April 7, 2004
Turbulence Spotlight: "liken" by criticalartware
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/criticalartware/index.html

"liken" stores criticalartware's growing database as a collection of
self-connecting nodes that anyone can contribute to. Users need to log
in to enable "liken" to make sense of their movements through the site.
Unlike anonymous "browsing," "liken" facilitates a more personalized
form of navigation: the very act of navigating results in a generative
process that creates new linkages, alters old ones, and contributes
resources to the community. Thus, "liken" resembles a biological neural
net that is based on human activity: it is a collective, distributed
system of emerging patterns, pathways, and connections.

"liken" departs from the typical hierarchical web site structure by
relinquishing some of the control of "hard-coding" links between
documents. "liken" is also described in a public XML file, making it
possible for anyone to develop alternatives to "liken's" structure:
"liken" could easily be traversed as a 3D video game, a mindmap, a
soundEngine, or a Flash animation. In this way, it is the beta version
of a criticalartware operating system, for which anyone can develop
compatible applications, plug-ins, skins, or filters. "liken" is an
agent of criticalartware's resources that grows symbiotically with
related discourse.

BIOGRAPHY

Current coreDevelopers are: blithe riley, bensyverson, jonsatrom and
jonCates. As of criticalartware Version 3.1415926535
"CONTRIBUTING.DEVELOPERS" are listed dynamically by their usage of,
contribution to, and participation in "liken." For dynamically updated
display please load and run the criticalartware WHOIS application in the
networkTools.app suite:
http://www.criticalartware.net/dotapp/networkTools/whois

All participants exist as nodes within "liken." The coreDevelopers
maintain and develop the criticalartware application/platform and are
responsible for mini aspects of it, including the interviews.
coreDevelopers, interviewees, participants, contributingDevelopers and
various other parties, entities, and systems all engage in the activity
that constitutes criticalartware.