Finding Vorpal Blades: Questing for Content
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The document discusses the transition from traditional publishing to a communication model with an emphasis on collaborative discovery and interaction facilitated by digital platforms. It highlights the evolving landscape of information sharing, emphasizing the importance of remixing content rather than just consuming it in a linear manner. The text reflects on the complexities of modern information systems and the potential for deeper social engagement through interactive and gamified experiences.
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Finding Vorpal Blades: Questing for Content
- 1. Finding Vorpal Blades:Questing for ContentPeter Brantley Internet Archive
- 2. @nickbiltonThe Web is shifting from a paradigm of *publishing* to a model of *communication* - @tedroden speaking to my NYU class.http://twitter.com/nickbilton/status/9851408533 01 March 2010
- 4. Steady stateHow to find information 1985: Go to a library Circulate papers Attend seminars Ask around
- 5. Life cycle of thingssolicitationcuration - selectionediting - preparationpublication---------Content (things)
- 7. Life cycle of discoverysearch filtering referrals recommends---------Discovery (process)
- 8. Network social Dominant sources of information embody network mediated social interactions
- 10. Eclectic now
- 11. Eclectic now
- 12. Eclectic now
- 13. Eclectic now
- 14. Eclectic now
- 15. Eclectic now
- 16. Eclectic now
- 17. Eclectic now
- 18. Eclectic now
- 19. A generation’s searchwhen we searchwhere we searchwhat we search forwhat we expect to find how we share - and - what sharing means
- 21. Pervasive dataThe growth and proliferation of databases and libraries that we access and update in the course of our every day lives, and new techniques of accessing, visualising and using that data, leads to new forms of representation and social interaction. Futureeverything & Leonardo Electronic Almanac: Art in the age of pervasive data
- 22. Implicit actionFinding is collaborative... sharing is “built in”(our platformsare premisedon sharing)
- 23. The great reciprocity discover sharing
- 24. Do-ing thingsuser active (^passive) filtering interacting augmenting republishing
- 25. Asmara, 1940s
- 26. Across generations@naypinya thanks so much for posting that, I have never seen pictures of when Americans were there. I'm favorite-ing this! 11:53 PM Feb 1st@naypinya that would be great.. I recognized some of the places in Asmara like the mosque which is right near my house ...2:27 PM Feb 2ndMessiShukorAsmara Eritrea
- 27. 60 years, 1 world, and 2 days
- 28. Social systemsWe {all} canpublish [stuff]and link to (it)share_the_links
- 30. Linear economics The business of content – and the “law of things” – are no longer as viable. Investment, production, distribution
- 31. Link based servicesWe must remix ¬ just content ! (Invest) +ment (Product) +ion (Distribute) +ionuberAlles
- 32. “Berlin is here to mix everything with everything.” [The author] finds herself in the middle of a collision ... between the staid, literary establishment ... and the Berlin youth culture of D.J.’s and artists that sample freely and thereby breathe creativity into old forms.“Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism” NY Times, Feb 11, 2010, Nicholas Kulish
- 34. Idea-ation Re-flect the value of the content > _______ > into the social flow of the information
- 35. Into the flowflickrcouldenable theacquisitionof use rightsfor an imageon its homepage
- 37. Atom-ic gateway
- 38. Atom-ic articles
- 40. a toy storyWhen you were young,would you have expectedyour toys to surprise you?
- 42. Toward the socialtrending towardsophisticationcomplexitysurprise deeper social interaction
- 43. Robotic Seal
- 44. Gaming itBest metaphor is gaming:Rapid, participatory, collaborative:Quests to find beneficial things Cooperation to fend away evil.Imagination, interaction, incitedcuriosity leading to surprise.
- 45. MMORPG of OldBeware the Jabberwocky!
- 46. Snicker-snack! One, two! One, two! And through and throughThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back. - Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
- 47. Embedded associationsVorpal blades Back-cited through references in a wide range of SF&F works.Magic re-invoked | A term endowed again and again. | with a narrative.
- 48. Channeled wormholes I’ve seen blades like that before. Vorpal blades, they call them. I’m not sure why. This one is obviously decommissioned, but how did it get here? They don’t rely on the edge or point to cut, that’s not what they’re for. - Charles Stross, Glasshouse, 2006
- 49. Chains of conductWe can thread“latent opportunities”in info systemsBound to action(If they are known otherwise ignored)
- 50. The game surprisesThinking of services as gamesWe can avoid thing-nessFocus on interaction Embed the option tofind the spell and cast it (if you know its language)you can open the darkened door
- 51. Make a quest
- 53. Image workSwish swish, move them back and forward.Pinch and pull, smaller and larger. Tap tap tap, make a collection. Hold and drag, to share.
- 54. Thankspeter brantleydirector, bookserver projectinternet archivesan francisco, ca (twitter) @naypinya (slideshare)peter at archive.org
Editor's Notes
- #4: “Dupont Circle”, Flickr!
- #7: “Bamboo scaffolding” by Verity Borthwick
- #10: “books strung up by their spines, and the words that fell out of them”, glitter feet, Flickr
- #21: “Teaching how to dance”, William Forrester, Flickr!
- #30: “Bodies of Thought”, Kristin Smith, cellspace.org/new/node/237 - ErikaPR
- #40: Re-Inventing the Smithsonian (Air & Space)Berkeley Architecture, Yehuda Kalay and John Marx
- #42: “Rubber Ducky Intrigue” by jurvetson
- #44: Robotic Seal by Thomas Hawk
- #53: “Hold Hands”, wickenden, Flickr!