More on the Backchannel
An entry in Smart Mobs (from Just inter active blog) on Backchannel (interestingly during a Julian Bleeker talk)
“The ZML, where Bleecker was giving his remarks, has 16 projectors that can be used for wrap-around surround-o-stimulation. We had 5 of those screens: three displaying a shared IRC chatroom, and two displaying EtherPEG output - a “sniffed” record of the JPEGs going by in people’s web surfing on the local wireless.”
There was a follow up experiment at Just Interactive where they wanted to try something other than IRC and EtherPeg:
“In place of those two technologies, I wanted to use Flickr, a Flash-based online chat service that allows people to post photographs into chat. In addition, I wanted to use to SubEthaEdit to create a single shared document where people could take notes. It’s a Macintosh-only application, unfortunately, but I wanted to experiment with it as a group nonetheless; we have enough Mac users to make it worthwhile and I want to see what shared-single document editing does for groupthink.”
I just skimmed the articles - have to go back and read them later.
I’ve blogged about this stuff before when talking about HarknessTable
Regarding that project - I’ve been thinking a bunch about doing that on tikiwiki. Hopfully I’ll have a chance to spend some time trying to make that happen. Scott controls OurConcordia.ca domain. I’m pretty sure that he set it up intentionally to oppose the thinking behind MyConcordia.ca where the university let’s us do such empowering things as paying our bills and reserving lockers. Gee, thanks. Scott doesn’t really have the time to pull something like this off himself, but how amazing would it be to have a tikiwiki hosted at that domain that was open to the students. Maybe the student union could help out doing the managment overhead (time).
I like it - it’s a very shit-disturbing kind of project. And frankly - we all know that the University isn’t in a rush to give us the kinds of tools we need in order to connect with each other. I would love to have forums for all of my classes by default, but mostly the teachers never get around to it. I’m not faulting them, but I am questioning the the priorities for IT at Concordia.
November 2nd, 2004 at 4:35 pm
at least it may mean less bad politics and love problems on the walls of the already wretched hall building washrooms.
Also the poster sitch at Con U is a drag. so many funky fonts so many ladies nights.
let the community be on-line so I don’t have to see it in the halls anymore.
one good example of such a site here in mtl is montrealshows.com
…combines the banality of washroom posts with usefulinfo on the Mtl indie rock scene.
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