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PHYS.ORG -- Rules of attraction
'Another key trait of human networks is their ability to magnify inputs, Christakis said. If someone is altruistic and helps out a friend, that will likely trigger a cascade, making that person more likely to help others and making those others more likely to pass it on. This generates a higher benefit to the whole group than the original input itself. The downside of networks, of course, is that they can also magnify violence, germs, panic, and other negative factors. “Networks magnify whatever they are seeded with, good or bad,” Christakis said. Different people occupy different positions in a network, with the more popular in the center, with more and closer connections. Whether it is better to be in the center or out on the fringe depends on the situation, however, as does the desirability of tight-knit friends who all know one another compared with friends who are attached to unconnected others. A central position has greater access to information, but greater vulnerability to germs. A tight-knit group might perform better on a hunt or a raid, while a looser, more extended group might be more effective at gathering far-flung information. -- A later experiment involving a different group of people found that cooperators in groups with noncooperators tend to sever links with noncooperators and form new bonds with other cooperators. This leaves cooperators in like-minded groups and noncooperators with no choice but to team up with people like them. When network membership was fixed, however, cooperators eventually stopped, creating groups dominated by non-cooperators. “Generous people hang out with generous people. Ungenerous people hang out with ungenerous people,” Christakis said.'
information  propagation  networks  #socialization  groups  parasitism  ostracism 
21 days ago by adamcrowe
Wired -- Darpa’s Plan to Trap the Next WikiLeaker: Decoy Documents
'WikiLeakers may have to think twice before clicking on that “classified” document. It could be the digital smoking gun that points back at them. Darpa-funded researchers are building a program for “generating and distributing believable misinformation.” The ultimate goal is to plant auto-generated, bogus documents in classified networks and program them to track down intruders’ movements, a military research abstract reveals. “We want to flood adversaries with information that’s bogus, but looks real,” says Salvatore Stolfo, the Columbia University computer science professor leading the project. “This will confound and misdirect them.” Under this plan, the decoy docs would undermine hackers’ trust in the integrity of data, make them question whether releasing it in the public domain would be worth it, and force WikiLeakers to do more work verifying their authenticity.'
kipple  errorhandling  information  misinformation  leaky  flood  echolocation 
november 2011 by adamcrowe
Dynamic Hedge -- How To Time A Market Crash
'The worst part of trading in a small office filled with good traders, is you don’t have any good tells on crash days. When I traded in a larger office with more 20 or more guys, days like this were easier. You’d just watch the Urkels. Let me explain. When the market is crashing, you basically have to throw every indicator or fundamental piece of data, save short interest and debt ratios, out the window. The market is running on pure emotion. The only thing that can help you time your trades is focusing on the sentiment of those around you. The only clue of a potential change in market direction comes from watching real-time capitulation of those with skin in the game. If you think it’s morally wrong to use others as a sentiment indicator just remember they’re doing the same thing to you. The sounds and body language of others is the only indicator available to you in times of market dislocation. Use it.'
information  markets  sentiment  trading  slipstreaming  from delicious
september 2011 by adamcrowe
Ribbonfarm -- Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora
'Questions: #1. Commodity factual #2. Test/Interview #3. Learning #4. Socratic #5. Procedural (“do we vote now or later?”) #6. Transactional (such as asking for directions) #7. Privileged data (such as asking about the details of an insider deal) #8. Permission (Can I/May I?) #9. Ascriptive authority (based on formal signs of authoritative knowledge, such as degrees: “Doctor, what’s this rash on my arm?”) #10. Situational authority (a news anchor asking an on-site reporter a question) #11. Opinion #12. Solicitous (“Are you comfy?”) #13. Diagnostic #14. Trick #15. Entrapment 16. Questions people wish others would ask them (faux-FAQs on personal blogs) #17. Insight questions that motivate research #18. Debate questions that trigger a conversation between people with comparable, but non-identical relevant knowledge bases #19. Flattery questions that are designed to give the person being asked an opportunity to show off #20. Insult'
questions  information 
april 2011 by adamcrowe
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog -- Situational overload and ambient overload
'Information overload actually takes two forms, which I'll call situational overload and ambient overload, and they need to be treated separately. Situational overload is the needle-in-the-haystack problem: You need a particular piece of information - in order to answer a question of one sort or another - and that piece of information is buried in a bunch of other pieces of information. Filters have always been pretty effective at solving the problem of situational overload. When we complain about information overload, what we're usually complaining about is ambient overload. Ambient overload doesn't involve needles in haystacks. It involves haystack-sized piles of needles. We experience ambient overload when we're surrounded by so much information that is of immediate interest to us that we feel overwhelmed by the neverending pressure of trying to keep up with it all. The cause of situational overload is too much noise. The cause of ambient overload is too much signal.'
kipple  information  informationoverload  ambientoverload  ambientimmediacy  signalvsnoise  attention  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
The Daily Bell -- Richard Maybury on the Collapse of the Anglo-American Empire and What It Means for You
'Richard Maybury: I think Wikileaks is the beginning of what will turn out to be the biggest political development in a thousand years. Or say for the next thousand years. Pretty soon it will be impossible for governments to operate in secrecy and once everybody knows what every government is doing it's going to be a different world. -- Daily Bell: We think the elite is fighting back with false flag operatives. We think Julian Assange might be one. Agree? Richard Maybury: I don't know anything about Mr. Assange personally so I can't really comment on that, but as far as false flag operatives, that has to be a near certainty. Once everybody knows what you are doing your only defense for what you are doing is to spread a bunch of lies so that nobody believes anything. I think that's what governments are probably doing now. They are trying to spread so many lies that no one will believe anything, including the truth.'
cognitivesurplus  equiveillance  internet  leaky  wikileaks  flood  information  misinformation  disinformation  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
Mute magazine -- Contain This! Leaks, Whistle-Blowers and the Networked News Ecology
'Digital records are the impulses travelling through the nervous systems of dynamic, distributed organisations of all sizes. They are intended, from the beginning, to circulate with ease. Otherwise such organisations would fall apart and dynamism would grind to a halt. The more flexible and distributed organisations become, the more records they need to produce and the faster these need to circulate. Due to their distributed aspect and the pressure for cross-organisational cooperation, it is increasingly difficult to keep records within particular organisations whose boundaries are blurring anyway. People are asked to identify personally with organisations who can either no longer carry historical projects worthy of major sacrifices... This creates the cognitive dissonance that justifies, perhaps even demands, the leaker to violate procedure and actively damage the organisation of which he, or she, has been at some point a well-acculturated member (this is the difference to the spy).'
information  internet  leaky  wikileaks  equiveillance  retribalization  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Operation Leakspin
'To improve the quality of the reports, we have chosen to introduce a concept of 'crowd-journalism' as a subform of crowdsourcing. -- This is Operation Leakspin. We believe that all the information provided by the leaked cables should be out in the open for the public to read, discuss, and most of all, understand. We will use as much manpower as possible to make the information found in the cables available to the public. We will speed up the process of uncovering, we will release facts that the media didn’t speak about, and we will summarize the diplomatic leaks into chunks that everybody can understand. The war against censorship should be fought, not only by attacking businesses facilitating it but by actively releasing all the information that can be released, to all the people it can be released to. We are against censorship, and this is how we prove it. This is what Operation Leakspin is about.'
internet  journalism  crowdsourcing  information  leaky  wikileaks  anonymous  activism  transparency  "transparency"  propagation  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Farmann Magazine -- Transcript of interview with Julian Assange (April 26. 2010)
JA: 'Who is the actual audience of the material that we release? Is it the general public? Is it actually the organization that it comes from? The sort of dissenters of that organization? The whole organization can become incredibly paranoid. If it is a closed secretive organization and information starts leaking out, it can become incredibly paranoid about who is doing some of this on the inside. No one trust insides anymore in the organization, they stop communication, with each other, they don’t trust their telephone lines, they don’t trust their computers. It can not think anymore as a group or as an organization. It can no longer out think its competitors. [...they fall in on themselves] ....they are no longer competitive as an organization compared to all those organizations that are more open than their opponents. So the power of these organizations start to shrink. And the market gap is then taken up by the more open organization that does not have the problem of secrecy.'
information  leaky  transparency  "transparency"  competition  markets  trust  JulianAssange  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Farmann Magazine -- Transcript of interview with Julian Assange (April 26. 2010)
JA: 'If you control the present, you control history and then you control all the decisions that are made based on history. What I said before is that political parties, philosophies, all limited by what is our intellectual heritage. What is the historical record. If you control the historical record, you are in control, you control what decisions can be made. If you do not know about something, you can not make an accurate decision. So that is extremely worrying, that in fact the Internet is the easiest thing in the world to control. -- ...people have been censored, and they do not reveal that they are censored. The reason that they do not reveal that they are censored is because it reveals to the readership that it has been been betrayed. So the censorship is being self censored. -- We are going to get harmonization. Question is; is it going to be the walls of China, is it going to be the Swedish press freedom act? Is it going to be an Internet full of black lists?'
internet  leaky  information  realityprogramming  retcon  memoryhole  minitrue  1984  censorship  history  journalism  wikileaks  JulianAssange  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
From: Ross Stapleton-Gray -- Subject: Wikileaks and Provenance
'As a former intelligence officer, I'm struck by a delicious irony in the situation we now find ourselves in with Wikileaks: Cables have been published by Wikileaks, apparently classified U.S. State Department reporting; the U.S. government hasn't commented on their authenticity, either to admit or deny... Really, there's a lot of "we don't know," or, worse, "we don't know what we don't know," with respect to authentication of documents and provenance. And so, a new concern... fakes. Fakes intended to produce reaction--in financial markets, in commerce more broadly, in politics, etc.--and fairly easily passed off as authentic in the current environment of "no comment" and source suppression. So, we're in the odd position that we're at risk of victimization by criminal fraud that only intelligence agency verification of provenance could really solve. But I very much doubt that they would do that ... And even if they did, would they actually be believed?' -- WikiFlood
internet  leaky  wikileaks  information  misinformation  disinformation  provenance  flood  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Renesys Blog -- WikiLeaks: Moving Target
'Diversification: Not Without Its Problems: If you think for a moment, you'll realize that this rapid growth does create some potential problems with trust — when you click through to one of the myriad wikileak-look-alike sites out there, which ones are "real?" They all look pretty familiar, and share the same content at first glance. But there's no mechanism in place to allow you to know that you're looking at an unaltered, reasonably real-time mirroring of the official wikileaks.org website (which is, of course, no longer available for comparison). Is that incredible cable about the existence of alien bodies in New Mexico real, or is it a joke? The torrents don't suffer from this problem, because they are signed, and the WikiLeaks public key was distributed long ago. But when I visit, to pick a random example from the WikiLeaks mirror page, nepaliwikileaks.org, am I really reading the Real Deal? For that matter, which of the dozens of official WikiLeaks sites are the Real Deal?'
internet  leaky  wikileaks  information  misinformation  disinformation  replication  propagation  flood  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RenegadeEconomist: Vanquishing the Middle Men
'This is the future of banking. Like during the 16th Reformation you either evolve or die.' -- Uh-oh. The internet is here.
oligarchy  internet  renaissance  information  #complexity  #ubiquity  #socialization  money  digitalmoney  markets  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
The Police State Is Doomed by Gary North
'To run a really successful tyranny, the leaders must have increasing wealth as well as more reliable data. They need wealth to hire the programmers, the data collectors, and the police. Computer costs keep falling, but they fall much faster in the private sector (microcomputers) than the government sector (mainframes). Yes, governments have access to ever-growing quantities of data. But the public has far greater access to low-cost information that it uses to increase the overall complexity of society. The task of monitoring what is going on becomes ever-more utopian. The government is always falling behind... The greater the complexity of society, the less able the State is to monitor it, assess it, and use the data to control it. The police State is doomed. It cannot possibly keep up with the constant innovation of society. It cannot gain access to enough resources to maintain control. It wastes the resources it commandeers. The free market is winning.'
2+2=5  socialism  statism  government  surveillance  stasi  tyranny  information  internet  cognitivesurplus  markets  #complexity  #ubiquity  #socialization  voluntaryism  freedom  2+2=4  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
Cryptome -- Wikileaks Feint
leaky  wikileaks  information  misinformation  misdirection  tactics  cryptome  minitrue  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Insider Trading and Central Banks
DB: Comment: 'After the crash, a new form of company was created - the "public" company - and one responsibility of the public company was to provide by MANDATE audited financial statements every year. What was the result? A market-driven service to consumers (a voluntary audited statement) was turned into an obligatory presentation. The result was that companies began to spend their time and energy seeking ways to make the statements fairly indecipherable and not representative of the true state of affairs, necessarily. What was once a voluntary good in a competitive marketplace became a kind of complex mess. Companies with sterling audits still went broke unexpectedly and because the audits had become mandatory, their competitive value was voided. Just another example of how mandated "complete disclosure of risk" within a regulatory environment is a chimera, a false hope. You are correct that the disinfectant is sunshine. But sunshine is only available via competition.'
economics  business  information  regulation  unintendedconsequences  "transparency"  competition  voluntaryism 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Tweetage Wasteland -- I’m Swimming with Information Sharks
'The realtime internet has turned me into an information shark. Either I keep swimming through this stream of information or I die. In a recent New York Times article, young journalists are described as frantic, fatigued, intense, pressured, strained, exhausted, burnt out and shackled to their computers. This might be an apt description of many online journalists, but it also sounds a lot like everyone I know. While journalists have to obsessively keep up with news related to their beats, my beat is the entire web. I’m frantic and fatigued by lunch. I am just another member of the web’s global newsroom.'
internet  web  information  gluttony  #bandwidth  #processing  centralnervoussystem  proprioception  themediumisthemassage  intermittentvariablerewards  addiction  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Tweetage Wasteland -- The Five Most Endangered Words on the Internet
'Let me think about that. Where does this lead? Do we rebound from this trend and begin to compartmentalize that incoming information which requires deeper thought or does everything get put on the high speed and never ending instant-opinion assembly line? I’ll answer that question with the three most endangered words in the blogosphere. I don’t know.'
behaviours  realtime  now  ambientimmediacy  information  immunessystem  autoimmunity  immunesystem  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Information ethics
'Information ethics is the field that investigates the ethical issues arising from the development and application of information technologies. It provides a critical framework for considering moral issues concerning informational privacy, moral agency (e.g. whether artificial agents may be moral), new environmental issues (especially how agents should one behave in the infosphere), problems arising from the life-cycle (creation, collection, recording, distribution, processing, etc.) of information (especially ownership and copyright, digital divide).'
information  bots  ethics  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Philosophy of information
'...four kinds of mutually compatible phenomena are commonly referred to as "information": #Information about something (e.g. a train timetable) #Information as something (e.g. DNA, or fingerprints) #Information for something (e.g. algorithms or instructions) #Information in something (e.g. a pattern or a constraint).'
information  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Computerworld -- Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place
'The embargo period is a key part of the plan, Assange said. When Wikileaks releases material without writing its own story or finding people who will, it gains little attention. "It's counterintuitive," he said. "You'd think the bigger and more important the document is, the more likely it will be reported on but that's absolutely not true. It's about supply and demand. Zero supply equals high demand, it has value. As soon as we release the material, the supply goes to infinity, so the perceived value goes to zero."'
leaky  wikileaks  journalism  information  attention  economics  #ubiquity  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Alex Jones TV: John Young [Cryptome]: Wikileaks War Logs Show Global Intelligence Facade Of 'War On Terror' 1/2
Young: "[Wikileaks] needed the cover of these major newspapers for this data because they didn't have the confidence to go out on their own as they usually do. Once you get this kind of coverage in major newspapers, it's very hard to get people to go back and look at the original documents, which were tedious and hard to read, so the newspaper version starts to prevail and it gets a life of its own."
leaky  wikileaks  information  misinformation  disinformation  sanitization  propagation  news  journalism  #specialization  cryptome  minitrue  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Mises Daily -- Classical Liberalism versus Anarchocapitalism by Jesus Huerta de Soto
'Why Statism Is Theoretically Impossible. #1. The state would need a huge volume of information, and this information is only found in a dispersed or diffuse form in the minds of people... #2. The information the intervening body would need for its commands to exert a coordinating effect is predominantly tacit and inarticulable in nature, and thus it cannot be transmitted with absolute clarity. #3. The information society uses is not "given;" it changes constantly as a result of human creativity. Hence, there is obviously no possibility of transmitting today information which will only be created tomorrow and which is precisely the information the agent of state intervention needs to achieve its objectives tomorrow. #4. Finally and above all, to the extent state commands are obeyed and exert the desired effect on society, their coercive nature blocks the entrepreneurial creation of the very information the intervening state body most desperately needs to make its own commands...'
economics  statism  liberalism  libertarianism  minarchism  government  delusion  anarchocapitalism  humanaction  praxeology  information  #processing  #socialization  #diversity  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Mises Daily -- The Nonviolent Black Market in Information by Manuel Lora
'The technological advantages of sharing information point us to an important praxeological principle that also explains the nonviolence of this black market. Unlike the goods people exchange money for, information is nonscarce. Being nonscarce, it is a nonrivalrous good and, as such, it is free. In fact, as Rothbard points out, nonscarce goods cannot even be economized—that is, they cannot be made the object of human action. ...the black market in information is simply individuals cooperating in order to manipulate their own private property—namely, altering the physical state of their computers in certain patterns. We term these patterns "songs," "movies," and the like, informally treating them like physical objects. But at no point does copying a pattern inhibit anyone else's ability to enjoy that same pattern. It turns out that copying is not theft. Unfortunately, the state will not—to use a cliché—let information be free. But can legislation alter the laws of the universe?'
property  intellectualproperty  information  praxeology  hackersvsvectoralists  statism  mercantilism  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Nieman Journalism Lab -- Ushahidi in 3G: How media outlets could extend the mapping platform beyond crisis communications
'“Unbounded crowdsourcing” is what we are familiar with: the idea of opening up a platform to the world, and letting the world contribute. “Bounded crowdsourcing” is when you have a specific network of individuals who are doing the reporting. So it’s a known, trusted network of individuals. So what they did is they had their own journalists on the ground, who were texting and tweeting live to the map, but they also opened it up to other residents — people in Gaza — to also submit information. ...you don’t necessarily know whether the crowd is trustworthy, or individuals in the crowd are trustworthy ...if some of these individuals start also reporting the same event that the journalists are reporting, then you know they might actually be more trustworthy. And so it creates this kind of digital trace, or like a shadow of history that allows you to start identifying which individuals in the crowd may actually be trustworthy. And you can sort of assign them a higher credibility score.'
crowdsourcing  smartmobs  mapping  journalism  information  misinformation  immunesystem  reputation  errorhandling  triage  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E04: "Faith In Numbers"
'Faith in Numbers examines the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance from the perspective of how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death influenced cultural development.'
documentaries  technology  networks  roman  empire  collapse  waterpower  hydraulics  engineering  gearing  cam  automation  industrialization  systems  loom  textiles  music  programming  trade  commerce  accounting  investment  linen  paper  JohannesGutenberg  letterpress  printing  book  #specialization  cognitivesurplus  emmigration  america  census  information  tabulation  computers  history  code  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- The Efficient Community Hypothesis
'People, truth, identity, reputation, values are the five elements of an efficient community. Efficient communities sort good information from bad by inducing people to reveal their true expectations and preferences — whether managers, customers, or investors. When people are bound together, they develop shared values — which destroys the incentive to dissemble in the first place. Markets need communities. When we put markets and communities together, efficient communities filter the best information (about reputable buyers, sellers, products, services, etc) and weed out the bad information. Efficient communities send this filtered info to markets, who soak it up and yield more efficient prices. The results of market exchanges create new info that feeds back into the community — driving a more sustainable, smarter kind of growth.'
economics  information  feedback  markets  communities  mutualism  UmairHaque 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
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.'
twitter  research  internet  web  information  hivemind  diffusion  spread  extensionsofman  immunesystem 
april 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
Nieman Journalism Lab -- Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers
'Supporters of the proposal say the move would make Iceland an “offshore publishing center” for free speech, analogous to the offshore financial havens that allow corporations to hide capital from authorities. Could global news organizations with a home office in Reykjavík soon be as common as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets? Daniel Schmitt of Wikileaks termed the idea “a Switzerland of bits.” -- “The main purpose is to prevent something like our financial crisis from taking place again,” said member of parliament Lilja Mósesdóttir, noting that Iceland’s financiers had great influence over the Icelandic media. “They were manipulating the news.”' -- (Talk about unintended consequences.)
*  iceland  internet  journalism  information  transparency  accountability  wikileaks  leaky  unintendedconsequences  cognitivesurplus 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
The Boston Globe -- Easy = True
'Cognitive fluency is simply a measure of how easy it is to think about something, and it turns out that people prefer things that are easy to think about to those that are hard. On the face of it, it’s a rather intuitive idea. But psychologists are only beginning to uncover the surprising extent to which fluency guides our thinking, and in situations where we have no idea it is at work. -- “Every purchase you make, every interaction you have, every judgment you make can be put along a continuum from fluent to disfluent. If you can understand how fluency influences judgment, you can understand many, many, many different kinds of judgments better than we do at the moment.” “Disfluency functions as a cognitive alarm. It sets up a cognitive roadblock and makes people think, and it triggers a sense of risk and concern.” “Fluent things are familiar, but also boring and comfortable. Disfluency is intriguing and novel."'
psychology  cognition  thinking  bias  information  communication  persuasion  engagement  usability 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Wired.com -- Wikileaks Closes Operations Temporarily Due to Budget Woes
'Wikileaks, the controversial whistleblower site, has temporarily shuttered its operations. It finds itself out of funds to meet its operating costs. The site announced last December that it planned to temporarily cease operations, save for its anonymous submission tool, until it could raise money to operate. But it has so far been unable to meet those needs. The site’s annual costs are $200,000 — $600,000 if staff is paid — but it has raised only $130,000, so far. The site will remain closed to allow administrators to raise funds.'
information  transparency  accountability 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
fugitive philosophy -- managing language (with extreme prejudice)
'The Careless Losers – the carefree, perhaps – have something else going on in their lives and see work for what it is: a distraction from what counts. In this sense, the Losers, as the biggest group that constitutes most of us, are composed of that “silent majority” that upholds a good deal of old fashioned anarchist sensibility: act as if the State/Corp doesn’t exist. In the indication of a blindspot within an organisation’s powergame environment, Venkat’s analysis suggests that other systems of power might lie elsewhere. This elsewhere keeps those with an ear to the outside constantly seeking an alternative means to living without working, and as Virno suggests, means that exodus (or the politics of disappearance) constitutes the general strategy of the (Loser) workforce.'
psychology  communication  information  language  signalling  hierarchy  status  masks  power  thegervaisprinciple  transactionalanalysis 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Yochai Benkler
'TAKING ON THE HABITS OF THE SCIENTIST, THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, AND THE MEDIA CRITIC -- [T]here is plenty of nonsense [on the internet]. We all know this. And so alongside the open mindedness we also have come to develop a healthy dose of skepticism — both about those who are institutionally anointed experts, and about those who are institutional outsiders. Belief formation and revision is an open and skeptical conversation: searching for interlocutors, forming provisional beliefs, giving them weight, continuously updating. We cannot seek authority; only partial degrees of provisional confidence. It requires that we take on the habits of the scientist, the investigative reporter, and the media critic as an integral part of the normal flow of life, learning, and understanding.'
internet  information  misinformation  skepticism  extensionsofman  immunesystem  #processing 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Daniel Haun
'REPETITION, NOT TRUTH -- People, including you, believe the examples they can think of right away to be most representative and therefore indicative of the truth. This is called the "availability heuristic". Repetition creates the illusion of truth. Let's reconsider the Internet. [A searched] page's relevance is determined by how many other relevant pages link to it. Repetition, not truth. Your search engine will then present a set of ranked pages to you, determining availability. Repetition determines availability, and both together the illusion of truth. Hence, the Internet does just what you would do. It isn't changing the structure of your thinking, because it resembles it. It isn't changing the structure of your thinking, because it resembles it. It isn't changing the structure of your thinking, because it resembles it.'
internet  information  search  bias  availabilitybias  falsepositive  feedback  replication  #specialization  echochamber  collectiveunintelligence 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Esther Dyson
'INFORMATION METABOLISM -- I think much of what we get on the Internet is empty calories. It's sugar — short videos, pokes from friends, blog posts, Twitter posts (even blogs seem longwinded now), pop-ups and visualizations…Sugar is so much easier to digest, so enticing…and ultimately, it leaves us hungrier than before. Worse than that, over a long period, many of us are genetically disposed to lose our capability to digest sugar if we consume too much of it. It makes us sick long-term, as well as giving us indigestion and hypoglycemic fits. Could that be true of information sugar as well? Will we become allergic to it even as we crave it? And what will serve as information insulin?'
internet  information  gluttony  extensionsofman  digestion  metabolism  immunesystem  #processing 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Amazon.com -- You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
'The original turn of phrase was "Information wants to be free." And the problem with that is that it anthropomorphizes information. Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way. What we have done in the last decade is give information more rights than are given to people. If you express yourself on the internet, what you say will be copied, mashed up, anonymized, analyzed, and turned into bricks in someone else’s fortress to support an advertising scheme. However, the information, the abstraction, that represents you is protected within that fortress and is absolutely sacrosanct, the new holy of holies. You never see it and are not allowed to touch it. This is exactly the wrong set of values. A weird cult in the world of technology has done damage to culture at large.'
criticism  information  sharecropping  hackersvsvectoralists  informationwantstobefreebutiseverywhereinchains  technology  temes  technoutopianism  singularity  posthumanism  uploading  JaronLanier 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
SSRN -- Conspiracy Theories by Cass Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule
'...if the hard core arises for certain identifiable reasons, it can be broken up or at least muted by government action ["cognitive diversity"]. ...there are intrinsic costs to the strategy of giving up on the hard core and directing government efforts solely towards inoculating the mass audience. For one thing, the hard core may itself provide the most serious threat. For another, a response geared to a mass audience (whether or not nominally pitched as a response to the conspiracy theorists) will lead some to embrace rather than reject the conspiracy theory the government is trying to rebut. This is the legitimation dilemma again: to begin a program of inoculation is to signal that the disease is already widespread and threatening. Under pluralistic ignorance, the perverse result may actually be to spread the conspiracy theory further. -- With an audience already thoroughly in the grip of conspiracy theories, open counterspeech may simply be more grist for the conspiratorial mill.'
memetics  information  misinformation  disinformation  propaganda  hysteria  countermeasures  counterpropaganda  reversepropaganda  forcedmemes  pr  realityprogramming  minitrue  1984  conspiracy 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Danah Boyd, "Streams of Content, Limited Attention"
On information flow: "You have to help people reach that state of flow where they know they're making sense of the world around them." -- On attention streams: "The key will be to find ways in which content can be surfaced in context regardless of where it resides." -- On monetizing sociality (rent): "We've yet to find the digital equivalent of alcohol for the internet." -- http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/Web2Expo.html
information  news  storygraph  flow  socialmedia  businessmodels  networks  rhizome  curation  context  DanahBoyd 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain -- The Stateless Society: An Examination of Alternatives
'...while most people are comfortable with the idea of reducing the size and power of the State, they become distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of getting rid of it completely. A central lesson of history is that States are parasites which always expand until they destroy their host population. Because the State uses violence to achieve its ends – and there is no rational end to the expansion of violence – States grow until they destroy civilized interaction through the corruption of money, contracts, honesty, family, and self-reliance. People who believe that the State can somehow be contained have not accepted the fact that no State in history has ever been contained. Why, then, do most people believe that a society will crumble without a coercive and monopolistic social agency at its core? There are a number of answers to this question, but generally they tend to revolve around three central points: #dispute resolution; #collective services; and, #pollution.' -- Solved.
*  economics  crime  pollution  risk  insurance  assurance  disputeresolution  information  transparency  civility  commons  markets  emergentism  voluntaryism  anarchism  commonsense  StefanMolyneux 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
The Archdruid Report -- Hagbard's Law
'Hagbard’s Law states that information can only be communicated between equals, since in a hierarchy, those in inferior positions face very strong incentives to tell their superiors what the superiors want to hear rather than ‘fessing up to the truth. -- The global warming story, if you boil it down to its bones, is the kind of story our culture loves to tell – a narrative about human power. Look at us, it says, we’re so mighty we can destroy the world! The peak oil story, by contrast, is the kind of story we don’t like – a story about natural limits that apply, yes, even to us. From the standpoint of peak oil, our self-anointed status as evolution’s fair-haired child starts looking like the delusion it arguably is, and it becomes hard to avoid the thought that we may have to settle for the rather less flattering role of just another species that overshot the carrying capacity of its environment and experienced the usual consequences.'
hagbardslaw  information  misinformation  hierarchy  sycophantism  status  happytalk  narrativefallacy  narcissism  hubris  climate  peakoil  JohnMichaelGreer  sycophancy 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
danah boyd -- "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
'#2. Stimulation. People consume content that stimulates their mind and senses. That which angers, excites, energizes, entertains, or otherwise creates an emotional response. This is not always the "best" or most informative content, but that which triggers a reaction. #3. Homophily. In a networked world, people connect to people like themselves. Prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and power are all baked into our networks. In a world of networked media, it's easy to not get access to views from people who think from a different perspective. In an era of networked media, we need to recognize that networks are homophilous and operate accordingly. Technology does not inherently disintegrate social divisions. In fact, more often then not, in reinforces them. Only a small percentage of people are inclined to seek out opinions and ideas from cultures other than their own. These people are and should be highly valued in society...'
*  internet  web  socialmedia  behaviours  attention  continuouspartialattention  synaptics  emotionalism  homophily  groupthink  information  discourse  DanahBoyd  retribalization 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Ribbonfarm -- The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
'What distinguishes Powertalk is that with every word uttered, the power equation between the two speakers shifts just a little. Sometimes both gain slightly, at the expense of some poor schmuck. Sometimes one yields ground to the other. When the clueless or losers talk, on the other hand, nothing moves. Relative positions remain the same all around. Shifts happen only by accident. Even in the rare cases where exploitable information is exchanged, its value is not recognized or reflected in the exchange. Posturetalk, Babytalk and Gametalk leave power relations basically unchanged. Posturetalk and Babytalk leave things unchanged because they are, to quote Shakespeare, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Gametalk leaves power relations unchanged because its entire purpose is to help losers put themselves and each other into safe pigeonholes that validate do-nothing life scripts. -- The only Powertalk you can speak with no [actual power] is “silence.”'
*  psychology  communication  information  language  signalling  hierarchy  status  masks  sociopathy  power  thegervaisprinciple  transactionalanalysis  gametalk 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Acquisio -- Forward and Backward; Musings on Librarianship and the Future of Search
'A good model of the future needs to incorporate lots of old baggage. ... civilization is fragile. The best chance of information survival is not publicity, authority, power, electronic storage or even paper recordings. Our oldest surviving stories were written on clay tablets and buried it in the desert, dependant as much on fluke as human planning for their survival. -- Hopefully we’ll always exist in a place somewhere between information dystopia and utopia, a place that allows enough happy accidents, that there will always be a need for search. The buried doubloons. The lost and refound manuscript. The private collection. Though I’ve defined the future librarian mainly as an organizer, the passion is equally the hunt. And even more than the hunt is the importance of what we serendipitously find along the way. The Internet is great for this. But so is fossil hunting. Forward and backward. We need both.'
librarianship  archives  information  search  kipple  foraging  serendipity 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Daily Bell -- Barack Obama sees poll rating plummet
'Without the Internet, there would have been no way of analyzing what Obama has presented and much of the opposition to Obama's various socialized programs would have been far slower to materialize. -- Surveys ... are showing that increased numbers of Americans are dissatisfied with the political process in general. Up to 50 percent of Americans—and many Europeans too in our opinion—are unhappy with governmental processes and seeking answers that government is apparently not providing. The modern Western structure of politics, economics and military action is under sustained attack, not merely by disgruntled fringes but by a good cross-section of middle class citizens. Those readers who wish to do so are free to interpret this growing trend as one of serendipity. We believe it has everything to do with the conversation on the Internet, which is increasingly one of freedom in a world of out-of-control monetary stimulation...' -- The internet giveth and the internet taketh away.
internet  information  collectiveintelligence  transparency  politics 
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
New Rules for the New Economy -- 4: FOLLOW THE FREE
'Because they were free, indexes became ubiquitous. Their ubiquity quickly made them valuable (and their stockholders rich) and enabled many other web services to flourish.
economics  free  businessmodels  aggregation  gisting  information 
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
New Scientist -- Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share
'Four key conditions for the successful management of shared environmental resources: #information, #identity, #institutions and #incentives ...introducing a system of policing simply creates a second-order free-rider problem - raising the issue of who guards the guards. The key is trust - and the cornerstone for building trust is fairness. ...local water authorities tried to implement drastic water-saving measures... Residents were most likely to comply with authorities if they felt their concerns were taken seriously and they got accurate, unbiased information about the severity of the drought ...the more uncertain we are the more likely we are to bias our decisions in our own narrow self-interest ...the environmental uncertainty caused by a fluctuating resource led individuals to underestimate the damage of their actions and exploit the resource to the point of collapse.'
economics  psychology  commons  information  trust  cooperation  equiveillance 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
Foreign Policy -- Think Again: Twitter
'#Authoritarian regimes should fear Twitter: Twitter creates an extensive online paper trail that can be easily used against dissidents. So Twitter could help authorities identify dissent at very early stages, tracking not just individual activists, but entire activist networks. An online friend list could enable a serious crack-down. -- #Twitter conversations are shallow and serious people should avoid it: Who cares? Obviously, Twitter is not the letters section of the New York Review of Books. Those looking for deep, long, insightful conversations shouldn't bother. But what attracts so many smart people to Twitter is a chance to follow what other smart people are reading and browsing -- and to do so in real time. What "Twitter virgins" do not understand is that Twitter actually facilitates the discovery of all those long and uber-insightful conversations that are happening elsewhere.' As a discovery tool that works for everyone, it beats everything else out there...'
behaviours  socialmedia  twitter  realtime  information  discovery  propagation  spread  coordination  socialgraph  surveillance 
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
RWW -- Could Real Time Information Be An Unfair Advantage?
'Could the real time web give some people such an unfair advantage over everyone else that non-early adopters of new technologies or people outside of marketing firms could be left out in the cold? Presuming we're talking about important, actionable information online and not just real-time chat and fun - it's possible. The question is: will the most important parts of the real time web be open and democratized, or proprietary and shared only with those who can pay a high price for access? That question hasn't been answered yet. Analysis of real time mass communication could lead to a world of innovation and understanding - if that communication is an open fire hose of data and not shared only with deep pocketed commercial partners.' -- Darkpools in darknets
socialmedia  realtime  sentiment  information  asymmetry  competition  frontrunning  algorithms  blackboxes  obsfucation  darknets  darkpools 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Everything is Miscellaneous -- Transparency is the new objectivity
'Transparency gives the reader information by which she can undo some of the unintended effects of the ever-present biases. Transparency brings us to reliability the way objectivity used to. Transparency prospers in a linked medium, for you can literally see the connections between the final draft’s claims and the ideas that informed it. Paper, on the other hand, sucks at links. At the edges of knowledge — in the analysis and contextualization that journalists nowadays tell us is their real value — we want, need, can have, and expect transparency. Transparency puts within the report itself a way for us to see what assumptions and values may have shaped it, and lets us see the arguments that the report resolved one way and not another. Transparency — the embedded ability to see through the published draft — often gives us more reason to believe a report than the claim of objectivity did. Objectivity without transparency increasingly will look like arrogance. And then foolishness.'
web  journalism  bias  transparency  information  filters  hyperlinks 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Guardian -- Charles Arthur reports on augmented reality
'... a Swedish company, The Astonishing Tribe, has gone a step further, with a facial recognition system called Augmented ID. It tells you who people are, based on identifying their picture via a technology called Polar Rose, which analyses faces and then searches for photos on Flickr that match it - and pulls out the name from the tags.' -- What motivates this? Is the motivation even human?
augmentedreality  surveillance  realitymining  datamining  information  kipple  temes  via:timo 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Scribd -- FREE by Chris Anderson (Full book)
'#Free 1: Simple cross-subsidy #Free 2: Ad-supported #Free 3: Freemium #Free 4: Gift economy -- #Reversible business models: In China, some doctors are paid monthly when their patients are healthy. If you are sick, it’s their fault, so you don’t have to pay that month. It’s their goal to get you healthy and keep you healthy so they can get paid. -- In Denmark, a gym offers a membership program where you pay nothing as long as you show up at least once a week. But miss a week and you have to pay full price for the month. The psychology is brilliant. When you go every week, you feel great about yourself and the gym. But eventually you’ll get busy and miss a week. You’ll pay, but you’ll blame yourself alone. Unlike the usual situation where you pay for a gym you’re not going to, your instinct is not to cancel your membership; instead it’s to redouble your commitment.' -- On the fallacy of consistent price elasticity: 'The truth is that zero is one market and any other price is another.'
economics  prices  free  complements  strategy  businessmodels  marketing  selling  psychology  risk  incentives  communities  participation  scale  asymmetry  networkeffects  peerproduction  productnarratives  information  piracy  hackersvsvectoralists  abundance  digital  cognitivesurplus  temes  #processing  #storage  #bandwidth  #ubiquity  #specialization  google  ChrisAnderson  books 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Max Keiser -- [1042] The Truth About Markets (27 June 2009)
On twitter stampedes feedbacking volatility markets. -- Subscribe to the herdfeed. Bringing you falseflags daily.
*  economics  finance  twitter  sentiment  information  misinformation  news  feedback  volatility  markets  reflexivity  realityprogramming  standalonecomplex  herd  falseflag  manipulation  MaxKeiser  retribalization 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading
'Traders are using software developed by US-based technology StreamBase to monitor "tweets" for price sensitive information. The software allows traders to take into account "event-based" information published on Twitter in their automated equity, bond and foreign exchange trading. The company claims it could give traders an edge when deciding whether to trade on breaking news, like terrorist attacks and natural disasters, rather than waiting for the information to be filtered through providers like Reuters Thomson or Bloomberg. Nasir Zubairi, a former product manager for algorithmic trading and foreign exchange e-commerce at Royal Bank of Scotland, said the City would be looking at websites like Twitter.com as a useful market information "broadcast tool". "Markets tend to buy on rumour and sell on facts," he said.'
economics  realtime  markets  predictions  sentiment  realitymining  datamining  information  twitter 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Production I.G -- Interview: The context of Stand Alone Complex
Kenji Kamiyama: 'When I first named the series, "Stand Alone Complex", I tried to underscore the dilemmas and concerns that people would face if they relied too heavily on the new communications infrastructure known as "the network". When "the network" links individuals together, the speed and the amount of transmitted information is greatly boosted. Also, people can share information as if they had actually experienced it, using virtual reality tools in the same way that cell phones and text messaging is commonly used today. When you are only exchanging text messages, you tend to include all sorts of presumptions and imagined notions. I became aware that this could lead to a sort of parallel information further leading to dangerous situations. -- "information disseminates and parallelizes; and the Stand Alone Complex phenomenon actually exists." and "good cause is seldom parallelized, and does not disseminate."' -- Bad spreads good.
internet  networks  communication  information  collectiveintelligence  hivemind  collectivism  individualism  multitude  standalonecomplex  ghostintheshell  philosophy  #socialization  #ubiquity 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
"While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics."
internet  networks  web  socialnetworking  socialmedia  communication  coordination  activism  smartmobs  information  transparency  communities  media  temes  #socialization  #ubiquity  ClayShirky 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Times Online -- Warning: brain overload
'Linda Stone warns: “We have stretched our attention bandwidth to its upper limits. We think that if technology has a lot of bandwidth then we do, too.” -- Comment: Tim Brown: 'It just goes to show that the Biblical Commandment No.4 of "Honour the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy" is not just a good idea, but a psychological necessity.'
psychology  information  gluttony  selfcontrol  distraction  continuouspartialattention  attention  amputation 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Mail Online -- How the Twitter age of rolling information has 'robbed fans of compassion'
"A constant stream of electronic 'junk' is damaging people's ability to think compassionately, scientists say. The deluge of information from 24-hour news, mobile phones, emails and social networking sites such as Twitter moves too fast for the brain's 'moral compass' to process, two studies suggest. If brains become numbed by the stream of digital information, then people could lose the ability to feel altruism or sympathy for others, researchers claim. 'Our brains' attention levels are finite. When everything is screaming at us, we start withdrawing so that normally nice people become unempathetic. The two studies suggest information overload can trigger the brain's 'fight or flight' response - and sideline more compassionate, thoughtful responses to news and information. It also suggests that heavy Twitter and Facebook users could become 'indifferent to human suffering' because they never get time to reflect and fully experience emotions about other people's feelings."
psychology  information  twitter  attention  continuouspartialattention  emotionalintelligence 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
(hm) -- the information demands our complete divided attention
"We're adapting to a world where everyone is connected to everything
continuouspartialattention  attention  patternrecognition  information  filters 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers
Sherry Turkle: '“Among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents, and to find the peace and quiet to become the person you decide you want to be. Texting hits directly at both those jobs.” Psychologists expect to see teenagers break free from their parents as they grow into autonomous adults, Professor Turkle went on, “but if technology makes something like staying in touch very, very easy, that’s harder to do; now you have adolescents who are texting their mothers 15 times a day, asking things like, ‘Should I get the red shoes or the blue shoes?’ ”As for peace and quiet, she said, “if something next to you is vibrating every couple of minutes, it makes it very difficult to be in that state of mind. “If you’re being deluged by constant communication, the pressure to answer immediately is quite high,” she added. “So if you’re in the middle of a thought, forget it.”'
technology  teens  mobile  texting  behaviours  distraction  tethered  self  ambientintimacy  ambientimmediacy  continuouspartialattention  attention  information  addiction  gluttony  anxiety  relationalobjects  objects  SherryTurkle  psychology 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
The Archdruid Report -- The End of the Information Age
"Electricity isn’t an energy source; it has to be generated, using some other energy source to do so. ...information does not exist without a physical substrate, and if the physical substrate goes, so does the information. ...that substrate is the global network of communications links and server farms, and the even vaster economic and technical infrastructure that keeps them funded, powered, and supplied with the trained personnel and spare parts that keep them running. It’s not an accident that the internet came into existence during the last hurrah of the age of cheap energy... The problem here, of course, is that the conditions that made the cheap abundant energy of that quarter century have already come to an end... The waning of the internet will pose an additional challenge to the future, because – like other new technologies – it is in the process of displacing older technologies that provided the same services on a more sustainable basis."
temes  technology  internet  information  energy  conservation  sustainability  opportunitycosts  economics  localism  #bandwidth  #storage  JohnMichaelGreer  retribalization 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Thinking man’s filter
'The fear that critics of internet-mediated consciousness have is that we’ll lose the ability to formulate these critiques because we will have regressed into the habit of searching for what has already been said and latching on to whatever superficial information ebbs up from that search. -- ...the deeper question has to do with whether the mountains of data now available to us inhibits thought or enables it, or has no particular effect on the quality of thought. It’s great to be able to look up specific information and get it quickly—to be able to pull up texts and search them for half-remembered phrases, for example. But chasing down information online tends to generate a centrifugal force that takes one out of the orbit of the original inquiry. The promise of more and different and enticing stimuli is always there, and our battle against distraction seems always to become more difficult.'
literaryculturevsoralculture  information  knowledge  context  synthesis  #specialization  #diversity  distraction 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Salon -- Why can't we concentrate?
'In essence, attention is the faculty by which the mind selects and then zeroes in on the most "salient" aspect of any situation. The problem is that the brain is not a unified whole, but a collection of "systems" that often come into conflict with each other. When that happens, the more primitive, stimulus-driven, unconscious systems (the "reactive" and "behavioral" components of our brains) will usually override the consciously controlled "reflective" mind. There are excellent reasons for this. In the conditions under which humanity evolved, threats had the greatest salience; individuals who spotted and eluded dangers before they went chasing after rewards tended to live long enough to pass on their traits to future generations. As a result, we inherited from our distant ancestors the tendency to pay greater attention to the unpleasant and troublesome elements of our surroundings.. -- ..a constant diet of reactive-system stimuli has the potential to alter our very brains.' -- *gulps*
*  evolutionarypsychology  psychology  brain  internet  socialmedia  behaviours  attention  continuouspartialattention  information  gluttony  reflexivity  synaptics 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Attention grabber
On internet-assisted distraction '... a continual flow of mini-activities, which constantly rewards the novelty-craving part of our brain... Rather than [focus on the things we'd rather be doing], it seems we try to compensate by indulging alternative ideals: convenience for its own sake; quantity of experience over nebulous qualitative experience; competitive consumption and early adopterhood—various measurable efficiencies that allow us to belief we are prospering in the attention economy, regardless of harried we may feel by the pace. Or, as Miller notes, we can attempt to use technology against itself, as a filter to block out options, to restrict our freedom, to limit the range of our responsiveness. This is one way to understand the success of Twitter, which synthesizes both approaches—it’s a binge-purge technology whose arbitrary restrictions seem to be simplifying the media onslaught while actually authorizing it accelerating our gluttonous information intake.'
psychology  socialmedia  twitter  behaviours  attention  continuouspartialattention  information  gluttony  consumering 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
The Technium -- Ordained-Becoming
'Adaptive natural selection excels at supremely optimizing a form to a constantly shifting niche. That process is always very specific, very local, and very contingent on tiny historical details and chance. But adaptive optimization presents an ancient conundrum to a species: if they perfect themselves for where they are at present, they can get stuck if the environment shifts quickly which over the span of geological time is certain to happen "frequently." Ideally, a species should seek a balance between optimization of the present and flexibility for the future. Yet, by definition natural selection works only in the present and cannot anticipate the future. The forces behind convergence and emergence, however, keep species near optimal evolvibility, rather than optimal adaptation, and occasionally skip across optimization (good enough is better). Converging on emergent forms, remixing durable ancient subroutines, resisting over-optimization, can keep species primed for the future.'
*  technology  temes  evolution  emergence  strangeattractors  constraints  convergence  information  atoms  bits  carrierobjects  objects  #socialization  #ubiquity  #complexity  #diversity  KevinKelly 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Technological determinism and convenience bias
"As information costs plummet, our investment (in terms of mental energy) in challenging that information also drops. Information, as a commodity, becomes too cheap. It no longer pays to worry about our standards while making more of it or in sorting through it. In fact, we have an incentive to consume as much information as possible and sort out at some later date what the utility of it should have been. Convenience goes hand in hand with consumption acceleration. In short: Thanks to the internet it has become simple for us to produce and disseminate information—creating information pollution. It has become simple for us to gather information—creating convenience bias. These offset the gains for freedom that the internet affords."
internet  information  kipple  consumption  gluttony 
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
TIME -- 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now: 10. Ecological Intelligence -
'what if we could seamlessly calculate the full lifetime effect of our actions on the earth and on our bodies? Not just carbon footprints but social and biological footprints as well? What if we could think ecologically? That's what psychologist Daniel Goleman describes in his forthcoming book, Ecological Intelligence. Using a young science called industrial ecology, businesses and green activists alike are beginning to compile the environmental and biological impact of our every decision — and delivering that information to consumers in a user-friendly way. That's thinking ecologically — understanding the global environmental consequences of our local choices. "We can know the causes of what we're doing, and we can know the impact of what we're doing," says Goleman, who wrote the 1995 best seller Emotional Intelligence. "It's going to have a radical impact on the way we do business." -- "We once had the luxury to ignore our impacts," says Goleman. "Not anymore." '
economics  ecology  environment  information  sustainability  symbiosis  gaia  productnarratives 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
FlowingData -- 27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis
'Some visualizations attempt to explain it all while others focus on affected business. Others concentrate on how we, as citizens are affected. Some show those who are responsible.'
economics  visualization  information  infographics 
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
WSJ.com -- Irresistible Internet
"... what Dr. Biederman calls new and richly interpretable information triggers a chemical reaction that makes us feel good, which in turn causes us to seek out even more of it. The reverse is true as well: We want to avoid not getting those hits because, for one, we are so averse to boredom. It is something we seem hard-wired to do, says Dr. Biederman. When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. You might call us 'infovores.'"
psychology  internet  web  information  scarcity  boredom  attention  opiate  addiction  huntergatherer  behaviours  themediumisthemassage  media 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Generation B: Aging by Megabyte
'AS I reach my late-middle 50s, I am, for the first time, feeling old. ...it comes from within: I’m getting out of date, and I don’t care. Somewhere between the cellphone and BlackBerry, I stopped. I know it is the beginning of my being left behind. And yet — and this is the old part — I’m having trouble making myself care. It’s in my best interest to care, but I don’t. Some progress is progress, but as you get old, you come to feel, a lot is just change; no better, maybe worse. I watched my mother, who died a few years ago at 92, lose interest in the next new thing. She’d been born with radio. TV — particularly color TV — was more than she’d ever expected to see in her lifetime, and I couldn’t get her past that. I thought it was her stubbornness that made me mad, but in retrospect, maybe I was mad she was getting old. Now that I’ve started the process myself, I understand better. As my mother used to say, how much information does one person need?'
technology  behaviours  temes  parasitism  propagation  evolution  age  information  informationoverload  themediumisthemassage  media 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
StockTwits.com -- Real Investors. Real Ideas. Real Time.
"StockTwits is an open, community-powered investment idea and information service. You can think of it as Bloomberg for the little guy and gal. Eavesdrop on what traders and investors are talking about RIGHT NOW or contribute to the conversation and build your reputation and following as a savvy market wizard."
economics  finance  stocks  realtime  investment  information  twitter 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- The Finance 2.0 Manifesto
'Today's bankers, investors, and traders will never build a better finance. Why does Wall St's business as usual seem to be gaming the rules, gambling away other people's money, and cooking the books to hide the losses? Because Wall St's operating system has a single instruction: my job is to rip your face off. Those who can rise swiftly to the top. Wall St, in other words, selects economic Jack the Rippers, rewarding and empowering those who prey on society, communities, and people. Finance 1.0 cannot power growth 2.0. Yesterday's finance cannot power tomorrow's prosperity. Bailouts, taxes, nationalization, regulation are what your discussions this week are focused on. These can limit the depth and intensity of the crash. But what they cannot do is build a radically more efficient, productive, and effective financial system. -- Let's end finance 1.0's abusive relationship with the world. Here are nine paths to igniting the next financial revolution: ...'
economics  ethonomics  manifesto  finance  growth  sustainability  ethics  markets  networks  communities  information  transparency  opensource  UmairHaque 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Where Wall Street Trades in Political Currency
"With sweeping reforms coming, the Wall Street-Washington connection may be more important than ever, and political connections may be the new currency for deal makers. Below is a matrix of Wall Street chiefs and private-equity bosses, as well as their personal contributions to politicians in 2007 and 2008, as recorded by the Center for Responsive Politics. The list, which gives politicians’ titles at the time, also illustrates the political action committee money given by each chief’s firm and its employees." -- See map
economics  politics  cronyism  corruption  bribery  information  design 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
The Jason Calacanis Weblog -- We Live in Public (and the end of empathy)
'Josh’s experiments in 2000, during which he and his cohorts became obsessed with their view counts, parallels today’s blogging, social media and YouTube “arms race.” In his experiment, the technology robbed the subjects–and their audience–of every last ounce of empathy. Digital communications is a wonderful thing–at least at the start. Everyone participating in digital communities is eventually introduced to Godwin’s Law: At some point, a participant, or more typically his or her thinking, will be compared to the Nazis. But that’s only part of the breakdown. Eventually, you see the effect of what I’ll call Harris’ Law: At some point, all humanity in an online community is lost, and the goal becomes to inflict as much psychological suffering as possible on another person. Harris’ Law took effect last year when Abraham Biggs killed himself in front of a live webcam audience on life-streaming service JustinTV. The audience’s role? They encouraged him to do it.'
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march 2009 by adamcrowe
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