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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
Business Insider -- INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously Complicated Social Media Marketing Is Now
'This depiction of the digital marketing landscape was shown at a Buddy Media event marking the launch of the social marketing software agency's new suite of measurement tools. You can click to enlarge it, but that won't make it look any simpler.'
socialmedia  data  kipple 
yesterday by adamcrowe
Forbes -- Can You Use Big Data? The Litmus Test by Venkatesh Rao
'I have concluded that there are three basic conditions you need to meet to take advantage of Big Data: #The information content of whatever your company makes or sells is above a certain critical threshold; #Your workforce and operations can be instrumented to create enough of a data deluge that you need Big Data technology; #Your senior management can learn how to work with a larger strategy canvas. -- The design of your business model (its structure) follows your strategy (the core insight about an exploitable unfair advantage that you want to pursue). But the structure must also be expressed within the capabilities of the technology with which it is built. The architectural capabilities of the technology are the language within which your business model must be expressed. When the expressivity of a technology domain lags the creativity of the strategic thinking, strategy gets structurally constrained by technology. When technology leads creativity, the canvas expands, and those who notice the newly-breakable constraints are able to cause disruption. Exactly such a canvas expansion is happening right now. For information-intensive businesses operating with business models that can be cheaply instrumented to create and consume data deluges within feedback architectures, the scope for strategy has suddenly expanded. If you cannot paint a better picture on the expanded canvas, somebody else likely will. That’s why Big Data matters.'
data  strategy  businessmodels 
11 weeks ago by adamcrowe
Forbes -- The People of the Petabyte by Venkatesh Rao
'IT admins, six sigma types rushing to the data bandwagon, ex-BI types, visualization and infographic geeks, analytics geeks, programmers, old-school statisticians, Hadoop wranglers — they all seem to be calling themselves data scientist now. One speaker quipped that the difference between an “analyst” and a “data scientist” is about $40,000. The bigger the market, the bigger the incentive to stop infighting and forge an opaque consensus. Infighting creates a kind of transparency that benefits buyers, by allowing them to play divide-and-conquer games. -- Big Data is unique among recent IT trends in that it is a market and opportunity created by an open source movement. The entire industry exists because of Hadoop, an infrastructure component inspired by Google technology. So there has been a sense of unity around a shared non-commercial mission from Day 1. The consensual label “data scientist” is partly a consequence of a sense that the data scene is a social fraternity rather than a business sector. There is also a pragmatic consensus that the biggest gains will be found by mixing up large datasets owned by different parties (think “mashups for titans”). This is an element of the scene that is rather like the effort to standardize railroad gauges in the 19th century, or containerization in the twentieth century. It reinforces the cultural mission by making standardization and data interoperability a matter of shared interest.'
data  numbers  kipple 
12 weeks ago by adamcrowe
Canalside View -- Data Without Context, Results Without Consequence, Counting Without Analysis... An Industry Without Conscience?
'... judging by some of our industry’s public discourse, it would seem that large parts of ad- and marketingland are behaving as if they don’t know the difference between effects and effectiveness. Or as if they think they’re in the entertainment business. In which getting people to watch – and maybe ‘engage’ with – our content is the whole end purpose of the enterprise. If there’s one thing digital stuff is good at, it’s leaving behind it a vast trail of data. It gives us more and more things we can easily and immediately count – searches, views, visits, time on page, bounce rate, exit rate, time on site, linking, forwarding, following, referring, clicking, friending, liking, +ing, and so on. All these things are easy to monitor and count... Tens of thousands of this! Hundreds of thousands of that! But counting and analysis are very different things.'
marketing  socialmedia  engagement  ambientimmediacy  thegamingofeverdaylife  numbers  data  kipple 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
Be Slightly Evil -- Derailing the Data-Driven
'All these failure modes arise from the same place: failing to actually think about the problem at a pre-technical level: asking the right quesitons and pondering the underlying assumptions and hypotheses. All these activities are outside of the technical work of data-driven decision making. There are no formulas or processes at this framing stage. The key is to recognize that CDDDs do everything they do out of risk aversion, but are hazy about what data reduce what risks and uncertainties. Their risk aversion also tends to be absolute rather than relative. CDDDs usually want the same levels of certainty around every decision, whether or not there is enough information to lower the risk to their comfort levels. This means they are in a hurry to get to the technical parts because it feels like they are accomplishing something. So you need to encourage them in their quest for a false sense of security, and hurry them along to the technical exercises.'
emotionalintelligence  data  manipulation 
april 2011 by adamcrowe
O'Reilly Radar -- Amygdala FarmVille
'I can only imagine the reaction in the boardrooms of those traditional firms when Facebook and Google built their Psychographic Marketing Honeypots and disguised them as a social network and a search engine. "All that data we've worked so hard to source! Merde! People just sit there all day giving it to them!" Faust at least knew the terms of his agreement. Here's what you need to know: Your mind is advanced enough to experience a self, a self that you think has intrinsic value. But that's just a construction in your head. Your actual extrinsic value, I'm sorry to say, is just the sum of your known behaviors and the predictive model they make possible. The stuff you think of as "your data" and the web thinks of as "our data about you — read the ToS," is the grist for that mill. And Facebook's shiny front room is just a place for you to behave promiscuously and observably. While you're farming, well, fake carrots or something, they are farming your amygdala.'
internet  facebook  google  panopticon  data  honeypot  casinogulag  psychology  from delicious
april 2011 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Real-Time Debate Feedback Distorts Democracy
'...debates are more than opportunities to hear candidates present views and policy. They’re intellectual boxing matches. People like keeping score. There are, however, reasons to be suspicious of the graphs, known as “worms” in colloquial reference to their squiggling path across TV screens. Many studies describe how people are influenced by what others think, especially when they’ve yet to form an opinion of their own. It seems to be instinctive: Motivated to be accurate, we take others’ assessments of reality into account, whether we want to or not. (As an example, just think how much easier it is to laugh at a joke when it’s followed by laughter.) -- Manipulative effect could also be measured even in test subjects who said they didn’t pay attention to the worm, and couldn’t remember whom it tended to favor. “The worm’s influence may be quite difficult for viewers to discount,” wrote Davis and Memon.' -- How many fingers, Winston?
kipple  data  realtime  polling  reflexivity  groupthink  consensusreality  from delicious
april 2011 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Agnotology
'Agnotology is the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt... Schiebinger: "Ignorance is often not merely the absence of knowledge but an outcome of cultural and political struggle."' -- Betancourt: "Agnotologic capitalism": The systemic production and maintenance of ignorance. The creation of systemic unknowns where any potential "fact" is always already countered by an alternative of apparently equal weight and value renders engagement with the conditions of reality – the very situations affective labor seeks to assuage – contentious and a source of confusion... Affective labor is the enabler for the creation of the bubbles that are characteristic of the digital capitalist economy. Where the reduction of alienation is a precondition for the elimination of dissent. Affective labor is part of a larger activity where the population is distracted by affective pursuits and fantasies of economic advancement.'
kipple  digital  data  agnotology  usevaluevssignvalue  dematerialization  financialization  immaterialism  obscurantism  confusionism  simulacra  hologram  pseudoworlds  affectivelabour  immateriallabour  "capitalism"  theadvertisedlife  ponzi  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
Stanford -- Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee
'Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium. But how do we communicate with data, how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays?'
kipple  data  statistics  numbers  journalism  information  visualization  storytelling  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Cyberspace When You’re Dead
'I spoke to a couple of Entrustet users, who said they particularly wanted to protect photos stored online, along with hosting and domain-­registration information for personal and business sites. Entrustet also offers an “account incinerator,” to obliterate content its users would prefer not to have linger on after them, and one person I spoke to mentioned having tagged a personal Twitter account for deletion — “it’s just inside jokes, personal ranting and raving” — along with a Gmail account. “I don’t need people judging the personal e-mails that I sent to my friends,” he explained. If we try to control the way we are perceived in life, why not in death, too? It’s not wholly unusual to do this with physical artifacts: letters to be opened only after death, or even to be destroyed. If nothing else, those Entrustet users figure they are leaving behind some guidelines about which bits of their online lives matter, and which don’t.' -- Like tears in rain
digital  death  estateplanning  daemon  traceeradication  data  internet  virtuality  persistence  legacy  archives  lifecasting  sousveillance  selfservers  memories  halflife  ubik  psychology  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
USATODAY.com -- Hello, Big Brother: Digital sensors are watching us
'...a stranger in a mall or restaurant could photograph you, then go online to profile you. "People will be able to instantaneously find out about you," Calo says. Still, in a world of pervasive sensors, troubling data correlations are cropping up in unanticipated ways. For instance, most consumers are ignorant about how smartphones equipped with GPS location finders routinely "geotag" photos and videos, embedding images with the longitude and latitude of the location shown in the image. Last summer, industrial designer Adam Savage, co-host of the TV show MythBusters, used his iPhone to snap a photo of his Toyota Land Cruiser parked in front of his house, then posted it on Twitter. In doing so, Savage, in effect, publicly disclosed where he lives.
everyware  data  leaky  reputation  anonequiveillance  surveillance  sousveillance  oversharing  panopticon  equiveillance  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
O'Reilly Radar -- Strata Gems: Where to find data
'With the growth of both the open data movement and data marketplaces, there's now a wealth of public data - some free, some for sale - that you can use in your analyses and applications. It's not just about data dumps: increasingly you can get data through APIs, or even execute it on servers provided by the data host.'
data  datasets 
december 2010 by adamcrowe
BBC News -- ACS:Law could face £500,000 fine for porn list leak
'The attacks were declared on notorious message-board 4chan and were reportedly in retaliation for anti-piracy efforts against file-sharing websites. Users of 4chan are renowned for online activism and direct action. "Operation Payback", as it was known, was reportedly revenge for the MPAA and RIAA's action against The Pirate Bay. The group has declared it will continue to target other sites involved in anti online piracy activity.'
anonymous  activism  extortion  data  leaky 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Nanex -- Market Crop Circle Of The Day
'As we continue to monitor the markets for evidence of Quote Stuffing and Strange Sequences (Crop Circles), we find that there are dozens if not hundreds of examples to choose from on any given day. As such, this page will be updated often with charts demonstrating this activity. '
visualization  algorithms  bots  data  markets  manipulation 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Seth's Blog -- The secret of the Roush effect
'When Gerald Roush died in late May, he left behind the Ferrari Market Letter. This newsletter, which he started and ran, had nearly 5,000 subscribers, paying him $130 a year for a subscription. Do the math! It's a good living--even without a fancy website. The Roush effect involves extraordinary domain knowledge, a market small enough to understand and diligently earning the role of data middleman. The players in the market want there to be one clearinghouse, one authority who can connect the data, see the trends and publish the conventional wisdom. Just about every tribe needs a Gerald Roush. And in many markets, they can afford to pay someone like him very handsomely.'
business  businessmodels  data  aggregation  markets 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Google Code -- Google Prediction API
'The Prediction API enables access to Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Upload your data to Google Storage for Developers, then use the Prediction API to make real-time decisions in your applications. The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity.' -- All your future are belong to us
google  data  api  prediction  honeypot  artificialintelligence  bots  borg  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
RWW -- Google CEO Schmidt: "People Aren't Ready for the Technology Revolution"
'On the misuse of information for criminal or anti-social purposes: "The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."' (We'll work with the anti-social criminals calling themselves "the government" to make sure you can never escape.) -- '"People aren't ready for the technology revolution that's going to happen to them." "...society isn't ready for questions that will be raised as result of user-generated content."' (People won't know how to cope when they realise they've sold themselves into slavery via our 'free' services, so they'll naturally repress the horror and instead look to us as saviours. We shall oblige by talking religious mumbo-jumbo about terabytes and distruptions. And we shall offer servitude in perpetual open vs closed data wars to give people meaning and a reason to live.)
google  religion  data  datamining  realitymining  casinogulag  subsistenceclicking  precrime  feudalism  tyranny  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- Gambling-Addiction Study Gets Out Of Hand
'The study, which is now nearly $10 million over budget, was supposed to have been completed by this past May. Layton continues to gather data, however, insisting that the big breakthrough, or "payoff," is just around the corner. "Baby, this one is the big one, I can feel it," said Stangel, holding a CD-ROM of raw data to his ear and shaking it. "This contains data from control groups seven and eleven, stuff we'd thrown out because it seemed so blue-sky, but we were thinking too hard and not going with our gut. Sometimes, the scientific method can lead you wrong, you know?" "Seven-eleven! Seven-come-eleven!" said Stangel, pausing to let Fancy Nancy blow on the disc. "Daddy needs a new paradigmatic skew!"' -- Numbers numb!
TheOnion  research  data  numbers  addiction  gambling  lulz  satire  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
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
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
NYTimes.com -- The Data-Driven Life
'We tolerate the pathologies of quantification — a dry, abstract, mechanical type of knowledge — because the results are so powerful. Numbering things allows tests, comparisons, experiments. Numbers make problems less resonant emotionally but more tractable intellectually. In science, in business and in the more reasonable sectors of government, numbers have won fair and square. For a long time, only one area of human activity appeared to be immune. In the cozy confines of personal life, we rarely used the power of numbers. The techniques of analysis that had proved so effective were left behind at the office at the end of the day and picked up again the next morning. The imposition, on oneself or one’s family, of a regime of objective record keeping seemed ridiculous. A journal was respectable. A spreadsheet was creepy.' -- Numbers numb.
data  numbers  quantifiedself  sousveillance  taylorism 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
danah boyd -- "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity"
'For marketers and analysts... This is an exciting era of publicity, one in which you have more access to data than ever before, one in which you can see people who were previously invisible. But just because you are able to see people doesn't mean that they want to be seen by you. And just because you think you can interpret what you see doesn't mean you will do so accurately. We are becoming a data-driven society... but please realize that just because you have access to numbers doesn't mean that the numbers tell the full picture. Or that people will be happy to hear that you have this information. Just because a large percentage of people engage in public does not mean that they don't care about privacy. If you remember that privacy is about maintaining a sense of control, you can understand why Privacy is Not Dead. Observing people’s data traces gives no indication of whether or not they are trying to be public or private. You need to understand their intentions...'
data  privacy  publics  leaky  psychographics  ethics  DanahBoyd  psychology 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Tarsnap - Online backups for the truly paranoid
data  encryption  security  ssh  backup  memoryhole 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Google Video -- Steve Rambam: Privacy Is Dead, Get Over It
'Emphasis will be placed on discussing the "digital footprints" that we all leave in our daily lives, and how it is now possible for an investigator (or government Agent) to determine a person's likes and dislikes, religion, political beliefs, sexual orientation, habits, hobbies, friends, family, finances, health and even the person's actual physical whereabouts at any given moment, solely by the use of online data and related activity.'
internet  web  datamining  realitymining  identity  privacy  security  surveillance  sousveillance  plausibledeniability  socialgraph  psychographics  marketing  information  data  #storage  #ubiquity  leaky  panopticon 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Vimeo -- Google PSA: The More You Know 1/3
'Web 3.0: The grand retreat to our own servers.'
web  google  sharecropping  backlash  data  dataportability 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
RWW -- Want to Know Where Your Neighbors Are Spending Their Money? Bundle Will Tell You
'Thanks to a cooperation with Citi and other third-party data suppliers, Bundle is able to compile detailed statistics about how Americans are spending their money. To get started, you just enter your location, age, income and whether you are married, single or have kids. Bundle will then create an infographic that represents the spending habits of similar households in your neighborhood. From there, you can drill down deeper into the statistics. At its most granular level, Bundle displays where people are spending their money. My neighbors, for example, buy their electronics at Best Buy, Apple and Fry's.' -- Lambs to the slaughter.
economics  land  realestate  speculation  consumption  data  datamining  surveillance  sousveillance  status  financialization  credit  whuffie  socialgraph  socialengineering  casinogulag 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- Average American Consumes 34 Gigabytes Daily
'Doug Fischer, Systems Analyst: "Wow. And to think, there are data-starved children in Africa who subsist on just kilobytes a day."'
TheOnion  gluttony  consumption  consumerism  culturalcapital  culturalcapacity  data  #storage 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Asian Correspondent -- So you think you can do climate science? - the quiz
#1120593115.txt -- Phil Jones: "What an idiot. The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant." -- #933255789.txt: Adam Markham: "...[WWF Austrailia] would like to see the section on variability and extreme events beefed up if possible. They regard an increased likelihood of even 50% of drought or extreme weather as a significant risk. Drought is also a particularly importnat issue for Australia, as are tropical storms. I guess the bottom line is that if they are going to go with a big public splash on this they need something that will get good support from CSIRO scientists (who will certainly be asked to comment by the press)." -- #1237496573.txt: Ben Santer: "If the RMS is going to require authors to make ALL data available - raw data PLUS results from all intermediate calculations - I will not submit any further papers to RMS journals."
climate  obsfuction  data  manipulation  fraud 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Watts Up With That? -- CRU Emails “may” be open to interpretation, but commented code by the programmer tells the real story
<code> // Uses “corrected” MXD – but shouldn’t usually plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures.</code> ... "corrected" ... 'You can claim an email you wrote years ago isn’t accurate saying it was “taken out of context”, but a programmer making notes in the code does so that he/she can document what the code is actually doing at that stage, so that anyone who looks at it later can figure out why this function doesn’t plot past 1960. In this case, it is not allowing all of the temperature data to be plotted. Growing season data (summer months when the new tree rings are formed) past 1960 is thrown out because “these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures”, which implies some post processing routine. Spin that...' -- So, how do you like living in a programmed pseudo-reality?
climate  scams  data  manipulation  realityprogramming  simulacra  thematrix  PKD 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
This is Plot Shop
Jewellery shaped from market data -- 'This collection celebrates the humble data behind mighty economies: commodity prices. Gold, Silver, Lead & Oil prices are lifted from the financial pages and transformed into wearable art.'
markets  data  visualization  jewellery 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility Annex -- Technologies, narratives of self
'...digitalization makes the reproduction of the permanently insecure self more integral to the reproduction of consumerist social relations. The capacities and networks of the internet permit an archived self that becomes a subject's most important piece of property ... "reputational capital," the sum total of connections and actions produced within the social space online. This self subsists on postitive affirmation and metrics that establish the visiblity of its activities online. Being is transformed into "presence," which can be measured and ranked ...a self will need to be grounded in commercialized, corporatized discourse before we apprehend it ...narratives of subjectivity are even more impoverished by the restricted classifications of digital data possible within these platforms. The self we are compelled to produce online is smaller, with less potential for growth and less curiosity, the more we produce it and add to the archive that will dictate our future choices.'
internet  web  consumerism  data  quantifiedself  selfservers  self  selfobjects  taste  reputation  whuffie  immateriallabour  subjectivity  circumscription  theadvertisedlife 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
BBC -- Facebook 'memorialises' profiles
'It follows some cases of members receiving updates about dead friends. If a user is reported as deceased, Facebook will remove sensitive information such as status updates and contacts. When reporting a death, users must offer "proof" by submitting either an obituary or news article. Memorialised accounts will have new privacy settings so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. "We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialised."' -- Proof. Is fb becoming a global Births, Marriages and Deaths database?
socialnetworking  facebook  avatars  selfobjects  puppetry  death  zombies  darknets  data  database  psychology 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
The New Republic -- Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government by Lawrence Lessig
'This is the problem of attention-span. To understand something—an essay, an argument, a proof of innocence—requires a certain amount of attention. But on many issues, the average, or even rational, amount of attention given to understand many of these correlations, and their defamatory implications, is almost always less than the amount of time required. The result is a systemic misunderstanding—at least if the story is reported in a context, or in a manner, that does not neutralize such misunderstanding. The listing and correlating of data hardly qualifies as such a context. Understanding how and why some stories will be understood, or not understood, provides the key to grasping what is wrong with the tyranny of transparency. The public is too smart to waste its time focusing on matters that are not important for it to understand. The ignorance here is rational, not pathological.'
internet  information  data  transparency  context  attention  falsepositives  cynicism  LawrenceLessig 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird -- The kind of program a city is
'In the networked city, the truly pressing need is for translators: people capable of opening these occult systems up, demystifying them, explaining their implications to the people whose neighborhoods and choices and very lives are increasingly conditioned by them. This will be a primary occupation for urbanists and technologists both, for the foreseeable future, as will ensuring that the public’s right to benefit from the data they themselves generate is recognized in law. If we’re reaching the point where it makes sense to consider the city as a fabric of addressable, queryable, even scriptable objects and surfaces – to reimagine its pavements, building façades and parking meters as network resources – this raises an order of questions never before confronted, ethical as much as practical: who has the right of access to these resources, or the ability to set their permissions?'
technology  networks  data  sharedobjects  objects  city  everyware  kipple  #ubiquity 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
CTheory.net -- Media Dopplers
'When we deal with this condition of outformation, we concern ourselves with rates, flow, vector, flux, and its messaging types [unicast, multicast, broadcast, or anycast]. We deal with paths, closeness, link, connectivity, signaling, entropy, self-similarity, throughput, and latency. It doesn't matter what the content is. Rather, the critical standpoint deals with its entropy, its signaling, its rate, flux density and messaging type. -- The requirement for citizen-actors on reality television reflects not nearly the need for such vocations of entertainment, rather, it is the construct of computer networks and software algorithm attempting and stuggling to learn to mimic the bizarre banality of a society dwelling in the afterburn of failed capitalism. It is not staged idiocy, it is pre-school for the machine screens comprehensively looping the simulation of the western debt class.'
*  internet  networks  cybernetics  feedback  technology  temes  collectiveintelligence  hivemind  puppetry  culture  #storage  #ubiquity  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  immunesystem  themediumisthemassage  data  information  outformation  simulation  simulacra  matrix  selfservers  avatars  bots  doppleganger  virtuality  debt  economics  financialization  hologram  via:charlesfrith  media 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
Seldo.Com Blog -- Web companies are user interface companies
'It's their user interface, and only their interface. They streamlined the data entry experience and concentrated on what the user really wanted out of the service: to see where all their money was going, and save themselves cash. This is a lesson I don't think enough companies realize, big or small. User interface is not your lowest-priority problem. It's your only problem. It doesn't matter how useful your service is. If it looks like crap and is hard to use, people will ignore your service because they don't understand it -- even if you have no competitors. User interface is what takes data and turns it into information, and that's all you do if you're a web company. You transform data. It doesn't matter how hard the math was you had to do to transform the data into its final form, if you can't get your user to understand the meaning of that transformation you have fallen at the final hurdle.'
ux  data  design 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
'Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world...' -- Health is wealth.
economics  statistics  data  visualization  history  reality 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Gamasutra -- SIGGRAPH: Wright Talks Perception And 'Entertaining The Hive Mind'
'“It’s about filling the pipe with meaning.” "The data becomes the hub for other experiences," he added. "The IP sits on the data model and the community a data hub for entertainment moving forward. The game becomes a tool set for creativity." Says Wright. So to Wright the challenge for the future is reaching and entertaining the new world, literally. To Wright, the world has not moved from hierarchical to flat, but from hierarchical to interconnected. "More and more I have to think of entertaining the hive mind," says Wright.'
entertainment  sandbox  gaming  data  productnarratives  collectiveintelligence  hivemind  WillWright 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Legacy Locker
'Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your vital digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of loss, death, or disability. -- Legacy Locker helps you pass your precious accounts safely and easily to your spouse, children, friends, or other family. You can assign any digital asset to any beneficiary you want, and know that your content will end up in the right hands. Plus, Legacy Letters let you send a special, easily editable message to anyone you know and care about.'
internet  web  digital  data  archives  security  property  estateplanning  death 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Twenty Sided -- On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Dead
'... it will become more and more common to need to take care of someone’s online affairs when they pass. How do you close out their email accounts, their forum accounts, Facebook, MySpace, IM, etc etc? In short, what do you do will all this stuff? In some cases you can just abandon it - there’s certainly no shortage of that sort of behavior from the net users who are still alive - but I have a sense that it might be unwise to leave accounts floating around out there for years when the owner is gone, particularly if those accounts might contain personal information. The trouble is that there aren’t any customs or traditions for stuff like this yet. Below are some of my thoughts on handling someone’s online affairs.' -- How interesting. There needs to be a 'Upon my death I hereby bequeath my online content to the digital commons' thing as an extension to archive.org
internet  web  data  archives  selfservers  identity  death 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
RWW -- Evolution of a Revolution: Visualizing Millions of Iran Tweets
'...how can a data stream be turned into real-time action, reaching the people who need it, when they need it, and in a form they can easily digest? At the most abstract level, history and computation are the same thing: the evolution of systems over time. Twitter has several remarkable properties that allow us to finally leverage this correspondence in tangible ways. The simplicity of its data, the openness of its system, and its extreme time resolution make it possible for us to detect atoms of history, those moments when something is triggered and society is reconfigured ever so slightly. Simply tracking the volume of various phrases gives us a sense of what is happening on the street, literally and figuratively. But that signal is but a shadow of a far more complex and intricate reality, an interwoven web of individuals and actions. -- Disruptive events lead to information elites.'
*  twitter  #iranelection  socialmedia  realtime  history  data  datamining  realitymining  information  propagation  visualization  networks  #bandwidth  realityprogramming  reflexivity 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
No Man’s Blog -- The problem(s) with social media monitoring technologies
'They suck. #1. ...it will pick up any header, ad sense or footer mentions of your keywords even if it’s in the totally irrelevant context. If your brand name is pretty generic you are in deep sh*t. Hours of configuration and exclusions awaiting you. #5. Influence analysis is flawed. Well, the concept of influenced is flawed so of course technologies of measuring it are flawed as well. Similar to sentiment, the technology is just not as clever as they want you to believe. It is based either on bogus metrics or just irrelevant, obsolete ranks. -- In essence it’s like paying a market research firm for 10000 people’s survey results + 300 focus groups transcripts + 687 depth interviews and what you get is just the raw data with 30% of it irrelevant/spam you actually never asked for. Now you have to invest a lot of time in sorting out the data, analysing and interpreting everything you have.' -- Bugger.
socialmedia  sentiment  measurement  data  analytics  reviews 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Scout Labs -- How does sentiment work? And how accurate is it, anyway?
'The sentiment feature in the Scout Labs application is the ability for the machine to judge whether or not the author of a story is expressing a positive or negative attitude towards a specific word or phrase. -- #The Scout Labs sentiment feature sucks at detecting irony and sarcasm. Posts that are heavy on the irony often end up classed as “neutral” because the machine can’t even guess. Consider “Another winner from the almighty Microsoft.” That’s a tough one. -- We have heard over and over again from our users that an affordable, reliable way to assess sentiment, with user override built in, is critical to getting insight into social media, so we continue to work on this feature.' -- Tweakable
socialmedia  data  realtime  sentiment  measurement  analytics  context 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Guardian -- World of Warcraft helps fight crime in LA
'Data obtained from studying World of Warcraft has helped demonstrate how 'offline' street gangs form, operate and interact. "The beauty of the data is that you know exactly the time stamp and date of when people join guilds and when they leave. It's all registered on the server. It's a beautiful way of asking questions: is the largest group the most successful? Is it stable? Is it hard to join? How long do people remain members? If I leave, do I then break off and go to a smaller group? Essentially you're looking at the ecology of groups." -- ...the killings carried out by street gangs are not about hierarchical criminal organisations struggling for control of drug-dealing turf, they're about "respect", "beefs", "boy/girl stuff" and group dynamics. -- As Johnson says, admiring WoW: "I think it's a brilliantly designed game. And, ultimately, people like to join teams and perform tasks. That's why you'll never get rid of gangs – we're all in gangs."'
data  modelling  groups  behaviours  socialnetworking  virtualworlds  mmorpg  worldofwarcraft  gangs 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
The Independent -- If the UK were a village of 100 people...
'The sheer vastness of the data we gather in our attempts to understand the world around us has been challenging statisticians since the earliest censuses. What does it mean when we're told that unemployment has risen by 281,000? Is that a huge number? Or just a big one? The stories are about people, but it is often hard to see beyond the figures. So what if, rather than grapple with endless triplets of zeros, we shrank the world, and all the potentially flummoxing data we mine from it, down to a more manageable size? What if the world were a truly global village of, say, 100 people? What would those faces look like, and who would those people be? ' -- A list of stats follows, including: 'The 80 adults in the village would share a personal debt of £2.4m (£30,480 each, on average). The richest 10 people in the village would receive 30 per cent of the total income. Between them, they would earn more than the poorest 50 combined.'
demographics  statistics  data  numbers  uk  debt  economics  via:diemkay 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Self-Destructing E-documents
'A group of computer scientists at the University of Washington has developed a way to make electronic messages “self destruct” after a certain period of time, like messages in sand lost to the surf. The researchers said they think the new software, called Vanish, which requires encrypting messages, will be needed more and more as personal and business information is stored not on personal computers, but on centralized machines, or servers. ...the researchers said they had struck upon a unique approach that relies on “shattering” an encryption key that is held by neither party in an e-mail exchange but is widely scattered across a peer-to-peer file sharing system. Vanish makes it possible to control the “lifetime” of any type of data stored in the cloud, including information on Facebook, Google documents or blogs. The significance of the advance is that the Vanish “trust model” does not depend on the integrity of third parties, as other systems do.'
cloud  encryption  cryptography  publlckeys  liminalobjects  objects  liminality  data  selfdestruct  manipulation  memory  puppetry  plausibledeniability 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
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
Wired -- Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain, 24/7/365
'Numbers are making their way into the smallest crevices of our lives. Quantitative analysis by its very nature seems remorseless and inhuman. Numbers may be useful for epidemiologists and insurance companies, school systems, the military, and sociology professors, but what have they to do with the fabric of our personal lives? ... two years ago, my fellow Wired writer Kevin Kelly and I noticed that many of our acquaintances were beginning to do this terrible thing to themselves, finding clever ways to extract streams of numbers from ordinary human activities. A new culture of personal data was taking shape.' -- Bunch of old men trying to cheat death by uploading their dataselves to the internets. Call this the Kurzweil-Kelly syndrome. By their numbers you shall know them.
data  numbers  sousveillance  quantifiedself  selfservers  self  uploading  transhumanism  posthumanism  immortality  death 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Channel 4 -- Test Tube Telly
'Test Tube Telly lets Facebook friends watch, talk about, rate and recommend their favourite TV from 4oD and YouTube. It's an experimental prototype from Channel 4's digital innovation fund, 4iP.' -- Conversational content @tomwatts
socialmedia  tv  sharing  experience  conversation  channel4  attention  data  television 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
180360720 -- New Strategies Require New Measurements
'People don't know what they want – so stop asking them.' -- What gets numbered gets numb.
productnarratives  experience  context  measurement  numbers  data  planning  marketing  presentations 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
'Call it Living by Numbers—the ability to gather and analyze data about yourself, setting up a feedback loop that we can use to upgrade our lives, from better health to better habits to better performance. -- ...people change their behavior—often for the better—when they are being observed... -- We tend to think of our physical selves as a system that's simply too complex to comprehend. But what we've learned from companies like Google is that if you can collect enough data, there's no need for a grand theory to explain a phenomenon. You can observe it all through the numbers. Everything is data. You are your data, and once you understand that data, you can act on it. -- For many Nike+ users, doing their exercise becomes inextricable from measuring it. "Forgetting my Nike+ sensor, or my iPod battery being dead, just takes the life out of my run."'
nike+  nikeplus  experience  design  productnarratives  sousveillance  quantifiedself  numbers  analytics  realitymining  performance  data  feedback  reflexivity  thegamingofeverydaylife 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Esther Dyson -- The Quantification of Everything
'There's a certain psychological power to expressing things with precision, to making nuance explicit, even as it renders the powerful prosaic. One girlfriend is a miracle; 20 is a number. Managers measure things in order to incentivize them, yet the very act of measurement cheapens things. As Stalin once said: "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."' -- Numbers numb
numbers  data  realitymining  quantifiedself  sousveillance 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Experiencefreak -- Transmedia Genius or Personal Intrusion? Prototype’s Facebook Connect
'“Prototype” includes a really interesting Facebook Connect integration that weaves you (or in this case me) into the story line. You’ll have to experience it yourself here to really get it (pictures, family photos, words and profiles within are all me). Check out the video capture below...'
storytelling  transmedia  narrativeobjects  objects  data  facebookconnect  storygraph 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
BusinessWeek -- Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships
'Marlow's team recently carried out a study to determine how close we are to our friends online. They looked at how often people clicked on their friends' news or photos, how often they communicated, and if the communications traveled in both directions. Studying this data, they determined that an average Facebook user with 500 friends actively follows the news on only 40 of them, communicates with 20, and keeps in close touch with about 10. Those with smaller networks follow even fewer. What can this teach advertisers? People don't pay much attention to most of their online friends. By focusing campaigns on people who interact with each other, they'll likely get better results.' -- All this 'research', just to sell some tat. Futile and pointless. Though kinda interesting as applied to the workplace via: the megacoup. Intimates/Inmates via: the stockholm syndrome.
data  datamining  friendship  socialnetworking  socialgraph  networks  attention  influence 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
THINK / Musings -- Distribution … now
'A stream. A real time, flowing, dynamic stream of information—that we as users and participants can dip in and out of and whether we participate in them or simply observe we are are a part of this flow. Overload isnt a problem anymore since we have no choice but to acknowledge that we cant wade through all this information. This isnt an inbox we have to empty, or a page we have to get to the bottom of—its a flow of data that we can dip into at will but we cant attempt to gain an all encompassing view of it. ...today history is disappearing given a deluge of flow, a lack of tools to navigate and provide context about the past. The cacophony of the crowd erases the past and affirms the present. It started with search and now its accelerated with the now web. I dont know where it leads but I almost want a remember button—like the like or favorite. Something that registers something as a memory—as an salient fact that I for one can draw out of the stream at a later time'
*  internet  web  realtime  stream  bitstreaming  data  distribution  disintermediation  socialmedia  socialproduction  socialobjects  objects  feeds  metabolism  curation  context  socialgraph  semanticgraph  storygraph  history  memory  #socialization  #ubiquity  #diversity  leaky 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
'Selling ads doesn't generate only profits; it also generates torrents of data about users' tastes and habits, data that Google then sifts and processes in order to predict future consumer behavior, find ways to improve its products, and sell more ads. This is the heart and soul of Googlenomics. It's a system of constant self-analysis: a data-fueled feedback loop that defines not only Google's future but the future of anyone who does business online. -- Wu calls Google "the barometer of the world." Indeed, studying the clicks is like looking through a window with a panoramic view of everything. You can see the change of seasons—clicks gravitating toward skiing and heavy clothes in winter, bikinis and sunscreen in summer—and you can track who's up and down in pop culture. Most of us remember news events from television or newspapers; Googlers recall them as spikes in their graphs. ...every bit of data, no matter how seemingly trivial, has potential value.'
*  google  search  adwords  auction  markets  businessmodels  mutualism  economics  econometrics  statistics  modelling  data  datamining  realitymining  surveillance  panopticon  feedback  #complexity  #specialization  simulacra  mirrorworlds 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Statebook: A place to access your citizens' information
Keep Calm And Give Us All Your Data
facebook  parody  statebook  spoof  data  datamining  surveillance  panopticon  government  totalitarianism  1984 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Jan Chipchase -- The End of Form / The Beginning of Form
'... is there sufficient pull for mainstream consumer's to turn to some form of nearly-always-worn data glasses? Imagine knowing the tax-bracket of everyone around you - drawing on publicly available tax records and the means to identify an individual in near to real time. Imagine this from the point of view of a would-be lover, a salesman, a charity worker. Extrapolate with mash-ups with Facebook profile, knowledge about your last vacation; previous convictions. Now imagine the advantages you get from access or subscriptions to 'premium channels' - data only available to the select few: from the realtime cop feed; to the wolfpack view of the city; to real-time, real-space casual encounters. A generation hooked on real-time data so compelling that heading out on a friday night just ain't the same without the buzz of a good feed. It'll never happen? How many times a day do you check your email? Facebook? Your twitter stream? People addicted to data? Of course not - it'll never happen.'
data  surveillance  sousveillance  voyeurism  augmentedreality  everyware  browser  hud  realtime  realitymining  navigation  proprioception  senses  senseextensions  extensionsofman  immunesystem 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Bruce Sterling -- Information Wants to Be Worthless (2002)
Title says it all.
digital  data  information  free  BruceSterling 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
tantramar -- The Time For Self Analysis Is Here.
'Ideas you can expect to see coming to the mainstream soon are such wonders as self-diagnosis kits and stress monitors. As we advance in understanding what is useful there will be more and more of these services emerging to aid the masses in acute self-awareness. Potentially scary but with great data, comes greater understanding (or at least that's the theory). The technology is already here.'
quantifiedself  self  selfobjects  objects  sousveillance  data  numbers  numbing 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Flickr -- Lucifron
'As you can see, the screen is dominated by instrumentation.'
dashboard  data  interface  virtuality  numbers  simulation  virtualworlds  worldofwarcraft 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
From The Head Of Zeus Jones -- How the real-time web shapes our information?
"As the move towards a real-time web gains steam, it will be more important than ever for us to have an equally large part of the web devoted to timelessness."
realtime  information  data  web  time  charts 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Portfolio.com -- The Participatory Panopticon: Dual Perspectives
Adam Greenfield: 'It will be "live feeds from massively distributed embedded sensor networks, extraordinarily complex real-time data visualizations, fully social augmented-reality overlays...” We all will be "minutely and intimately aware of every Indian woman maimed by a spurned suitor in an acid attack, every Iranian kid stoned to death for having the temerity to be born gay, every destroyed textbook in the trashed cafeteria of an abandoned Detroit high school." Unfortunately for us, quoting the Buddha, "awareness is suffering."' -- Jamais Cascio calls the unlimited-bandwidth future the "participatory panopticon," and describes a world where many will broadcast every move of their lives. Everything will be its own broadcast station, its own TV channel: Each subway train, each building, every lamp will be linked in, updating status reports and even live video to the net. The world will be defined by a cacophony of narrow-cast information, all of it begging for attention and analysis.'
sousveillance  everyware  sensors  data  objects  behaviours  panopticon  surveillance  cloud  networks  internet  #bandwidth  #socialization 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
UgoTrade -- Cory Doctorow: A Reverse Surveillance Society
'There are different abstraction layers at which you can experience the world and one of them is through the instrumentation of it. It is in some ways the inverse of the surveillance society. Surveillance is all about when people in authority know a lot about you. Instrumentation is when you know a lot about the world. And it allows you have more agency. When people know a lot about you it takes away your agency.' -- 'Being able to understand what is going on the world – How much RFI is there right now where I am standing? What frequencies is it running on? What are the aggregate histograms? Tell me about it. Are people looking at the web around here, or talking on their phones, or sending SMS? Am I in a spot where the thermal signature of lots of people is high or low? What was it like ten minutes ago? Is this typical or atypical of the characteristic histogram of thermal and electromagnetic energy in this space for this time, year on year, day on day, and hour on hour?'
surveillance  sousveillance  everyware  data  interface  design  panopticon  privacy  identity  #bandwidth 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Equiveillance
'Equiveillance is a state of equilibrium, or a desire to attain a state of equilibrium, between surveillance and sousveillance. It is sometimes confused with transparency. This balance (equilibrium) allows the individual to construct their own case from evidence they gather themselves, rather than merely having access to surveillance data that could possibly incriminate them. Sousveillance, in addition to transparency, can be used to preserve the contextual integrity of surveillance data. For example, a lifelong capture of personal experience could provide "best evidence" over external surveillance data, to prevent the surveillance-only data from being taken out of context.'
surveillance  sousveillance  equiveillance  disequiveillance  anonequiveillance  data  context  plausibledeniability  privacy  anonymity  liberty  freedom  everyware  panopticon  power  MichelFoucault 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Realtime and realspace
"Optional paralysis, indifference and solipsism loom, as the coping strategies for the onslaught of realtime and realspace. When our social reality is ironed out into a stream of broadcasts on a feed, mediated by devices that guarantee each of us an isolation in an environment that gratifies our fantasies of total control, the illusion that friends can be monitored entirely on our own terms grows; the requirement of reciprocity begins to seem provisional, old-fashioned, a signal of a breakdown of the better technologies for person management. ...it seems to me a continuation of the space of consumerism—of impulsiveness, instrumentality, convenience for its own sake, and ersatz individualism. And obviously it is not just going to go away. We are all complicit in it, eventually. At some point it suits our purposes and we go along, as though we control the terms by which we interact with it. We don’t notice the creeping ways in which it begins to dictate terms to us."
realtime  time  ambientintimacy  relationships  voyeurism  surveillance  telepresence  technology  data  control  individualism  solipsism  reality  realityprogramming  #socialization  #ubiquity  psychology 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Schneier on Security -- Privacy in the Age of Persistence
'Cardinal Richelieu famously said: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." When all your words and actions can be saved for later examination, different rules have to apply. Society works precisely because conversation is ephemeral; because people forget, and because people don't have to justify every word they utter.'
kipple  data  information  realitymining  datamining  thoughtcrime  precrime  plausibledeniability  surveillance  sociology  privacy  security  identity  civility  dignity  freedom 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- 1,000 Points of Data
"What we need now is a Web-based system for measuring our changing society with key national indicators — in a free, public, easy-to-use form. Ideally, it would be run by the nonpartisan National Academy of Sciences, which would ensure it has the best quality of information and is kept up to date. The system would enable us to offer in one place statistical information that we spend billions of dollars collecting but that is now underused and undervalued. Imagine everyone having at their fingertips answers to questions like: How many quality jobs are we adding to the American economy? How many more students are getting into college? How many more people are gaining access to affordable health insurance? Are we increasing economic growth along with savings and investment? Are we reducing our greenhouse gas emissions?"
news  information  data  surveillance  sousveillance  governance  #ubiquity 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
DAYTUM
data  work  tools 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Charts Music - Songsmith fed with Stock Charts
"Melodies derived from Stock Charts, arranged with Songsmith, the Microsoft Composition Tool. www.kreidler-net.de " -- Genius? You know's it!
stocks  data  generative  music  productnarratives 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
russell davies -- from product to project
On howies Hand-Me-Down bags: "I've been thinking about how I can continue to projectise this product. And how this bag can have a 10-year + story. So I'm trying to add spimeiness to it and to use internet stuff as a memory aid for this thing. imagine telling the story of the life of the bag that way, keeping it as a project not a product. But what would be really nice would be if it could tell its own story more. Generate its own data. I could attach an RFID tag, but I'm not quite sure what would ever read it. I guess ideally it would have it's own GPS logging stick sewn in. Or something." -- Perhaps the dirt it picks up is sent off to a lab for analysis... On-board arduino and light sensor for bag = open/closed monitoring... Weight check in/out on departure/arrival...
productnarratives  narrativeobjects  storytelling  epistolary  memory  data  spimes 
january 2009 by adamcrowe
Sprint -- Plug into Now.
Nice dashboard news interface.
data  dashboard  interface  realtime  storygraph 
january 2009 by adamcrowe
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
Pirates of the Amazon: Firefox Add-on
'"How can you compete with free? You cant!" - Lawrence Lessig -- "The Firefox add-on "Pirates of the Amazon" inserts a "download 4 free" button on Amazon, which links to corresponding Piratebay BitTorrents. The add-on lowers the technical barrier to enable anyone to choose between "add to shopping cart" or "download 4 free". Are you a pirate?' -- ;^)
piracy  piratebay  bittorrent  amazon  firefox  extension  digital  distribution  disintermediation  data  transaction  #bandwidth  #socialization  shopping  free 
december 2008 by adamcrowe
pachube -- connecting environments, patching the planet
'Welcome to Pachube, a service that enables people to tag and share real time environmental data from objects, devices and spaces around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. Pachube is a little like YouTube, except that, rather than sharing videos, Pachube enables people to monitor and share real time environmental data from sensors that are connected to the internet. Pachube acts between environments, able both to capture input data (from remote sensors) and serve output data (to remote actuators). Connections can be made between any two environments, facilitating even spontaneous or previously unplanned connections. Apart from being used in physical environments, it also enables people to embed this data in web-pages, in effect to "blog" sensor data.' -- Wow. This is seriously, like, WOW!
*  EEML  globalvillage  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  internet  networks  sensors  data  cloud  spimes  geotagging  mapping  processing  arduino  electronics  environment  surveillance  mirrorworlds 
december 2008 by adamcrowe
Kevin Kelly -- Web 10.0
"I gave a talk yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. It's a short talk, only 10 minutes long, so I decided to skip Web 3 - Web 9 and just speak about the upcoming Web 10.0 and what I think will happen in the next 6,500 days."
KevinKelly  semantic  data  web  internet  cloud  computing  history  future  predictions  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  amputation  everyware  gaia  #storage  #ubiquity 
november 2008 by adamcrowe
BNPmemberslist -- BNP Members List Leaked
"Complete details of all British National Party Members here!" -- *sigh* People are entitled to their political views however distasteful you might happen to find them. Whoever put this online with the intention of causing shame and intimidation is a muppet.
mob  politics  democracy  hate  freedom  identity  data  leaky 
november 2008 by adamcrowe
SharedEgg
"Much of modern society is defined by material goods. In that sense, people are defined through other people’s eyes based on what they do and do not or cannot own. Whether people admit it or not, judgments are made about people based on what they look like and what they own. These judgments might, in some cases, create unspoken bonds but in most cases create barriers between people. Our goal for this project was to represent the cultural similarities between random people. We might not have any direct relations with each other, yet our lifestyles, what we own, and what we enjoy in life can categorize us into subcultures of society which in the end, can give all of us a sense of belonging and relations with each other. Instead of instantly making a judgment about a person based on what they have or like, our visualization gives a multifaceted glance at each participant and the connections that their diverse attributes have with each other." -- Great images.
culture  visualization  socialobjects  collecting  curation  data  tagging  manyeyes 
october 2008 by adamcrowe
cityofsound -- The Personal Well-Tempered Environment
"Sooner or later, It'll seem ludicrous that we couldn't exactly track our real-time energy usage, sense the ongoing impact on our immediate environment." -- Scaffolding Gaia.
*  thegamingofeverydaylife  everyware  gaia  environment  sustainability  data  serviceecologies  storygraph  stage  performance  design  storytelling  productnarratives  consumption  conversion  socialmedia  energy  ecology 
august 2008 by adamcrowe
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