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Chitchat with Marie, Petra and Silvio | 19/01/12

Text-based reworking, databases and stuff

• "greatest" on wikipedia
• putting together and create new meaning
• politician saying I'm right
• 10 questions
• ideal city
• vincent/ wikipedia project
• student at udeka google alphabet
• suggestions
• metahaven

• collection of sources:

• news portals
• Thank you for the add.
• impoting text into a layout

• Onomatopee book

• buy a word in order to have adds

• nike captcha

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in a text each word connected to its definition.

what is behind a word?

recursive process into the same text

what a word can link to?

using urls www.one.com www.day.com www.i.com www.was.com

Disappearance, repetition and consume

I wrote a bit of code that does what we were discussing in class: each word in a text become more transparent each time is repeated. I was thinking at the world of information and news. I was thinking that the meaning of the words is consumed by their repetition. Think of #OccupyWallStreet, think of what will happen with SOPA.

Here's the script if you wanna play with it.

 
#!/usr/bin/python

import re

text = "The text that has to be processed."
words = text.split()
wordsOp = ""
checklist = {}

for words in words:
    # split the word from punctuation
    word = re.findall(r'\w+',words)
    # make the word lowercase
    wordLow = word[0].lower()
    # check if the word is in the dictionary, if the word is there count -1,  if not there add the word to the checklist and count 255(maximum opacity)
    if wordLow in checklist:
        checklist[wordLow] -= 1
    else:
        checklist[wordLow] = 255
    # append words with opacity (HTML)
    wordsOp = wordsOp + "<span style=\"color:rgb(" + str(checklist[wordLow]) + "," + str(checklist[wordLow]) + "," + str(checklist[wordLow]) + ");\">" + words + "</span> "

# print the new string 
print wordsOp