Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005... Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.[39] Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address.posted by John Cohen at 10:16 PM on October 5, 2010
Collingwood categorized Opte as art and not simply a craft, nor a means to an end.
Collingwood stated that “craft always involves a distinction between means and ends.” There is a
large separation between the science and algorithms of the Opte project and its abstract nature,
with colors and sphere layout that arose from personal choice. Collingwood also distinguished
between craft and a finished product. For example, if you create a frying pan, you are producing
a product for the end purpose of cooking, and, according to Collingwood, the frying pan would be
a finished product and not an art. The Opte project is an abstract principle and may not be a
finished product. The Opte project, by nature, is an on-going means that may never actually
come to full fruition as a product. The information the project is visualizing is nearly a living
organism. The Internet is not a single thing; it is the means to communicate, to create, to design,
to think, and, yes, to visualize; so, like Opte, it may also not be a complete product, just a
continually changing, and evolving project. Collingwood specifically says, “Art as such does not
imply the distinction between planning and execution.” Under Collingswood’s principles, not
only is Opte art, the entire Internet is art.
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