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soul Possibly non-existent constructs. See also: presence, identity, trust. dragons of eden Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan. Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. 5:30pm, April 10th, 1901: Duncan Macdougall. .75 ounces: 21 grams

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soul

Possibly non-existent constructs. See also: presence, identity, trust.
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dragons

  • f eden
Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan. Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence.
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SLIDE 3 5:30pm, April 10th, 1901: Duncan Macdougall. .75 ounces: 21 grams (insensible loss: water vapour) The weight of the web. 2 ounces: 56.7 grams. (driving it requires 200 million horsepower) 100 Billion neurons. How many links?
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id & ego self

ego: “Das Ich” Soul: “The self-aware essence unique to a particular living being” “The unification of one’s sense of identity”
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the story we tell

  • urselves
Paul Broks “Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neurospychology” Soul: the story a brain tells itself. The story informs our awareness of self. In the brain, right hemisphere. 200,000 - 500,000 years ago: introspective consciousness.
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language

Naming the world. Singing the world into existence (Bruce Chatwin: songlines).
  • Tokens. Naming a thing gives it a soul. Naming a thing gives you power: controlling demons.
Glamour (meaning magic) has the same root as grammar. Language is magic. Stories are magic.
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furious green ideas

Juxtaposition of tokens = imagination.
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fray.com

Storytelling
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blogging

  • Confessional. Laugh. Cry. A piece of soul.
Good music “from the soul”. Good blogging too.
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adactio.com flickr.com del.icio.us upcoming.org

Fragmentation. Pulling it together: widgets?
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elsewhere.adactio.com

  • APIs. Too geeky.
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narrative

blog posts photos songs links tweets

The ongoing story I tell myself... and the world. When I travel, it’s on Dopplr, Twitter, Flickr and my blog. (I could even tell an untrue story...) All timestamped. All available via RSS.
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lifestream

lifestream.adactio.com

Colour coded snapshot. Wordpress plug-in. iStalkr. Lifestream blog. Tools: Jaiku, Yahoo Pipes.
  • Fleeting. Temporary.
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provenance

Gavin Bell. Antiques. Add me on Twitter: but who are you? What’s your provenance.
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infovore.org

/talks/

Tom Armitage. Reboot 8: long-term narrative; blog migration.
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avalonstar.com

Bryan Veloso: disappointing erasing of provenance. Praise Google and archive.org. I will return to the idea of provenance in a moment.
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the third policeman

Flann O’Brien (Miles Na Gopaleen): Bicycles and people exchanging molecules: the moral question. Physical objects taking on some of our soul (essence, identity). Cars, Macs, mobile phones (the toilet dilemma). Protrusions of the soul.
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avatar demon

Neal Stephenson: Snowcrash. The Metaverse built by the Global Multimedia Protocols Group. Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials. Animal representation of the soul. Avatars: Second Life. Demons: Nabaztag, Availibot.
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gaming

Interactive narrative. Will Wright. Good games feel open-ended. Bad games feel restricted. Play (like language) is part of what makes us human: another form of storytelling.
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world of warcraft

Collaborative. Now we’re moving beyond the individual (soul) to the collective (society). Each individual in this society has provenance (history, experience) and a demon (avatar).
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social

flickr upcoming twitter last.fm jaiku facebook myspace dopplr

Social networks. Walled gardens. Web 2.0 = open data (APIs, RSS) but not relationships. Jaiku is superior to Twitter, but I want all my friends.
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rel attribute

the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute

<link rel=“stylesheet” href=“foo.css” /> <a rel=“help” href=“foo.htm”>help</a>

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xfn

<a href=“http://suda.co.uk/”> Brian Suda </a> rel=“friend ” met colleague <a rel=“friend met co-worker” href=“http://andybudd.com/”> Andy Budd </a>

  • Microformat. Ludicrously simple. Makes relationships explicit.
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xfn

<a rel=“me” href=“http://flickr.com/ photos/adactio”> My photos</a> <a rel=“me” href=“http://del.ico.us/ adactio”> My links</a>

OpenID can solve the sign-in issue. XFN (and hCard) can solve identity relationship consolidation. Mix them and you’ve got truly open data that can flow from app to app without an API.
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idsix.com

Gavin Bell’s code. A mixture of scraping (with XPath) and parsing (microformats).
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&

social gaming provenance

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bud.com

passivelymultiplayer.com

Justin Hall. PMOG: Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Surfing the web gives provenance. Using that for fun and profit. But let’s take it further...
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d&d

flickr twitter last.fm del.icio.us experience stamina dexterity strength

Online publishing = hacking and slaying. Let’s do something with all those experience points. Let’s make a game.
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2007-06-16 london hack day

Hacking is social.
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kthxbai!

http://adactio.com

jeremy keith