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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Da:</B> aha-bounces@ecn.org
[mailto:aha-bounces@ecn.org] <B>Per conto di </B>Antonio<BR><B>Inviato:</B>
giovedì 16 ottobre 2008 14.54<BR><B>A:</B> List on artistic activism and net
culture<BR><B>Oggetto:</B> [aha] Fwd: RHIZOME_ANNOUNCE: New online project:
Traceblog<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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class=gmail_quote>From: <B class=gmail_sendername>Eduardo Navas</B> <<A
href="mailto:eduardo@navasse.net">eduardo@navasse.net</A>><BR>Date:
14-ott-2008 21.13<BR>Subject: RHIZOME_ANNOUNCE: New online project:
Traceblog<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:announce@rhizome.org">announce@rhizome.org</A><BR><BR></SPAN>
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<DT>Posted by <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://rhizome.org/profile.php?1004319" target=_blank>Eduardo
Navas</A>
<DT>Link:
<DD><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://navasse.net/traceblog/about.html"
target=_blank>http://navasse.net/traceblog/about.html</A>
<DT>Date:
<DD>October 14, 2008 </DD></DL></DIV>
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<DIV>Online Project: Traceblog, by Eduardo Navas <BR><A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://navasse.net/traceblog/about.html"
target=_blank>http://navasse.net/traceblog/about.html</A> <BR><A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://navasse.net/traceblog"
target=_blank>http://navasse.net/traceblog</A> <BR>Featured for the month of
October at Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles: <BR><A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.fringexhibitions.com/"
target=_blank>http://www.fringexhibitions.com/</A> <BR>(Click on "net art
project") <BR><BR>Traceblog is a daily ghost log of Eduardo Navas's online
searches, created with TrackMeNot (TMN). While Navas surfs the web, TrackMeNot
is activated with the aim to cover his online surfing. TrackMeNot is a browser
extension designed for search engine obfuscation. The developers define the
Firefox plug-in as follows: <BR><BR>"TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser
extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and
data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or
encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the
opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web
searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain
view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with the Firefox Browser and popular
search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN) and requires no 3rd-party
servers or services." <BR><A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/"
target=_blank>http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/</A> <BR><BR>Keeping track
of people's surfing activity has become an essential element for data-mining,
which is often used by private and public as well as state entities to better
understand people's trends. Traceblog is developed to reflect on a new stage
that global culture is entering, which follows a recent period when millions
of people around the world willingly shared information about themselves
online, via social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, and Myspace, as well as
Youtube, not to mention thousands of blogs. This sharing is still at play, and
is becoming ubiquitous. The argument behind Traceblog is that social
networking and online transparency encompass the solidification of Web 2.0.
The result is that everyone is encouraged to be more social under the subtext
of constant exposure, at times indirectly and others directly informed by the
concept of the celebrity. Everyone can be star in Youtube, if an uploaded
video becomes viral, or everyone can feel extremely po! pular when amassing
thousands of friends and "fans" in Myspace and Facebook. <BR><BR>Navas's logs
of pseudo surfing are published on Traceblog to reflect on the archiving of
daily activities of any individual who surfs the web. And to ask online
surfers to reflect on the real implications of the current state of online
tracking. The project in many ways is the opposite of Diary of a Star, in
which Navas commented on the Andy Warhol Diaries, while often sharing some
personal information of his own. Traceblog, does the opposite: It shows
Navas's unwillingness to share information, while exposing how information can
be taken from him. Traceblog also presents the surfing-logs in a way that is
unappealing and hard to read by the online user, something blogs are usually
designed to avoid. This is done to reference the actual form in which the logs
would be stored in a database. <BR><BR>TrackMeNot has received some criticism
on its effectiveness, as can be attested by selected links provided on the
blog's top right handside of the front page. Traceblog is not primarily
concerned with how well TrackMeNot performs; instead it utilizes the Firefox
extension for critical commentary on the preoccupation of losing one's
privacy.</DIV></DIV>
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