Lectire 9 summary

Today's lecture was presented by guest lecturer Jason Nelson about the creative uses of the Internet.

• we are starting to rethink the way we think about content eg- the natural disaster map of the world
• people don't think about how far the connection has to go when they go to website.
• google is predominately an advertising company, and searches depend on who has paid the most money for the 'top spot'
• "sketch cast" is a website which allows you to make your own animations. This would never have been possible a few years ago.
• there are 'generator' sites which are like apps.
• anyone can create an app, which looks at similarities.
• 'portable apps.com' contains all free or open source software which you can upload onto your memory stick and have with you to use on any computer.
• this is supposed to be the future of the Internet so that you don't actually need a computer, just the applications on the memory stick.
• 'key logger' can be installed in any computer and anything that you type is recorded. then someone can either take the text off the computer or they can have the information emailed to them.
• freeware genius: is a website which reviews all the free software available on the Internet and recommends the best ones to use.
• 'technorati' is like google, however it gives you more specific blogs about what your looking for.
• 'google wave' is the new thing in email, which combines email, chat and real-time file sharing and combines all of these together and saves everything that you've done.
• Jason spoke about his work and gave some insight into they came about for example his games are not intended to have specific structures, and is not supposed to all make sense, just the sense that the individual gets from it.
• 'net-art' is artwork created with net technologies.
• Artists play around with data visualisation.
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