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danah boyd | apophenia -- Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook

'Mikalah uses Facebook but when she goes to log out, she deactivates her Facebook account. ...when she’s not logged in, no one can post messages on her wall or send her messages privately or browse her content. But when she’s logged in, they can do all of that. And she can delete anything that she doesn’t like. ...she wants to be a part of Facebook when it makes sense and not risk the possibility that people will be snooping when she’s not around. ...you’re not searchable when you’re not around. You really are invisible except when you’re there. And when you’re there, your friends know it, which is great. What Mikalah does gives her the ability to let Facebook be useful to her when she’s present but not live on when she’s not. -- Shamika doesn’t deactivate her Facebook profile but she does delete every wall message, status update, and Like shortly after it’s posted. When she’s done reading a friend’s comment on her page, she’ll delete it. ...“too much drama.”' -- Ghosts in the shell

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Ftrain.com -- The Web Is a Customer Service Medium

'...the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn't I consulted? Humans have a fundamental need to be consulted, engaged, to exercise their knowledge (and thus power), and no other medium that came before has been able to tap into that as effectively. WWIC is the thing people talk about when they talk about nicer-sounding things like “the wisdom of crowds” or “cognitive surplus.” If you tap into the human need to be consulted you can get some interesting reactions. Here are a few: Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, Hunch, Reddit, MetaFilter, YouTube, Twitter, StumbleUpon, About, Quora, Ebay, Yelp, Flickr, IMDB, Amazon.com, Craigslist, GitHub, SourceForge, every messageboard or site with comments, 4Chan, Encyclopedia Dramatica. Plus the entire Open Source movement.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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ASCII by Jason Scott -- Archiveteam! The Geocities Torrent

'What we were facing was the wholesale destruction of the still-rare combination of words digital heritage, the erasing and silencing of hundreds of thousands of voices, voices that representing the dawn of what one might call “regular people” joining the World Wide Web. A unique moment in human history, preserved for many years and spontaneously combusting due to a few marks in a ledger, the decision of who-knows for who-knows-what. ...you see, websites and hosting services should not be “fads” any more than forests and cities should be fads – they represent countless hours of writing, of editing, of thinking, of creating. They represent their time, and they represent the thoughts and dreams of people now much older, or gone completely. There’s history here. Real, honest, true history. So Archive Team did what it could... on this one-year anniversary, Archive Team announces that we are going to torrent it. YES THAT IS RIGHT, WE ARE RELEASING GEOCITIES ON A TORRENT.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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Tweetage Wasteland -- I’m Being Followed By My Life

'When today’s junior high students move on to high school or from high school to college, they are – thanks to Facebook and other social networks — being followed by their digital selves. The web won’t let the present become past. When the social web emerged, folks in my cohort found ourselves reconnecting with some familiar names and faces from the distant past. Facebook, for us, is a nostalgia machine. But things are different now. The always-on generation won’t use the realtime social web to reconnect with their childhood acquaintances because those connections will already have been maintained via tools like Facebook and Twitter. If you’re a child of the internet era, you will be followed by images and memories that used to be locked away in photo albums, scrapbooks and the unconscious.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Tweetage Wasteland -- I’m Swimming with Information Sharks

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

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Facebook's battle with privacy and profit

'It is a game of privacy cat and mouse that has prompted some users to rebel and others to unconsciously outsmart Facebook. Social technology commentator Laurent Haug believes changes to the privacy settings are altering the way people use Facebook. "People understood that their privacy was at risk and therefore they will falsify the information. Fewer of us are putting down our real details, many of us fabricate our lives online and some even have multiple identities on Facebook. There is a real possibility then that much of the personal data Facebook has been collecting from us might actually be false.' -- Haha! Poison the well.

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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New York Magazine -- Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past?

'The default interaction on ChatRoulette is roughly three seconds long: assessment, micro-interaction, "next." This might seem like yet another outrage of the Internet era—the Twitter-fication of face-to-face interaction. As Internet culture has grown, we’ve come to romanticize certain kinds of unmediated, old-fashioned “human” interactions. But this fantasy ignores how much of normal social interaction is fleeting, bite-size, instant, tweetlike. Humans have always talked to each other via a kind of analog Twitter. These new technologies just get us there with maximum efficiency. Meeting a new person is thrilling, in a primal way—your attention focuses completely, if only for a nanosecond, to see if the creature in front of you has the power to change your life for better or worse. ChatRoulette creates this moment over and over again.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Ghostery

'Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. Ghostery allows you to block scripts from companies that you don't trust.' -- KILL IT WITH FIRE!

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Information Processing and Pleasure

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

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- The Web Means the End of Forgetting

'...the Internet is shackling us to everything that we have ever said, or that anyone has said about us, making the possibility of digital self-reinvention seem like an ideal from a distant era. -- In the Web 3.0 world, Fertik predicts, people will be rated, assessed and scored based not on their creditworthiness but on their trustworthiness as good parents, good dates, good employees, good baby sitters or good insurance risks. Zittrain also speculated that, over time, more and more reputation queries will be processed by a handful of de facto reputation brokers – like the existing consumer-reporting agencies Experian and Equifax, for example – which will provide ratings for people based on their sociability, trustworthiness and employability. -- In the Babylonian Talmud, people have an obligation not to remind others of their past misdeeds, on the assumption they may have atoned and grown spiritually from their mistakes.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of

'“The biggest problem if you’re trying to figure out ‘What is this stuff? What are they trying to do?’ is that I think even they don’t completely have a grip on it,” Scott says. “This thing — the Internet, online culture — allows you to engage with interesting people who you otherwise might not be aware of or interesting people who are, themselves, unaware that they’re interesting.” ...BuzzFeed is organized by its readers’ shorthand response to what they view — sections include LOL and OMG. “The way people interact with media is more about someone’s reaction, an emotional or even intellectual reaction,” Peretti says. “That is a kind of cultural shift. It’s not ‘I love to read the Style section,’ it’s ‘I love all the LOL stuff.’ ” “You see the news break,” Peretti says, and “the next day or 12 hours later, people are hungry for the parody of it or the comic relief.” '

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution

'Pink: We have a biological drive. We eat when we’re hungry, drink when we’re thirsty, have sex to satisfy our carnal urges. We also have a second drive—we respond to rewards and punishments in our environment. But what we’ve forgotten is that we also have a third drive. We do things because they’re interesting, because they’re engaging, because they’re the right things to do, because they contribute to the world. The problem is that, especially in our organizations, we stop at that second drive. We think the only reason people do productive things is to snag a carrot or avoid a stick. But that’s just not true. Our third drive—our intrinsic motivation—can be even more powerful. -- Shirky: ...behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity. So if you see people behaving in new ways, like with Wikipedia and whatnot, it’s very unlikely that their motivations have changed, because human nature doesn’t change that quickly. It’s quite likely that the opportunities have changed.'

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

'The Internet is an interruption system. We want to be interrupted, because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. To turn off these alerts is to risk feeling out of touch or even socially isolated. The stream of new information also plays to our natural tendency to overemphasize the immediate. We crave the new even when we know it’s trivial. -- We know that the human brain is highly plastic; neurons and synapses change as circumstances change. When we adapt to a new cultural phenomenon, including the use of a new medium, we end up with a different brain, says Michael Merzenich, a pioneer of the field of neuroplasticity. That means our online habits continue to reverberate in the workings of our brain cells even when we’re not at a computer. We’re exercising the neural circuits devoted to skimming and multitasking while ignoring those used for reading and thinking deeply. ...we are “training our brains to pay attention to the crap."' -- Or filter it (like so).

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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Raph’s Website -- Facebook rebrands the Internet

'#Step one: Facebook is going to make the whole Internet a community space. #Step two: Facebook is going to be your identity card for the Internet. #Step three: Facebook will aggregate this data into a new type of search. #Step four: Facebook will be your virtual wallet. #Step five: Facebook will push this into the real world, and become your id card for reality. -- But I left out the part where people create Facebook identity skimmers and stand in front of the movie theater; where your history of likes gets analyzed by a third party and turned into direct marketing spam; where there’s a data breach and your credits get taken; where you lose a job because you once liked the wrong kind of site; where companies start paying people to form fake social graphs (“friend me and get free stuff!”) in order to push astroturfing influence into social recommendations; where Facebook bans you because you got rowdy, and now you have no virtual identity. Welcome to a crazy new world.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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OpenLike is a protocol for sharing the things you like on the web.

'OpenLike is a simple way to tell other sites about the things you like and dislike on the web. Instead of having all of your preferences stored by a single company, OpenLike gives you a way to send your data where you want it.'

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april 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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Umair Haque -- The Social Media Bubble

'Thin relationships are the illusion of real relationships. Real relationships are patterns of mutual investment. I invest in you, you invest in me. The "relationships" at the heart of the social bubble aren't real because they're not marked by mutual investment. At most, they're marked by a tiny chunk of information or attention here or there. #Trust. If we take social media at face value, the number of friends in the world has gone up a hundredfold. But have we seen an accompanying rise in trust? ...social isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community.' -- Attention economy is a ponzi?

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Human-flesh Search Engines in China

'Searches have been directed against all kinds of people, including cheating spouses, corrupt government officials, amateur pornography makers, Chinese citizens who are perceived as unpatriotic, journalists who urge a moderate stance on Tibet and rich people who try to game the Chinese system. Human-flesh searches highlight what people are willing to fight for: the political issues, polarizing events and contested moral standards that are the fault lines of contemporary China.' -- InternetToughGuy: “Kill him." -- 'The human-flesh search engine can also serve as a safety valve in a society with ever mounting pressures on the government. “You can’t stop the anger, can’t make everyone shut up, can’t stop the Internet, so you try and channel it as best you can. You try and manage it, kind of like a waterworks hydroelectric project,” MacKinnon explained. “It’s a great way to divert the qi, the anger, to places where it’s the least damaging to the central government’s legitimacy.”'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog -- A typology of crowds

'#Social production crowd: consists of a large group of individuals who lend their distinct talents to the creation of some product like Wikipedia or Linux. #Averaging crowd: acts essentially as a survey group, providing an average judgment about some complex matter that, in some cases, is more accurate than the judgment of any one individual. #Data mine crowd: a large group that, through its actions but usually without the explicit knowledge of its members, produces a set of behavioral data that can be collected and analyzed in order to gain insight into behavioral or market patterns. #Networking crowd: a group that trades information through a shared communication system such as the phone network or Facebook or Twitter. #Transactional crowd: a group used to instigate and coordinate what are mainly or solely point-to-point transactions, such as the type of crowd gathered by Match.com. -- Some crowds become more useful as they get bigger; others work best when kept to a small scale.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Observer -- My bright idea: Jaron Lanier

Lanier: "Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. Initially people aren't sure what the pack is. Somebody tries to ridicule something else, and other people who want to play it safe join in so that they're not the target. Gradually, the pack forms. You can tell it's formed by two things: an internal enemy and an external enemy. The internal enemy is the low person on the totem pole who gets ridiculed. And then there's the external enemy, the "other"." -- Krotoski: "We see this in playgrounds, we see this pack mentality in other, non-web environments. -- Lanier: "That's because it comes from the people, not from the machine."

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Washington's Blog -- Is the Web Making Us Passive?

Hanft: "Even during the most heightened emotional outbursts, when people were mad over the bonuses being given to Wall Street, the people haven't reacted. I wonder if with the Internet, we're given the ability to vent and rant, and that releases everyone's energy, and then people keep doing what they're doing anyway. It seems like a curious psychological phenomenon." -- 'All of us - even political writers and filmmakers- need to guard against settling for virtual victories. We have to get out there and engage in real action in the "real world" as well, and to guard against a dystopian Matrix-like future where the virtual reality is wonderful but the real world is a nightmare.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Newsweek.com -- The Internet Creates a New Kind of Sweatshop

'People can also be enlisted to do work without any idea for whom they're working or why. You might synthesize a new chemical that winds up being used as a poison or in a bomb. Iran's leaders could ask Turkers to cross-reference the faces of the nation's 72 million citizens with those of photographed demonstrators. -- If labor can be summoned and directed from afar, fewer and fewer interactions will remain untainted by those seeking to influence their outcomes. I see a park of the future, its visitors staring into small screens, clicking or talking away. One puts the finishing touches on a $10,000 challenge answer. Another casually asks three friends to see a movie with him that evening, not because he wants to, but because he'll earn a $10 commission. A third is picking up a penny for counting how many others are there, not sure why or to whom it matters. We might miss the days when we went to the park just to have fun.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- The Virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus?

'Aleks examines the popularity of social networks such as Facebook and asks how they are changing our relationships.' -- Sherry Turkle: "There's a new personality type: It moves from, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call,' to, 'I want to have a feeling, I need to make a call.' There's a sense in which you almost need a sense of validation and the support of the community to feel the feeling in the first place. Bringing other people into the loop of feeling your feeling, this is very seductive."

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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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.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free

'Aleks gives the lowdown on how, for better and for worse, commerce has colonised the web - and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be 'free' sites and services in hidden ways. Aleks explores how web advertising is evolving further to become more targeted and relevant to individual consumers. Recommendation engines, pioneered by retailers such as Amazon, are also breaking down the barriers between commerce and consumer by marketing future purchases to us based on our previous choices. On the surface, the web appears to have brought about a revolution in convenience. But, as companies start to build up databases on our online habits and preferences, Aleks questions what this may mean for our notions of privacy and personal space in the 21st century.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Linux Journal -- EOF - The Google Exposure By Doc Searls

'Advertising is a bubble. If that's a true statement, Google is a bubble too. And if that's true, many of the goods we take for granted on the Web are at risk. [Advertising is] what pays for all the infrastructure Google is giving to the rest of us. As our dependency on Google verges on the absolute, this should be a concern. Think of advertising as oil and Google as one big emirate. What happens when the oil runs out? Maybe it already is. The free rides won't go on forever. There are better ways than advertising for demand and supply to find each other (including search, which is free), and more will be found. Google will be in the middle of that discovery process, no doubt. But it's an open question whether Google will make the same kind of money in a post-advertising marketplace. I'm betting they won't.' -- Click numbers down, attention limited, population limited, obvious ponzi is obvious, post-tech-deflation monopoly internet: all ur websitez are a tollbooth belong to us, etc

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wei Zhou’s Blog -- From dating experience to real identity crisis of the web

'Today we are not who we really are, we are what google says who we are. Everything is openly connected and we’ve been trying so hard to make things open: making browsers more open, more social and more you, making everything connected, making open IDs. Suddenly we found out: The more we try to design for “you”, the less “you” can express yourself freely. When we talk about user experience, we always say we are engaging in making people’s life better. Nowadays we’re even trying to embed the most intricate and sophisticated human emotions into the consideration of design: like religious needs and sexual needs. However we designed a huge system that ignore the most basic one: The need to lie. Or they need the freedom to lie. If we are really aiming to design a YOU centric web, this question becomes unavoidable and probably be the hottest one in the next 10 years: How do we design a web that people can have real freedom within?'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Vimeo -- Google PSA: The More You Know 1/3

'Web 3.0: The grand retreat to our own servers.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- The Virtual Revolution: Enemy of the State?

'Aleks charts how the Web is forging a new brand of politics, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. Aleks explores how interactive, unmediated sites like Twitter and YouTube have encouraged direct action and politicised young people in unprecedented numbers. Yet, at the same time, the Web's openness enables hardline states to spy and censor, and extremists to threaten with networks of hate and crippling cyber attacks.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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PBS FRONTLINE -- Digital Nation

Know that whoever celebrates distractions had better see that it does not turn them into a distraction. And if you gaze into the internet, know that the internet also gazes into you.

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- The Virtual Revolution: The Great Levelling?

'In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Fantastic: We Make Web Apps & Internet Toys.
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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Jaron Lanier’s ‘You Are Not a Gadget’

'“Comments about TV shows, major movies, commercial music releases, and video games must be responsible for almost as much bit traffic as porn,” Mr. Lanier observes. “There is certainly nothing wrong with that, but since the Web is killing the old media, we face a situation in which culture is effectively eating its own seed stock.” -- “pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise.” -- “online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media.” -- Online culture “is a culture of reaction without action” and rationalizations that “we were entering a transitional lull before a creative storm” are just that — rationalizations. “The sad truth,” he concludes, “is that we were not passing through a momentary lull before a storm. We had instead entered a persistent somnolence, and I have come to believe that we will only escape it when we kill the hive.”'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Web 2.0 Suicide Machine -- Sign out forever!

'Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our service currently runs with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn! Commit NOW!'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- The dark side of the internet

'"Many many users think that when they search on Google they're getting all the web pages," says Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Kosmix, one of a new generation of post-Google search engine companies. But Rajaraman knows different. "I think it's a very small fraction of the deep web which search engines are bringing to the surface. I don't know, to be honest, what fraction. No one has a really good estimate of how big the deep web is. Five hundred times as big as the surface web is the only estimate I know." -- "The darkweb"; "the deep web"; beneath "the surface web" – the metaphors alone make the internet feel suddenly more unfathomable and mysterious.' -- The net is vast and infinite.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- The web shows us as we are

'...what I find most extraordinary about the Web is what it shows us about who we are and what is important to us. We can’t delude ourselves by thinking that this medium offers carte blanche for a new life that is utterly different from our offline ones, but this is one of the lesser claims made about it. If our limits online are our imaginations, then the fantasies that have been projected across the packets and routers in this network must come from somewhere, and that can only be where we’ve been. And so, by contributing to the Web – a blog post, a photo, a web search, a purchase - we have, in aggregate, painted the most incredible self-portrait of who we, globally, are at the beginning of the 21st century. We’ve laid out what we value, what we fear and how we’re all connected. And despite our apparent differences, the things that make us kill one another, we’ve done it together. -- I suppose if you look at it that way, the hippies were right.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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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...'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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O'Reilly Radar -- Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age: Part Three

'#The myth of personal empowerment takes root amidst a massive loss of personal control. -- Social technologies are cloaked in a rhetoric of liberation (customers are in control, the internet fosters democracy, social technologies propagate truth etc.) that tend to obscure the fact that never before have we handed so much personal information over in exchange for so little in return. This loss of control over personal information is on a collision course with the law of unintended consequences... Amidst this barrage of good news for how much power we wield in the transaction of commerce one has to wonder if we are giving away something quite precious in the bargain.' -- Give all your information over to Facebook and they'll rent your identity back to you.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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O'Reilly Radar -- Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age: Part Two

'#Individual perception of increased choice can occur while the overall choice pool is getting smaller -- '...the long tail has gangrene at its extremity - the niche. More disarming is the conclusion that it isn't just the output of our recommendation algorithms that is leading to what the author calls "monopoly populism"and the end of niche culture ... The network effects that so characterize Internet services are a positive feedback loop where the winners take all (or most). The issue isn't what they bring to the table, it is what they are leaving behind.' -- Success is measured by what's successful.

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O'Reilly Radar -- Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age: Part One

Discuss -- #More access to information doesn’t bring people together, often it isolates us. -- Elizabeth Kolbert: "People’s tendency to become more extreme after speaking with like-minded others has become known as “group polarization,” and it has been documented in dozens of other experiments. In one, feminists who spoke with other feminists became more adamant in their feminism. In a second, opponents of same-sex marriage became even more opposed to the idea, while proponents shifted further in favor. In a third, doves who were grouped with other doves became more dovish still." -- The Internet is becoming a vast petri dish for the group polarization phenomena. As Sunstein puts it “The most striking power provided by emerging technologies,” is the “growing power of consumers to ‘filter’ what they see.” -- Birds of a feather...

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Marginal Utility Annex -- Technologies, narratives of self

'...digitalization makes the reproduction of the permanently insecure self more integral to the reproduction of consumerist social relations. The capacities and networks of the internet permit an archived self that becomes a subject's most important piece of property ... "reputational capital," the sum total of connections and actions produced within the social space online. This self subsists on postitive affirmation and metrics that establish the visiblity of its activities online. Being is transformed into "presence," which can be measured and ranked ...a self will need to be grounded in commercialized, corporatized discourse before we apprehend it ...narratives of subjectivity are even more impoverished by the restricted classifications of digital data possible within these platforms. The self we are compelled to produce online is smaller, with less potential for growth and less curiosity, the more we produce it and add to the archive that will dictate our future choices.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC Radio 4 -- Moral Maze (Twitter Mobs Edition)

The perception IS the reality. That's the inherent danger of the immediate consenus-making ability of twitter and other realtime platforms. -- Brendan O'Neill: "Illiberal liberalism" "Emotional incontinence" Righteous indignation/enthusiasm. That's the inherent danger of immediate action/reaction/gratification as opposed to taking the time to think things through – "Boring, hard work," as Nick Cohen puts it. (As a #moralmaze tweeter said, links to in-depth resources provide the best alibi for "shallow" twitterhappy tweetstormers.) Nick Cohen: "There's a lot of utopianism. It's very shallow and very transient. A lot of it is apathetic. It's people affirming themselves." -- RE #moralmaze. It's not surprising to see tweeters so overly keen to defend any and every perceived threat to twitter, though it's not like its going away—calm down. Defending both their newly-felt right to be heard and the social/cultural capital they've built up over the years... TWITTER IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

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The Observer -- Beware the instant online anger of the HobNob mob

'There have always been people who have found reasons to take offence. A generation ago, protest was hard work. Now Facebook groups and trending topics on Twitter can, if they ignite, produce mass protests from nowhere. -- The ease of net communication explains why so much abuse appears in comments boxes. But it also undermines the authenticity of many mass protests. The targets feel as if they are on the receiving end of genuine popular feeling, when typically the anger directed against them is shallow and transient. -- A mob fighting a good cause is still a mob. To fight back, you need to remember that although the internet age is hugely expanding the number of complaints, the old rules still apply. Whether you are the owner of a tiny blog or the editor of a national newspaper, if someone points out an incorrect fact, you correct it; if someone challenges an argument, you argue back; and if someone says that you must think what they think, you ignore them.'

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Spiked -- I am offended, therefore I am

'...there was something gratuitous about what Brendan O’Neill described as the liberal cause-hunter’s ‘two-minute’ hate. All the commentaries, the blogs, the tweets – all seemed a little too desperate to voice their disapproval, to reveal how disgusted they were. It was a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence. I feel, therefore I am. -- ...important for the spleen-venters was the act of claiming the moral high-ground as offended, as hurt, as a determined victim of something that they no doubt searched out on the web. This act of searching out offence and proclaiming the depth of one’s feelings from online rooftops threatens free speech. ...the danger of such a vast explosion of offence-taking is that it inhibits, creating a ‘you-can’t-say-that’ culture in which one is scared to speak one’s mind, whether its contents are moronic or not.' -- THE THOUGHTPOLICE IS YOU

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Telegraph -- 50 most annoying things about the internet

'#2) Lazy activism: Joining a Facebook group is the new going on a march, just substantially less effective. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime did not buckle under the onslaught of green-tinted Twitter avatars. #5) Social media gurus: Knowing how to tweet should not be a career in itself. #9) The bedroom invasion: First it was in the living room, then the bedroom and now - thanks to wi-fi and laptops - the internet is in your bed. #17) Companies wanting us to 'join the conversation': A direct result of the ascendancy of No 5 is the insufferable chattiness of previously faceless corporations. But a social media presence is no alternative to swift, helpful customer service. #37) Lists: Fun to read, easy on the eye, and everywhere.' -- Hehe

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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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Salon Life -- Why we can't stop looking

'Peep culture involves watching and being watched, snooping and spying, gawking and gossiping; it means exposing our intimacies with an eye toward bonding with others and growing comfortable with the increasingly common slippage between public and private. Peep culture, like pop culture, informs the atmosphere — it is the atmosphere — in which we live. Writes Niedzviecki, “It’s like that famous line about pornography: you know it when you see it. And you do see it. All the time, everyday, everywhere. -- ...people like Twitter because it's connection with low expectations. And that's a phrase that has stuck with me and has become almost an overarching explanation for the whole peep culture phenomenon. ...we want the feeling of connection without the weight of being expected to do something.”

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- 50 things that are being killed by the internet

'#5) Punctuality: Before mobile phones, people actually had to keep their appointments and turn up to the pub on time. Texting friends to warn them of your tardiness five minutes before you are due to meet has become one of throwaway rudenesses of the connected age. -- #30) Geographical knowledge: With GPS systems spreading from cars to smartphones, knowing the way from A to B is a less prized skill. Just ask the London taxi drivers who spent years learning The Knowledge but are now undercut by minicabs. -- #31) Privacy: We may attack governments for the spread of surveillance culture, but users of social media websites make more information about themselves available than Big Brother could ever hoped to obtain by covert means. -- #37) Personal reinvention: How can you forge a new identity at university when your Facebook is plastered with photos of the "old" you?'

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OpenZine

'Create a free website, Free hosting, built-in image editor all for free.'

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37signals -- The bar for success in our industry is too low

'It still blows me away that David’s talk at Startup School 2008 was met with such enthusiasm (I know David was surprised too). The talk was simple. Come up with a product, charge money for it, make more money than it costs to run it, and you turn a profit! This is the formula that’s been in place since business began. Yet in front of a group of new tech entrepreneurs it seemed like a revelation, a brand new story never told before. David said people were coming up to him in droves after the speech thanking him for opening their eyes. Who closed them?' -- CAN HAZ MUNETIZASHUN L8R PLOX?

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That's Not Cool

Emotional intelligence campaign for teens (ab)use of communication technologies. Great 'callout cards': "YOU MUST BE PROUD TO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN IM ME ALL DAY" - "CONGRATS ON TOTALLY VIOLATING MY TRUST" -- 'Talk it out' section is full of interesting countermeasures. These poor kids are running constant damage limitation exercises. That's not cool.

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube - thatsnotcool's Channel

'Your cell phone, IM, and social networks are all a digital extension of who you are. When someone you're with pressures you or disrespects you in those places, that's not cool. Thatsnotcool.com is attempting to raise awareness about digital dating abuse and stop it before it gets worse. Addressing new and complicated problems between people who are dating or hooking up, like constant and controlling texting, pressuring for nude pictures and breaking into someones e-mail or social networking page.' -- http://www.thatsnotcool.com

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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The American Prospect -- Neo Cities: How online communities are born--and what happens when they die.

'The geographic nomenclature of GeoCities gave those new to the Internet a familiar shorthand for how social interaction could unfold. Sure, the tools might be different, but the concept of neighbors and like-minded groups of people, would, GeoCities promised, operate the same online as in the real world. The demise of GeoCities is not just the disappearance of a gif-riddled online ghost town--it's the death of a pioneering online community. And it's a reminder that we should think critically about who owns online spaces, how they are managed, and what happens when they are razed ..once online identities are created, are they the property of the users or the corporations that host them? David Bollier calls corporate-controlled spaces like GeoCities and Facebook, "faux commons." For him, true online community spaces are defined by users having control over the terms of their interaction and owning the software or infrastructure. Corporate spaces come with "terms of service" agreements.'

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Rough Type -- Slanted and enchanted

'The problem with the Web, as I see it, is that it imposes, with its imperialistic iron fist, the "ecstatic surfing" behavior on everything and to the exclusion of other modes of experience (not just for how we listen to music, but for how we interact with all media once they've been digitized). Today, we're quick to dismiss ... ancient days of "scarcity" and to celebrate our current "abundance," but scarcity had something going for it: it encouraged a deep engagement in listening to a particular piece of music, across the expanse of an album, and it also encouraged, in the artist, an interest in rewarding that engagement. It's the deep, attentive engagement that the Web is draining away, as we fill our iTunes library with tens of thousands of "tracks" at little or no cost. What the Web tells us, over and over again, is that breadth destroys depth. Whether it's news stories or pop songs, we're skimmers now. It's a one-hit-wonder world.' -- Nah. Rhizomic depth. See last.fm

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Tubefilter -- 10 Lessons From A Studio Exec For Web Series Creators

'#4. Don’t produce too many episodes. Online audiences are finicky. They are constantly looking for something new. Don’t believe that you can keep their interest in something for several weeks or months. Program content in event bursts. If success is found, produce a new “season.” (The exception to this is news/lifestyle programming. Audiences do build relationships around these subjects and will check back often if not daily.) -- #8. Have a point of view/voice. This lesson is ubiquitous to all formats – web, print, film, TV, etc. A unique point of view with a compelling story is the most important thing a storyteller brings to the table.'

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Dropular - Media Bookmarking
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The largest Message Boards and Forums on the web!

Revealling. Somehow forums seem to best sum up what people really care about.

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Anil Dash -- What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way

"Interoperability is likely to be a challenge that plagues the platform for its entire existence. In short: It's likely that nobody will ever build a fully-compatible clone of Wave that competes with Google's own implementation. -- ...people aren't looking for a replacement for email, or instant messaging, or blogs, or wikis. Those tools all work great for their intended purposes, and whatever technology augments them will likely offer a different combination of persistence and immediacy than those systems. Right now, Wave evokes all of them without being its own distinctive thing. Which means it's most useful in providing reference implementations of particular new features. -- ...it's mostly likely that Wave's success will be in inspiring people to create similarly compelling experiences by adding incremental enhancements to their existing sites. That's how the web's always advanced in the past.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Legacy Locker

'Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your vital digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of loss, death, or disability. -- Legacy Locker helps you pass your precious accounts safely and easily to your spouse, children, friends, or other family. You can assign any digital asset to any beneficiary you want, and know that your content will end up in the right hands. Plus, Legacy Letters let you send a special, easily editable message to anyone you know and care about.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Twenty Sided -- On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Dead

'... it will become more and more common to need to take care of someone’s online affairs when they pass. How do you close out their email accounts, their forum accounts, Facebook, MySpace, IM, etc etc? In short, what do you do will all this stuff? In some cases you can just abandon it - there’s certainly no shortage of that sort of behavior from the net users who are still alive - but I have a sense that it might be unwise to leave accounts floating around out there for years when the owner is gone, particularly if those accounts might contain personal information. The trouble is that there aren’t any customs or traditions for stuff like this yet. Below are some of my thoughts on handling someone’s online affairs.' -- How interesting. There needs to be a 'Upon my death I hereby bequeath my online content to the digital commons' thing as an extension to archive.org

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Clive Thompson on Remembering Not to Remember in an Age of Unlimited Memory

'For most of human history, almost everything people did was forgotten, simply because it was so hard to record and retrieve things. But there was a benefit: "Social forgetting" allowed everyone to move on from embarrassing or ill-conceived moments in their lives. Digital tools have eliminated that amnesty. Society now defaults to a relentless Proustian remembrance of all things past. The downsides are obvious. We live with a nagging fear that something we say or do online will come back to haunt us years later. So what's the solution? Mayer-Schönberger argues that we need to stop creating tools that automatically remember everything. Instead, we need to design them to forget. Being required to think about whether to retain or discard a digital memory will have another side benefit: It will make us pay closer attention—in real time!—to our experiences.' -- Why people love to join new social networks is t opportunity to 'purge' themselves of messy identities, relationships and misdeeds.

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Vimeo -- ETC Talk: The Cult of Me

Notes: Interesting ideas on prediction markets for storytelling, but that's not story or telling. It's more like a crowd-directed form of fact-finding that has a payoff for accuracy. If reality is to remain stranger than fiction then the 'vitality' of everyday life shouldn't be 'normalised' by a majority-ruled crowd. Whilst people need catharsis, closure, and resolution, they don't get the full impact of those by 'betting' on outcomes. Stories are explorations in psychological probability spaces, not factual/numerical. Not all types of probabilities are equally meaningful -- Mentions ARGs: The unique thing about ARGs is that they are shared sub/dom experiences. It's puppetry/simon says/ludic liberation. Some people like being 'out of control'. Other gameforms demand you *always* be in control. That lack of control makes ARGs feel like stories -- Rather than storytelling, these ideas are closer to reporting, journalling, status updating, 'discourse' or where there's purpose, activism.

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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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.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Jude Gomila -- Mapping Out the Real Time Web

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

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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SFGate -- DIGITAL UTOPIA: A new breed of technologists envisions a democratic world improved by the Internet

'The notion of a Digital Utopia has been around since the early days of computing. Some of the earliest successes on the Internet have an almost direct lineage to the liberal politics of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements. Former Merry Prankster Stewart Brand was the brains behind the Well, an early online community that took its name in part from his Whole Earth Review. New York Times technology reporter -- Today's Digital Utopian takes many forms, from the aging '60s hippie to the tech-savvy youthful idealist. Oddly enough, the Utopians may become victims of their own success. While they advocate a world in which people can share content without concern for profit, much of what they are creating is becoming a tool of the corporate culture they decry. O'Reilly says this is the natural order of things. "You do a barn raising at a particular stage of society," he said, "and then the developers come in. ... It always happens that way."'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Times Online -- Human flesh search engines: Chinese vigilantes that hunt victims on the web

'A new phenomenon is sweeping China after the quake: digital witch hunts of those who dare to be outspoken or criticise. -- According to Ms Eberlein, the term “human flesh search engine”, a literal translation of the Chinese, was first coined in 2001 when an entertainment website asked users to track down film and music trivia. With 210 million Chinese wired up to the internet, it was a powerful concept. It quickly caught on and came to be used as a tool to punish the perpetrators of extra-marital affairs, domestic violence and morality crimes. “Righteousness is one of the five virtues in the Confucian tradition,” Ms Eberlein said. “With the convenience of the internet, and in the case of non-responsive law, the righteous people took matters into their own hands.”' -- McLuhan explains the cause of such violence as a lack of identity in a life lived at the speed of light: http://adamcrowe.posterous.com/kill

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Digital Revolution Blog: the web is... too good for us?

Aleks Krotoski: "I am cautiously, respectfully sceptical. As a social psychologist who studies the human interactions that criss-cross the Internet, I see a whole lot of community phenomena that challenge my faith in the liberated digital culture that the data freedom contingent describes, but I don't believe it should be owned either. Nicely on the fence, then. The problem as I see it is that technologically, an open data system would be remarkable; socially, it simply wouldn't last. I think the reason we're so passionate, so fascinated by the Web today is because it taps into something inside us that really, desperately wants the world to be free, open and level, but it continues to reflect us so beautifully, so perfectly, that it magnifies our bizarre foibles that make us human." -- Forthcoming 'open source' documentary

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Cracked.com -- 6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet

'#1. Internet Asperger's Syndrome (a.k.a. The Troll): "...people who do all of their communicating online wind up mimicking Asperger's behaviors because they are imposing the same [aspergers-like] disadvantages on themselves. In both cases, when the ability to see nonverbal responses and facial expressions goes away, so does empathy. Soon the thing you're communicating with isn't a person, they're just a bunch of words on a screen."'

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Vimeo -- Bruce Sterling at Webstock 09

In a nutshell: The collapse of the perpetual 'green shoots' ponzi scheme is the black hole lurking at the center of the web, but 'massive change' is something to be optimistic about, especially if we can grow up to the REAL challenges we face. "The future is unwritten."

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BusinessWeek -- Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet

"Political organizers use these tools because they create a multiplier effect—not only do you get a story about the campaign but then you also get a story about the fact they are using social-networking tools. So you get two stories for the price of one. The international media loves [the] social-networking world. But in India or in Iran, their use is still somewhat limited." -- "There is this romantic notion that the people tweeting are the ones in the streets, but that is not what is happening. The hubs are generally not people on the ground, and many are not in the country." -- "Governments like Iran, Syria, and Egypt are really struggling with how to continue limiting information. No matter how hard these governments try to block communication, now there is always going to be a hole. This really is a case study in how technology can affect closed societies."

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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."

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True/Slant -- What if Twitter is leading us all astray in Iran?

"...rumors can have a longer lifespan on a network of sympathetic blogs, Facebook postings and Twitter feeds. None of this is to excuse the behavior of the government after the election results came out. Or to diminish the bravery and courage of the people who are out in the streets in Tehran getting beaten. But what if it’s based on a lie? A Twitter-fueled, mass delusion of a lie? That the one third of people who voted for Mousavi convinced themselves, via a social media echo chamber that selectively picked rumors and amplified them until they appeared true, that they in fact represented two thirds of the country? And then tried to bring down the government based on that delusion? Maybe it’s not the case this time. But doesn’t this entire episode seem to show how such a thing could happen? And then what?" -- And a whole new reality was set into motion.

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The Daily Beast -- How Iran's Hackers Killed Big Brother

"The value of Tweets right now is less the information they contain than the solidarity they promote. Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present. Twitter, for all its faults, and the Internet, for all its insubstantiality, nonetheless serve as the strands of an existential telegraph. By resisting those who would censor history in real time, those flinging messages into the ether are demonstrating their freedom of speech—or, rather, their freedom to speak in spite of all efforts to the contrary. This mere gesture of freedom—the ability to connect to others and confirm one's experience of the world—is what social networking is all about. While this may or may not be enough right now to topple an unjust government, the opposition, in demonstrating that this freedom is now a permanent right, has already claimed victory." -- The network is flowing.

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Clixpy.com

"Clixpy tracks everything your site’s users do: mouse movement, clicks, scrolling, form inputs. You can watch and examine videos showing your users’ actions."

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Hemlock

"Hemlock is a new web development framework, focused on allowing easy development of real-time, many-to-many apps. Hemlock follows the inspiration of Ruby web frameworks like Rails and Merb. It can be used for applications such as games, workspace collaboration and education."

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n+1 -- Lingering

"...this tendency toward distraction and desublimation is for real. It naturally begs to be deplored by literary people. A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for others; what has been written without effort is generally read without pleasure; and so on. But if jabbering semiotic promiscuity entails some familiar costs of social or sexual promiscuity—shallow and ephemeral relationships supplant deeper and more lasting ones—there can be no honest account of online and digitally interconnected life that denies the attractions of novelty, variety, excitement. -- The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything on you. Only it turns out it doesn't feel like that at all. The experience of being online has at least as much to do with compulsiveness as with liberty ...it seems unlikely there is any more widespread compulsion among the professional middle-class and their children than lingering online."

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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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Times Online -- Break free of this world wide delusion

On 'web 2.0': 'The cult is the problem. I know that this article — it always happens — will be sneered at all over the web by people who cannot think for themselves because they are blindly faithful to the idea that the web is the future, all of it. I will be called a Luddite. It is the cultists who threaten the web. They are the ones encouraging dreams of a utopia of the self. They fail to see that the web is just one more product of the biology, culture and history that make us what we are. In the real world, it is wonderful, certainly, but it is also porn, online brothels, privacy invasions, hucksterism, mindless babble and the vacant gaze that always accompanies the mindless pursuit of the new. The web is human and fallen; it is bestial as much as it is angelic. There are no new worlds. There is only this one.' -- And books still don't bend flat!

internet web technology criticism virtuality utopia
june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired/Ars -- The Future of Social Media: Is a Tweet the New Size of a Thought? by Julian Dibbell

"What if the reason no one's figured out why Twitter matters is that it's bigger, in fact, than anyone's imagining? ...by forcing users to commit their thinking to the bite-size form of the public tweet, Twitter may be giving a powerfully productive new life to a hitherto underexploited quantum of thought: The random, fleeting observation. It's not that tweet-size sparks of insight haven't always been part of the media ecosystem, in other words. It's just that Twitter now has given them a vastly more exciting social life. And that may be all the point that Twitter needs."

internet web twitter realtime conversation digital compression themediumisthemessage acoustic space JulianDibbell #bandwidth #socialization #complexity #ubiquity media
june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Say Everything -- Chapter One: Putting Everything Out There [Justin Hall]

"I published my life on the fucking internet. And it doesn’t make people wanna be with me. It makes people not trust me. And I don’t know what the fuck to do about it." -- “It was like Justin was maintaining a celebrity gossip blog about himself. Who needs that kind of cruelty in their lives?” -- 'In 1994, Justin Hall invented oversharing ...no one knew that the self-revelation he found so addictive would one day become a temptation for millions. -- the transition we’re living through today.. The struggle to draw a line between the self and the world isn’t some novelty imposed on us by technology; it’s part of human development—an effort we all face from the moment our infant selves begin to notice there’s a world out there, beyond our bodies. The Web has just made the process of drawing this line more nettlesome. In the end we’re each going to find the compromise between sharing and discretion that’s right for ourselves. If we’re lucky, it will take less than the decade it took Hall.'

* internet web history bbs linklogging blogging oversharing lifecasting behaviours selfservers celebrity identity narcissism solipsism intimacy ambientintimacy ambientexposure relationships transparency authenticity missing psychology JustinHall books fame
may 2009 by adamcrowe

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