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Wired.com -- The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That's Changing the Rules of Business

'Many web workers, having tasted of the A/B apple, can no longer imagine operating in any other environment. Indeed, they begin to look with pity on the offline world, a terrifying place where each of us possesses only one life to live rather than two (or more) in parallel. “There’s this grilled cheese place down the street,” says Jim Kingsbury, marketing VP at One Kings Lane. “They can’t test anything. Should they price the sandwich at $6 or $6.50? What should be at the top of the menu? Those are purely intuitive choices that they have to make.” At one Silicon Valley office, I overheard an employee complain that dating can’t be A/B tested; an online profile can, to be sure, but once you’re in a relationship with a specific person, 100 percent of the “traffic” is on the line with every decision. The testable web is so much safer. No choices are hard, and no introspection is necessary. Why is B better than A? Who can say? At the end of the workday, we can only shrug: We went with B. We don’t know why. It just works.'

data numbers temes #processing feedback consensus consensusreality
yesterday by adamcrowe

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ScienceDaily -- Trusting feelings when predicting future events: The emotional oracle effect

'The researchers explain their findings through a "privileged window" hypothesis. Professor Michel Pham elaborates on the hypothesis. "When we rely on our feelings, what feels 'right' or 'wrong' summarizes all the knowledge and information that we have acquired consciously and unconsciously about the world around us. It is this cumulative knowledge, which our feelings summarize for us, that allows us make better predictions. In a sense, our feelings give us access to a privileged window of knowledge and information -- a window that a more analytical form of reasoning blocks us from." In accordance with the privileged window hypothesis, the researchers caution that some amount of relevant knowledge appears to be required to more accurately forecast the future.'

intuition unconscious #processing
february 2012 by adamcrowe

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Hacker News -- The Rise of the New Groupthink

'Fear of separation from the group, and antagonism toward larger-brained independent individuals is deeply ingrained. The reduced brain volume is compensated for somewhat by vindictiveness. Prosocials reward conformists and will punish transgressors at some cost to themselves.'

#socialization #processing parasitism
january 2012 by adamcrowe

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OR Books — Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff

'We scramble to keep up with the never-ending inﬂow of demands and commands, under the false premise that moving faster will allow us to get out from under the endless stream of pings for our attention. For answering email and responding to texts or tweets only exacerbates the problem by leading to more responses to our responses, and so on. Every answered email spawns more. The quicker we respond, the more of an expectation we create that we will respond that rapidly again. We mistake the rapid-ﬁre stimulus of our networks for immediacy, and the moment we are actually living in for the thing that needs to catch up. -- The digital realm is biased toward choice, because everything must be expressed in the terms of a discrete, yes-or-no, symbolic language. We are making choices not because we want to, but because our programs demand them. ...the more we learn to conform to the available choices, the more predictable and machinelike we become ourselves.'

books digital media themediumisthemassage technology temes networks #bandwidth #processing feedback extensionsofman centralnervoussystem bots choice now ambientimmediacy intermittentvariablerewards kipple DouglasRushkoff
september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Tweetage Wasteland -- I’m Swimming with Information Sharks

'The realtime internet has turned me into an information shark. Either I keep swimming through this stream of information or I die. In a recent New York Times article, young journalists are described as frantic, fatigued, intense, pressured, strained, exhausted, burnt out and shackled to their computers. This might be an apt description of many online journalists, but it also sounds a lot like everyone I know. While journalists have to obsessively keep up with news related to their beats, my beat is the entire web. I’m frantic and fatigued by lunch. I am just another member of the web’s global newsroom.'

internet web information gluttony #bandwidth #processing centralnervoussystem proprioception themediumisthemassage intermittentvariablerewards addiction from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Information Processing and Pleasure

'I add so much metadata that it begins to obscure the data; the metapleasure cannibalizes from the pleasure... -- The Internet “encourages us to pursue our identities and alliances based around very specific and articulable interests ...we want our identities—our cultural investments—recognized; we want to be understood. So we [choose] to explicate ourselves, “share” our private organizational schemes with ever more urgency on the host of new media forms designed primarily to facilitate this sort of communication—the communication of privately curated little bits organized into a hierarchy, commented upon, glossed in an effort to make their contingent coherence more broadly comprehensible so that we feel less alone, less like we treading water alone in a vast sea of information.'

meta metadata internet web behaviours consumering identity #socialization #processing from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Mises Daily -- Classical Liberalism versus Anarchocapitalism by Jesus Huerta de Soto

'Why Statism Is Theoretically Impossible. #1. The state would need a huge volume of information, and this information is only found in a dispersed or diffuse form in the minds of people... #2. The information the intervening body would need for its commands to exert a coordinating effect is predominantly tacit and inarticulable in nature, and thus it cannot be transmitted with absolute clarity. #3. The information society uses is not "given;" it changes constantly as a result of human creativity. Hence, there is obviously no possibility of transmitting today information which will only be created tomorrow and which is precisely the information the agent of state intervention needs to achieve its objectives tomorrow. #4. Finally and above all, to the extent state commands are obeyed and exert the desired effect on society, their coercive nature blocks the entrepreneurial creation of the very information the intervening state body most desperately needs to make its own commands...'

economics statism liberalism libertarianism minarchism government delusion anarchocapitalism humanaction praxeology information #processing #socialization #diversity from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe

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BrainyQuote -- John Naisbitt

'Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.' – John Naisbitt

intuition data #processing quotes from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E05: "Wheel Of Fortune"

'The Wheel of Fortune traces astrological knowledge in ancient Greek manuscripts from Baghdad’s founder, Caliph Al-Mansur, via the Muslim monastery/medical school at Gundeshapur, to the medieval Church’s need for alarm clocks (the water horologium and the verge and foliot clock).'

documentaries technology computers #processing datamining prediction astronomy agriculture farming astrology medicine empiricism science time clocks taylorism linearity telescope GalileoGalilei pendulum steel screw measurement gun america machine machinetools manufacturing factory massproduction car history from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe

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FORA.tv -- Daniel Suarez - Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality

"I would argue that we're in Darwinian struggle with narrow AI, and that nature is currently selecting for bots and against humans and one reason efficiency. Rather than rising to some great complex golden age, I am concerned that human civilization might head towards a boolean age that's a constant bombardment of categorical questions that you must answer. You can't post any questions that aren't asked directly of you. When awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide almost without noticing back into superstitions and darkness." -- Suggests an encrypted, reputation-based, darknet economy.

internet networks systems technology artificialintelligence data dataming realitymining homogeneity centralization automation bots algorithms #processing #storage #bandwidth #specialization parasitism everyware panopticon botnets blackboxes casinogulag darkmarkets darknets reputation cryptoanarchism retribalization
may 2010 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Robot envy and self-tracking

'Self-monitoring tends to limit our sense of ourselves to the limits of our measuring equipment. So when we use devices to record data about ourselves it seems like we are adding to our self-knowledge, but actually we are subtracting from it, limiting ourselves to what we have been. "For many self-trackers, the goal is unknown. Although they may take up tracking with a specific question in mind, they continue because they believe their numbers hold secrets that they can’t afford to ignore, including answers to questions they have not yet thought to ask." This strikes me as the saddest and most profound form of alienation humankind has ever known. It seems fueled by the data-driven information economy in which we live; people feel obliged to become more like robots in their effort to better assimilate themselves to the highly tracked, digitized environs. They seem to want to be handled logistically by the “network society”... ...we give up our soul for a spreadsheet.' -- Numbers numb.

numbers digital selfservers sousveillance quantifiedself #processing transhumanism
may 2010 by adamcrowe

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Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Yochai Benkler

'TAKING ON THE HABITS OF THE SCIENTIST, THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, AND THE MEDIA CRITIC -- [T]here is plenty of nonsense [on the internet]. We all know this. And so alongside the open mindedness we also have come to develop a healthy dose of skepticism — both about those who are institutionally anointed experts, and about those who are institutional outsiders. Belief formation and revision is an open and skeptical conversation: searching for interlocutors, forming provisional beliefs, giving them weight, continuously updating. We cannot seek authority; only partial degrees of provisional confidence. It requires that we take on the habits of the scientist, the investigative reporter, and the media critic as an integral part of the normal flow of life, learning, and understanding.'

internet information misinformation skepticism extensionsofman immunesystem #processing
january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Esther Dyson

'INFORMATION METABOLISM -- I think much of what we get on the Internet is empty calories. It's sugar — short videos, pokes from friends, blog posts, Twitter posts (even blogs seem longwinded now), pop-ups and visualizations…Sugar is so much easier to digest, so enticing…and ultimately, it leaves us hungrier than before. Worse than that, over a long period, many of us are genetically disposed to lose our capability to digest sugar if we consume too much of it. It makes us sick long-term, as well as giving us indigestion and hypoglycemic fits. Could that be true of information sugar as well? Will we become allergic to it even as we crave it? And what will serve as information insulin?'

internet information gluttony extensionsofman digestion metabolism immunesystem #processing
january 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Technium -- The Most Powerful Force in the World

'Technology is that which is produced by a mind — any mind: animal, machine or alien. When we created the technology of writing, we gladly extended our memory onto paper, making ourselves smarter. But in turn the alphabets we invented changed how our minds worked. Because our inventions can reach back into our brains, and essentially transform our minds into another one of our inventions, our inventions are more powerful than our minds. In this way technology can circle back into its origins, becoming its own child. Whatever progress there is in the world, is passed down generationally via the mechanism of our culture. Whatever changes that literacies ignite in the human brain must be carried forward not in our genes, but in the continuum of technium. This gives the technium incredible power. We don't quite appreciate it yet, but our child, technology, is more powerful than we its parents are.'

memes temes technology literacy culture #storage #processing #bandwidth extensionsofman mind propagation evolution kevinkelly
august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Jude Gomila -- Mapping Out the Real Time Web

'#Media Level: Media like video, music, games or pictures now create their own data trail into the real time web. For example, inside games you can retweet your score. Picture tagging and real time music tracking are other examples of media creating a real time data source. #Filtering Level: We now have a huge amount of data to process. There are many ways to filter the data. Including but not limited to rating based, location based, time based and socially based. -- ... the reactions from syndication go out to cause new data being created resulting in phenomena like hashtags, RTs and news hype - this is a type of real time feeback effect.'

realtime web data productnarratives virtualgoods diagrams #bandwidth #processing
july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Scribd -- FREE by Chris Anderson (Full book)

'#Free 1: Simple cross-subsidy #Free 2: Ad-supported #Free 3: Freemium #Free 4: Gift economy -- #Reversible business models: In China, some doctors are paid monthly when their patients are healthy. If you are sick, it’s their fault, so you don’t have to pay that month. It’s their goal to get you healthy and keep you healthy so they can get paid. -- In Denmark, a gym offers a membership program where you pay nothing as long as you show up at least once a week. But miss a week and you have to pay full price for the month. The psychology is brilliant. When you go every week, you feel great about yourself and the gym. But eventually you’ll get busy and miss a week. You’ll pay, but you’ll blame yourself alone. Unlike the usual situation where you pay for a gym you’re not going to, your instinct is not to cancel your membership; instead it’s to redouble your commitment.' -- On the fallacy of consistent price elasticity: 'The truth is that zero is one market and any other price is another.'

economics prices free complements strategy businessmodels marketing selling psychology risk incentives communities participation scale asymmetry networkeffects peerproduction productnarratives information piracy hackersvsvectoralists abundance digital cognitivesurplus temes #processing #storage #bandwidth #ubiquity #specialization google ChrisAnderson books
july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Sputnik Observatory -- Twenty-one Senses: Will Wright: Brain Filter
brain intelligence filters #processing WillWright
july 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Atlantic -- Get Smarter

'...powerful tools for simulation and visualization that are jump-starting new scientific disciplines, and in the development of drugs that some people (myself included) have discovered let them study harder, focus better, and stay awake longer with full clarity. So far, these augmentations have largely been outside of our bodies, but they’re very much part of who we are today: they’re physically separate from us, but we and they are becoming cognitively inseparable. And advances over the next few decades, driven by breakthroughs in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, will make today’s technologies seem primitive. The nascent jargon of the field describes this as “ intelligence augmentation.” I prefer to think of it as “You+.” We can call it the Nöocene epoch, from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the Nöosphere, a collective consciousness created by the deepening interaction of human minds.' -- Last page: On the pharma-co-logic of the casino-capitalism model. Grim.

* technology temes evolution symbiosis cyborg objects selfobjects extensionsofman centralnervoussystem brain cyberbrain cognition intelligence tethered transhumanism #processing #complexity attention filters ADHD continuouspartialattention informationoverload ambientimmediacy collectiveintelligence hivemind conformity groupthink herd competition drugs pharmaceuticals thegamingofeverydaylife
june 2009 by adamcrowe

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First Monday -- Storytelling in new media: The case of alternative reality games 2001–2009

'This paper presents five Alternate Reality Game (ARG) case studies which reveal common features and mechanisms used to attract and retain diverse players, to create task–focused communities and to solve problems collectively. Voluntary, collective problem solving is an intriguing phenomenon wherein disparate individuals work together asynchronously to solve problems together. ARGs also take advantage of the unique features of new media to craft stories that could not be told using other media. -- We suggest that the collective story that emerges during an ARG normally supplants the grand or master narrative (Lyotard, 1984) and allows players to become actors and heroes. ...the goal of these games is not to create an alternate reality, but to create a storyline that infiltrates real life. If the drive to solve collective problems could be yoked to a significant social goal, ARGs could result in collective behavior that does more than market media products.'

agile storytelling alternativerealitygaming collectiveintelligence collaboration narrativeactivism puzzle exogenous metanarratives productnarratives narrativeobjects objects narrativeenvironments augmentationistsvsimmersionists puppetry liminality liminalobjects rabbitholes campfires socialgraph storygraph agencyagency seriousgames cognitivesurplus synaptics #processing #complexity thegamingofeverydaylife
june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Fast Company -- Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Learning to Measure Participation by Tim Brown

In a "networked, participation based economy: #Network value would describe the access that an individual or organization has to new ideas and opportunities. #Brand value would describe reputation. #Social value would measure influence. #Knowledge would be measured through the number and quality of ideas and, finally, #Meaning measured through engagement. -- The measurable units of currency for networks might be #connections... For brand, reputation would be measured through #ratings... The influence generated through social value might be measured by tracking #conversations... identifying a universal measure for meaning might well be the most difficult... Somehow the stickiness of our experiences ought to be measurable and be an indication of how important to us any given experience might be [#engagement] -- Are these the right things to measure in an economy based on participation--and could their measurement result in some kind of sustainable system of growth and wealth creation?"

* economics currency capital value measurement participation engagement influence ideas experience design networks markets communities #bandwidth #processing #storage
may 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (Playlist)

'The presentation that Adam Greenfield gave at Keio University's DMC Institute, Tokyo, Japan on July 15, 2006. The topic is Adam's then recently published book "Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing."'

technology networks computing ubicomp everyware behaviours surveillance sousveillance masks plausibledeniability ethics interaction design #ubiquity #processing #specialization AdamGreenfield
may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mike Arauz -- The Elements of Digital Conversation

"What makes Twitter a revolutionary communications tool is how it combines seemingly elemental aspects of digital conversation: #Place: Mobile & Web Based, #Time: Real-time & Archived, #Access: Public & Private, #Network: Open & Invite-only" -- Twitter as protocol

twitter communication protocols networks serviceecologies #bandwidth #storage #processing #diversity
april 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Technium -- Inevitable Minds

"The manipulation, storage, and processing of information is a central theme of life. Learning erupts over and over again in the history of evolution, as if it were a force waiting to be released.Up and down the six kingdoms of life, minds have evolved many times. So many times, in fact, that minds seem inevitable. Yet, as inordinately fond as nature is of minds, the technium, or the seventh kingdom of life, is even more so. The technium is biased to birth minds. All the inventions we have constructed to assist our own minds – our many storage devices, signal processing, flows of information, and distributed communication networks, – all these are also the essential ingredients for producing new minds. And so new minds spawn in the technium in inordinate degrees. Technology is anything a mind makes. Built by minds, the technium is primed to make more minds. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too."

* temes technology biology biomimicry emergence mind intelligence collectiveintelligence serviceecologies evolution gaia #bandwidth #processing #storage KevinKelly
april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Rough Type -- A new chapter in the theory of messages

'Twitter, it has become clear, was "never about what you’re doing for breakfast," as Steve Gillmor writes. It was about creating "the realtime universal message bus." It was, in other words, about building an electronic conduit, a "bus," through which the people on the network - the human nodes - can efficiently exchange what have come to be called "status updates." The use of engineering terms to describe social relations is both apt and necessary. The social network is a computer network, a platform for programming in which man and machine enter a symbiotic, or cybernetic, relationship.'

networks socialnetworking twitter realtime socialcomputing commandline messaging communication cybernetics extensionsofman centralnervoussystem #bandwidth #storage #processing
april 2009 by adamcrowe

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New York Times -- Too Busy to Notice You’re Too Busy

'According to Dr. Hallowell, there are many overlapping reasons we all fall into the trap of being overly busy. A few are: #It is so easy with cellphones and BlackBerrys a touch away. #It is a kind of high. #It is a status symbol. #We’re afraid we’ll be left out if we slow down. #We avoid dealing with life’s really big issues — death, global warming, AIDS, terrorism — by running from task to task. #We do not know how not to be busy. -- Not only are we constantly occupied, but we, as Americans, are also famous for not knowing how to be unoccupied. “You can feel like a tin can surrounded by a circle of a hundred powerful magnets,” he writes. “Many people are excessively busy because they allow themselves to respond to every magnet: tracking too much data, processing too much information, answering to too many people, taking on too many tasks — all in the sense that this is the way they must live in order to keep up and stay in control. But it’s the magnets that have the control.”'

psychology behaviours time status attention continuouspartialattention experience feedback gluttony addiction control #bandwidth #processing
april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Institute of Contemporary Arts -- Our new home Cyburbia

"Only when huge digital throngs of people spontaneously arrived to crack open that information loop and add themselves as nodes on online social networks was Wiener's cybernetic vision fully realised. As armies of human nodes queued up to send and receive a constant stream of messages from their electronic ties, they unknowingly become the infrastructure and the backbone of a new kind of network or continuous information loop. Where this constant cycle of messaging and feedback has left us, I argue, is a place called Cyburbia. Cybernetics has brought us a long way, but now that its global information loop is fully built, it is in danger of leaving us lost and directionless. Now we need to spend some time thinking about the message - what it does to us to have the new communication technologies around, and how artists, culture-makers and everyone else might harness that new sensibility and turn it to their own advantage." -- (h8 cheap McLuhan derivatives ><)

McLuhan cybernetics networks socialnetworking themediumisthemessage #bandwidth #socialization #processing #complexity media retribalization psychology
march 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Heart pill to banish bad memories

'And Dr Daniel Sokol, lecturer in Medical Ethics at St George's, University of London, said memories were important, for people to learn from their mistakes for example. "Removing bad memories is not like removing a wart or a mole. It will change our personal identity since who we are is linked to our memories. It may perhaps be beneficial in some cases, but before eradicating memories, we must reflect on the knock-on effects that this will have on individuals, society and our sense of humanity."'

psychology memory drugs ethics missing #storage #processing
february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Raph’s Website -- Twitter, status, and /tell

"I have now spent two days with Twitter, and I have decided that it is basically guild chat in Internet-the-MMO. It’s a form of /grouptell, and we’re all out slaying bookmarks instead of orcs. Perhaps a recipe for the next big viral technologies on the Internet is go through the various basic things that were present in muds, and figure out the HTTP-based versions of them that people would want in the sidebars of their browsers.

twitter commandline virtualworlds MUDs mmorpg behaviours statusupdates conversation coordination guilds groups communication protocols #processing #bandwidth #socialization
february 2009 by adamcrowe

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naked capitalism -- Twitter, Communication, and My Intermittent Inner Luddite

"Newspeak, indeed, differed from most all other languages in that its vocabulary grew smaller instead of larger every year. Each reduction was a gain, since the smaller the area of choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought. Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centers at all... (Newspeak Dictionary)" -- "You can't say anything complicated or nuanced in 140 characters. ...try explaining Plato's cave in those confines. Can't be done. You might allude to it, but you could not present it to someone who didn't know about it already. And Twitter encourages people to accept a medium that severely constrains communication, and calls a defect a virtue. Twitter feeds [the multi-tasking] addiction, that false sense of urgency. Most things can wait. Indeed, a lot of things are better off waiting. But we are encouraged to be plugged in, overstimulated all the time, at the expense of higher quality human relations."

psychology communication twitter behaviours themediumisthemassage multitasking continuouspartialattention cognition attention newspeak language #bandwidth #processing #specialization media
february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Sherry Turkle -- Artificial Intelligence and Psychoanalysis: A New Alliance (PDF)

"Despite their differences, psychoanalysis and AI have always shared theoretical affinities –among these, the challenge to the idea of the autonomous, intentional actor, the need for self-reference in theory building, and the need for objects such as censors to deal with internal conflict. The strength and the weakness of object theories are the same in both psychoanalysis and AI: the strength is a conceptual framework that offers rich possibilities for models of interactive process; the weakness is that the framework may be too rich. The postulated object may be too powerful: they explain the mind by postulating many minds within it."

* artificialintelligence psychoanalysis biology psychology metapsychology reflexivity recursion emergence intelligence mind simulation agents democracy sociology connectionism conflict learning perceptron neuralnetworks cognition paradox absurdity fear censorship repression unconscious freud relationships relationalobjects objects ooc programming acting fragmentation distributed self feelings therapy theory diffusion culture ideas play #processing #storage #bandwidth #diversity SherryTurkle pdf code
january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Infovore -- If Gamers Ran The World

'#Scarcity: A gamer looks at scarcity and says “oh, this is just survival horror”. There’s no longer any bonus to highscores and killing everything; the only victory is survival. And when reduced to those raw elements, survival is, by its very nature, horrific. #Complexity: ...it requires a reasonably high degree of systems literacy to recognise that the game is a regular system, and as such, its behaviour can be calculated. Learning what you can and can’t calculate or predict is an important skill... #Effectiveness & Efficiency #An End to Colocation #Living in a Data Rich World: ...gamers love scores...consider the popularity of Championship Manager, the world’s most popular spreadsheet... #Failure: When we learn in games, we learn by failing -- On Politics: 'Obama ‘08 Call Friends (iPhone app)... It has online high-score charts; you can compete against people you don’t know to be the best campaigner. On the sly, they turned politics into an MMO.'

* thegamingofeverydaylife gaming behaviours psychology survivalism economics scarcity simulation learning training communication coordination adaptation emergence groups management data leaky productnarratives nike+ storygraph feedback performance points experiencepoints experience design interface glanceable gui motivation goals experimentation play failure transformation politics campaign polling competition activism #storage #bandwidth #socialization #processing #complexity
december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Games Without Frontiers -- How Videogames Blind Us With Science

"The (mostly) young people engaging in these sciencelike conversations are precisely the same ones who are, more and more, tuning out of science in the classroom. Steinkuehler thinks videogames are the way to reverse this sorry trend. She argues that schools ought to be embracing games as places to show kids the value of scientific scrutiny -- the way it helps us make sense of the world. Science isn't about facts. It's about the quest for facts -- the scientific method, the process by which we hash through confusing thickets of ignorance. It's dynamic, argumentative, collaborative, competitive, filled with flashes of crazy excitement and hours of drudgework, and driven by ego: Our desire to be the one who figures it out, at least for now. It's dramatic and nutty and fun. And it's pretty much how kids already approach the games they love."

gaming thegamingofeverydaylife behaviours science simulation learning children education #processing #complexity #diversity CliveThompson
december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Rough Type -- A typology of network strategies

#Network effect #Data mines #Digital sharecropping or "user-generated content. #Complements #Two-sided markets #Economies of scale, economies of scope, and experience -- "None of these strategies is new. All of them are available offline as well as online. But because of the scale of the Net, they often take new or stronger forms when harnessed online. Although the success of the strategies will vary depending on the particular market in which they're applied, and on the way they're combined to form a broader strategy..."

economics businessmodels strategy networks markets communities #bandwidth #storage #processing
november 2008 by adamcrowe

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MIT Convergence Culture Consortium -- FOE3 Liveblog: Conversation -- Wealth, Value, and Social Production

"#Henry Jenkins: If Fan fiction is peer production. Multiplicity of narratives. In that case, peer production thrives. Only if idea of unified vision of the whole holds strongly... #Yochai Benkler: Well, what would you define as the cultural unit? Is it the individual statement in relation to the underlying entertainment product or is it the conversation and the exchange?"

FoE3 socialmedia peerproduction narrativeeconomy fanon fandom fanfiction transmedia transformation culture #bandwidth #socialization #processing #complexity
november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Itiel Dror, Stevan Harnad -- Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology

"Cognizers can offload some of their cognitive functions onto cognitive technology, thereby extending their performance capacity beyond the limits of their own brain power. Language itself is a form of cognitive technology that allows cognizers to offload some of their cognitive functions onto the brains of other cognizers. And as with language, the cognitive tool par excellence, such technological changes are not merely instrumental and quantitative: they can have profound effects on how we think and encode information, on how we communicate with one another, on our mental states, and on our very nature.

cognition performance research information collectiveintelligence cybernetics psychology language context #processing #complexity #bandwidth #socialization
september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Edge Perspectives with John Hagel -- Stupidity and the Internet

"Stories offer potential to communicate some elements of tacit knowledge. They help to provide enough of a sense of context to reconstruct and extend parts of the tacit. Stories, properly told to communicate the richness of context, do not reduce to snippets. In the end, though, tacit knowledge will only flow through shared practice and the deep relationships that build up around shared practice." -- Yup. It's all about the Guilds.

via:chromacomms guilds craft storygraph reflexivity learning content context #storage #processing #complexity
august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Freshen me up -- When a brand just get’s it

EA: “Levinator 25, you seem to think your Jesus Shot video was a glitch in the game”. -- Their response makes you want to believe that it was a pre-emptive easter egg. Mystery and foresight. That's the true brand payoff.

pr ea eastereggs mystery #processing via:nrb210
august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- The birth of the wrongness

Wrongness may be defined as the attempt to reject aesthetically or repudiate the constraints of popularity after the compromises to achieve it have already been made. Since it is so self-referential, it tends to be politically and artistically sterile. The appeal of such wrongness is limited mainly to connoisseurs of disillusionment and cynicism, and more important, to those “true fans” of the contemptuous artists. By sticking with performers no matter how much hatred they direct at their audiences, these fans prove they are not dilettantes."

mystery storytelling cognition #processing #complexity
august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Clive Thompson -- Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends'

'Reality mining can also spot when a group is in a groove. Sandy Pentland, the MIT professor who heads up the lab where Waber works, has discovered that highly creative teams socialize in a "pulsing star" pattern: They fan out to gather information, then regroup. "People explore during the day," Pentland says, "and then later get very tight and inbred, with everybody talking to everybody."'

realitymining socialnetworking socialgraph storygraph groups behaviours collaboration management ecology selforganisation metabolism surveillance privacy #processing #bandwidth CliveThompson
august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Renclothes -- Game Follower's Manifesto

"*I will never be the first to solve a puzzle. COROLLARY-I will only find out about puzzles after they have already been solved. COROLLARY-My name will never appear in the Trail, Guide, or any other game-related website. COROLLARY-If I do actually solve a puzzle, the solution will have been posted by somebody else minutes before."

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Universe Creation 101 -- It’s Manifesto Time!

42 Entertainment’s 5 ARG Tenants: '#3. The 18-35 demo has grown up in a marketing-saturated environment and has developed a sophisticated set of tools for avoiding the vast majority of marketing messages. As a rule of thumb, the bigger the neon sign the faster they’ll run the other way. So the premise here was, instead of shouting, go the opposite way and whisper—hide it. Finding it becomes an act of discovery—something they can feel proud of and are willing to talk about with their friends. It shifts entertainment presentation from exhibitionist to voyeuristic. #4. In doing so we turned those other media elements from “must be avoided” into “must be dissected.” For a very small amount of additional media dollars, it turns your large investment into something people will seek out.'

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog -- Nodal man

"The scariest thing about Stanley Kubrick's vision wasn't that computers started to act like people but that people had started to act like computers. We're beginning to process information as if we're nodes; it's all about the speed of locating and reading data. We're transferring our intelligence into the machine, and the machine is transferring its way of thinking into us."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Nicholas G. Carr -- The Google Enigma

"For Google, literally everything that happens on the Internet is a complement to its main business. The more things that people and companies do online, the more ads they see and the more money Google makes. Because the sales of complementary products rise in tandem, a company has a strong strategic interest in reducing the cost and expanding the availability of the complements to its core product. It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that a company would like all complements to be given away. To borrow a well-worn phrase, Google wants information to be free — and that is why Google strikes fear into so many different kinds of companies."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Union Square Ventures -- Google's Data Asset

"Data has this really weird quality. In economic terms data has an increasing marginal utility. Anyone who took Econ 101 knows that most physical objects have a decreasing marginal utility. Data has the opposite characteristic. Each incremental point of data adds value to the ones you all ready have. Google’s services all benefit from additional data albeit in different ways. Google could potentially provide a better value proposition to the end user with an inferior algorithm powered by more data, sourced from a broader range of services." Comment: Greg: "total utility increases... marginal utility decreases."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Technology Review -- What Your Phone Knows About You

"All this sort-of Web 2.0 stuff is nice, but you have to type stuff in. Things are never up to date, and unless you consciously know about something, you can't put it in. Reality mining is all about paying attention to patterns in life and using that information to help you do things like set privacy policies, share things with people, notify people when you're near them, and just to help you live your life." -- !!! Everyware must default to plausible deniability.

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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TED.com -- Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web

"The McLuhan reversal: McLuhan was saying 'Machines are the extensions of human senses.' And I'm saying 'Humans are the extended senses of the Machine.' -- Great point on our numbed co-dependence on language and the 'writing machine'. He's really nailed it with this one!

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Zero influence -- Doing Business As (A Mercenary)

"Brands within the infrastructure of the cultural mechanism, are the verbs of life, they are not about trying to facilitate the consumers interests - it’s deeper, more transparent, more beneficial - it’s about the organisation working towards a common goal - and that is - mutuality. If Brands think that their role is to rise above ‘acceptability’, then they are going the wrong direction. Brands, if they want to be the life of the consumer, must be the reasoning of the consumer."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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russell davies -- my schtick

"Communication is going on here. But it's not verbal communication. It's communication with other bits of the brain. Mirror neurons are firing. All sorts of things are happening. But it's not about a single, clear message." -- AMAZING presentation from way back. Gotta love the long tail.

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Scientific American -- The Semantic Web

"The challenge of the Semantic Web, therefore, is to provide a language that expresses both data and rules for reasoning about the data and that allows rules from any existing knowledge-representation system to be exported onto the Web."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Vimeo -- Nova Spivack: Semantic Web Talk

Don't be too proud of this ontological terror you've constructed...

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Edge -- THE PANCAKE PEOPLE, OR, "THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD"

Douglas Rushkoff: "We give up the illusion of our power as deriving from some notion of individual collecting data, and find out that having access to data through our network-enabled communities gives us an entirely more living flow of information that is appropriate to the ever changing circumstances surrounding us. Instead of growing high, we grow wide. We become pancake people." -- Read the whole thread.

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Creating Passionate Users -- If some people don't HATE your product, it's mediocre.

"... we don't consider ourselves writers and we don't consider our users to be readers. We consider them learners. And that means our job is not to write but to help them learn." -- Consumers, customers, viewers, etc = Learners. The bigger frame.

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Jeremy Zawodny -- Using del.icio.us as a writing summarization tool

"It occurs to me that with a sufficient number of people bookmarking an article and selecting a short passage from it, I have a useful way to figure out what statement(s) most resonated with those readers (and possibly a much larger audience). It's almost like a human powered version of Microsoft Word's document summarization feature."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Hollywood Has Finally Figured Out How to Make Web Video Pay

'Rogow is thrilled with Cisco's digital signs, which can be remotely programmed to display anything you want — like a coded message for Anna. "Which is, I think, why you really invented it: for superspies to get secret messages in malls," he quips. "We think that's real cool." He's equally happy with the surveillance system, which can send Anna a digital alert on her smartphone. "But we want to make sure we've got the Cisco logo in a prominent position"

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Malwebolence: The World of Web Trolling

The Cultural Logic of Late Trollism: "You look for someone who is full of it, a real blowhard. Then you exploit their insecurities to get an insane amount of drama, laughs and lulz. Rules would be simple: #1. Do whatever it takes to get lulz. #2. Make sure the lulz is widely distributed. This will allow for more lulz to be made. #3. The game is never over until all the lulz have been had."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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This Blog Sits at the -- X files and the perils of consistency

'... consistency is a tyranny. It gives power to rapid fans who define their fandom by their knowledge of the narrative. Some of these people are not cocreators of the narratives. They are jailers, constantly vigilant for any, even unimportant inconsistency. On the other side, the newcomers look at the detail of a narrative enterprise like Lost and think to themselves, "there's no way I can catch up."'

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Modern Love: Why Spoil Great Sex by Dating?

"Don’t have a prospect? Check Facebook. Afraid to call? Text. With so many avenues for communication, one might expect an onslaught of romantic soliloquies, but that isn’t the case. Casual is sexy. Caring is creepy."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog -- The multi-tasking virus

Comment: Bertil: "... plan, remember, schedule... any night-out demands the managing capabilities of a wedding planner, simply because the cell-phones have transformed a drink into the most social occasional. Too much in their mind implies they optimize."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog -- Another voice

Comment: Kendall Brookfeld: "Mobile phones are channel-clickers for people, and interrupt direct conversation. Conversation itself seems to be affected. I have fewer long talks with friends, on the phone or otherwise, and I miss this a lot."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Britannica Blog: Sven Birkerts -- A Know-Nothing's Defense of Serious Reading & Culture: A Reply to Clay Shirky

"[Tolstoy's 'War and Peace'] ought not be mocked quite so glibly. It is not just the work, it is the inheritance of the work, the vision of history, the understanding of the intersection of the singular with the societal, that is at issue."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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The Reality Club -- Larry Sanger ON "IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID" By Nicholas Carr

"... the problem is the weakening of our ability to think things through for ourselves. Sadly, some even glorify and encourage this disturbing trend. Remember 2005's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking?"

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Kevin Kelly -- Will We Let Google Make Us Smarter?

Comment: Keving Kelly in reply to Nick Carr: "I agree tools can affect our thinking. What I don’t assume is that a) we will be self-aware of what those affects are, or b) that we can acertain which tool does what."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Kevin Kelly -- Will We Let Google Make Us Smarter?

Comment: Nick Carr: "... the efficiency of data collection seems central to Google’s (and seemingly Kevin Kelly’s) idea of intelligence; to me it’s one element in intelligence but by no means the most important... Google has no impact on IQ scores."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Kevin Kelly -- Will We Let Google Make Us Smarter?

Comment: Tom Buckner: "... three ways of knowing a thing: To know it yourself, to know others who know it, or to know how to find those who know it? Google’s work is directly related to how good you are at asking the right question."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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The Reality Club -- Kevin Kelly ON "IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID" By Nicholas Carr

"Question is, do you get off Google or stay on all the time? I think that even if the penalty is that you lose 20 points of your natural IQ when you get off Google AI, most of us will choose to keep the 40 IQ points we gain by jacking in all the time."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Waxy.org -- The Machine That Changed the World

In five parts.

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