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Stowe Boyd -- Bang: A Microsyntax for Emergency Messaging

'I have proposed a microsyntax for sending and receiving structured Twitter messages during and relating to disasters. We should dedicate ‘!’ to indicate that a message is associated with a specific named disaster or emergency. This use of ‘bang’ or ‘exclamation mark’ should take precedence over other possible uses of the character. I propose we call this system ‘Bang’. A collection of two and three character codes based on bang should be developed to indicate various sorts of information useful in emergencies. For example, ‘!@’ could stand for the name of a person, based on the use of ‘@’ in Twitter and other applications. ‘!@@’ could be used for organizations, businesses, and so on. ‘!?’ could represent a question being asked, and ‘!!’ could be used for things desired, needed or the like.'

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Dark Roasted Blend -- Fantastically Intense Wiring, Part 7

'The goal of this series (other than to simply entertain) is to raise awareness about the abundance of various tangled messes in the world and to establish the humanitarian fund dedicated to eradicating this blight from the face of the Earth entirely.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Tweetage Wasteland -- I Can’t Turn Off The News

'It’s getting more difficult to know where a global news story stops and my actual life begins.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Computerworld -- Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online

'Egyptians with dial-up modems get no Internet connection when they call into their local ISP, but calling an international number to reach a modem in another country gives them a connection to the outside world. We Rebuild is looking to expand those dial-up options. It has set up a dial-up phone number in Sweden and is compiling a list of other numbers Egyptians can call. It is also distributing information about its activities on a Wiki page. [We Rebuild] has set up an IRC for people who can help with ham radio transmissions from Egypt. They are trying to spread the word about the radio band they are monitoring so that people in Egypt know where to transmit. Some ham enthusiasts are setting up an FTP site where people can record what they hear and post the recordings. So far, they say they've picked up Morse code messages...' -- Internet doesn't afraid of anything!

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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STANFORD Magazine -- Digital Immersion

'Psychiatrist Aboujaoude says that immersion in gaming runs the risk that a player begins to believe that behaviors acceptable in a game might also pass offline: Heavy gamers may develop an offline persona with the swagger and bravado of their avatars. "It also becomes easier to lose perspective on one's divergent priorities: the need to perform well as a favorite game character or as an accomplished player versus the need to function as a responsible adult. It's all one big life with one big 'cumulative' score, the faulty justification goes, and if we are breaking records in an online game, we may feel, in aggregate, responsible and productive enough, and thus allow for some gross negligence elsewhere in life." -- "Addictions happen when people are trying to control their emotional state. You find something that makes you feel better and then you want more of it, but then there is emptiness in the payoff."

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january 2011 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.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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IEEE Spectrum -- Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

'The human eye is a perceptual powerhouse. It can see millions of colors, adjust easily to shifting light conditions, and transmit information to the brain at a rate exceeding that of a high-speed Internet connection. But why stop there? In the Terminator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character sees the world with data superimposed on his visual field—virtual captions that enhance the cyborg’s scan of a scene. In stories by the science fiction author Vernor Vinge, characters rely on electronic contact lenses, rather than smartphones or brain implants, for seamless access to information that appears right before their eyes.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- A Private, Anti-Foursquare To Geo-Fence Those Neer To You

'Instead of implicitly checking into different spots like you do with Foursquare and Gowalla, or broadcasting everywhere you go in the background like you do with Google Latitude, Neer creates geo-fences that trigger location updates to your inner circle. With Neer, you create a geo-fence around certain places like home, work, or school simply by marking them on your phone when you are there. Entering or leaving the location triggers an update message to your inner circle. Rather than seeing where you are on a map, all they see is the name you’ve given each place.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E10: "Yesterday, Tomorrow and You"

'Yesterday, Tomorrow and You. Change causes more change. Start with the plow, you get craftsmen, civilization, irrigation, pottery and writing, mathematics, a calendar to predict floods, empires, and a modern world where change happens so rapidly you can’t keep up.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Obama's Contribution to Peace: Congress Declares War on Iran?

'War is the elite's answer to social enlightenment as well as transformative technology ...the larger strategy is a pincer-like movement that uses both military conflicts and censorship to control the flow of knowledge and the growing comprehension of just how manipulated Western societies have been over the past century. Will it work? ...not in the long run ...the difference between the human ape and any other species is mostly in the dexterity with which we wield tools ...humanity has evolved along with such tools and perhaps our brains have even adapted to their advancing complexity. Young people, especially, males in their sexual prime, see the utilization of the most advanced toolkits as a way of enhancing genetic desirability. ...if the power elite believes it can control such cutting edge technologies, it is going to end up battling human biology. (Given that the power elite is indeed the power elite, it will do so anyway, we have no doubt.)'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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WWW 2010 -- What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?

It's an immune system: '...any retweeted tweet is to reach an average of 1,000 users no matter what the number of followers is of the original tweet. Once retweeted, a tweet gets retweeted almost instantly on next hops, signifying fast diffusion of information after the 1st retweet.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Forbes.com -- The Rise Of The Social Nervous System

'Another outcome of the social nervous system is that we see the shift away from privacy as an inalienable right to an individual responsibility. In a social nervous system there will be increasing pressure to be connected 24/7 to the hive mind that is Facebook, Twitter and so on. Those who do not connect, share and collaborate will have a hard time in business and in social life.' -- ORLY? Loose lips sink ships.

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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NextNature.net -- The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan

'All media, from the phonetic alphabet to the computer, are extensions of man that cause deep and lasting changes in him and transform his environment. Such an extension is an intensification, an amplification of an organ, sense or function, and whenever it takes place, the central nervous system appears to institute a self-protective numbing of the affected area, insulating and anesthetizing it from conscious awareness of what’s happening to it. It’s a process rather like that which occurs to the body under shock or stress conditions, or to the mind in line with the Freudian concept of repression. I call this peculiar form of self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis, a syndrome whereby man remains as unaware of the psychic and social effects of his new technology as a fish of the water it swims in. As a result, precisely at the point where a new media-induced environment becomes all pervasive and transmogrifies our sensory balance, it also becomes invisible.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Global Guerrillas -- JOURNAL: Driving Resilience By Building Networks (Comment)

On augmented reality etc. Comment: g48: '...when people become dependent upon things that are not necessary, they become leveraged, they become vulnerable, they become subject to manipulation. What they lose is an increment of resilience, an increment of self-reliance, and an increment of direct contact with others. -- The most resilient technologies are simple machines that can be maintained (and ideally, built) in community workshops with community labor. -- More digital media will not house us, feed us, keep our towns clean, or protect us against attack. It won't lessen the labor of digging a trench for water pipes, as the machine for that purpose is a simple one, hand shovels still work in a pinch. It won't make our food taste better or keep us warm. It won't deepen our capacity for friendship, love, and philosophical or spiritual insight. But it may very well distract us from all of those things, to the point where there is nothing left for us to do, except watch, and be watched.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Monica Narula

'NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO THE STORMS THAT SHAKE THE WORLD -- The Internet expands the horizon of every utterance or expressive act to a potentially planetary level. This makes it impossible to imagine a purely local context or public for anything that anyone creates today. No one can be immune to the storms that shake the world today. What happens down our streets becomes as present in our lives as what happens down our modems. This makes us present in vital and existential ways to what might be happening at great distance, but it also brings with it the possibility of a disconnect with what is happening around us, or near us, if they happen not to be online. The fact that we do not know something that exists in the extant expansive commons of human knowledge can no longer intimidate us into reticence. If we do not know something, someone else does, and there are enough ways around the commons of the Internet that enable us to get to sources of the known.'

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january 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.'

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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?'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- New 'War' Enables Mankind To Resolve Disagreements

'War has also been employed on occasion to resolve disagreements over peace and to ensure that the world remained a harmonious place untroubled by fear, hatred, or the threat of violence. -- According to Levin, because of its near-perfect rate of success in the modern civilized world, war will likely remain in popular use for the foreseeable future. "We've come a long way from hashing out our differences around a fire," Levin said. "With the long-range nuclear missile technology we possess today, I wouldn't be surprised if, in a few short years, war solves the problems of mankind once and for all."'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Climategate: It's all Unravelling Now?

'What a pity. Global warming, once one of the power elite's most successful promotions, is on the way out. It has lost credibility with the average joe, and when a promotion fails at that significant level it is fairly kaput. ...we are not suggesting that the Internet will have an effect of this sort on every single promotion with this magnitude. (Or even that this meme won't stagger along.) Wars, epidemics, meteor showers, alien invasions - the power elite has dozens of themes to choose from and dozens of ways to frighten people, and the means to do it. But the Gutenberg press, hundreds of years ago, changed the way that people related to the power elite of that time period. The modern variant of the Gutenberg press - the Internet - continues to bite, and bite ever more deeply. And we will continue to follow this conversation - the greatest conversation on earth - the collision of dominant social themes with the Internet.' -- INTERNET SAYS "NO."

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Kevin Kelly on The Technium

"More and more as the numbers of technologies increase, the only way we can assert our identity is by not using [particular] technologies."

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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SFGate -- Attention loss feared as high-tech rewires brain

"It's just part of society that we're multitasking all the time. We can't stop to think, and if we have to stop and consider something, we get frustrated." -- "Look at language. People are writing the way that they text. Anything complex that takes several paragraphs to develop is information overload at this point." -- "I think of it as regressive. I don't think of it as progressive. It's becoming so normalized in our culture, it becomes hard to catch while it's happening."

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Tech Shrink -- Twitter attack: Crisis of disconnectivity

'At the lowest level, there is #Disconnectivity Anxiety, which I define as a persistent and unpleasant condition characterized by worry and unease caused by periods of technological disconnection from others. Some Tweeters may have devolved to the next level related to our overly connected world, #Disconnectivity Panic, which involves a frenzied and unfocused effort to get reconnected. Others may have sunk even lower to #Disconnectivity Catatonia, psychological and physical paralysis due to loss of technological connection. Though a truly scary thought, the endpoint of this continuum may be Disconnectivity Suicide, where life is just not worth living without technological connection. Though I have never heard of it happening, I will predict (sadly) that it will occur in the near future if it hasn't already.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Anti-wi-fi paint offers security

'Researchers say they have created a special kind of paint which can block out wireless signals. It means security-conscious wireless users could block their neighbours from being able to access their home network - without having to set up encryption. The paint contains an aluminium-iron oxide which resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi - or other radio waves - meaning the airborne data is absorbed and blocked. By coating an entire room, signals can't get in and, crucially, can't get out. -- Mr Ohkoshi hopes that soon the technology could be woven into clothing. "We're not sure about the true effects of electromagnetic waves, in this range, on the human body. "We're assuming that excessive exposure could be bad for us. Therefore we're trying to make protective clothes for young children or pregnant women to help protect their bodies from such waves."'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Psychology Today -- Understanding the Psychology of Twitter

'I twitter, therefore I am. I matter. -- Dr David Lewis, a cognitive neuropsychologist: "Using Twitter suggests a level of insecurity whereby, unless people recognize you, you cease to exist. It may stave off insecurity in the short term, but it won't cure it." -- Twitter's software designers were clever enough to program in tenacious intermittent reward systems, so you end up like a loser in Vegas, behaviorally trapped at the slot machines of life. -- Perhaps a more enlightened way to look at it is that you're really just enjoying a cyber-zen moment of mindfulness to be present and tweet thyself. We're all interconnected now - each of us acting like a single neuron in humanity's brain, firing bits of electricity at one another, slowly coadunating and collectively struggling toward a great awakening. That awakening could turn out to be the next stage in our evolution, and a single tweet the butterfly's wings that eventually leads to a big bang of global meta-consciousness.' -- OM...

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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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.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mail Online -- The 'telepathy' chip that lets you control computers using power of thought

'"What we have designed would allow them to control a computer with their thoughts. If they imagine their muscles moving, that could flick a light switch for example. It's an area that is being heavily researched in America but so far all the tests have involved wired sensors. This prototype uses wireless technology to remove the risk of infection and that's the real drive of our work. The eventual aim would be to see these systems fully working so they are available to help patients communicate. That's the future.'''

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- 7 Ways to See the World Through Twitter’s Eyes

'One of the best utilities is Twitcaps, developed by Jonathan Griggs, who found himself using his own service in a way he never could have predicted after a tornado appeared nearby. “When we were having tornado warnings in Denver and the warning sirens were going off near my house, my girlfriend and I grabbed the laptop and made way for the basement,” said Griggs in an e-mail. “Once there, I looked up ‘Denver tornado’ on Twitcaps and found images of the funnel cloud moving northeast from Coors field — a good ways to the east of my house. This was far more information than was available from local news sources at the time, and was enough to set us at ease that we were in no immediate danger.”' -- It's all going a bit Archigram: The house could have monitored this and simply got up and walked away to safety.

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Clive Thompson on the New Literacy

Texting isn't writing: it's talking. -- '...young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. ..life writing, as Lunsford calls it. ...students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago.' -- See? There's nothing letter-ly/linear going on here. These are sound-words that are meant to be overheard in an acoustic space conducive to overhearing: the internet. -- 'The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor...' -- Why write for one when you could talk to all?

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august 2009 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.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”

'Already, Twitter made up “90% of the content” on Google Blog Search. As the minutes put it: “We are this product.” There was also talk of including microblog results on the main search page, which would be “the biggest change to google search in years.”'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- FriendFeed, Syphilis And The Perfection Of Online Mobs

'The Internet has proven to be a frighteningly efficient tool to create virtual mobs. But we note two trends that suggest a bleak future: the increase in non-anonymous mob participation and the evolution of online services towards ever more efficient and real time communication platforms that facilitate mob creation and growth like never before. Things are changing online way too fast for society and culture to adapt. Something will eventually break. ...on FriendFeed all the comments are aggregated on one page, and everyone participating sees it all. It’s much more likely to break out into a mob. ...it might be a good idea to slow the mob down a little until actual facts can be introduced into the conversation.' -- This slowing down is a valid point regarding realtime sentiment racing ahead of facts and wider context. #iranelection is a perfect case study. Isn't all this just a 'tragedy of the commons (attentional bandwidth)' problem?

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- TwittARound

'This is a video of the first beta version of TwittARound - an augmented reality Twitter viewer on the iPhone. It shows live tweets around your location on the horizon. Because of video see-through effect you see where the tweet comes from and how far it is away.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Magical Nihilism -- Hertzian Tales 10 years on, or “All electronic products are hybrids of radiation and matter”

'p101 “It might seem strange to write about radio, a long-established medium, when discussion today centres on cyberspace, virtual reality, networks, smart materials and other electronic tehcnologies. But radio, meaning part of the electromagnetic spectrum is fundamental to electronics. Objects not only “dematerialise” into software in response to minituarisation and replacement by services but literally dematerialise into radiation. All electronic products are hybrids of radiation and matter. This chapter does not discuss making the invisible visible or visualising radio, but explores the links between the material and the immaterial that lead to new aesthetic possibilities for life in an electromagnetic environment. Whereas cyberspace is a metaphor that spatialises what happens in computers distributed around the world, radio space is actual and physical, even though our senses detect only a tiny part of it.” -- Inspired my bluetooth tinkerings back in the day.

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?

'... the next generation of implantable devices to control prosthetic limbs will likely include wireless controls that allow physicians to remotely adjust settings on the machine. If neural engineers don’t build in security features such as encryption and access control, an attacker could hijack the device and take over the robotic limb. -- ...patients might even want to hack into their own neural device. Unlike devices to control prosthetic limbs, which still use wires, many deep brain stimulators already rely on wireless signals. Hacking into these devices could enable patients to “self-prescribe” elevated moods or pain relief by increasing the activity of the brain’s reward centers.' -- Neurosecurity, barrier mazes, ghost hacks, oh my!

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Max Keiser -- [1046] The Truth About ... IOUs

On the "Tinsel Brain": where Hollywood meets Wall Street: algorithmic social engineering via the realtime sentiment entertainment complex.

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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.

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- The Geek Syndrome

'Nick's father is a software engineer, and his mother is a computer programmer. They've known that Nick was an unusual child for a long time. -- ....something dark and unsettling is happening in Silicon Valley ...the culture of the area has subtly evolved to meet the social needs of adults in high-functioning regions of the [autistic] spectrum. The chilling possibility is that what's happening now is the first proof that the genes responsible for bestowing certain special gifts on slightly autistic adults - the very abilities that have made them dreamers and architects of our technological future - are capable of bringing a plague down on the best minds of the next generation. -- It has become commonplace for parents to diagnose themselves as having Asperger's syndrome, or to pinpoint other relatives living on the spectrum, only after their own children have been diagnosed.' -- Inbreeding the teme people

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Kevin Kelly: Technology is the 7th Kingdom of Life

"The line between the wisdom of the crowd and stupidity of the mob is a very, very fine line. Things can flip over from the being the smart hive mind to being the out of control mob mind, and so there's always that risk. But the thing with technology is, technology is not powerful until it can be powerfully abused." -- "In biology, there's extinction. In technology, we find that ideas and technologies are very hard to extinguish." -- "We are the sex organs of technology." == The temes of technology.

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Principia Cybernetica Web -- Memes on the Net

'On the net, an idea can appear virtually simultaneously in different parts of the world, and spread independently of the distance or proximity between senders and receivers. The end result is likely to be the emergence of a globally shared ideology, or "world culture", transcending the old geographical, political and religious boundaries. (Note that such homogeneization of memes only results for memes that are otherwise equivalent, such as conventions, standards or codes. Beliefs differing on the other dimensions of meme selection will be much less influenced by conformist selection.) ...the emerging global network... learns and develops in a non-random way. The network functions like a nervous system for the social superorganism, transmitting signals between its different "organs", memorizing its experiences, making them available for retrieval when needed, and generally steering and coordinating its different functions. Thus, it might be viewed as a global brain.'

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YouTube -- McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage 2.1

McLuhan on Twitter: "That one big gossip column that is unforgiveable, unforgettable, and for which there is no redemption, no erasure, no mistakes. Ours is a brand new world of all-at-onceness. Time has ceased. Space has vanished. We now live in a global village. The simultaneous happening; we're back in acoustic space. We've begun and again to structure the primordal feeling, the tribal emotions, from which a few centuries of literacy had divorced us. The tribalising process, the inner trip, the depth involvement in the experience of the unified human family, that is something of which we've had no experience for a many centuries. It is a process that is located so entirely in the present that it does not appear in the rearview mirror to which we habitually look for reassurance and nostalgic orientation. At the high speeds of electric communication, purely visual means of apprehending the world are no longer possible; they are just too slow to be relevant or effective." —McLuhan 1967

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Alone in the woods

"I have this sense that experiences need to be shared in a much more mediated way to register to myself as having happened. ...since online sharing has become a way of translating my own experiences to myself, without that process readily available to me, I felt dulled at times, alienated from myself to a degree. All of this is to say that I think that the internet has suddenly brought us a much denser experience of interpersonal relationships and sociality that forces us to reshape the way we think of ourselves, as being potentially social at basically all times. We are perpetually present everywhere, with a ubiquity wireless connectivity supplies. The result of this thick intimacy, this perpetual sociality, is that we may have much more difficulty achieving harmony with the natural world, where presence is momentary and fragile, and sociality is limited to the distance our voices can travel." -- Data or it didn't happen.

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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io9 -- New Surrogates Video Peels Back The Fleshy Robot Skin For Further Investigation

"In the Surrogates future, we all get to sit on La-Z-Boys while our robot servants, who look just like us except cuter, run our errands, work our jobs and even go to raves (which are apparently trendy again)."

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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washingtonpost.com -- Brain Wave of The Future: What If You Could Move Objects With Your Mind? Well, That Time Has Come.

"All you have to do is concentrate. On anything, it doesn't matter. The harder you concentrate, the higher the ball goes. A musician says he played a song in his head and focused on a particular chord change. A former high school tennis star focused on his 120-mph serve. One woman brought the image of a candle flame to mind. The ball rose." -- There is no spoon! -- "What happens when millions of youngsters in a notoriously ADHD generation start getting programmed by these new toys? What happens when they start being rewarded for very long periods of intense concentration? Nobody in the toy industry seems to know. It's not unusual for new technologies to first enter popular consciousness as toys."

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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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.'

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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.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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The 10 Hypotheses of equiveillance

'#1. (techlaw) Sousveillance will become a major force and industry, despite initial opposition. Like surveillance, sousveillance technology will outstrip many laws, and will be another example of technology moving forward more quickly than the legal framework that grows around it. -- #2. (privacy). Over the past 30 years, sousveillance practice has raised many new privacy, legal, and ethical issues, and these issues will become central as the sousveillance industry grows. #9. (differently abled). The space of those considered to be disabled will gradually expand, over time, as the technological threshold falls and the sousveillance industry grows.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Boing Boing -- People live in tiny cubicles in Japanese cyber-cafe

'The BBC reports on a cyber cafe outside Tokyo that has a dark room divided into tiny cubicles where 60 people "who rarely emerge" live. These folks are called cyber drifters and "they have just enough money to stay off the streets." It costs $500 a month to live in one of these "coffin-size booths," which have no natural light or fresh air. "In Tokyo it doesn't get any cheaper than that, or more claustrophobic." The owner of the cyber cafe is making a tidy sum off the rent: 60 X $500 = $30,000' -- 'His only window on the world is his computer screen.' -- Video inside

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Technology Review -- A Robot That Knows When to Back Off

"A modified Roomba tries to detect, and avoid, stressed-out users. ...a headband reads bioelectrical signals to a humble floor-cleaning Roomba. The headband, which is sold as a gaming device, detects muscle tension in the wearer's face, so the researchers were able to directly control the Roomba's speed by, for example, clenching their jaws or tensing their eyebrows. They also developed a somewhat crude way to evaluate a person's emotional state, based on facial muscle tension (the more tension, the more stress), and programmed the Roomba to respond. If a person exhibited high stress, the Roomba continued cleaning but moved away from the user... a robot designed to provide comfort could instinctively approach a person who is feeling particularly sad or stressed." -- And then the mind comes to depend upon the expressions of machine to know what it should be feeling.

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Ego -- You're important.

"Your stats in a single glance. Ego gives you one central—and lovely—location to check web statistics that matter to you. ...you can quickly view the number of visits to your website (including daily, hourly and monthly numbers), feed subscription totals and changes, and how many people are following you on Twitter." -- Numbers numb

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Technium -- Ethnic Technology

"Technologies have a social dimension beyond their mere mechanical performance. We adopt new technologies largely because of what they do for us, but also in part because of what they mean to us. Often we refuse to adopt technology for the same reason: because of how the avoidance reinforces, or crafts our identity. We should expect technology to continue to exhibit ethnic and social preferences. Groups or individuals will reject all kinds of technologically advanced innovations simply because. Because everyone else accepts them. Or because they clash with their self-conception. Because they don't mind doing things with more effort. I know an author who writes science fiction books today in long hand. At least the first draft. Efficiency and productivity may, in the future, be seen as something to avoid."

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Paul Graham -- Why TV Lost

Social applications: "This was the most powerful force of all. This was what made everyone want computers. Nerds got computers because they liked them. Then gamers got them to play games on. But it was connecting to other people that got everyone else: that's what made even grandmas and 14 year old girls want computers."

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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TED.com -- Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users

"In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Techcrunch -- Mining The Thought Stream

"What makes Google and other search engines so valuable is that they capture people’s intent—what they are looking for, what they desire, what they want to learn about. But they don’t do a great job at capturing what people are doing or what they are thinking about. For thoughts and events that are happening right now, searching Twitter increasingly brings up better results than searching Google."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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New Scientist -- Living Online: I'll Have to Ask My Friends (PDF)

"Our society tends toward a breathless techno-enthusiasm: "We are more connected; we are global; we are more informed." But just as not all information put on the web is true, not all aspects of the new sociality should be celebrated. We communicate with quick instant messages, "check-in" cell calls and emoticon graphics. All of these are meant to quickly communicate a state. They are not meant to open a dialogue about complexity of feeling. Although the culture that grows up around the cellphone is a "talk culture", it is not necessarily a culture that contributes to self-reflection. Self-reflection depends on having an emotion, experiencing it, taking one's time to think it through and understand it, but only sometimes electing to share it."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains

Maggie Jackson: "We are programmed to be interrupted. We get an adrenalin jolt when orienting to new stimuli. Our body actually rewards us for paying attention to the new. But when we live in a reactive way, we minimize our capacity to pursue goals. This degree of interruption is correlated with stress and frustration and lowered creativity. When you're scattered and diffuse, you're less creative. When your times of reflection are always punctured, it's hard to go deeply into problem-solving, into relating, into thinking. ...stillness and reflection are not especially valued in the workplace. The image of success is the frenetic multitasker who doesn't have time and is constantly interrupted. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering." -- *gulps*

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Scientific American -- An Ethnologist in Cyberspace (PDF)

'"The transition is from objects-to-think with to objects-to-nurture. The new hook for these kids, and not just for kids, is nurturance instead of control and mastery." -- "I am trying in one way or another to get people to look at the subjective side of technology. My focus is on the individual experience, on the construction of identity and the way technology is used in the construction of identity." -- Turkle describes how people visit chat rooms and other kinds of multiuser domains to explore facets of their personalities–and how they integrate what they learn into "RL,"or "Real Life." (Turkle herself prefers the acronym "ROL," or "Rest of Life.")'

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Forbes -- Can You Hear Me Now? (PDF)

'We are learning to see ourselves as cyborgs, at one with our devices. To put it most starkly: To make more time means turning off our devices, disengaging from the always-on culture. But this is not a simple proposition, since our devices have become more closely coupled to our sense of our bodies and increasingly feel like extensions of our minds.' -- '"Being put on pause" is how one of my students describes the feeling of walking down the street with a friend who has just taken a call on his cell. "I mean I can't go anywhere; I can't just pull out some work. I've just been stopped in midsentence and am expected to remember, to hold the thread of conversation until he wants to pick it up again."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- South of the Future

"Alex Rivera, the director behind the futuristic thriller Sleep Dealer, talks to Wired senior editor Nancy Miller about the next trend in moviemaking: third-world sci-fi."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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io9 -- Mad Science: Carbon Nanotubes Will Rewire Your Brain, Make You Smarter

"... carbon nanotubes can act as neural workarounds in the brain, forming tight contacts with the already-existing nerve cells and conducting electricity between them exactly the way neurons do with each other. According to Henry Markram, a lead scientist on the project at Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry in Switzerland: The new carbon nanotube-based interface technology discovered together with state of the art simulations of brain-machine interfaces is the key to developing all types of neuroprosthetics — sight, sound, smell, motion, vetoing epileptic attacks, spinal bypasses, as well as repairing and even enhancing cognitive functions."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Sherry Turkle -- Always-on/Always-on-you: The Tethered Self (PDF)

'Paro (a robotic seal-like creative) is able to make eye contact through sensing the direction of a human voice, is sensitive to touch, and has "states of mind" that are affected by how it is treated. In this session with Paro, the woman, depressed because of her son's abandonment, comes to believe that the robot is depressed as well. She turns to Paro, strokes him and says: "Yes, you're sad, aren't you. It's tough out there. Yes, it's hard." and then she pets the robot once again, attempting to provide it with comfort. And in so doing, she tries to comfort herself. The woman's sense of being understood is based on the ability of computation objects like Paro to convince their users that they are in a relationship. They are potent objects-to-think-with for asking the questions, posed by all machines that tether us to new socialities: "What is an authentic relationship with a machine?" "What are machines doing to our relationships with people?" And ultimately, "What is a relationship?"'

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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New York Times -- Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)

“For kids [the mobile phone] has become an identity-shaping and psyche-changing object.” MS. TURKLE, the M.I.T. professor, says cellphones offer another way for the Facebook generation to share every life experience the second it unfolds. “There is a slippage from ‘I have a feeling I want to make a call’ to ‘I need to make a call,’ ” she said. “You don’t get to have a feeling before sharing that feeling anymore.”'

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Eye Spy: Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket

'"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?"'

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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VR-WEAR SL head analysis viewer

Gesture recognition interface for Second Life: "Recognizes the following attitudes: #Yes/No head motion #Surprise/smile #Left/right head bending"

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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New York Times -- Yours for the Peeping

'There is a behavioral connection between the unconsciously “for show” lives of those living in glass condos and the consciously “for show” lives of those spending more and more of their time online, where domestic activities are recorded in achingly specific detail. The result is a cultural confusion about private and public.' --- Sherry Turkle: “There is real confusion about intimacy and solitude. Are we alone in these buildings, facing the anonymity of the city, or are we connected to the city? What do we show and what do we hide? That mirrors what happens when we’re on the computer, on our networks in Facebook. We are no longer able to distinguish when we are together and nurtured and when we are alone and isolated. I can be in intimate contact with 300 people on e-mail, but when I look up from my computer I feel bereft. I haven’t heard a voice, touched a hand, for hours or days. I think people are no longer certain where the self resides.”

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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io9 -- Eyeborgs: Mobile Spy Cams Frame You for Murders They Commit

"To improve its domestic intelligence, the US government rolls out a line of roving surveillance bots called “Eyeborgs,” which are designed to monitor everyday American life. Initially, the wandering cams are viewed as an acceptable annoyance, but questions arise when it appears the Eyeborgs are capable of fabricating videos and sometimes take a more “hands on” approach with their subjects. Adrian Paul plays a Homeland Security agent who finds himself unraveling the Eyeborg mystery. And, judging from the trailers, Danny Trejo’s role in the film is to beat the Eyeborgs while shouting robot-themed insults at them." -- "You little binary bastards!!!"

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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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!

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST -- How parasites spread religion

"Although religion apparently is for establishing a social marker of group alliance and allegiance, at the most fundamental level, it may be for the avoidance and management of infectious disease."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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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."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Electric stimulus to face -test2 (Daito Manabe)

Glitch Face. I need one of these.

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Sousveillance

"Sousveillance as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity, typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the Internet."

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Researchers Demonstrate How to Spoof GPS Devices

'"It's almost like someone nearby is spoofing your favorite radio station by transmitting at the same frequency but higher power fooling your receiver into believing it is getting the right station," says Ledvina.'

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Unplug your friends (Brought to you by the team at Meetup)

"It's an epidemic. It can strike anyone. It begins harmlessly enough... maybe with a cell phone, an online social network profile, or an IM. But before long, the electronic screens invade every corner of your life. There's a name for this tragic and extremely annoying condition: Screen Addiction. But there is hope. Send an intervention to someone you care about! Help them take the first step towards recovery." -- Sent one to my computer. Clear your RAM little fella. Your user can cope without you. *sob sniff*

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Ping.fm: Update all of your social networks at once!

"Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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From The Head Of Zeus Jones -- (i)Phone as human to digital interface.

"For all intents and purposes this makes your mobile phone your digital surrogate - an avatar that sees, hears, does and goes everywhere you go, but which is connected to the broader intelligence and utility of the web." -- Which bit feels?

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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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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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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Brainstorms -- Rheingold Interviews Turkle

"... technology needs time to develop as a medium that enhances the experience of people... my grandparents used the telephone for emergencies and my parents used it to do routine business... I used it as an extension of my social and emotional communication."

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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 -- The scatterbrained

Comment: Linuxguru1968: "How about this: deep reading of traditional books puts your brain into Beta (meditative) mode while reading off of a computer keeps you in Alpha wave (alert) mode..." -- (Beta=alert, Alpha=receptive, Theta=meditative, Delta=sleep)

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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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