August Eyes
Dear reader
Our trojan horse, Tiny Awards, keeps introducing mainstream audiences to the small, personal, and poetic internet. This week, the readers of The Guardian’s technology newsletter met Tiny Awards. It was a short introduction, hardly one sentence, but it was perfectly nested in between blurbs about TikTok and Elon Musk.
If you write for the New York Times or similar, you may want to open the gates, pick up the reins, and introduce the award to your readers. I bet it will do more for the Internet heartbeat than another article about large language models.
For everyone else, remember to cast your vote (づ๑•ᴗ•๑)づ♡.
With care
Kristoffer
Wayside flowers
https://some-eyes-see-you.glitch.me/
https://did-you-make-it.mdec.computer/
Field notes
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Smallweb Subway shows a subway style network of webrings.
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»Crossing the dimensions of care and control creates a nice garden plan for my online gijs.garden. Four corners, four ways of relating to plants. In the garden tour that is this essay, each of the corners plays a narrative role.«
— Gijs de Boer about gijs.garden.
I rarely link to video recordings of talks. Should I change that? Probably not. But let me know what you think after you watched Olia Lialina guide you through The Whole Internet. The name for the talk is lifted from a book published in the 90s with links to the whole internet. Someone should make a 2024 edition, kinda like an Internet Phone Book…
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School for Poetic Computation closes applications for their fall program today (Sunday). The classes look stellar as always. If I had the time, I would apply to Melanie Hoff’s Digital Love Languages.
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A few events are coming up in the Poetic Web Calendar. From the Call for Participation channel, this week’s highlight is that nobody wants your pigeon drawings.
Collections
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