Remixometer

Today’s Daily Create challenges participants to make a FitBit type device to measure something that would not usually be measured. My suggestion is a remixometer – a way of measuring the amount of originality, ingenuity … whatever property or quality we think we might measure when we look at the various remixes that we see. This is the one that I submitted – the scale left open for the reader to decide (my scale is from ‘copy’ at the red side to ‘remix’ on the green side).

DS106 Remixometer
DS106 Remixometer” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

This remixometer is inspired by Austin Kleon’s Steal like an Artist, and when I flicked through that book again to write this post I realised that I was probably basing my remix on something like this

Table from Kleon about good and bad theft
Steal Like an Artist, p39

Which is why an earlier version of my remixometer had these values

Remixometer
Remixometer” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Still a work in progress.

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Silent Sunday

Glasgow Uni looking out to the South Front
Glasgow Uni looking out to the South Front” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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A Haiku for ETMooc2

Writers block
Writers block” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Sitting on a Sunday afternoon, wondering what to do that is vaguely ETMooc2 related, I open up Chat GPT and ask it to write me a haiku about writer’s block. Then, inspired by Kevin’s blog post, I put the haiku into NightCafe and ask it to generate four images for me. I jump over to PowerPoint to add the words to the images, and upload the result to Flickr.

Then I opened up AI Test kitchen and put the prompt into that to generate some music, upload that to SoundCloud, grab the url and embed it here. All this only takes a few minutes, though I stopped to make a cuppa along the way.

I’m enjoying these experiments with ChatGPT – the difficult thing is to work out a good prompt for the AI to respond to.

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Silent Sunday

Let Sleeping Ducks (and Stones) Lie
Let Sleeping Ducks (and Stones) Lie” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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Silent Sunday

Migratory fashion
Migratory fashion” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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Silent Sunday

Honesty
Honesty” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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McLuhan’s Tetrad

I’m keeping half an eye on #ETMooc2 at the moment, and one of this week’s suggested activities caught my interest.

Activity #1 – Marshall McLuhan Tetrad of Effects for Generative AI: What are the opportunities and challenges presented by the evolution of technologies in the digital age?
View the following video (3:45) for an example of McLuhan’s Tetrad OR search for other examples.
Brainstorm changes that are already occurring or will occur with the use of generative AI in your context. Add ideas to each of the following four quadrants: enhance, obsolete, retrieve, reverse.

Google Doc

I wondered how this might apply to my favourite non-MOOC activity, the Daily Create.

McLuhan's Tetrad
McLuhan’s Tetrad” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

The Daily Create amplifies creativity, by encouraging DS106ers to create something every day. It makes copying obsolete, as the ethos is remix, not plagiarism. It retrieves inspiration, with a new prompt every day. There are no unexpected dissatisfactions, just a warning that is

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Postcards as an antidote to AI

Postcard Prep
Postcard Prep” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

It’s been far too long since I got out my supplies and decided on a theme for a round of postcards, but this week we’ve set things in motion. Inspired by a MOOC type thing that some of us are dabbling in, we’ve embarked on a new round of postcard sending.

Join us, if you like.

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Silent Sunday

Bluebells
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So long, and thanks for all the TAGS

clmooc TAGS
clmooc TAGS” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

For almost ten years now, whenever I’ve been involved in an activity that involves Twitter conversations I’ve headed over to TAGS and set up a copy to collate tweets and produce visualisations like the one above. So earlier this month, as I was tweeting to the hashtag, I was devastated to realise that it was now broken (I knew it was going to be, but I didn’t want to believe that it had happened). I’m too upset to explain the reasons why, and anyway Alan has already done that, I just wanted to say how sad I am that TAGS has gone. My PhD thesis about serendipitous learning was shaped by my ability to collect tweets easily and see what the community conversations looked like, my research into lurkers with Aras, AK and Len used TAGS and similar apps.

So a huge thanks to Martin for all the TAGS. It was great while it lasted.

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