This book looks very interesting - an excellent example of integrating form and content in open publishing... I look forward to reading it. The publicity info reads:
The Web was meant to be Everything. As the Internet as a whole assumes an increasingly commanding role as the technology of global commerce and communication, the World Wide Web from its very inception was designed to be a free and open medium through which human knowledge is created, accessed and exchanged. But, that Web is in danger of coming to a close. This book shows what is happening and how you can play an important role in keeping the web open.
An Open Web was written in 5 days by 6 collaborators. Zero to book in 5 days. It was an intensive process and loads of fun. The collaborators met 9am Monday with no more text written than the title and 5 days later published the book. This process is known as a 'Book Sprint' is an intensive and innovative methodology for the rapid development of books saw five people locked in a room in Berlin’s CHB for five days to produce a book with the sole guiding meme being the title – An Open Web. They had to create the concept, write the book, and output it to print in 5 days.
An Open Web was written by Alejandra Perez Nuñez (Chile), Christopher Adams (USA), Bassel Safadi (Syria), Mick Fuzz (UK), Jon Phillips (USA), and Michelle Thorne (DE) with Sprint Facilitation by Adam Hyde (NZ).
The process opened up a new and networked discussion focusing on a new vocabulary about the Open Web. As the transmediale.11 publication the Book Sprint was based on an idea by Adam Hyde and Stephen Kovats to enact the festivals investigation of this theme.
This web is not only about the Open Web but it was made by the Open Web. Open Web publishing at its best - written in 100% free software and open for anyone to contribute - including YOU. You can improve the book and and keep it alive! All contributions are welcome!
You can also read the book online, download the free EPUB (for mobile devices and ereaders) and buy the beautiful paper book. All available from: http://openweb.flossmanuals.net
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Embroiderd Digital Commons: Quotidian
The term 'Quotidian' is being stitched by Glittrgirl and Skumkitten is coordinated and documented on the glittyknittykitty.co.uk blog.
They have ambitiously embarked on a strict plan to stitch and blog everyday until the text is complete:
"Quotidian: Common but not commonplace. The memorable nature of the everyday. Memory walking down a street and turning a corner. Memory buzzing in a hard disk. Ubiquitous, the dirt in a site, the fog in a liminal zone, that which is thickened through repetition.
Milk, computers, onions, computers, pyjamas, computers, carpal tunnel syndrome, computers, accidents, computers, sex, computers, bread, computers, night, computers, class, computers, skin, computers, love, computers, money, computers, headaches, computers, police, computers, buses, computers, bicycle, computers, radio, computers, horoscopes, computers, matrimonials, computers, funerals, computers, biscuits, computers, conversations, computers, silences, computers.
The quotidian is that which makes a journal turn, over time, into a history, because it induces the search for patterns and meanings in an otherwise tangled mass of time, in memes iterated beyond reasonable limits. Routine, yet random, the quotidian nature of anything demands fleeting moments of lucid engagement with the real world, which now includes within it the world that is forged every time any fingers do a qwerty dance on a keyboard. The quotidian is a measure of all things, rare and commonplace."
I first met Glittrgirl at a stitch 'n' bitch knitting group in Newcastle upon Tyne. I was amazed at how net savvy all the knitters were, and the group opened my eyes to the close relationship between open methodologies, textiles and technology. Suzanne is a prolific knitter and all round creative person who's daily work involves issues such as the creative commons, and creative consent licensing, as well as open education. So the Embroidered Digital Commons is a perfect project to work through the relationship between making and thinking both digitally, textually and materially.
They have ambitiously embarked on a strict plan to stitch and blog everyday until the text is complete:
"Quotidian: Common but not commonplace. The memorable nature of the everyday. Memory walking down a street and turning a corner. Memory buzzing in a hard disk. Ubiquitous, the dirt in a site, the fog in a liminal zone, that which is thickened through repetition.
Milk, computers, onions, computers, pyjamas, computers, carpal tunnel syndrome, computers, accidents, computers, sex, computers, bread, computers, night, computers, class, computers, skin, computers, love, computers, money, computers, headaches, computers, police, computers, buses, computers, bicycle, computers, radio, computers, horoscopes, computers, matrimonials, computers, funerals, computers, biscuits, computers, conversations, computers, silences, computers.
The quotidian is that which makes a journal turn, over time, into a history, because it induces the search for patterns and meanings in an otherwise tangled mass of time, in memes iterated beyond reasonable limits. Routine, yet random, the quotidian nature of anything demands fleeting moments of lucid engagement with the real world, which now includes within it the world that is forged every time any fingers do a qwerty dance on a keyboard. The quotidian is a measure of all things, rare and commonplace."
I first met Glittrgirl at a stitch 'n' bitch knitting group in Newcastle upon Tyne. I was amazed at how net savvy all the knitters were, and the group opened my eyes to the close relationship between open methodologies, textiles and technology. Suzanne is a prolific knitter and all round creative person who's daily work involves issues such as the creative commons, and creative consent licensing, as well as open education. So the Embroidered Digital Commons is a perfect project to work through the relationship between making and thinking both digitally, textually and materially.
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Embroidered Digital Commons: Kernal
The term 'Kernal' will be stitched at Access Space in Sheffield, UK on Thursday afternoons.See the poster below for details.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Embroidered Code at Bletchley Park
I am really thrilled that The National Museum of Computing is hosting a series of 'Embroidered Code' workshops as part of the Embroidered Digital Commons. The museum is situated at Bletchley Park, the top secret code breaking center in the Second World War. There are two interlinked meanings of code at Bletchley: firstly encrypted information is literally encoded; secondly computer code is used to programme the machines used to break the encryption.
The Embroidered Code workshops will stitch the following text:
"Code: That which carries embedded within it a sign. A code is always a way of saying something to mean something other than that which is merely said. A code can be 'opened', in the sense that it can be accessed and entered, as opposed to 'broken'. An open-access culture of communication 'reveals the source' of its codes. A closed culture of communication blocks access to its codes. "Free code" is code which welcomes entry, and is open to change. "Free Code" needs to be shared for it to grow. Code connotes community, a community of "encoders, decoders and code sharers". Like eggs, code is sometimes best had scrambled." (Raqs Media Collective, 2003)
The workshops will take place between 1-4pm on:
Saturday 13th November, 2010
Saturday 26th February, 2011
Saturday April 9th, 2011
Thursday March 24th (Ada Lovelace Day), 2011
Saturday March 26th, 2011
The HTML Patchwork will also be on display at the Museum until the end of December 2010. The patchwork, is a beautiful rainbow coloured quilt of 216 hexagons, each embroidered with their websafe colour code.
For further information see: www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk
The Embroidered Code workshops will stitch the following text:
"Code: That which carries embedded within it a sign. A code is always a way of saying something to mean something other than that which is merely said. A code can be 'opened', in the sense that it can be accessed and entered, as opposed to 'broken'. An open-access culture of communication 'reveals the source' of its codes. A closed culture of communication blocks access to its codes. "Free code" is code which welcomes entry, and is open to change. "Free Code" needs to be shared for it to grow. Code connotes community, a community of "encoders, decoders and code sharers". Like eggs, code is sometimes best had scrambled." (Raqs Media Collective, 2003)
The workshops will take place between 1-4pm on:
Saturday 13th November, 2010
Saturday 26th February, 2011
Saturday April 9th, 2011
Thursday March 24th (Ada Lovelace Day), 2011
Saturday March 26th, 2011
The HTML Patchwork will also be on display at the Museum until the end of December 2010. The patchwork, is a beautiful rainbow coloured quilt of 216 hexagons, each embroidered with their websafe colour code.
For further information see: www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk
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