I blogged about something similar about a year ago, Are we too poor for
communism: http://douweosinga.com/blog/0407/2004Jul13_1. I now work for
Google, which arguably is both a big company and a dotcom survivor and it is
a case in point. Especially if you travel in between engineering offices -
into a
windows executable. The program will let you enter a poem or any other
piece of text and will then show a slideshow of images found on Google.
Feel free to download, experiment and comment:
http://douweosinga.com/projects/visualpoetry
Regards,
Douwe Osinga
http://douweosinga.com
is not a given,
it is a choice (and maybe not a very good one).
Douwe Osinga
http://douweosinga.com
# distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission
# nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
# collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
# more
://douweosinga.com/projects/mindworld
As you can imagine, it takes quite some clicks for a world map
to appear, so if you like the project and have a website, please
consider putting up a link.
Douwe Osinga
http://douweosinga.com
# distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission
# nettime
a
superpower buys email addressed from human right groups to spam
citizens of a third world country.
Douwe Osinga
http://douweosinga.com
# distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission
# nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
# collaborative text filtering
to research this term. So they look it up on Google and paste
the link to the first hit, keeping a dead ecosystem popular.
Is this all bad? Maybe not. In a way it will help the new forms of
information exchange and teach us that pure Internet forms just work better.
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Douwe Osinga
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