How to break google

How to break google

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In the next coming weeks I will attempt to “break”, I’m using the word break in a sense to mean something, where an input is given and returned with the wrong, little or no results. There is also this sense in the word where google doesn't return any results becasue google doesn't index what I'm searching for. It is in my attempt to use all media types, when ever the algorithm that googles fine geniuses set up breaks. It will be logged as a screen cap, uploaded to this blog and will use the following tags on tumblr, #Stumpinggoogle #google #break #ibroketheinternet #googledungoofed as well as a tag on what search broke google. Now, if the search item is an image and there are no return results, said image will be uploaded to tumblr with the same tags. There is also this idea that I'm attempting to explore of google bombing and attempting to get my alter ego, Bobby Hatts to be the main result when googled. I will also attempt to use google bombing to create a wiki page based around my alter ego.

If you have anything to share, please notify me. I will gladly upload legitimate google breaks on to the blog and you get a shout out or something uninteresting like that.
P.S. I will also be uploading articles and research papers

Row Row Your Boat Gently down the stream

Merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream.


"The system of the “universe as a whole” is such that quite small errors in initial conditions can have an overwhelming effect at a later time. The displacement of a single electron by a billionth of a centimetre at one moment might make the difference between a man being killed by an avalanche a year later, or escaping."


This class seems to be intended on exploring the possibilities of what digital publishing can do, where does it go, where did it come from, why is it the way it is now? These questions are questions because there is no back story on digital publishing. There are no ripples in the lake from the boat named SS epub ( I think boat names are suppose to have womens names because its some weird tradition of personifying an object with intimacy). These are new grounds being broken by those of us who wish to choose to par take in creating these epubs. Our ripples in the lake will be felt just as the ripples of the book written in the library of Alexandria are felt today. On a basic level this class attempts to achieve the knowledge of how epubs work. At its most intimate level ( I should have called it at the love level or something dumb like that) its attempting to figure out what digital publishing means, its an attempt in trying to explore the standard and break it, its an attempt to spark an idea to create a large enough ripple in the lake that everyone feels it.

Fuck Social Media

Lets be realistic here. We all have this stupid thing where in which we attempted to connect to other people in our "circle". Some of us think that the connection to people really help with <insert thing here>. However like this article attempts to make a clear distinction on what social really is. I tend to think that social means in a sphere of interaction with another person that is in front of you physically. The reason for this thought process is the fact that in all other attempts to create a social interaction on the net isn't really social. Trolls will never troll in real life. People for the most part tend to be nice in real life. They tend to have less of an anger. It always seems to me that when we bring social interactions to a sphere where in which the user is not allowed to be face to face with the other user the meaningful interaction is lessened by not seeing real reaction.

Albert Benschop, the Amsterdam pioneer of web sociology and editor of SocioSite.net, proposes that we overcome the real-virtual distinction altogether. He makes an analogy to the Thomas theoreme, a classic theory in sociology, when he says, “If people define networks as real, they are real in their consequences.” For Benschop, the internet is not some “second-hand world.” The same could be said of the social. There is no second life, with different social rules and conventions. According to Benschop, this is why there is, strictly speaking, no additional discipline necessary.


Benschop brings up a good point in the fact that we can no longer think of this social interaction as unreal. It is a network that we all see as real, there for the following consequences are also real.

More on this in class.

Reading List

Web Development Reading List


I have a bag of Jelly Beans for the first person to sign up for this.

Comment this post and its all yours.

Post pics, prove you really did it. Timestamps.

Gutenberg

There is a correlation between Gutenbregs press and the digital "press". Two technologies forever changing history. First the creation of moveable type, in which the time it took to make a book was severely cut down. Allowing information to move freely. The latter taking said information linking it to new information. In which allows a further distribution of said information. Both technologies allows for accessibility of information to the user. The interesting idea that played out for gutenbergs ideas are still being pushed through. E.g. revolutions that used printing presses to over throw governments. In correlation to this idea we see that the ability of the digital "press" the future of the digitization of everything will lead to government overthrow maaaaaaan.

If you read thise you get 10 candies of my choosing

http://www.bakerframework.com/


But no one will!


Edit: Oops I didn't make the link clickable
 

Digital Interaction from the Print War Kids

I would love to read other peoples annotation in relation to mine. Were we both thinking the same thing? Are we both having the same thoughts or even what are you highlighting that makes reference to your life. There seems to be some interesting concepts in allowing for multiple versions of a single book with different peoples annotations in them. However, something that I thought about that is much more interesting. Due to the fact that our annotations change the text a bit, interjecting our own thoughts and ideas of this weird thing we are reading, is it possible for the /book/ to get edited by the person reading it? Is the possibility that I can read On the road by kerouac and change Deans name to my own, or change the inter-structure of who the characters really are to fit my own needs? If I change it enough, does it become my own text? Can I sell it saying I wrote it, will I go to jail if I do it? The article seems to point at copy right issues as an underlying ideal. Using this digital pubs what is copyrights anyway?

DARPA Dun Goofed

DARPA Dun Goofed

My meduim is paint

The internet made something that wasn't visible in print, visible. It was just a new media for "content" to be shown. As the internet grows, content becomes important. Why am I spending 38 seconds looking at your web page? Oh nothing interesting? Lets spend the fractions of a second to click off this page. In print however, you spend a lot of time wading through worthless content to get to what you want. You no longer have to wade through it with the internet, you just search for the content you want. There is also this lingering idea. If we do look at the content on the internet, it seems to me that most of it started as print. Quotes, articles, books, music, <insert more relevant things here>. There is this idea of, print is the "content" and the media is the internet. Movies are things we watch, but they have speech and if they have speech that means there must have been a script, which was most likely on paper. Or it was "designed" with its intended use for print. The internet is just a gathering of content the content being made for print.

I demand Print

Print on demand is a weird thing. I upload thing document to the air and it comes back to me in the physical form of a book. Print on demand takes our ones and zeros and converts them into paper and letters. This transfer of data, which I have yet to understand, allows users to be more experimental with the books they wish to make. "A similar approach was further explored by Wired magazine for their July 2007 issue; 5,000 subscribers were given the option of receiving their own customised cover of Wired, featuring their own photo on the cover. The experiment was sponsored by Xerox and produced using their iGen3 digital printing machine." Seems a little dated as a year but the point is that because of the no money down, wild west rules to print on demand people are allowed to experiment more with what they wish to show. I'm not old enough to remember or even know what it was like to try and get a book published. My take is that you would have to go to some guy and pitch what the book you wanted to write and he would decide if the book was a good idea or not. Some suit telling you what is good and what isn't. But today I can just upload a bunch of ones and zeros to something that reads those ones and zeros to give me paper and letters. The possibilities for what books should look like/ have in them is no longer decided by the suits, its decided by you, the public.

The Mutalation of Publishing since 1894

"The result is a stack of paper occupying a significant physical space, and space seems to
have become one of the most valuable resources in our consumption oriented age."

Its an interesting thought to think about how people feel the need to fill a physical space and yet we only put what's "really" important on a hard drive. Print fills that space for us. We can't see whats on our hard drive. It doesn't fill a physical space that we can wrap out heads around. It seems to say that we need it to be held in our hands or real for us to accept it. BUT that doesn't mean that it can't change. It seems that the only reason for us to really consume this space is due to a weird marketing  ploy to always keep us buying shit. Is it a possibility that we can move away from this consumption oriented age or is it some weird gorilla chest beating ritual that marketing geniuses turned against us to keep us buying things?

Factotum

Factotum. I first heard about Bukowski’s writing on the fringe from some weird beatnik friends of mine. They talked about how they hated it, they said it had nothing on the beats. So I thought I might as well pick up some books and get caught up. I ordered a stack of books from amazon. I bought them used, used books have this rustic or weathered quality to them like they have been through something. In reality, I was broke at the time and needed something to do with my summer. As the adventure continued, I started to realize that I felt like I was taking this journey with Bukowski on his life. He going through his life, me going through a book based around his life. As the pages turned days of his life turned as well. The book, maybe more of Bukowski himself, influenced me to read more Bukowski. Reading more Bukowski made me want to read more <insert any poets name here> the book made me look at words differently. There was a beauty in what Bukowski wrote, but if you push the beauty away it gets to a deeper issue at hand.

Oh is it Gassy in here?

Gass says that book are always on. A screen turns off at the end of the day. He also talks about having a book shelf and what that does for you and everyone who interacts with it. He talks about how in a shelf they are visible to be seen by other people. "Unlike the love we've made or the meals we've eaten books congregate to form a record around us of what they've fed our stomachs and our brains. These are not a hunters trophies but the living animals themselves." In relation to books being on the shelf. He also says " because every real book is a mind, an imagination, a consciousness" He seems to be saying is that books create this other person by sharing what they have to share, when they are together, not only are they multiple people but multiple utopias or complete dismay. He also talks about the interactivity in a book. The way the pages turn, what cover looks and feels like or even what the persons name was who rented the book before him.  I tend to agree with Gass. Books have a spirit to them, they live and breathe, they have a smell, the more used book the better. Its been through some rough times. There is also this idea that a book recommends a person. I can see what you're reading, a stranger I don't even know.