Comments on: Social network time http://yaxu.org/social-network-time/ Making music with text Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:14:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Alex http://yaxu.org/social-network-time/comment-page-1/#comment-77750 Alex Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:55:32 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=797#comment-77750 Nice words Richard, yes I think the invention of music was probably the first social network technology!

]]> By: Richard Eason http://yaxu.org/social-network-time/comment-page-1/#comment-77730 Richard Eason Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:11:24 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=797#comment-77730 Aside from the interesting questions of time the post poses, ‘The Old Lamplighter’ is a sublime musical artifact.

On social networking and its narrow presentations of time: it’s back to front. Current systems impose templates of representation which real people must either or adopt or refuse to participate with at all. Facebook I find to be horribly dictatorial in the way it insists on writing my life. Should programmers of social network platforms take a more structured view of time? I wonder if applications really are a fitting domain for social networking. I have in mind, notionally, a high level social networking protocol instead – structured but with the freedom to explore infinite approaches to time and lifespan representation.

It’s not entirely removed from ideas of music. Music is infinitely varied but it does have rules of a sort and conventions, some of which I believe are embedded in the auditory cortex.

]]> By: Alex http://yaxu.org/social-network-time/comment-page-1/#comment-74622 Alex Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:27:14 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=797#comment-74622 I think there’s a fundable research project in answering that question Jamie, and I think music researchers are in an ideal position to answer it, because music was the first social network technology and is all about deep linear and cyclic structures of time. I’ve tried writing this research proposal but haven’t found the right collaborators yet…

]]> By: Jamie Bullock http://yaxu.org/social-network-time/comment-page-1/#comment-74483 Jamie Bullock Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:50:28 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=797#comment-74483 Interesting post. It’s left me wondering what a “longer, more structured view of time” entails. Also thinking about diffuse, semi-structured views of time. Our perception of time clearly isn’t linear, but computers are very good at doing linear/measured time. Perhaps we need an approach that’s long term, but condenses time between the kind of salient moments you refer to in your post.

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