No! You should not do DS106
No! You should not do DS106: "I found a village of humans from many parts of our planet. How strange...
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On the matter of animated Gifs. My dear prospective DS106…
On the matter of animated Gifs. My dear prospective DS106 students, attention has to be paid to proper pronunciation of the matter under study -it will gladden our hearts if we do. So, repeat clearly in front of the mirror JIF JIF JIF …
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Will a headless shrink only speak from their heart?
What a thoughtful question, dear Cogdog. I can only speak from the heart, indeed. Becoming headless... -
Go on, you know you want to fill that box with wonder! Come and…
Go on, you know you want to fill that box with wonder! Come and joins us at DS106 Headless 13. All your worries will fall away and you can fire your shrink, we have our own in-house DS106
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I managed to get this far…but how do I even start to get…
I managed to get this far…but how do I even start to get him headless? Gimp is on the Mac and I can see all the layers on the side and now…sleep calls.
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#DS106 Who owns my life?
Reflecting on current headlines about the United Kingdom health service and as I work for a charity that supports changing the legislation on assisted dying, I wrote the following sixwordstory:
When I read the challenge for today was to write a story in 5 half-twits, I laughed. In England a twit is a stupid person. What, I wondered would a half twit be? Still, in this context what was meant was 5 lines of text of no more than 70 characters as per half the word limit of messages on Twitter.So I started to look at the headlines that had led to my six word story:- Thousands of unnecessary deaths on the National Health Service (NHS)
- End of life care plans to be abolished
- My own curated page on Assisted Dying where I ask questions about who owns a life
- How Dignitas in Switzerland is where we travel to die alone and away from home if we want to exercise a choice to die as well as a choice to live.
I also was aware that some of these issues do not travel well internationally as we have particular names for end of life care regimes, such as the Liverpool Care Pathway, which means nothing outside the UK. I set myself the challenge to use 6 word sentences 5 times to express something of the issues in a way that might travel and help people in other countries understand what is current news for us here in the UK.The poem 'Who owns my life?' was the result of these musings.Tag: #DS106Update - this was my first daily create for DS106. Uncomfortable viewing weeks later as it reveals more about my values and beliefs than I am currently comfortable sharing in public. Then again, I have a Scoop it page on the subject, so I guess my position on this is public record. -
#DS106 advised to stop the myth of heroic visualisation
With apologies to Andrew. Here is hoping you have a sense of humour.
Letter submitted to the editor of The Sunday Screamer and published on July 13th, 2013.Every community inevitably raises a few of its members to the status of heroes and weaves myths around them. The DS106 is no stranger to heroes and myth.In fact, being a community with a relatively small amount of practitioners and bona fide researchers, it has generated a staggering number of heroes, perhaps as a morale enhancing mechanism.Most of us have heard of wonders of Jim Groom because Talky Tina has given him a badge of authenticity. Or about how Cog Dog is legendary at being more dog.The aim of the International League against Heroic Visualization (ILAHV) is not to disparage these great pioneers of digital storytelling but rather to put their work in perspective, by recognizing the work of their excellent contemporaries.We want to resist the idea that it is desirable to send a message via a single visualization or representative hero of any given community. One of our big problems with this is how they’re celebrated as one-stop marvels. Instead of people trying to create the next Dr. Oblivion or Cog Dog, we would prefer they interact with the Internet Web directly, using meat-and-potatoes methods such as essays, research reports, or cluster analysis. By all means make the grabby digital stories as well—capture the excitement of data in a video or a radio station, that’s a great thing to do—but consider that as an advertisement or intro to real life, not a substitute for direct display of the information.By making a new animated gif that gets attention and engages her audience, Talky Tania deserves to be a hero. But if her gifs deter people from understanding stillness, that’s a problem—not with Talky Tania, but with the myth of the heroic visualization in the Internet Web.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/3916312903/Update - another early daily create. A fun one that used what little I knew about DS106 folklore to poke good hearted fun at the characters I was just getting to know. What is interesting on second reading, weeks later, is that it echoes themes I would read later in DS106 book club and ideas about finding stillness on the web that would not form consciously or be talked about with others until much later. The power of art to surface unconscious patterns?
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