a looking-glass book

couple of articles

this creates some sort of weird feedback loop i feel like. i hope this isnt too tasteless (and that if it is, that justin can forgive me). but the comments made below relate so well to things about my thesis, i cant not put them up...

from grand text auto:

"A more likely explanation is somewhere in the middle — since Justin knows he’s going to be putting this footage online as he lives it, it turns the experience of his real life into a simultaneous performance, that he’s surely conscious of as he lives/performs it. Which exactly seems to be the problem he’s dealing with.

Clever! And impressively gutsy. And pretentious, but that’s okay. It’s another flavor of fusing of fiction and reality within the computer medium, I suppose. Reminds me to write another blog post on the similarity between reality TV and interactive drama."

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blinkx does tv. looks like more and more we will be delivering tv through the internet. sad to me that this is the next killer app.

but what is interesting is this:

these video searches arent real video searches. they are still just searching on title, date, metadata. we havent gotten to the point where we can find actual content inside of video easily.

and thats no good.

(and im not even going to go into the whole "having more content jsut means we have more to sort through." thing. or the "having everything as content means we can burrow into our narrow subcultures more easily.")