Author: ow3n
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How to install Scrapy with MacPorts (full version)
+ 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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Give Me My Data Anleitung in Deutsch…
This lovely website has posted instructions in German for using Give Me My Data. Vielen Dank! English version […]
Was weiß Facebook über mich?, in Bild
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 […]
The Difference Between Then and Now
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 […]
Setup Macports Python and Scrapy successfully
“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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Reading list for August 2010
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 […]
How to easily set up a campaign finance database (well, kind of) or Make Python work with MAMP via MySQLdb
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 […]
Automata: Counter-Surveillance in Public Space paper on the Public Interventions panel at ISEA2010
ISEA2010 RUHR Conference in Dortmund, Germany P26 Public Interventions Tue 24 August 2010 15:00–16:30h Volkshochschule Dortmund, S 137a Moderated by Georg Dietzler (de) 15:00h | Owen Mundy (us): Automata: Counter-Surveillance in Public Space 15:20h | Christoph Brunner (ch/ca), Jonas Fritsch (dk): Balloons, Sweat and Technologies. Urban Interventions through Ephemeral Architectures 15:40h | Georg Klein (de): […]
Recent and ongoing projects
Howdy, it’s been awhile since I last shared news about recent and ongoing projects. Here goes. 1. You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore is an installation that projects moving US Geological Survey (USGS) satellite images using handmade kinetic projection devices. Each device hangs from the ceiling and uses electronic […]
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