How do I re-invent the personal website? Something that has become a second class citizen on the web in the great age of apps and social networking software all seamlessly delivered in modern browsers. I like the ease of use that good websoftware brings to the experience but I miss the flavor. One Google+ and facebook everything is the same except for the message. How do I control an automatic campaign based om me? This is projectME - a distilled and curated version of myself. A visitor comes to my home page and they see a simple message. Hi. I’m Matt. There will be a color phased light (green) the glows from the word ‘Play.’ When the play button is clicked I give them the point of no return - I.E I am going to ask you for permission to take over your browser. If you agree I will put on a show but they will still have an easy escape with esc, other than esc no events will fire. THen in graphical fashion the distilled and curated public collection of words I think describe and represent myself, the images and videos that reflect my nature. Or, at least the version I want to show. As in poker, important things are best kept to yourself but duley noted. SO the system has two parts, One part is fed raw text. I will download my gmail account with the mail app and then nltk conditional probability distribution it and use d3js to render it in the browser. Times with teh words assembling into the infographic my voice will read a highlighted word. They all will glow but when I say the word it will pulse brighter for the length it takes me to say the word. I will need a way tof links to pictures and video. An example sequene culd go like this. The window starts playing a video of yellow day lillies moving in the wind and rain. Slowly, like the polaroid screen saver on OSX with my photos. There can be short phrases that pulse as I read them and the image falls on top of the video. The interface to manage the information is the distilled data. I first have to see it before I can publish it. New information has to be seen before it can go public. You are looking down at the page floor and the video fades in. As other images and videos fall, I have pre-recorded words and phrases that I assemple into an apple like commercial of myself. Better than a resume I say. If anything needs to die in today’s market it is the resume. THey are largely irrelevent to a rounded representation of who I am, where I come from … right now. It should be easy to see, for me, maybe not for everyone, how My use of a word or phrase changes over time. Do I look at a picture and have mixed feelings about the event or the subject referenced in my words or images? How do you easily create that flow and make it presentable to an audience. select or otherwise. THe real question to anser is how do I re-invent the personal website? How do I reduce myself to an handful of words and images and recordings into a message about me? This is difficult becuase, digilaly speaking I am email, Google+, this blog and a handful of org-mode files scattered around my repo. I am also iphoto and the movies. So it would need several processes to add an item to the system: Run a conditional frequency distribution for proper nouns - likely names or places. I need to be able to zoom in to see the details so I can get rid of what I am not interested in right now. I need to be able to record and link the recording to the now glowing word.
11/22/2011 ~ 4 min read
