The misspelling generator has been updated to now also generate misspellings for google news, images, blogsearch, and video. It already did the regular web search. It now also does full l33t speak For more information about the misspelling generator see my previous blog post and misspelling-generator.org.

The misspelling generator will be on display at the Dutch Institute for Media Art in the exhibition Speaking Out Loud from 15-11-2008 till 17-01-2009.

Recently, the European Union released an overview of its allocated grants in 2007. What stunned me was the sheer incomprehensibility and the lacking navigability of the data. How am I supposed to make sense of this?
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This summer at the Govcom.org Jubilee together with Alexander Galloway we made the ipbrowser.

The ipbrowser was conceived as an alternative algorithm, an alternative way of browsing the net. Whereas normally you jump from link to link or search the web, with the ipbrowser you only have two options: go down in the ip address space or go up in the ip address space. The ipbrowser starts at your ip address. When you click up or down (left or right) the ipbrowser scans the next higher or next lower ip address for an open port 80. When it finds one it’ll display it, thus displaying your ip neighbourhood. Although we still need to write up the theoretical part I did not want to hold it back for you. More information about the ipbrowser.