2010 Emerging Writers Festival – Friday 21 – Sunday 30 May #Melbourne
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
Tweeting Dog Collar Posts Your Dog’s Movements to Twitter
Mattel is about to launch a toy that will brighten the lives of some dog lovers — but act as a sign of the coming apocalypse for folks who aren’t so keen on cute pet gimmicks. It’s called Puppy Tweet, and it gives your dog the ability to send Twitter updates about what he or she is doing.
Well, sort of.
The collar detects when your dog moves or make a sound, then randomly selects one of 500 pre-written tweets to post to Twitter. Your dog has to be within a reasonable distance of the room with your computer in it, though; the tweets are sent wirelessly from the collar to a USB receiver that has to be plugged into a supported Internet-connected device.
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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 + 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
+ 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