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The Graffiti Research Lab have posted a great video of their Eyebeam laser tagging session. Watch them tag a building with light!

Also, thanks to the Open Source Ethos of the GRL, they’ve posted the source code, and a How-to.  This project looks like loads of fun. Now, does anyone know a shady character who can get hold of a 60mw green laser pointer?

The Acceptable Face of Drum and Bass, by Lenodd. A lovely mix containing some real classics, including a few tracks I have myself, on Vinyl, gathering dust (for shame). Highly recommended.

Radio 4 this morning (Download - 24′20″ in to the hour) has managed to remind me of an amusing discovery I made last year while wandering around the web. It’s just the sort of tangental wander that I wish I had time to make more of, and one of the reasons I love the web.

While working for a great agency, I began discussing the EINE letters with one of the staff who like me, lived in that part of East London scattered with them. He had purchased a poster of the entire alphabet, and though I had seen a lot of them, I realised I had no idea where to find all 26.

So I went surfing. Flickr being an obvious first call I dropped in and hit paydirt almost immediately. Fellow East Londoner Dave Gorman had collected his own load of letters over 3 nights and uploaded the results to his quite popular photostream. And then I noticed the username; “dgbalancesrocks”. It occured to me that the latter part of the username must be fairly significant if it had relegated his name to simply initials.That’s how I found out about rock balancing.

Aside from the fact that I think Dave has a fantastic eye for detail, and takes some really lovely photos of things around and about my area (I’m liking the collection of dscreet owls, many of which cover the same parts of town as the EINE letters), and further afield, he also, it seems, balances rocks. I fear have neither the patience nor the sense of balance required for this most zen of pass-times. From street art to beach art, via Bethnal Green, a journey in a lunchtime remembered.

I came across this piece as a result of finding Dave Gorman’s hobby.

Handy-dandy little 5 minute synopsis of web2.0 concepts:

Very useful to explain stuff I take for granted to people who might not even know what hypertext is. It manages to slip in the phrase “XML facilitates automated data exchange” too, which I liked in an otherwise layman friendly presentation. We’ll get them, by stealth if we have to!

To say it’s caused something of a buzz is an understatement and it’s frankly pretty brilliant that an Ethnographer has shown marketeers a thing or two about creating viral content. He hits the nail on the head when he identifies that the main reason for its popularity is probably the fact that the content speaks of and to the people responsible for spreading it. From 10 to 1.1 million views in just over 2 weeks.

Wired article: We are the web
Professor Michael Wesch’s Youtube page
Michael Wesch’s page at KSU.edu
Digital Ethnography @ KSU