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posted by Editor on Friday December 27, @05:53PM
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Listening Post is an art installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art in which visible and audible text is collected in real-time from thousands of chat rooms, forums, newsgroups, bulletin boards, and other public online communication channels. A statistical analysis tool organizes the messages into topic clusters based on their content, tracking the ebb and flow of communication on the Web (see examples). A tonal soundscape underlies the spoken text, its pitches and timbres responding to changes in the flow and content of the messages. EtherPeg is a Macintosh-based traffic listening application that picks out images from TCP streams it observes, and shows them in a mosaic on the screen. Earlier this year, EtherPeg was used at an O'Reilly conference to reveal the collective consciousness of attendees during the keynote presentation. By scanning their wireless Web traffic, the tool visually showed where the audience's minds wandered, and some paths took surprisingly dark turns (see screenshot). DriftNet is a Linux/Solaris application that sniffs network traffic and decodes any JPEG image downloaded by anyone on the network, displaying it in an ever-changing mosaic.
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