Sunday, November 9, 2008

World Wide Web - Domination or Suicide?

I wonder if it's possible to achieve WWW domination through acquiring accounts in all of the free websites offered out there and linking them together and to other users of free websites.  For example, have an account on face book, myspace, a blog, an earthlink website, a flicker site, a snapfish site, a YouTube account, an eBay account, mac.com account, geocities, hotmail, gmail, yahoo, espn fantasy football, anything else that I can think of.  Link them together and then what?  What are the possibilities for artwork?  money making?  What could you say about our culture?  what could you say about yourself?  (you're a computer geek)  
There have been Internet based heists and marketing coups since the beginning.  One of my favorites is the guy who started with a paper clip and traded up to a house in Saskatchewan using eBay.  Another favorite is the guy who has only one web page with no content, only ads.  He sells ads and crams them in as tight as they will go into his one page.  And people buy the ads because he got attention that he was doing such an outlandish thing.  People go to his site and they see the ads.  It's crazy but it works!   

I wonder if there is something that can be done in that area with Art.  Make it art, make it say something, provide content, see what happens.  Need a crazy idea.   Like a scavenger hunt that would lead you around all of the sites that you have to pick up something or get some kind of information that would lead you to the next site.  And along  the way, people would have to view all of your artwork.  

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Or how about this, 
The password is the most sacred thing on the web.  What if someone wrote a program to make a random password generator and you used it to write poetry, or make art of some sort.  

or you could open accounts on various sites and publish the user name and password somewhere else with abstract instructions to do either a particular or general thing with the information and see how far it can go.

or, What if you played online Russian roulette with your own passwords, like giving six passwords out, one of which is the real one.  If a user pulls the trigger on the right chamber (password) then they get to go into your bank account, or email, or something else equally as virtually devastating.  
Instead of playing those fantasy role playing games online where you get to kill trolls or get killed by knights, you get to have all your assets depleted by hackers and cyber-thieves.  That could get your blood rushing.  

The Lady or the Tiger?

by the way, the picture at the top is of a hand with a grizzly bear foot print.

Carry on,
Mike

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