Cameron Marlow, creator of Blogdex and a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab, has created a very compelling art project that translates blog postings into streaming audio using text to speech technology. It's like listening to a bunch of Stephen Hawkings chatting about relationships, technology, politics, sports, weblogging, etc., and it's insanely compelling. I could listen for hours.
Try it yourself: radio vox populi: live from the commons.
Damn those MIT Media Lab people. They're always building something cool - unlike the rest of us doctoral punks who just sit around and pontificate about "hegemony" and "discourse" and "democracy."
(Weird meta comment - I wonder if after I post this to my blog, I can saunter on over to Radio Vox Populi and listen to it being read.)
Damn! THAT IS THE COOLEST THING SINCE SLICED DR. SBAITSO!
MIT Media Lab... Yargh, I hate those guys! That kind of cool is so beyond the idea I had of running a harvester to assemble individual blog entries into an amalgamated blog.
Ah well... back to sitting around and pontificating about "epistemology", "sense of place", "filthy positivist methodologies",and "hermeneutics" (my new personal fave), I suppose...
Very nice link... lots of fun!
One of my very good friends did time at the media lab and, I concur, damn those bastards! Everytime I'd go meet him for lunch he was working very seriously on networking automonomous lego bots, or some such thing... no fair! i wish I had gotten in. :) And, worse still I was a compsci major and he did a BA in Arabic... and he got the spot :) (envy, envy, envy)
Ever listen to Eigenradio?
At first it's just noise...but after a while...it's noise that has vague meaning.
along similar, but different, lines: Auroral Chorus