Joelle and I are speaking at Prague College and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze) this week about our individual work and the project we are doing at the Nostic Palace. Many thanks to artists Molly Radecki and Natalia Vasquez for assisting us with The Difference Between Now and Then. […]
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Czech version of flyer for our project at the Prague Contemporary Art Festival […]
+ Here is a step-by-step explaining how I got Scrapy running on my MacBook Pro 10.5 using MacPorts to install Python and all required libraries (libxml2, libxsit, etc.). The following has been tested on two separate machines with Scrapy .10. Many thanks to users here who shared some helpful amendments to the default installation guide. […]
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This lovely website has posted instructions in German for using Give Me My Data. Vielen Dank! English version […]
The German newspaper, Bild published another article mentioning Give Me My Data today. Was weiß Facebook über mich? or in English, Facebook knows what about me? “About 500 million people worldwide use the social network Facebook to stay in touch with friends. In Germany, almost 9.8 million people are registered with Facebook. Many users are […]
TINA-B Festival Nostic Palace, Czech Ministry of Culture, Prague October 7-24th, 2010 In the October 2010 TINA-B Contemporary Art Festival in Prague, Owen Mundy and Joelle Dietrick will re-stage their 2006 project The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn. Originally developed in York, Alabama, USA, Owen Mundy and Joelle Dietrick borrowed lamps from the residents […]
“Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.” But, it can be a little tricky to get running… Attempting to install Scrapy on […]
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About to embark on some new projects here in Berlin. Here’s my reading list at the moment… Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson July 7th 2009 by Hyperion Traditional economics operates under fundamental assumptions of scarcity–there’s only so much oil, iron, and gold in the world. But the online economy is […]
I’ve been trying for a few hours to run a Python script from The Sunlight Foundation Labs which downloads (and updates) a campaign finance database from the Center for Responsive Politics. See their original post for more information. In the process of getting this working I accidentally broke a working copy of MySQL and overwrote […]