dorian moore : (digital media) technologist

Despite my dissapointment with "The Door", their latest release, I love the energy in this live track by Religious Knives from their Live @ Big Jar Books recording. It's not them at their freakout finest, but it's still got something to it which keeps me playing it again and again and again.

• In Brooklyn After Dark - Religious Knives 20.1mb – m4a

Tags : music  psych-rock  religious knives 
Posted by Dorian Moore on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 23:05 GMT

I had a rather strange exchange with a random stranger via iChat earlier, and it seems I did not pass the turing test. They didn't either...

The other party will remain anonymous, though please comment/contact if you have the same thing, I'm intrigued. I'm particularly pleased to know that in the future only robots will use proper punctuation.

Transcript (they are in bold):

Hi.
Hello. Who are you?
you just imed me
saying
"
¡ ɐɯɐqo ʞɔɐɹɐq"
Not that I know of! Very strange! I don't know your AIM id or who you are. Sorry.
o
u are a roboT?
No! I'm not a robot. I'm Dorian.
your a robot
ha!
your speaking only with proper punctuation
http://www.dorianmoore.com/ .... that's me,
sorry if I seem like a robot!
perhaps you are a robot??
w_H_a_T Y_o_u A_R_E A L_I_A_R
you can check the aim id on http://www.dorianmoore.com/contact .... it should match the one you have in your chat program.
serious.
But hey ho.
Bye.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 14:13 GMT

Returning to sharing some of my musical favourites, after too long away, the now rather old (in popular music terms), but still rather excellent, Bad Medicine by Liz Green. You can buy the MP3 here , please do!

• Bad Medicine - Liz Green 3.6mb – mp3 - deleted

Tags : folk  liz green  music 
Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, November 24, 2008 at 13:26 GMT

   

   

I knew I was one of the Open Rights Groups founding 1000, but didn't realise I was #54.

They need a lot more support to help protect our rights anywhere our information is used and abused digitally. If you can spare some money, please donate, and they'll make sure our government doesn't run astray with bizzare legislation, or allow corporations to take advantage of our digital minutae, especially without being honest and open about it.

Tags : digital rights  membership  open rights group  rights 
Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 18:59 GMT

the first useful arts organisation website was completed 17th November 2008.

Posted by Dorian Moore in The Useful Arts Organisation on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 16:07 GMT

Exploring the stories behind comunity produced goods, alternative channels of distribution and the value of goods we have now added the Village Produce Films produced by myvillages.org and public works to the growing body of work that was Agrifashionista.TV and is now ToadBall.TV

These films are part of an ongoing body of work, which has crossed over with Somewhere, Grizedale Arts and Nomad as they start create a network of Village Kiosks selling local produce, a network that anyone can join and evolve over time.

View the village produce films

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Posted by Dorian Moore in ToadBall.TV on Friday, November 14, 2008 at 17:15 GMT

Following my explusion from Facebook and James' lead I've finished what I started when I initiated integrating my blog posts from other websites, and inspired by The "Kohlhofer One File Method" I am now pulling my FriendFeed aggregated .net life trail into a minutiae section on this site, and mingled with the main feed.

It makes me happy how easily this slides into the structure for this site which I built in 2000... an hours work tweaking the input from FriendFeed and away we go!

Posted by Dorian Moore on Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 23:04 GMT

The fifth episode on Agrifashionista has just launched, William Pope L.'s take on Convenience Store culture in modern society, at times bemusing but generally thought provoking.

The Convenience Store Project by William Pope L., 2008

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Posted by Dorian Moore in ToadBall.TV on Monday, November 3, 2008 at 12:37 GMT

It appears my Facebook account has been disabled. I am now persona non grata in their books. Not sure what I did - perhaps what I didn't do as I hardly use it. The last thing I did was to change my relationship status to 'engaged'... perhaps their misuse robot got jealous or something!?!

If you are inclined to send me stuff via Facebook, I won't get it. I'm not ignorning you, I'm just locked out. A man wrongly accused of a crime given no chance to defend his innocence. Innocent until proven guilty, not so in the digital world, where each application owner is a law unto themselve - something I am generally not opposed to, rather self regulation than governmental regulation.

I've sent a mail to them in hope of an explaination, but I'm not going to be putting much energy into persuing it, as by their actions they've just reassured me of what is wrong with monopolistic, closed, networks and why I should continue to live life on the edge. Hurrah!

Update:
It appears James has also been banned at the same time. I wonder if we both did something equally bad...

Tags : closed networks  facebook  open systems  the edge 
Posted by Dorian Moore on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 15:45 GMT

Thought for the day: Given that it seems likely that any money I pay in tax this year is going to be given straight to the banks, why don't we cut out the middle man, save a lot of people a lot of pain, and just let us keep the money in our own bank accounts, rather than letting our government play the inverse-Robin-Hood game. Ah. If Only.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 10:30 GMT