Regarding Kevin McGarry's post on the upcomming FCC hearings:
There will be several free public workshops in the Monterey Bay area this
week hosted by media-alliance. The first is tonight and I will be there to
check it out. There are only six of these hearings in the country and I am
lucky enough to live right next to the workshop location. Any
artist/activists in the bay area heading to these events? I would be more
than happy to offer a ride from Santa Cruz to Monterey, or a couch and wifi
if someone needs a place to crash.

more info:
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/10173/index.php

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grabbed from:
http://www.media-alliance.org/article.php?story 040621213614355
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Join us to prepare for the FCC Public Hearing on Localism in Broadcasting -
July 21st in Monterey

Sessions will include Background Information, Q&A, and Testimony Preparation
Light food will be provided

* SANTA CRUZ, Wed 7/14, 7-9 pm, Louden Nelson Center
* SALINAS, Sat 7/17, 10am - 2pm, SEIU 817, 334 Monterey St
* MONTEREY, Sat 7/17, 3-5 pm, Monterey Public Library

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grabbed from:
http://www.freepress.net/townmeetings/
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Monterey, CA Hearing

Residents of Monterey and surrounding areas will have a chance to testify at
the FCC's upcoming hearing. Read the FCC's announcement, which includes
logistical details.

When: July 21, 6PM-10PM

Where: Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza

Advance tickets will be distributed (free of charge)on Monday, July 19 from
6:00pm-8:00pm and Wednesday, July 21 from 7:00am-1:00pm at the Monterey
Conference Center Steinbeck Forum Terrace (at corner of Pacific St. & Del
Monte Ave.)

There will be preparatory meetings in Santa Cruz, Salinas, and Monterey in
advance of the hearing, organized by the Media Alliance.

These hearings are an extremely rare opportunity to tell the FCC about the
state of your local media, how well your needs are being served, and how you
feel about the increasing consolidation of media ownership. The FCC hears
from broadcasters' lobbyists and lawyers every day. Help make sure they hear
from the people on July 21!
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Jose Miguel Hernandez
jozecuervo@jozecuervo.com
UCSC Film and Digital Media undergrad
http://jozecuervo.com
http://eyecandy.ucsc.edu

If you like friendster (and are broke-ass poor), you'll love this...

http://dmedia.ucsc.edu/~jmhernan/fdm177/bumster/

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Jose Miguel Hernandez
jozecuervo@jozecuervo.com
http://jozecuervo.com

Regarding social circles:

Marcos, I took a look at your site. Nice work. I was suprised to see
myself represented as a circle on more than one one of the mailing lists you
follow. I too am a CF/Flash/FarCry developer and have been studying social
networks & information spaces. I'd really love to see how your software
works. It reminds me of something one of my professors here at UC Santa
Cruz built - a conversation mapper that allows a user to visually trace
usenet conversations. A colleage and I were planning on building a
visualization system in flash for representing XML data as a hyperbolic
tree. A was reverse-engineering something similar Samuel Wan made a while
back... We were trying to come up with ways to show associations found in
the amazon referrer system (customers who bought this book also bought...).
Anyway, It looks like you came up with not only a way to collect and parse
interesting social data, but to present it as well.. Have you heard of
FOAF? (google::foaf) It's an XML document type which can be used to map
assoctiations between individuals. Anyway, I thought it might be useful to
your project (at least conceptually). Also, I am interested in
collaborating on or writing about something of this nature... let me know
if you are interested.

Feel free to take a look at my article on SmartDocs in the latest eyecandy,
UCSC's journal of Film and Digital Media: http://eyecandy.ucsc.edu

peace
~joze
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Jose Miguel Hernandez
Web Developer | UCSC Student Affairs
http://jozecuervo.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "marcos weskamp" <bulkmail@marcosweskamp.com>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: social circles

> Hi Ele,
>
> thanks for the heads up. When I looked back at it this morning, seemed the
> database had crashed.
> I just restored it and should be working properly. - data right there is
> slightly old, so it will take a while until it shapes again as it was
> looking like a couple of days ago.
> the url hasn't changed:
> http://www.marumushi.com/apps/socialcircles/
>
>
> Your project seems super interesting though, please let me know if you
need
> any help with it!
>
> best regards,
>
>
> -marcos
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi Marcus,
> > I've tried to launch your site - but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm
> interested in your project as I am planning on making a 6 degrees of
> separation web based map of an existing network of net activists and
> socially engaged visual artists, some of whom do not use the internet...
> > Is there a direct link you can send me to view your site?
> > Ele
>
>
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UC Santa Cruz will be hosting open studios Fri Dec 5th 12-4pm.

Elliot Anderson's class: Advanced Computer Art; Theory and Practice
will be presenting several interactive installation and performance pieces
dealing with the bathroom as a space.
Some really fun work with plenty of that theory stuff to back it up.
Come check it out if you'de like... there might be food and stuff
also, plenty of traditional media works on display as well.

Baskin Arts, E-102
for directions: maps.ucsc.edu

Jose M. Hernandez | UCSC
http://jozecuervo.com