The Exceptionally Good Cause of My Academic Future

Hi all / anyone reading this!

I have a favor to ask for a mate. She is working on a small media course project, and designed a website that is meant to investigate metaphors of space online: www.spaceofnewmedia.com. (please don't judge. It's a work in progress). It focuses mostly on the idea of self-propelled navigation, looking at how our expectations for free movement in physical space compare with our expectations and practices of moving around cyberspace. Still reading? Right now, the site is mostly her rambling on about these sorts of things. She is trying to make it link out to other places on the web; it seems weird to have online navigation as a subject in a self-contained site. This is where you come in. In addition to giving the site limbs, so to speak, it would be a lot more fitting if it had more than one brain.

So her goal is to set up a map – a map of physical space-- and create dots on that map representing users (you) and then clicking on those dots would allow a visitor to the site to walk in the webby cyber-shoes (a technical term) of the person from that physical locale. So it would be a series of links not unlike the search engine Stumble Upon, except the guiding principle would be your browser history from one single session. If you are shy about handing over your browser history, I understand. There is no reason to divulge your identity to make this work.

If you are interested all you would need to do would be to click on your browser history after you have spent whatever amount of time on the internet and then copy and paste it in an email to her along with the date you were online and an estimate of how much time you spent. She will eliminate any identifying marks, such as a facebook link that opens up to your username, before posting. It depends on your browser but usually you find your history under view or tools and just cut and paste.

If you are extra interested perhaps you and I could set up a regular time so that you could donate your history every Friday afternoon or whathaveyou. Because she would like it to be over space (virtual space) and across time, what she would really like would be to collect multiple samples from the same individual.

Kids are welcome on the basis that supervised online use or sessions with blocks built-in could be really interesting.

I think with enough participation, the end result could be kind of fun: instead of roaming around, you would roam as someone else.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask and I'll point you in her direction. Also, if you want to invite others to this, it would actually be amazing to include as many people beyond her own circle of friends as poss.

Thanks!

Erm? I don't get it. Is that meant to be a diss?

its a confused face innit, which is exactly how i feel too.

now really, how many people are going to post their browser history

Fine. Project seems to make sense to me, guess she's looking for people who don't go shopping or browse porn for half an hour.

Its ironic to post a piccy from the truman show for a post about a website that tracks your movements on the interwebz....

Fine. Project seems to make sense to me, guess she's looking for people who don't go shopping or browse porn for half an hour.

only half an hour

Fine. Project seems to make sense to me, guess she's looking for people who don't go shopping or browse porn for half an hour.

good luck! everyone knows that the internet is 20% shopping 30% porn and 50% cats

Say what?

Who's going to use it, and why would they use it?

What sort of a (Predator?) person would be interested in what other people are looking at?

17% Baby Pandas too

ohhh and weebl

Hi all / anyone reading this!

I have a favor to ask for a mate. She is working on a small media course project, and designed a website that is meant to investigate metaphors of space online: www.spaceofnewmedia.com. (please don't judge. It's a work in progress). It focuses mostly on the idea of self-propelled navigation, looking at how our expectations for free movement in physical space compare with our expectations and practices of moving around cyberspace. Still reading? Right now, the site is mostly her rambling on about these sorts of things. She is trying to make it link out to other places on the web; it seems weird to have online navigation as a subject in a self-contained site. This is where you come in. In addition to giving the site limbs, so to speak, it would be a lot more fitting if it had more than one brain.

So her goal is to set up a map – a map of physical space-- and create dots on that map representing users (you) and then clicking on those dots would allow a visitor to the site to walk in the webby cyber-shoes (a technical term) of the person from that physical locale. So it would be a series of links not unlike the search engine Stumble Upon, except the guiding principle would be your browser history from one single session. If you are shy about handing over your browser history, I understand. There is no reason to divulge your identity to make this work.

If you are interested all you would need to do would be to click on your browser history after you have spent whatever amount of time on the internet and then copy and paste it in an email to her along with the date you were online and an estimate of how much time you spent. She will eliminate any identifying marks, such as a facebook link that opens up to your username, before posting. It depends on your browser but usually you find your history under view or tools and just cut and paste.

If you are extra interested perhaps you and I could set up a regular time so that you could donate your history every Friday afternoon or whathaveyou. Because she would like it to be over space (virtual space) and across time, what she would really like would be to collect multiple samples from the same individual.

Kids are welcome on the basis that supervised online use or sessions with blocks built-in could be really interesting.

I think with enough participation, the end result could be kind of fun: instead of roaming around, you would roam as someone else.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask and I'll point you in her direction. Also, if you want to invite others to this, it would actually be amazing to include as many people beyond her own circle of friends as poss.

Thanks!

Fine. Project seems to make sense to me, guess she's looking for people who don't go shopping or browse porn for half an hour.

That's classy.

Start with a long rambling post about an obscure concept written in a jokey manner, link it to an incredibly tedious and bewildering website, then basically call people vapid wankers when they appear confused.

Take out this forum, porn and shopping and all you're left with in everyone's broswer history is google's homepage.

BLUE

olcl

7am-8am : porn
9am-5pm : BBC and lfgss
630pm - 10pm : cats

I imagine its standard for all users so add that 12000 times

7am-8am : porn
9am-5pm : scat porn
6.30pm - 10pm : cat porn

Fair play, CG, sorry for casting dispersions on your character

Scatman John watching cat scat porn whilst eating quorn. 11.19-12.03

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So her goal is to set up a map – a map of physical space-- and create dots on that map representing users (you) and then clicking on those dots would allow a visitor to the site to walk in the webby cyber-shoes (a technical term) of the person from that physical locale.

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Has William Gibson sued yet?