Choosing an independent project

As part of this independent project we were given a choice of seven starting points. 

1.     “It is a truism to day that we live in a “remix culture.” Today, many of cultural and lifestyle arenas - music, fashion, design, art, web applications, user created media, food - are governed by remixes, fusions, collages, or mash-ups. If post-modernism defined 1980s, remix definitely dominates 2000s, and it will probably continue to rule the next decade as well.
Manovich, Lev. What comes after Remix?

2.     “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

3.     “To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.”
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

4.     “...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.”
Henry Jenkins

5.     “This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products”
Larry McCaffrey

6.     “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
Susan Sontag

7.     “By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”
Donna J. Haraway

We could use any of the examples to inspire a starting point. It is up to us to chose the media to execute the inspiration from the above examples. We were given a opportunity to create our own project. I have chosen to create website based on the idea of putting names and stories to those who fought in World War One. I was inspired by the discovery of family members who had fought in WW1 some know and others unknown to me, and through this website the possibility of making contact with distant members of my family. As part of the fulfillment for the college. I have submitted a brief and a reading list. As this website allows users to post information and after discussion on the merits of using WordPress or Joomla I have decided to use Joomla as this will allow more security measures in the posting of content to the site.