log of the most recent experiments taking place inside anti-chambre.

raw information hub on anti-chambre

2005-08-24T13:02:00.000-07:00

top hits / best access / trends and zeitgeist from the reader point of view
best accessed articles from r-echos
taxonomy/folksonomy / trends from within the database
tag cloud from r-echos

evolutive taxonomy / trends from searchengines
zeitgeist of anti-chambre

information flux & poetics

2005-08-24T01:32:00.000-07:00

electronic presence -
automated art -
remote controlled shadow

zeitgeist on the whole anti-chambre

joel online

2005-08-24T01:10:00.000-07:00

popcornroom

a few links as a starter

2005-08-23T07:16:00.000-07:00

anti-chambre experimental laboratory
r-echos daily news, digested & reinjected
zeitgeist trends from within anti-chambre
text as playground
fontnest type design / collaborative / works
portfolio some stuff

hello world

2005-08-23T07:09:00.000-07:00

test