A new prototype

We’ve had a good week with for development, after going along to Dorkbot this week we spoke with Tarim regarding wet bots (or spiders, crawlers, and many more) and how to physically collect the data we want from blogs. Since then George has been developed scripts to trawl, find, collect and display instances of ‘i wish’ from a google blog search….. Here we have a single wish that is called and displayed on a page. Here we have all the results drawn from one search page and a lovely title to give it meaning and also a link that we  have put there for testing purposes, where you can see where we drawing the sentences from.

We want to use the potential of the internet as a library of knowledge, opinion and culture and re-represent it in a public space, taking the private musings of people and presenting them out of context, thus changing the intended meaning and (re)creating narrative. We hope that an amalgamation of the the two ideas mentioned in the last blog will suitable approach this theme.

The results from the drawing of information from blogs is like the realisim that was caught on camera in early ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentaries, I say this because ‘both’  are knowing participents allowing themselves to be exposed however, (most) people won’t know of our search for instances of I wish and therefore won’t change as a result of (more) exposure.