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Against The Machine

September 9, 2009 in 1 | Leave a comment (Edit)

CH.2

This section was about the marketing aims of the internet.
Not just e-commerce aspects, but also through creating a culture dependent on addicting material goods, services, and the perpetuation of those ideas. In chapter 2 I tend not to agree with his points because he immediately discounts the internet’s ability to spread information: spiritual and otherwise unless its backed by money-making motives. I think that he is actually limitinng the internet’s usefullness as he points out the overlooked aspects of the internet because he suggests success can only be managed in money (marketing) and forgets about “number of blog hits” as a form of success indicator.

cootiesCatcher Site MAp

September 3, 2009 in 1 | Leave a comment (Edit)

Cootie Catcher

Based on the popular children’s game, this site will unlock your future in response to the viewer’s answers to: “pick a color” “pick a number” “pick another number” leading through the paper game interface to the viewers forseen fate.
This website will lead the viewers into a variety of different web treasure avenues via (links, and photos, videos and text…) There will be numerous paths (a new cootie catcher per the day or week or perhaps month), but each catcher will be a linked as they are kind of like a diary entry: my life via internet shenanigans, or a fictional character’s entry, or my best friend’s.
It will be interesting to translate the cootie catcher game into a paperless media, but if it is detailed enough, or engaging, I don’t think that the paperless environment will detract from the charm of the game. I think that the main influences to this idea are journals, blogs, delicious’ personal bookmark collections, fictional stories, and artifactual portraiture. (as this would be a virtual artifact portrait/journal/story)…
General Audience: web surfers, bloggers, creepers, people who enjoy hyper-text based interfaces, and probably primarily women because I am a female creating the content and the stuff I like, make, write about will probably be most interesting to someone like me.

http://www.etsy.com/

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

http://www.superbad.com/

Against The Machine

August 26, 2009 in 1 | Leave a comment (Edit)

Intro+CH1

suggests Internet as an isolator, a man-soul imitator, time traveler, and yet–a source of community…feeding lonely souls via e/commerce, myspace and search engines.We’re Alone Together: Evolution of technology affects the evolution of human social interaction and the easier life gets, the less responsibility, commitment and challenges befall mankind making us more susceptible to violence, perversion, and self destruction. Siegel’s Intro and first chapter reminds me of Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E ’s depiction of future humans–fat and actually devolved as they rely on computers and robots for EVERYTHING.I guess Siegel’s saying that convience (despite obvious advantages) comes at the price of evolving intelligence and the further development of the human mind (socially and intellectually). I can’t say that I fully agree with him, but his criticisms are very plausible.