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Future Non Stop
holy crap found a beta of that "discursive sphere" search engine
discourse  networks  hierarchies  search  browsing  discovery  technology 
march 2011 by caseygollan
Exodus - Cross search
Power, authority and influence increasingly rely on information networks. Although networks seem to have abolished the old hierarchical structures, such structures are now recast through networking effects that reproduce the power divide between central actors and peripheral content. The race for visibility, both for ranking high in search engines and for accumulating influence in social networking platforms, produces an implicit behaviour of accumulation of links or 'friends'. The resulting ‘self-referentiality’ is aimed at confirming one's own position in the network and linking to actors who are always already central. The power gained by connections to and from these centres overrules most of peripheral connectivity and suppresses the potential for dissent within a sphere of influence. This social phenomenon directly accounts for the creation of new public spheres of a global order, which include the production of borders between these spheres.
Exodus is the compound name for a 'research engine' into algorithms and visual strategies for searching the internet, revealing the structural properties of web content and its inherent distribution of influence. Exodus promotes bridging behaviour across the web's new borders of power.
search  discourse  networks  hierarchies  internet  constellations  research  power 
march 2011 by caseygollan
Neuromatters
Neuromatters is a neurotechnology research & development company designing and building neural signal processing and brain-computer interface systems for capturing and decoding brain activity. Founded by recognized neuroengineering and machine learning experts, Neuromatters' goal is to evolve brain-computer interface systems into application areas where information overload is prevalent.
science  research  technology  neuroscience  design  cyborgs  archives  search  machinelearning  braincomputerinterface  infoglut 
march 2011 by caseygollan
google and baidu ( 4 Mar., 2011, at Interconnected)
"Baidu is Google's competitor in China, and is the 6th most popular site in the world.

Origin of the name "Baidu": 'Baidu' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal."
search  technology  archives  poetry 
march 2011 by caseygollan

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