[NetBehaviour] Dorkbotlondon #78!

[Rob Myers]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:19:24 +0100, Annie Abrahams wrote:
> I would like to hear the stories Rob.
> Weavrs make me feel creepy - they need my googleaccount -

Your Google account is just used as a login, no data is taken from it.

> artificial
> live will be created - I am excited -

It is exciting. :-)

I like to call them "artificial affectivities", to distinguish them 
from old-school artificial intelligence.

> Is this how Rob gets his
> beautifull link collections?

Unfortunately no. Those are assembled manually.

> What the fuck can be the social and
> emotional live of my data?

Weavrs live on the social graph...

> And, in what way is the critical Rob Myers
> I know from Furtherfield involved in commercial datamining?

"The revolution will resolve this contradiction better than I can", 
but...

Since the middle of last year I haven't been, this is something of a 
retrospective for me.

We discussed ethics very thoroughly when creating and implementing each 
stage of Weavrs, and all data used is publicly available.

Weavrs are very much a tool to be configured and used by people, and so 
they can be used for critical identity play as easily as for market 
research. If people want to use this new part of the net critically they 
can. And the themes of Weavrs as a technology have interested me since 
my art foundation course, so there was a degree of praxis to the 
project.

> Could my
> own weavrs be as my childs? Should I try it or is this just another
> timeconsuming game?

What I recommend is creating one/some and then following them in your 
RSS reader or via Twitter. Let them become part of your online social 
graph.

> Can't you set up a stream? or make a video?

Erm I'll ask Dorkbot. I'm not set up for AV myself.

- Rob.