Software over the rainbow

Some days ago, I added a list with my last bookmarks in delicious to the sidebar. As soon as it began to work, I realised something: as in most cases I didn’t change the bookmark’s title and I usually left the extended description empty (trusting heavily in tags as a retreival tool), most of the links said very little about its content.

The thing I love most of delicious is its cognitive economy, and I use delicious for myself. I thought that adding that extra information would be cumbersome, so I thought of removing the thing on the sidebar.

But instead I began editing titles and adding some extended descriptions. Now it takes me something like 10 to 30 seconds more to add a link, but instead of losing, I think I’ve taken advantage of it:

• better self-filtering when adding (when I’m thinking of a description i can decide if I’ll really need it or will be of interest later).
• improved retrieving (either me and the delicious search engine have more information when having a look or searching through my bookmarks)
• overall consciousness of what I’m adding (It had become such an automatic thing that rarely I remembered what I had after a couple of days). This last consequence is the best, as it keeps in my head a nice limbo of things to review

So as it happens with blogs, if you do things for yourself, but publicly, you do them better.

bubble sort by x3j11, something like alvin lucier’s I am sitting in a room but backwards and with a sorting algorithm instead of feedback. Genius.

I don’t mind listening to Steve Reich after Stereolab. Ornette Coleman is not bad after Odd Nosdam. Beans and Beastie Boys are a good couple too… but I can’t stand Daft punk after Daedelus, nor Dizzee Rascal after Dinosaur Jr; and I just hate listening to Cat Power everytime I finish listening to Caribou.

Definitely, I don’t like listening to music alphabetically ordered as Itunes wants me to.

Chelpa ferro is a brazillian collective of visual, video and audio artists.

As with Jessica Rylan, I don’t really know how their installations sound like, but I love them.

More chelpa ferro

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“I just hate information visualization. Those guys want to put lines everywhere”

“That thing that you listen to sounds like a radio out of tune“

“Blogs? Aren’t they those web pages where teens tell their secrets?”

Oversimplification is lovingly enlightening when applied to something that you usually spend a lot of time thinking in.

That is, some of my friends growing up tend to draw, you know
whenever. Start a sketch, doodle in class, pick up something,
refine it, etc. Anyway, these folks end up getting really good,
less out of diligent patience than iterated and distracted
practice. […]

For a process to be sketchy, or like sketching, it should:
- be immediate, quick to engage or start up in
- be incremental, easy to save and resume working on

Maravillosa definición de lo que es un software sketchbook. Lo dice graham coleman acerca de chuck. 100% aplicable a processing.

probablemente conteste que arquitecto.

Pero lo que siempre he querido ha sido abandonar mi carrera artística para jugar al ajedrez, como hizo duchamp. Así tengo todavía dos cosas que aprender.