Thursday, September 10, 2009

Happiness is Universal! [Virtual Networking]

Few months ago during Pre-WEF sessions at the YCM program I got to meet Naseem Tarawneh, Mariam and Ramsey Tesdell who spoke of communication ecology as a networking pattern where 'everything is connected to everything' whereas ecology to architects is a matter of balancing and sustaining resources and built/artificial objects by being aware to these connections, the connection itself was the matter to these great guys at 7iber.
And since then I found my new hobby! And basically started playing and messing around until I really confused things up, so I finally had to point fingers to 7iber for my sinning new habit!

Since releasing 'Banana' we've been trying to extend Interruptions network both physical and virtual, after all our early homepage was a bit too retarded after all for a so-called 'activist non-standardized creative platform', and posting that on our crappy homepage sounded a bit too ridiculous!

So first came the BLOG! http://interruptionists.blogspot.com
Interruptions attempt to go digital went off with riots and mayhem!
none of Interruptionists ever had a secret blogger's life and all feared virtual communication making me realize all of Interruptions team is bloggophobic!
I don't know if such a thing ever existed but we surely had to struggle out of it until blogging became 'cool'! And since then, our insane colorful blog gave birth to some of the craziest ideas, and developed Interruptions dramatically. Communicated our thoughts on a broader more elaborative level and increased collaborative material!

The Watwet channel came along, http://watwet.com/channel
and seriously, if blogs were alright, watwet can get annoying as hell!
But also as our Blog, Watwet also was a dose of creative 'on-phone' arguments
and our channel broadcasts to 48 mobile phones now, and is going to be featured by Kareem, CEO of Watwet!

Online Publications! http://issue.com/interruptions
Issuu offers a handsome interface where we uploaded Interruptions editions which can be browsed online at a very flexible and very clear format and can also be downloaded in pdf extension

The Ning network! http://interruptions.ning.com
So here's where everything floods in! A social-network model and a data pool where viewers can sign up for profiles @interruptions and are continously updated with all Interruptions news and uploaded content and can actively engage and upload content, pictures, video and blogposts

Everything synchs with the Ning, better yet, everything synchs with everything!!
The ning features a watwet badge, RSS feed from Blog and views editions uploaded on issuu.com

But here's how everything works now!
take the blog for instance, we post something on the blog and here's what happens
- Blog post is feeded to the Interruptions.ning
- Blog post is feeded to my Facebook profile page
- Blog post title is posted to Interruptions watwet page
- Watwet is sent to 48 mobile phones
- Watwet synchronizes badge on the Blog
- Watwet synchronizes badge on Interruptions.ning
- Watwet sends post to Interruptions twitter account http://twitter.com/interruptionist

The same would happen when a recent activity happens on the Ning!
- activity sent to Interruptions watwet
- watwet synchs with mobiles, badges, twitter and facebook!

And just when this starts to sound nutts, it truly raises a very exciting data exchange models breaking out of rigid virtual dominating online platforms into a more fluid pattern creating endless possibilities of feeding and exchanging content. It's more of a hybrid virtual space, but yet remains a host to typical ideas, typical ways of expression which should, as well, benefit from such technologically driven hybrid spaces to produce boundless content.

(entire post was improvised to test the new blog/watwet/twitter link!)

1 comment:

  1. Good one on happiness and it helps a lot.

    Thanks,
    Karim - Mind Power

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