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to estonia for the weekend

Apurr Sonar / March 27th, 2009 / No Comments » Posted in Context, Graphic Metaphors, eldon in finland / Tag: , ,  /
An ocean view is what you want, the sight of pieces of ice floating by the goal of the ferry passenger. The Tallink Ferry Super Star taller than a ten story building: it is a ten storey building, and taller, brightly coloured and heading due south out of Helsinki west port at exactly 2.30pm on its way to Tallinn, decked out inside like a rugby leagues club.




the loudly-coloured Superstar

the loudly-coloured Superstar



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blog 4 ND#: a thing about dogs

Apurr Sonar / March 17th, 2009 / No Comments » Posted in Context, Graphic Metaphors, eldon, eldon in finland / Tag: , , , , ,  /
Speaking of creatures, from the very beginning of my stay here, my brain must have been processing some subliminal messages regarding the Finns and their relationship with dogs. Of course, I noticed nothing unusual, really, but something, something, was different.

one of many signs of the no dog kind

one of many signs of the no dog kind



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personal contextual framings

Apurr Sonar / March 15th, 2009 / 1 Comment » Posted in Context, Personal Pages, eldon / Tag: , , , ,  /
now that we can upload images, and mike has got the ball rolling with the characterisation of self  – though our contexts, our framing devices – with heidi, i thought i’d upload three characteristic frames for myself: my past two desktop images, and my self representation on several web 2.0 places – including hugh’s son’s site….

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elements of a post: dtd

Apurr Sonar / March 14th, 2009 / 5 Comments » Posted in CODE_SWARM Modeling, Context, Projects, eldon / Tag: , , , , , , ,  /
this post reproduces the DTD i used (developed as i went) to segment approx 400 posts to the list – what i deemed a representative sample (see my thesis for reasoning) – in order to get an idea of the recurrent stages or moves typcially appearing in them.

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outlining posting norms

Apurr Sonar / March 14th, 2009 / No Comments » Posted in CODE_SWARM Modeling, Context, Projects, eldon / Tag: , , , , ,  /


first an outline of the ‘typical’ or norm-al moves or stages in a post to the list. as generalisation, it pretty well covers all bases. as abstraction, however, there will be exceptions of course.


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Do you know the dance?

mike / March 1st, 2009 / 2 Comments » Posted in Context, mike / Tag: , , , , ,  /
Frank offers a legend to our map-making.

Michael Wesch is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University and leads the Digital Ethnography Working Group. It was he who produced the series of videos in the earlier post.   In June of 2008, he presented at the Library of Congress:



Broaching such subjects as identity, authenticity, isolation and exposure, this presentation offers rare perspective and insight. In November, he was presented the award for U.S. Professor of the Year.

I wish I had that hat *and* more meaning in my life…

mike / February 28th, 2009 / 1 Comment » Posted in Context, mike / Tag: , , , ,  /
Sending the geek-meter all the way into the red -



Lexicographer Erin McKean redefines the dictionary, explains the ham butt problem, and reminds us what every child knows.

(This dedicated amateur must now go hug his dictionary.)
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