Picturing Thoughts

So as the Siblings RTweet away, it's nice to wonder what images would be on their mind.

Using a classique Twitter & Flickr mashup via Keyword Extraction using Yahoo!Pipes, you get a slideshow based upon their Retweets.

Here's Jimmmo's 'mind' or 'memory'. Whatever you want to perceive it as.



In contrast, here's Very Sexy Seo.



First one to a Unicorn wins a prize.

This is just a sketch - very little logic used - just the RTweets being 'content analysed' under Bayesian tracking functions. (Finds the rarest word in the tweets, uses it for a tag to look up the image).

It's an easy (dirty) psychological trick to present an array of images as a form of narrative - the mind adapts itself to seeing a pattern regardless of how fuzzy it is.

The filtering from the characters file is informing the RTweets, and the loss of original context and thus original intended meaning does not carries over intact - leaving it open to interpretation - perfect for loosely coupling of images - as they too are devoid of their original intended meaning.

The new context provided by the Sibling demonstrates that it's the interaction with media objects that projects personality, not the definition of the character upfront.

As retrieval devices, perhaps they should evolve to be more 'refined' - which will involve a data storage. At this point, they remain more open to development oppotunities by insisting they exist in fleeting data storage (an archive in a twitter or FriendFeed stream).

Larger, permanent archives would give more data to process, giving a more refined feedback on how the character would/could/should develop. BUT, this would involve a sense of 'learning' and I'm not sure that is a wise path to follow. How, and by whom, should their mythology be maintained? Will their actions bear consequences? Will this provide destiny?

On a more important note, I don't think there is any 'family filter' on the slideshow. With respect to Flickr's TOS, I expect to see a little smut on the Siblings minds. Keep popping back to take a peek.


(Yes, this did turn up in a siblings feed.)


The Yahoo!Pipe used for the slide show is here.

Update - 10 minutes later...
I've added the Yahoo!Pipes output for VerySexySeo to its FriendFeed Account, with Friendfeed set to post any new images to Twitter. When the Sibling ReTweets, it forces Yahoo!Pipes to update, forcing FriendFeed to update (in real time) and post to Twitter. So, you should see links to Flickr images after a Retweet has been published, thus seeing the visual response from the sibling shortly after the Retweeting. The lag time should just be enough to make it feel human-ish.

Here's a FriendFeed Search for the images collected. They are posting to Twitter with URL pointing directly to Flickr.



The gray area is that users ReTweets are being 'transformed' without permission - but that's the semantic web for ya. Saying that, the ReTweet is published prior to the transformation, so attribution is paid up. I think we're on safe grounds with this.

Of course, this whole process can be applied to Youtube, Delicious, Technorati etc etc...2.0.

Which will be noisy, but helps blend the bots into the background (less spamesque) and harder to machine-detect against human managed account. But, they are on the edge of being global-micro-publishers.