{"id":4621,"date":"2012-06-14T01:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T06:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2012-06-14T02:02:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:02:36","slug":"ebooks-made-of-youtube-comments-invade-amazon-kindle-store-technology-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"Ebooks Made of YouTube Comments Invade Amazon Kindle Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A pair of artist-coders have unleashed a small army of bots designed to flood the Kindle e-book store with texts comprised entirely of YouTube comments. According to the artists, even they have no idea how many books their autonomous bots are posting to the store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/428175\/ebooks-made-of-youtube-comments-invade-amazon\/\">Ebooks Made of YouTube Comments Invade Amazon Kindle Store &#8211; Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The KINDLE&#8217;VOKE machinary is based on three major parts. (1) The &#8220;Sucker&#8221; a clever suction apparatus to gather comments from Youtube. (2) the &#8220;Ghost Writer&#8217;s Table&#8221;: the book compiler that handles generation of books content, book covers, authors at the same time. (3) The &#8220;Amazon Kindle Scatter Bots&#8221; that make the brand new digital literature available for all of us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of artist-coders have unleashed a small army of bots designed to flood the Kindle e-book store with texts comprised entirely of YouTube comments. According to the artists, even they have no idea how many books their autonomous bots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[206,677,405],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-amazon","tag-bots","tag-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}