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War eindeutig einen Besuch wert: Fakonale #2 Werkschau der Filmakademie 2006. Leider hatte ich nicht viel Zeit dort, nicht mal zum Feiern bin ich gekommen. Nur ein Kaffee und ein Film. Merken Sie sich auf jeden Fall diese Frau: Katharina Mückstein.

We're next.

Update: "Das österreichische Volk soll schließlich als Lederhosen tragende Nazis verunglimpft werden."

Related(?): The Shutka Book of Records

we-make-money-not-art features ubermorgen.

Recently I joined MyBlogLogs and Lijit in my neverending effort testing and evaluating social networking services.

I took a quick look at the new Dot Mac Mail. Integration with Address Book works fine. However, so far I didn't find the option to use it with my other email (imap) accounts, like TechCrunch mentioned in a preview. Looks more like a simple facelift too me.

Ah, the beauty!

via http://burningcam.com/2006/photos/large-24.html

image ripped with imgRIP.

Herr Arrington hätte seine Freude gehabt. Courvosier in Eimern, Web-2.0-Chicks zum Abwinken und VC in Strömen. Ungezwungen ohne Powerpoint. Das war der Webmontag in Wien. Lesen Sie die ganze Wahrheit bei Markus Stefan.

Dank an Eric fürs Organisatorische. Das Metalab endlich kennen zu lernen war auch nicht schlecht.

Zunächst kreisten wir mit Christopher Clay um das Thema Web Applications (siehe http://whatwg.org/, u.a. WebForms 2.0). Dann erzählte ich einiges über die Arbeit mit Processing (übrigens unbedingt noch die Shadow Monsters anschauen, die bei der Präsentation leider nicht funktioniert haben) und Rhizome Navigation, an dem ich arbeite. Anschließend setzte Eric Eggert mit einem Erfahrungsbericht über die WebKrauts fort.

Kleiner Nachtrag: Ich wundere mich immer wieder, wie wenige Greg Lindens Findory.com kennen (auch innerhalb der 2.0-Crowd). Vielleicht ist die Seite im Vergleich zu digg und Konsorten zu unaufdringlich. Vielleicht ist der Mehrwert für den User zu Beginn zu unklar. Ich möchte es auf jeden Fall nicht mehr missen. Zur Info: Findory ist eine Art personalisiertes News-, Blog- und Video-Portal. Die Empfehlungen sind dabei nur durch ein eigenes Icon gekennzeichnet und ich werde nicht mit hunderten Zahlen bombardiert. Die Personalisierung erfolgt "unbewusst" im Hintergrund, indem abgeglichen wird, welche anderen User ähnliche Muster zu meinem Klick-Verhalten aufweisen. Wenn ich mich recht erinnere, stand Herr Linden einst hinter Amazons-Recommendation-Engine.

Thanks to smeidu the video feed of my talk at Barcamp Vienna about Rhizome Navigation is now available.

Unfortunately the flash video quality isn't that good so it's nearly impossible to see the demos I ran.

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via TXTNWS via Generator.x: poetry ON THE ROAD.

Eschewing the more magical approaches of previous years, the 2006 edition has seen Müller has gone firmly in the direction of information visualization.

--(interactive demo)

Further reading exposed NIAF 2006: The state of animation.

Shameless Self-Promotion: marod visuals on myspace.com.

Today I released imgRIP v0.1a.

It's a small online utility which helps me out in one thing that always bugged me: Imagine you blog about (or publish to say it more general) something and want to add an image which you found on the web. My workflow so far was like this:

• Right Click Image and select "Save as...".
• Locate the file on my HD and open it in insert Photoshop-like application.
• Do adjustments. Resize, Crop, CC etc.
• "Save as..." on my HD.
• Put it via FTP on a server (or upload it via forms in a browser).

Lots of steps required here, lots of application switching.
My intention with imgRIP is that you don't have to leave the browser! First enter the URL of the image you need, next adjust the image, finally upload it - everything in the browser. Try it out.

I hacked and stitched this together in about an hour, so obviously there's room for improvement. At the moment you can only resize the image by a given width and there's no real upload function. You just enter an email address and the image gets sent there as an attachment (which is, however, useful for Flickr and similar services).

Here are some thoughts which might improve it

• Bookmarklet to rip images via browser's bookmark bar
• Batch rip pictures of an entire site
• More options to adjust images (Resize/Crop by selecting area, basic Color Correction)
• Support for more upload option (FTP and other services)

Robot swarm works together to shift heavy objects via newscientisttech.com.

Video #1, Video #2

Related: Ant Trails: A Key to Management with Baits

And: http://www.blprnt.com/
Dynamically generated train set, with rudimentary traffic control. (digg this)

Heinz Wittenbrink: Ich habe wiederum einige Tage damit verbracht, Material zum Thema "Systemtheorie und Webkommunikation" zu suchen.

Ich werde wiederum einige Tage mit dem Lesen verbringen.

Btw: Retrievr (wieder) in aller Munde. War vor 292 Tagen mein erster (und bisher einziger) digg-Frontpage-Submit.

Here are some reading recommendations from my daily dosis of feed aggregation.

TouchStone's Chris on The Human Network. Social Networking goes marketing. Big players jumping in here. See Cisco Propaganda and Nikon Tagging.

Friendster still your friend? See their patents System, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks and Method of inducing content uploads in a social network.

In other news heise.de mentions that in Austria probably 100.000 illegal video surveillance systems are in operation.

Visualizing the Blogosphere

Using Rhizome Navigation I wrote a data aggregator for Technorati's API. The first result is a video which visualizes blog domains by analysing Technorati's Cosmos (the blogs which link to a particular URL). The video is a screencast of Rhizome Navigation fetching blog-linking-data continuously. The bigger a blog domain is displayed the more incoming links it has. The more often blogs link to each other the closer they drift at each other. In this case my own page www.rafelsberger.at is used as a starting point.

In addition to the video I'm also adding two screenshots. The first screenshot shows the graph with edges enabled and nodes as circles. In the second edges are disabled and nodes are displayed as the domain names of the blogs. In this case around 350 blogs are shown. Both graphs are 3D and you can navigate through them. I'll hope to be able to post an interactive online demo soon.

Update: I'd love to post an online demo, unfortunately both Technorati and Yahoo have request limits when using their API, so it would be rather useless if more/too much people use it. However, I have a solution in mind (for which I need a little bit more time).

Update: Someone submitted this page to digg, maybe you want to digg it too.

Eingedenk Klaus Kinski zum 80er.

• http://oe1.orf.at/highlights/67411.html

Update: Ex-Frau von Klaus Kinski ließ Biografie stoppen.

reuters.com reports that after WTC Oliver Stone will direct The Hunt For Bin Laden or whatever title it will finally have, like, erm, Jawbreaker. Again I must think of that quote from 1997's Conspiracy Theory. It's said that Cyrus Nowrasteh is on board as a screenwriter too. That's just great. The man who brought us Falcon Crest and not to forget The Path to 9/11 (see my earlier post). What a team. What's next? Perhaps Stone has already secured the rights on the real story on the invasion of Iraq by Baghdad Bob.

About a month ago I promised to make some tutorials about Digital Compositing using Processing. Finally I found the time to write an introduction and create a first example.

My idea is to provide working online examples of basic Digital Compositing with techniques based on Ron Brinkmann's The Art And Science Of Digital Compositing using Processing.

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Kind regards,
Walter

Revival: Raumstation Kuhbase at film:riss 06 warmup fest. For those who can't wait or won't be in Salzburg, take a look at youtube.

Wired wrote about crowdsourcing some time ago, now futurezone reports about German's #1 boulevard newspaper Bild trying to crowdsource paparazzi's.

Well, it wasn't me, but here's a little gem on youtube: Fast Film. Be aware that this link is self-promotional.

The New York Times reports that Microsoft has collected 5.5 petabytes of data from crash logs of Windows Vista. My conclusion (remember, I'm no expert): Vista crashes a lot. (via michaelzimmer.org)

kylescholz.com presents Force Directed Graphs with JavaScript.

Auch Religionsexperte (Copyright Kronen Zeitung) Dr. Andreas Kohl geht. Im derstandard.at Photo-Blog nimmt Herr Dr. Kohl Abschied von meinem Bildschirmschoner (Bild 5).

Polemik-Crescendo: Der Baumeister Mariusz Bialek möchte mit einem alkoholkranken Antisemiten in der Hauptrolle die Geschichte verfilmen, wie die Wiener den Kaffee erobert haben. Wie und wann das genau war, wissen wir eh nicht mehr. Deshalb habe ich als Beratungsunternehmen meine Dienste zur Drehbuchoptimierung angeboten. Ich schlage vor, das Szenario in die Jetzt-Zeit bzw. nahe Zukunft zu verlegen. Die Festung Europa glaubt sich sicher. Doch der Osman infiltriert mit langzeitarbeitslosen illegalen Gebährmaschinen die abendländische Familienstruktur und eine stille Übernahme, ja eine assimilatio ex utero ist die Folge.

• http://www.onlinecampus.at/

powered by open-Xchange. Looks not too promising because the website is down at the moment. via heise.de.

• Politische Kultur in Österreich im kroneblog
• "Wenn wir in die Türkei auswandern würden, ..." im kroneblog
• Wie kriminell sind Asylwerber wirklich? fragte klenkswatchblog

I posted an updated tech demo of Rhizome Navigation visualizing user behavior of this blog. The graph is now centered around the page where most time is spent. Noise created by search engine robots is filtered which should clear things up quite a bit.

Project ASSIST at Design Rationale

Paper: http://rationale.csail.mit.edu/publications/Sezgin2006Sketch.pdf

Update: randform review and thoughts on ASSIST

Recommended reading: Web 3D

JOB OFFERS (Application Deadline = October 15)

Starting in November 2006, idiom.at will hire four young researchers in the following areas:

• Visualizing Semantic and Geographic Data (Graz)
• Social Software and Content Management Systems (Graz or Vienna)
• Semantic Technologies and Ontology Engineering (Vienna or Graz)
• Software Development and Information Retrieval (Vienna)

Es ist vollbracht: Gehrer geht.

Soweit ich weiß, noch zu haben, also zugreifen, so lange der Vorrat reicht.

200m2 Edelrohbau-Halle, 4.20m hoch, ca. 14x14m breit grosse, 14m lange Glasfassade mit Glastür zur Grohgasse.

Tags: werkzeugh, real estate

Visualizing Wikipedia: http://pathway.screenager.be/

via grockwel via driftingschmoe.

Update: Related Framework: 34all http://goosebumps4all.ifastnet.com/34all/ via kenbeyond

Finally regenerated from Barcamp Vienna. Thanks to the organizers for a great un-conference. Take a look at the timetable for summaries of the sessions.

• http://flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampvienna
• http://www.technorati.com/tags/barcampvienna
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/barcampvienna/