[NetBehaviour] Dorkbotlondon #78!

[Annie Abrahams]

thanks Rob and Mark
I will give it a try :)

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> 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.
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-- 
29 12 2011 Annie Abrahams on Greek television
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eE36dwhLgg 4'26''

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