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Ha Ha i had a go at the wolfenflickr 3d this morning... how cool

I am amazed at the idea of api, the way people have developed programs to piggy back off other more entrenched setups. I have had a look at the variety of API applications on the net and i have to say that this, the flickr remixed and the twitter stream take the cake.

These are all seriously cool variations on existing concepts... although I do wonder how far this will go. Will this idea of using API's in to remix existing content just turn into an overcrowding of similar stuff on the net?

I was thinking about it in terms of a remix of a song, and i know that these API generations aren't static like a song, however my basic idea is this..... the song is pressed and then various other artists have a go to try and make it better in their own style and for their own needs, but what ends up happening is the song gets over played, the song loses its identity and everyone gets sick of it.... 

Will this be the case where people take the original idea (perhaps the twitter stream is the best example of this) and try to make it more user friendly and creative until we either just dont care about its function anymore, we get bored or there are to many options to actually care about userbility because we have seen it before?

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Free for all

ha ha how funny is that about the leak over the blacklisted sites!

im sure this is exactly what they didnt want to happen now they have half of Australia's youth browsing through material they might not have otherwise... i know if i got my hands on a list like that at 15 i would have a decent look.

I did hear though that certain figures in the set up of the groups in charge of shortlisting the black list had already called for a smaller group so that the information could not have been as easily leaked, and if it had have been leaked they could simply find the person who did it....

oh well, its pretty funny that now wikileak is on the shortlist because it leaked the info...

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Creativity Remixed and Attainable

How awesome are the people at creative commons! I hadn't heard for it before this week. It is such an interesting concept. They have broken down the intellectual barriers relating to copyright.

I love the way they have used existing footage from heavily copyrighted disney films to get their point across. But due to the fact that everyone will probably use that in their blogs i went looking for something else. I found this documentary/interview type piece on creative commons....

I was amazed that major artists such as Moby are putting their music online. But surely this makes sense in a global culture society, the more people remix or share this music the wider the orignal content will spread and therefore the further the artists influence will stem. This has to be a good thing for everyone. People can listen to the music that they enjoy and artists are being attributed to the original work.

I hope that this is a launch pad for a number of other artists to follow in Moby's path and use mediums such a s creative commons to share and further promote their music.

I was also amazed by the remixed work based on original concepts... let me be more specific. The alice clip by Pogo is amazing. The original work below is unbelievable...

Works like this truly amaze me, the artists dedication the final solution is astonishing. I would love to be able to do something like this but i really don't think i have the patience for it. I assume work like this is done with vj-ing software, i would love to get into this a bit but not to the extent of the above work. I found this video on the basics of vj-ing, doesn't look that difficult, much like dj-ing however, there is an added visual element as a result of the mixing. The music is a bit hardcore but you get the idea.

I am really interested in the relationship between sound and graphics, so this is definitely something i would be interested in pursuing. 

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CSS yeah!

I must retract my week 1 rant on how pointless css is, i have been working on some freelance stuff with a mate and he is pretty good at all of this stuff. Wow! it makes like so much easier in the long run.

In dreamweaver in order to create a reasonably cool site without css you need to import stuff in from photoshop. That just isn't rational when you are dealing with material that needs to be updates regularly.

During this process we have, or should i say, he has been run through how css is a way better way to do all of this stuff. He can create a similar template to me in a way that is easier to navigate, faster to load and simpler to update than anything i have done in the past.

I think i am a changed man. forgive me css for my previous comments about you

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I will code for food

Ok so i have made the change to blogspot... well because it is easier and they require less monies for the same thing.... Ta Da!

So i was late to the tutorial on thursday morning but when i got there i wasnt to put out becuase i have done a bit of this stuff before. However, the difference is, i have learnt the lazy way.

I taught myself the basics of html a while ago and learnt a bit of css while i was at it… the problem is that dreamweaver makes the process easier, so i have forgotten most of what i learnt.

I dont want to sound like a wanker, but why would you do all of this coding when you can just design it in dreamweaver with out any code hassles?

i get the point that you probably have to learn through html so that you can understand problems that may occur down the track if you have them…. is this why we learn the coding of web stuff? Does coding allow you to do things you cant simply with dreamweaver design view? am i an idiot?

Regardless i did find it interesting to relearn the html stuff and the relationship it has with css style sheets. Css certainly makes the html process easier

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If you wish

Ok so i have been having a bit of grief regarding the navigation of css additions and themes in wordpress so far… in fact i am currently considering changing to blogspot (i hear it is easier to navigate? right guys?)

Problem 1

Ah so to give you some backgroud, i was trawling the net, and stumbled across some really cool themes for wordpress. thinking that i could be a bit different and bash up something really funky, i decided to have a go at applying it to my blog.

As it turns out in order to change the themes you need to go through an ftp server, which is highly inconveniently given the uni doesnt let us upload via this sort of stuff.

Problem 2

after ditching the idea of being totally radi’cool’ and busting out an obscure theme setup, i decided i would just create an image greeting for my page, what a hassle. i’m sure it is just me here but seriously, it shouldnt be that hard… can anyone tell me how to insert a picture into my title space, with out having to change the theme or whatever?

This is ruining my picnic!

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