Dominiek.com

Publishing

The past 3 days I had a small tech/art/media conference on The Internet of Things’ (by Mediamatic). This event showed me that media-people can think very different then technologists. Apart from dressing very fashionable and using Mac’s, they also care a lot about digital appearance. I noticed most people I met had a Blog and had it well-connected to Flickr. My Blog is sort of isolated from the internet and I don’t spend so much time on managing my ‘second life’. In the workshop one of the speakers, Julian Bleecker, said he advises his students to publish every failed idea they had. In this way, people who try that again can learn from the published mistakes. I agree and I think more people should take the effort to work towards ‘the collective’.

Interconnecting

John Battelle, in his book about search explained his view on immortality in the epilogue of the book. Battelle explained that the internet allows more people to become immortal in a way, as long as information is kept alive into the indexes of Google. I think this is incomplete. The Library of Alexandria has been destroyed numerous times by man, resulting in the death of many ‘immortals’. ‘Immortality’ of information can never be guaranteed, but the chances of long survival get more when the information spread is more wide. Therefore, the Google index is not enough (My old websites are deleted from the index anyway). It’s important to spread the information, using trackbacks, references, quotations, alternative blogspheres like Technorati.

Tagging

Tagging, assigning a keyword to a virtual object. I’m still a little puzzled about the importance of it. At this moment I really think it’s important to take a good effort to tag all your resources, especially visual material. Resources are found much better if you have accurate keywords assigned tot them. In the future this will be replaced by either generating these keywords from the resources itself or actually understanding the resources itself. I can imagine that this is will take longer with pictures and videos (more complex).

My 2nd life

I think a lot of people agree (at least in the workshop) that the virtual world and the physical world will merge inevitably. It might take some time, although I think thing’s will go quite fast once Nanotechnology takes shape. Anyway, I think it’s important to start taking your own 2nd life into account since it will be a big part of your 1st life.

My resolutions:

• Publishing more
• Interconnecting more: Making my blog known at technorati.
• Interconnecting more: Linking more to others.
• Interconnecting more: Moving my pictures to Flickr.com.
• Interconnecting more: Tagging better.