Mihael’s EDC blog link (for comments):
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Above is the link to Miheal’s Ethnographic artefact, and the comments section. In several consecutive posts below are similar links, as we were asked to ensure we had referenced our comments across the EDC community’s creation of ethnographic artefacts, this week , in our lifestream. Others which I have commented on, such as Nick for example, may appear elsewhere (in my last Lifestream Summary).
To continue, Hypertext100 included in my Lifestream this week, is a great site which I discovered during IDEL, but I was then approaching it from the perspective of examining potential developments in terms of the future of academic writing and multi- modality. This is a fairly old article (May 3, 2012 by Pierre Le Leannec) but it is accurate in terms of its highlighting the importance of algorithms in content creation, in terms of its structure and the process of creation . I have amongst my ‘spammers’ following my blog, SEO optimization ‘hackers’, and so apart from any knowledge I may have of this field, key words in title, there is this advice:
‘First your keyword must appear in the title.Then it must appear in the URL.You have to optimize your keyword and make sure that it has a nice keyword density of 3-5% in your article with relevant LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing). Then you should spread all H1,H2,H3 tags in your article.Your Keyword should appear in your first paragraph and in the last sentence of the page. You should have relevant usage of Bold and italics of your keyword.There should be one internal link to a page on your blog and you should have one image with an alt tag that has your keyword….wait there’s even more Now what if i told you there was a simple WordPress plugin that does all the On-Page SEO, and automatically for you? That’s right AUTOMATICALLY, just watch this 4minute video for more information at Seo Plugin‘
(SEOAnylyticNews.com).
The reading of any recently produced academic paper including of course Jeremy Knox’s article (2012) included below in my Lifestream for this week, lists key words and of course SEO provides you also with citations specifically. Le Leannac (2012) goes further however and suggests the rise of robot writers, and a move towards a complete automation of the writing process, particularly in journalism. He asks: Do Robot Journalists Dream of Electric Sheep?There could be something dystopian in this electronic mix, maybe therefore? Curata might perhaps give us a current example of how this process is working, the question is could I get Curata to create this blog (with its emphasis on automated processes, and is that why its automated feel makes me uncomfortable sometimes, a sense of what’s to come? This point relates to something I discussed regarding a possible near sentience of algorithms, and their ontological status, in my post ‘Disciplined by Algorithms’ in my Lifestream below:
‘The omission of my completed profile is perhaps a triviality when compared to the way data can be scraped in a continual cycle of on -line actions (or ‘acts’, implying completion in an action and cognisance), interactions and behaviour taken as something which is co-constitutive and performative (Knox , 2014) as actual practice and inculcated as a part of a kind of intentionality which has an ontological as well as epistemic or cognitive value independent, or at least not reducible to me, or any other single individual or indeed potentially any single algorithm perhaps.’
This point then takes us back to themes from Bloc one, a point that I wanted to return to, very much.
Another link from Hyperlink 100 is Communiviz Vizit Visualizing Social Media Connections on something called Reddit, although I’m not familiar with Reddit, however the actual visualiztion here is how I conceive my algorithmic ‘star map’ and the kind of ‘hot spot’ and (relational) ‘trails’ which I would like to use the described scenario from my post ‘Disciplined by Algorithms':
‘…what what was necessary for me to run the QuillConnect report, is that I needed to be signed in, as is the case for pretty much all of the things that I want to do on line. It would be interesting to see how long I have been signed in to certain services, and how many days I have run operations consecutively through this sign in(s) and how these ‘acts’ are represented (as a held, transformative schematic value). These operations often involve proxies (from Edu to Google Scholar for example, or as is most often the case from Google to other services).
As I’ve just mentioned, I would like a visualized graphic representation of a segment or snapshot of the above ‘lived event'(s). Any suggestions of a suitable platform for this purpose very welcome.