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Creative Cultural Networking And The Internet
Online publishing provides endless opportunities for networking, information sharing
and community formation projects. The development of digital media has impacted the
creative information economy on multiple levels. Blogs are publications independent of
online journalism that promote creative interests and ideas, forming virtual communities
of like­minded persons, with options for personal submissions, links to similar sites and
forums for comment. They provide instant gratifying hits of information in short bursts,
with a variety of hyperlinked images and small text posts, opportunities for submissions
and forums for comment. The appeal of the blog format allows a mix of multimedia posts,
which is a particularly attractive feature for those who are publishing information with a
visual focus.
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community focus – satisfying all the motivations of the past creative networking projects
of mail art, FILE magazine and Omnibus News. They provide new and interesting ways
of accessing and absorbing information that have expanded the world of cultural media.
Even a blog format has become mainstream and current projects are being developed to
increase effectiveness of community formation and networking art.
The NOTCOT website began as a blog and has now been reworked to further emphasise
community and information sharing principles. NOTCOT.com was created by Jean Aw.
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featuring user submitted images that are hyperlinked to the website associated with the
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a network of community contributed design­related sites. The information is submitted by
users who register with the site, they supply an image and a link to further information
about the related image. The post is submitted to be selected and edited by NOTCOT
editorial team and issued periodically appearing on the screen in a grid format with the
most recently submitted link in the top left hand corner. Not all links are submitted.
The work of design­related blogs is entirely remediated information from a variety of
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