topic: Web 2.0

Please read and post relative to Tim O’reilly’s statement on what defines the Web2.0 paradigm shift.  I am especially interested in reviews of succesful web2.0 sites, apps, services.  Consider the notion of the mashup, its prominence as a creative action across mediums, and the ramifications of building models and intellectual property built around it.  Are there web2.0 architecture services or what might be one that could be useful.

topic: Open Source

For next class period please read the following texts, as noted below “the Cathedral and the Bazaar” is the more ideological text, written by Eric Raymond one of the Open Source movements key propagandists.  This is a must read!  The second text “the political economy of open source” is a draft of a paper that eventually became Steven Weber’s important book, The Success of Open Source, this is probably the most clearly written and relatively comprehensive explanation of how Open Source works and what the key conditions that enable its success are.  The third link We-Think, points to a text and author who takes the idea of open source and applies it to the world at large including design and generally to creativity at large, it is provocative and lays some interesting groundwork for a good conversation to be had in architecture school.  Of all of the reading and discussion components of the semester I consider this to be the significant.  Please take the time to read all of the first, atleast the first part of the second, and surf through the third before class next week.  We will spend the first part of class with a short presenation and larger class discussion of which you should be able to intelligently participate.

1. the cathedral and the bazaar, Eric Raymond (conceptual, propaganda)
2. The political economy of open source, Steven Weber (best early academic background)
3. we-think,Charles Leadbeater (Open source goes main-stream)

These readings should also be great fodder for extended research and heavy blogging!

E-Reserves Activated

Don’t worry about not having read the requested reading for class today.  I will continue with my lecture as planned, blog posts can be done in a more asynchronous way with the goal of completing relevant posts before the presentations in two weeks.  The course reserves are now activated, you can access them here.

Project 1: Digital Derive

Due in class September 11^th

Abstract
Using non-linear animation + temporal composition methods in Adobe Flash, create an interactive space grown from the experience and documentation of a physical derive. Begin the project with a derive through the city. Document your experience, syncronously or asyncronously using static 2d media (digital photography, scanned objects, scanned or digital drawings or maps). Users of your flash file should be able to navigate the digital landscape you create in a non-linear way, allowing them to experientially drift through the space.

Graded Technical Obectives
-import media into flash for use in the creation of symbols to organize your scene (2 pts)
-animate symbols using motion tweening on th e timeline (2 pts)
-utilize animation with symbols to create independent actions of instanced objects (2 pts)
-utilize buttons for interactive interface elements (2 pts)
-utilize frame actions for control of timeline/animations (2 pts)