 institutional critique seven projects in this top-level category IOUs by Wayne Clements IOUs continually gets the most recent user notes from 'del.icio.us/recent' page ("http://del.icio.us/recent?min=1"). This is the record of the most recent posts with a minimum of a single user posting the reference. IOUs doesn't get posts that don't have notes. Because of the popularity of del.icio.us, the ‘recent’ page is constantly changing as users make new posts: several a second at busy [...] [ go to project page ] Outsource me! by Leonardo Solaas "Outsource me!" by Leonardo Solaas presents a competition within the competition of Readme 100. This ironic subversion is repeated on various levels of the project: it subverts the usual outsourcing relationships, as well as subverting the idea of the delegation of "technical" work by the "creative" artist to an “uncreative” programmer (or any "hands-on" person). [...] [ go to project page ] un_wiki by wayne clements un_wiki gets quotes from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia's Deletion Log: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete The Deletion Log is a list of all the pages that have abused Wiki's democratic remit; it is the last stop on the way to destruction. It has small amounts of the offending texts. I use a Perl script to get them and throw away the rest. [...] [ go to project page ] Shmoogle by Tsila Hassine What is Shmoogle? Shmoogle is a Google randomiser. When you type your query into Shmoogle, you get Google's results but.... in random order! This tool touches upon several crucial issues on the web such as Search Engine Optimization. Shmoogle instantly neutralizes Page rank and the whole SEO industry induced by it. Yet it addresses other fundamental issues such as retrievability vs. [...] [ go to project page ] The Google Adwords Happening by Christophe Bruno April 2002: how a large scale poetry happening on Google Adwords, unveiled the Generalized Semantic Capitalism. [ go to project page ] Rotten Flesh by Jeff Epler This software is a parody of freshmeat.net, a site that announces software releases. It uses the dada engine [ go to project page ] The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [fine arts version] by Curt Cloninger Tired of racking your brain trying to squeeze out yet another artist's statement extolling the unique virtues of your latest net.art joint? Do you lapse into fits of involuntary muscle spasms every time you hear the word "immersive" in casual conversation? Then search no further -- The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [ [...] [ go to project page ] |
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