Give Me My Data and exporting mutual friends

On the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Give Me My Data I’m very happy to announce that you can now export your friends and your mutual friends from facebook using two new formats. Both of the data formats are geared towards making graphs by displaying objects and their relationships. Needless to say, this is […]

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Review of “Python: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd edition)”

I have to admit I had my doubts about this book. I have not been impressed with Visual QuickStart Guides in the past. I respect the idea, of presenting only essential information in an easy-to-understand introductory manner, but that was rarely the case in previous experiences. Usually I found them to be a mixture of […]

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Germany and Google Street View

This week I have been enjoying the blurred images of German buildings whose owners have chosen to opt-out of Google Street View. Infamous moments in the country’s history have led Germans to take privacy very seriously; especially when it comes to information about their residences. Unlike the United States, where data privacy is an opt-out […]

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Fritzing for designing electronics

I just discovered Fritzing; an application for designing electronic projects and laying-out PCBs. The software is dependable, has a useful website with tutorials and project examples, and they are even starting a fabrication service in Dec 2010. Fritzing was started in August 2007 by the Interaction Design Lab at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, […]

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inSCRIPTion: … text … image … action …

If you are in Los Angeles / Long Beach check out Keyword Intervention at this group show: inSCRIPTion: … text … image … action … November 8th – December 9th Opening Reception: November 9, 2010 (3-7 pm) Cerritos College Art Gallery 11110 Alondra Blvd Norwalk, CA The current ubiquity of transmediated and telepresential dialogues, most […]

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The Difference Between Now and Then, ERM! + TINA-B (Venice)

TINA B. in VENICE at Claudio Buzziol Gallery and in the Church of St. Leonardo, Venice, Italy. Artists: Ludovico Bomben Enoc Armengol Pedro Valdez Cardoso Daniel Gonzalez Daniel Hanzlík / Pavel Mrkus Jenny Marketou Katharina Lackner Santi Moix hNkD Owen Mundy / Joelle Dietrick Norman Leto Thanks to TINA-B and Exchange Radical Moments!. […]

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Keyword Intervention update

I launched Keyword Intervention in January 2007 and for almost four years now it has been scraping topical search terms and attracting random traffic. Today I moved the project to its own domain, keywordintervention.com and also updated the documentation on the site. Below is a sample of the last 500 search terms by users all […]

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Plutonian Striptease VIII: Owen Mundy

Originally published in Plutonian Striptease, a series of interviews with with experts, owners, users, fans and haters of social media, to map the different views on this topic, outside the existing discussions surrounding privacy. PS: Social networks are often in the news, why do you think this is? OM: Assuming “social networks” refers to the […]

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