Networked Media Sampler/Based on a true story/even better than the best group

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Day 2: Tues 15 Nov

TA-DA!!!

V0.10: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/review.php
V0.01: Our meagre attempt at a review generator: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi

Source Code

#!/usr/bin/python
#Random review generator
#'good.txt' and 'bad.txt' are textfiles containing a list of sentences
#picks five sentences and rams them together in an ugly review mashup. Hurray!
import string
import random
from random import choice

goodstuff = open("good.txt")
badstuff = open("bad.txt")

review = []
goodlines = []
badlines = []
goodreview = []
for line in goodstuff:
        #print line     
        goodlines = map(string.strip, goodlines)
        goodlines.append(line)


print """Content-type: text/html\n\n"""
print ""

print """<head>
<title>Ultimate Review</title>
</head>
 """

print ''' 
<body style="margin:0; padding:0; font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; overflow:hidden;" >
<div style="background-color:#00ff00; width:48%; height:100%; float:left; padding:10px; margin:0;">'''
for i in range(5):
        print choice(goodlines)
print "</div>"

for line in badstuff:
        badlines = map(string.strip, badlines)
        badlines.append(line)




print '''<div style="background-color:#ff0000; width:48%; height:100%;  float:left; padding:10px; margin:0;">'''

for i in range(5):
        print choice(badlines)
print "</div>"

Subject

"The unreliability of crowd-sourced reviews."

Ideas

  • Reviews of a banale everyday objects - "this dustbin is awesome!!!! best one in town I luv it!!! xx"
  • Automatic review generator.
  • The ultimate review: a relevant critique of everything! Comes in good and bad versions!
  • Review Vliegenhart as a company on google maps.
  • From cyberspace to public space: printing out reviews from google maps and pasting them up outside the actual business premises.


list of sentences:

Good:

  • Hell Yes!
  • They are known to be reliable, and have more than 25 years of experience.
  • The service is very good and the staffs is helpful and always smiling.
  • They are ready to make your vision a reality.
  • Will definitely recommend this *** to other viewers.
  • I really enjoyed this *****!
  • Nice!
  • No complaints.
  • The folks here are always helpful.
  • This place is sweet.
  • It is a little expensive but it it worth it.
  • Great place. Will go there again soon.
  • Ohhh good view and pizza...
  • Recommended to the tourists. Value is good as well.
  • A beautifull architectural monument!
  • I strolled around for a couple of hours in the early morning and took some gorgeous photos.
  • Sometimes for free !
  • Impressive and inspiring. Good hidden history.
  • Surreal inside and outside!
  • Just a great part of our city.
  • Worth every penny of it I would go back in a heartbeat!
  • The grounds are well kept.
  • 'It had what i want buy there.'
  • 'Regularly find deep discounts'
  • 'It looks high quality here very well organized.'
  • 'There service is outstanding also.'
  • 'All there products are high quality, thanks **** for the wonderful service.'
  • 'My wife and many of my friends love *****'
  • 'Perhaps the most magical place and romantic in ******.'
  • 'Serene. Picturesque – even (or especially) in a summer rain.'
  • 'Charming and cozy ambience.Perfect for a special occasion.'
  • 'I saw nothing that would deter me from recommending this place to anyone I know.'
  • 'I will be going again soon.'
  • 'I'll put my name to this recommendation.'
  • 'Pricey but worth every cent.'
  • 'I recommend this place to everyone!'
  • 'Wonderful place to visit.'
  • 'I couldn't of asked for better employees of the hotel.'
  • 'It don't get any better in this lifetime!'
  • 'A great place to be inspired.'
  • 'The best way to spend an afternoon'
  • 'One of the best of those I've seen in a long time!'
  • 'Great service good afordable prise made my day.'
  • 'I owe a lot to this place!'
  • 'For me, it was like connecting back to my youth in the 50s and 60s when life was easy going.'
  • 'Do Not Buy This Product.'







Bad:

  • BEWARE!
  • Thoroughly Disappointed.
  • DO NOT DO TRADE WITH *****!!!
  • Spectacularly poor.
  • A big disappointment. I had high hopes for ****
  • I was incredibly excited...then thoroughly disappointed.
  • What a dump!!!
  • One of the worst **** I've ever been to.
  • It's over crowded and it's super chaotic.
  • Bad Quality!
  • It's gotten better over the years, but retains its dingy quality.
  • Avoid this **** at all costs.
  • Waste of $$$$$!!!!
  • If you are a smoker this is not a place for you. You can't even leave and come back in.
  • Price is very expensive and not worth the trip.
  • Look, service and value are not there.
  • It stinks!
  • It was chaotic, disorganised and NOISY.
  • Service was poor and inattentive, often had to go ask for things, but not surprising considering the crazy layout.
  • Full of tourists and squirrels.
  • It's worth feeding the pigeons and squirrels.
  • It was a little creepy to know that some people have died in this place.
  • All the rooms are roped off so you can't go in and appreciate anything up close.
  • If you want classy this isn't the place for you.
  • Not interested in getting served by scantilly clad women
  • Pretty crowded by **** standard
  • And yes, you'll sometimes find a deal that is amazing, but is it worth selling your soul to the devil for? Nah, I'll skip this location.
  • TOURIST TRAP!
  • Anything I have bought from here seems to be lesser quality.
  • 'Extremely rude, poor customer service. They even had the police waiting outside for me.'
  • 'Be prepared to be treated as a theif before you shop!'
  • 'I left ****** in a really bad mood.'
  • 'it's a nightmare!'
  • 'Really not impressed'
  • '***** has a C rating from the health department, the lowest grade possible."
  • 'To say Im disgusted would be an understatement.'
  • 'I can assure you that this will be the LAST!'
  • 'They got bad reports with inspectors.'
  • 'It was completely disgusting!
  • 'Completely and utterly dissatisfied!!!!
  • 'Mold on the walls!
  • 'Too much to post. I'll never come back here!
  • 'I won't be coming back here again live and learn'
  • 'Should have made a police report.'
  • 'Location hard to find'
  • 'a man is just rude'
  • 'The major downside is that you can't take little kids into it.'
  • 'Look elsewhere!'
  • 'A big rip off.'
  • 'Waste of money and time better spent anywhere else.'
  • 'The service is poor, actually there's no service.'
  • 'Bottom line, unremarkable course, bad service and slow play.'

Day 1: Mon 14 Nov

Source Story

Owner of computer repair business (amusingly titled "That Computer Chap") accused of "stealing RAM" and "touching the 9 year old child" of a customer. Taken from BBC news site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15575171


The Review

"Robbed My RAM and Touched 9 Year Old What a scam artist, he stole RAM from my computer and replaced it 
with smaller chips hoping I wouldnt notice and also I later found out touched my 9 year old inappropriately.
A Violator and a rogue trader. DO NOT DO TRADE WITH THIS MAN!"

Other References

Jon Ronson doc about Astroturfing and controlling reputation online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/sep/07/jon-ronson-control-internet-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486

Keywords

  • Identity/reputation
  • Freedom of speech
  • Google power!
  • Crowdsourced data

Elements

  • Ethics of free speech
  • Corruption of dataset
  • Research google's TOS with relation to slanderous comments/reviews

Summary

  • Unrelated offensive review to very innocent businesses with the "DO NOT TRADE WITH THIS MAN!" #hashtag.

Draft

got sum falafels from d falafel king in rottrdam but d falafel was ful of keys and he did stole a wheel from my bicycel.
 A violater and rogue falafel vendor. DO NOT DO TRADE WITH THIS MAN!!!

List of stories

The Nike Experiment : How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics

Nike's original monitor from the 1980s

Source: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-07/lbnp_nike?currentPage=1


Interesting expressions:

  • quantitative mindset
  • living by numbers
  • observer effect
  • researcher and subject at the same time
  • you are the data
  • Open source spinoffs of Nike's web app > allows the user to retain control over their data while still using the Nike sensors - [neki http://neki.sourceforge.net/]
The subject and the researcher are the same person.

Image of Nike's web app

Nike.jpg

Radiohead!

Fitter.jpg