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The 2008 Eclectro vote gadget on hypernarrative.com, a weblog by Wilbert Baan about Art, Media and Technology
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The 2008 Eclectro vote gadget
Game culture, Things I do - Wilbert on December 18, 2008 at 11:46 pm, 0 Comments
What was the best dance song of 2008? This is the third year we are organizing an election using the vote widget to determine what’s the best record. We use a simple system where you have to choose the best out of two. This is the easiest choice to make. In the database there are 100 records. You get random pairs. The voting system is a system that’s (for internet standards) pretty much protected against fraud, since you never know what records or combination you will get.Local resultsThis year we are taking the voting a step further. If you embed the widget on your social network or website you can see how people vote on your website. For example, this is what tunes the visitors of hypernarrative.com like. You can compare the results against the global results.StylingWe also made it possible to adjust the width, with this option you make sure the gadget always fits perfectly to the design of your blog. We used OpenSocial to connect the gadget to Hyves, the largest social network in the Netherlands. With one click you can add the widget to your Hyves profile.What’s so special about widgets and gadgetsWidgets and gadgets have something special. They can act like a website without being a website. Sure, they need a central database to store information, but they are completely viral. Once you drop the gadget into a social network it can easily spread if people can directly (re)share your gadget.With gadgets in a lot of personal networks you enter the long tail of users. People might have small networks and will maybe only make thirty votes. But if the gadget has a large user base this long-tail of installations could represent an enormous amount of votes. You distribute the voting interface, but not the election.This afternoon someone told me about a company that’s making a business out of using empty gadget space. If a gadget is used (for example a Christmas gadget) the gadget often remains on the profile, but isn’t removed. This company creates gadgets and once they are no longer used, they use the inventory as advertising space/network. This is a completely new business, and although social networks will not like it, it’s a very smart idea. Use networks, to create your own network.Disclaimer: Eclectro is a non-profit blog, we just do it for the love of music and love for the people making music, we will never sell gadgetspace ;)Eclectro loves … We couldn’t have made a gadget this advanced just by ourselves. I really want to thank the guys at Freshheads for helping us with the code, flash and database structure (did you know they turned an old office-vault into a dj-booth/club). And also special thanks to the gadgetguys at Open & Sociaal, for connecting the gadget to Hyves and OpenSocial.Hi, hypernarrative is a blog by Wilbert Baan about Art, Media and Technology with a focus on interactive storytelling. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed with Google or Netvibes. I'll post a few messages a week. Thanks for visiting!
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What will happen to news publishers? A guess based on what’s happening right now
Journalism - Wilbert on December 12, 2008 at 8:28 pm, 1 Comment
The financial crisis speeds up the newspapershift. Media diverges. Newspapers become television, television becomes a press agency. And everything becomes the web. Probably not a single news websites makes enough revenue to employ the same amount of journalists traditional media like newspapers and television employ. The result is a shift. Not in demand, in distribution. What will happen, and how will this shift change organizations? Here are some ideas and thoughts that I think make sense. Please help me sharpen this concept, or point me at my fallacies. It would be interesting to have a discussion about this.InfiniteIt all starts with information. Information is and will be infinite accessible everywhere. All smart devices will be connected. This is different to old media where the medium was not infinite and thus choices and timeframes were necessary.In a connected culture information is directly online accessible, mass media and press functions less as a generator and more as a directional and filter service. In a connected culture distributed services like Google and Facebook are the new mass media. To reach a mass audience you need to distribute your content through these new mass media. If old media no longer controls the medium it will change our organizations, how newspapers work and what kind of people will be working at newspapers or directional services.Online you need more websites or less people. Link or syndicate the information that is already out there and focus on the value you can add.The new rules of information?I think the expertise journalists have is valuable. The traditional structure of a newspaper is restraining them from using their full online potential. Here is a paradox, because you need the traditional structure to publish a newspaper. The newspaper is a middle man, this is where you already see a shift. Press agencies have become influential distributers on the live web, and consumers have become influential fire starters. To adapt to the new rules of information (everyone is a publisher), a newspaper should shift up or down the chain. Become a networked company or focus.To be profitable in a hyperlinked economy you not only need to distribute your information, you should also distribute your costs.What could the newspaper of the future look like?Newspapers are in a race. I don’t believe paper is sacred. And I see no real advantages in paper compared to modern media. Even when e-readers become mainstream we probably want books and maybe magazines on these devices, we don’t want newspapers. We want something tailored to the medium. We want news as it happens. News is not a book, it is all about now, about relevancy, about why and what is happening. This consuming pattern is irreversible.A modern news organization might not have that many people on the payroll. Journalism could become primarily a freelance job. Everything a journalist does can be done virtual. Journalists don’t have to work together in the same building at the same time. News very rarely happens in the building of a news organization, news happens somewhere else or is made by investigating. Being a reporter is a networked job. Your value is in your knowledge and your personal offline and online network. A journalist should feel at home in a networked culture.If this shift happens journalists will work primarily on a free marketplace, like photographers. They will connect through online organizations (agencies) or virtual marketplaces that connect distribution channels (newspapers, search engines, social networks) and journalists.These organizations act like press agencies distributing articles or information to all outlets. You can subscribe to specific feeds of information, buy articles, ask for research, or set assignments. If we can have public funded journalism, we can also have research or stories payed by media portals. If you want exclusive news or research the price will be higher. If you’re a very good and trustworthy journalist your value will be higher.The focus of a news publisher is how they sort information and on what news topics they focus. What news publishers can add to the knowledge and information that is already out there is focus and a filter. This focus and filter is their revenue model, the rest is a mix of syndicated, linked and original information.Like a group blog. You can’t pay the salary of a hundred bloggers to write content, but you can make money with a group blog. You need to invest your money smart and use it for those things that really set you apart from others. Use money to create unique value that defines your brand.News is freeI think news (defined as what’s happening right now) will always be free for the consumer. This doesn’t mean news has no value. For end-users it will be free. News will always atract people. By presenting, sorting, linking and packaging the news websites, search engines and networks can make money that funds new journalism and drives new traffic.Where Attention Flows, Money Follows.This blog post was also published on the online journalism blog, there are some interesting comments you might like.
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The Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall installation (video)
Experiments, Featured, Live Web, Music, Online Identity, Things I do - Wilbert on November 16, 2008 at 11:38 pm, 12 Comments
Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall (interactive bluetooth installation) from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.Yesterday we had the first Eclectro party. As written in the last post I was working on a bluetooth/last.fm application. And it worked :)The Eclectro Last.fm lovewall is an interactive installation that uses bluetooth to scan for mobile phones. Visitors are asked to change the bluetooth name of their phone into their Last.fm username.A laptop scans the room using the open source Roomware software. It connects to random visitors and searches the Last.fm database for similarity. It then shows the similarity on a big screen by showing the profiles. A percentage and five artists both have in common.ReviewThe installation worked well and I got a lot of very positive feedback by enthusiastic visitors. A few things I learned.It is possible to have a zero percent match but still have artists in common.Similar artists are often Gorillaz, U2, Muse, Air.It is very easy to join, people see something happen and they think it’s too difficult to join. If you tell them that all it takes is changing the bluetooth name of their mobile phone they are really surprised.Explain, explain, explain.People like seeing their avatars on a screen. Only showing avatars would probably make a successful application by itself.Make the screen dark. I used grey photographs and still the brightness of the beamer lightened up the entire place.The internet connection at public places is almost always difficult (unstable/low signal).The interface with testdata (working demo)Open in new windowAnd the photographs on Flickr on Flickr on Flickr on Flickr on Flickr on Flickr on Flickr
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Mashing up the first Eclectro party, bluetooth, meeting new people and your Last.fm profile
Experiments, Interactive Storytelling, Live Web, Mobile culture, The Social Web, Things I do - Wilbert on November 11, 2008 at 9:05 am, 27 Comments
 This saturday we have the first Eclectro party in De Unie in Rotterdam (which itself is pretty amazing). It’s the first offline event for something (a group of people blogging) that until saturday does only exist online. To Eclectrofy this evening we started thinking about doing something extra with the location. How can we make the place visually and interactive exciting as well. Without making it too difficult to use or showing computers.This reminded me about the Roomware projectThe Roomware Project is an open-source framework for interactive spaces. It allows developers of multiple origins to enhance any venue or event using technologies such as BlueTooth and RFID.What I’m making for this saturdayBasically Roomware turns my Mac into a server that is able to read bluetooth names and convert this data into xml. We will ask people at the party to change the bluetooth name of their mobile phone into the username of their Last.fm account. With these Last.fm names an application searches the Last.fm API and extracts data about two random visitors and tell them how much Last.fm similarity they have and which artists they have in common.Meet new peopleThe project autorepeats and makes new random matches with names of people that are actually in the room. The results are projected on a screen. Showing public information about people is a gimmick, but it might encourage visitors to meet new people.Things to do before this saturdayAll the technology works. What’s left is finding a beamer, finishing the design and the timing of the interface. The application doesn’t need much time to load, but I’m thinking about adding finctional timing to make it more exiting to watch. For example first show one player. Show the second player a few seconds later. And finally show the bar (hearth) that indicates the percentages. And maybe add some hidden messages when people have 0 or 100% Last.fm similarity.Eclectro presents Kettel (live)The third man (live), Gastón Arévalo (live) & Starborough (dj-set)November 15th, De Unie, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsEntrance € 8,- (order tickets) I will make a video of the system in action for hypernarrative. You can also visit the party this saturday to play with it youself. We can have a beer :)More drafts 
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Analyzed what Twitter votes (graphic)
Experiments, Featured, Journalism, Live Web, Things I do - Wilbert on November 4, 2008 at 1:18 am, 15 Comments
Based on Twitterpoll by Erik Borra I made this visualization. The animation is created form filtering tweets on content. If someone says he or she voted for Obama or McCain this information is stored and turned into numbers. This creates an election poll based on tweets.You can say Twitter is pretty much in favor of Obama. To update the results refresh the page.A point goes to Obama if the regular expression /vote.*?obama/i succeeds, it goes to McCain if the regular expression /vote.*mccain/i succeeds, else it is undecided / unrecognized.The animations that led to this animation1. http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/11/02/i-voted-storytelling-with-public-databases/2. http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/we-say-twittertalk/
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We Say, twittertalk
Experiments, Journalism, Live Web, Things I do - Wilbert on November 3, 2008 at 11:33 pm, 3 Comments
A second version of the first experiment. In this window you can sort Twitter messages on certain words. Try to work with two words or use the more obvious words like McCain / Obama if you want to use more words. Otherwise you won’t get any results.Another great polling serviceErik Borra created a polling service based on what people say on Twitter. With the service you get results on what people say they voted on Twitter. I’m trying to make a bar graph for this.
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The Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall installation (video)
Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall (interactive bluetooth installation) from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.Yesterday we had the first Eclectro party. As written in the last post I was working on a bluetooth/last.fm application. And it worked :)The Eclectro Last.fm lovewall is an interactive installation that uses bluetooth to scan for mobile phones. Visitors are asked to change the [...]
Analyzed what Twitter votes (graphic)
Based on Twitterpoll by Erik Borra I made this visualization. The animation is created form filtering tweets on content. If someone says he or she voted for Obama or McCain this information is stored and turned into numbers. This creates an election poll based on tweets.You can say Twitter is pretty much in favor of [...]
The Notification Homepage
This blog post was written for, and published on the Online Journalism Blog.The last year has seen social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn updating the design of the homepage to turn it more into a notification page: the homepage as a place where you can see what your friends are doing. Your virtual center of [...]
The Live Web is Always Right, Until Proven Wrong
Painting: Jan van de Heyden - inventor of the fire hose - Fire Amsterdam Town Hall 1690 (translated link)Two major financial losses have we seen in the last two months. Not because of the credit crunch, but because everything in this digital world is connected.On the web new information is true until proven false. This [...]
The underestimated value of marching backwards into the future
For an interaction designer not using the potential of a medium is horrible. There is this new medium with new a paradigm, new possibilities and you are using it the same way as the old medium. Let’s call it a transition period. McLuhan called it marching backwards into the future.The value of the transitionFor [...]
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