Bird Turd, Let the Bird Poop on Bad Tweets #poop

Bird Turd :: Let the Bird Poop on Bad Tweets

Bird Turd makes Twitter a game. In Bird Turd, YOU are the bird. And when you see a tweet you don‘t like, YOU CAN POOP RIGHT ON IT.!!

That‘s right, facebook doesn‘t have a dislike button, but now twitter does! So if you have a love/hate, or just a hate, relationship with twitter, you can show your dissatisfaction with Bird Turd

HatchMatchDispatch a new Australian site for births, deaths and marriage announcements

HatchMatchDispatch is a new Australian-developed website that will bring people together from all over the world to save and share their special moments in life. 

Founder, Geoff Drucker says, “HatchMatchDispatch is a site for births, deaths, engagements, marriages and more.  It is designed to allow people to share their life moments from new things happening (‘Hatch’), to them coming together with others (‘Match’) or chapters ending (‘Dispatch’).

“Other classified ad categories like cars, jobs and real estate have been huge successes online, but the difference with HatchMatchDispatch is that announcements are free. Touted as ’social networking’ around special moments.

Streamflow Conditions and Timestamp. An online exhibition, 24 hours of networked #writing starts Dec 5, 09.

Streamflow Conditions
Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks
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Timestamp
24 hours of networked writing

an online exhibition and live writing event launching Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 @ Subito Press
http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

~Beacons~
John Cayley (CA)
Roderick Coover (US)
Ian Hatcher (US)
Mez Breeze (AU)
José Carlos Silvestre (BR)
Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US)
Rui Torres (PT)

code poetry ~~ code proper ~~ ghosts in the network ~~ river expeditions ~~ edges of chaos ~~ immersive horizons ~~ eco-poetics

TIMESTAMP: ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT DECEMBER 5th @ 4:35pm UTC-7 [MST]

Beginning at 4:35pm MST (sunset in Denver, Colorado) on December 5, 2009, the artists of the online exhibition, Streamflow Conditions, will perform online for 24 hours* through networked writing, live coding, streaming video, or other means.

Each artist will occupy a 4-hour shift, and the schedule is designed to facilitate audiences outside of the artists’ individual timezones. Writing or links to activity will be posted to the shared twitter account, “timestampstream” and intercepted at Subito Press. You are invited to follow along and respond.

The performances will end at 4:35pm MST on Sunday, December 6.

*see schedule of shifts at the end of announcement and use this link to translate into your timezone:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

SITES: http://www.streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

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twitter.com/timestampstream (follow/respond)

STREAMFLOW CONDITIONS: EXHIBITION & EVENT DETAILS

Streamflow Conditions** is an online exhibition of electronic literature and networked writing curated by Judd Morrissey at the invitation of Subito Press at the University of Colorado. Beginning with a site-specific consideration of the Colorado landscape and its engineered waterways, the selection of works examines discrete markers in the contemporary data-scape of writing within networked culture. The artists and works chosen each represent an innovative use of language in conjunction with code, data, or networked spaces. The exhibition as a whole engages the overflowing boundaries between presence, process, and object at a time when currents of digital literary practice meet the culture and corpus of writing online (& the imminent google waves).

**gallery of works still under construction but please explore the site.

TIMESTAMP SHIFTS
[ use this to translate into your timezone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ]

1. Dec. 5, 4:35pm MST: Mez Breeze

2. Dec. 5, 8:35pm MST: Ian Hatcher

3. Dec. 6, 12:35am MST: Rui Torres

4. Dec. 6, 4:35am MST: José Carlos Silvestre

5. Dec. 6, 8:35am MST: Roderick Coover

6. Dec 6, 12:35pm MST: John Cayley

My tweet cloud for 2009

Tweet Cloud 2009

Care of: http://tweetcloud.icodeforlove.com/

DIY news website created by Journalism 2.0 author Mark Briggs

Journalism 2.0 author Mark Briggs has created, a step-by-step guide to creating an independent news website from scratch. Presented by J-Learning, an online guide for creating hyper-local community media and a project of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, the site emphasises accessibility and open-source technology.

Find out more about “Newspaper in a box”

HOW TO: Get Started with Google Wave

Google Wave has arrived. The real-time communication platform has been one of the hottest and most anticipated products in the tech and social media space for months. Soon around 100,000 people will be messaging each other in one of Google’s most ambitious projects to date.

So what if you’re one of the lucky ones to get an invite, or just want to understand exactly how this new tool works? While we cover the basics in our Google Wave Guide and have explored its game-changing features, we haven’t really written about exactly how to use Google Wave () and how to navigate it.

So that’s exactly what we did. While not comprehensive, our guide on getting started with Google Wave will help you quickly learn the interface and important keyboard commands that will open up the full potential of Wave. Don’t forget to check out our extensive Google Wave coverage when you’re done for more tips and insight.

Source, Ben Parr @ Mashable (also includes video by Dr. Wave aka Greg from Australia)

Online Divas is proud to present M I S S B L O G

M I S S B L O G , a bloggers conference dedicated to teaching women how and why to blog!

Speakers include:
Yiying Lu, creator of the twitter fail whale, will talk to us on the importance of twiiter
Samantha Brett, Australia’s favourite blogger
Kate Kendall, online editor from marketing magazine
Alex Brooks from renovation rescue, SMH’s leading real estate blogger
Hollie Turner – taking you on a beginners guide to blogging for your business survival

For Info visit: http://www.miss–blog.blogspot.com

The Venn Diagram of Social Media

The Venn Diagram of Social Media

Screen Producers Association of Australia launches new Fringe Social Networking Site

SPAA Fringe is pleased to announce the launch of its dynamic new social networking site, The Melting Pot. This year also sees the introduction of Speed Dating; two brand new initiatives introduced to promote creative partnerships between filmmakers. The Melting Pot and Speed Dating will be added to the extremely successful Roundtables and One-on-One’s as ways for delegates to access top industry professionals including television commissioning editors and distributors.

“The opportunity to meet people is what makes Fringe most useful. You move forward through networking and things happen when you pay attention to growing your professional relationships.” Gaylee Butler, SPAA Fringe Director

The Melting Pot is an online portal where filmmakers can collaborate, network and discuss screen projects. Delegates can post their projects to attract resources, investment, marketing opportunities and likeminded peers for collaboration. If you’re a producer looking for crew, a writer looking for a producer or a director with a creative vision to share, the Melting Pot is the perfect access point to find your dream team.

For more details click here: www.meltingpot.spaa.org.au/

Australian students tweeted telescope takeover.

Students from three Melbourne high schools  took control of CSIRO’s famous Parkes telescope in NSW using the internet  and posted their results on Twitter.

This is the first time the social networking site has been used to report their findings and already they have attracted international interest with NASA scientists signing up to watch their efforts.

The students who drove the telescope from the Victorian Space Science Education (VSSEC) in Melbourne used it to make real observations of the small spinning stars called pulsars.

Scientists who use NASA’s Fermi space telescope to study pulsars work collaboratively with researchers using the Parkes telescope.

They are interested in what the students from Footscray City Secondary College, Braemar College and Strathmore Secondary College will find and have signed up for the Twitter updates.

The session is part of an ongoing program called ‘PULSE@Parkes’ that is giving students around the country the chance to do real science with a large, professional, radio telescope.

The program is an initiative of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), which operates Parkes and other radio telescopes in NSW.

Up to 24 students can take part in an observing session.

Some days before the session they receive an introduction to radio astronomy, pulsars, and the nuts and bolts of observing.

During the actual session they talk to an astronomer present at Parkes via videolink and take full control of the telescope.

The students take real data and analyse it to determine, for instance, the distance of the pulsars they observe.

To follow future students on Twitter follow PULSEatParkes.