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Optimizing for the Common Good - The Huffington Post

government technology measurement Boston schools codeforamerica
26 days ago by earth2marsh

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The Curse of QWERTY | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine

"QWERTY’s saga illustrates a much broader phenomenon: how commitment shapes the history of technology and culture, often selecting which innovations become entrenched and which are rejected. In the nineteenth-century United States, for example, those who profited from canals, barges, stagecoaches, and the pony express resisted the construction of railroads; in England, electric street lighting spread slowly, partly because of opposition from local governments with heavy investments in gas lighting. Even today, commitment influences railroad gauges and television technology, and whether we mark our rulers with centimeters or inches and drive on the right or the left."

qwerty dvorak jared_diamond article technology adoption lockin
january 2012 by earth2marsh

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Wieden+Kennedy » Why We’re Not Hiring Creative Technologists
technologist technologists creative digital Technology agency strategy from delicious
december 2011 by earth2marsh

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HackerThings: Products for the discerning hacker
shopping technology hacker gadgets electronics geek gifts wishlist from delicious
november 2011 by earth2marsh

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The evolution of the web
design visualization history web technology browsers apis evolution timeline from delicious
september 2011 by earth2marsh

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Freeman Dyson - Wikiquote

"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."

quotes freeman_dyson dyson technology science makers building tools from delicious
september 2011 by earth2marsh

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(Preoccupations) Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com
business technology trends software marc_andreesen from google
august 2011 by earth2marsh

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The Entire Facebook Terms of Service in Bro Speak | Slacktory | The only site on the internet.

"hen you delete intellectual property, we delete it the same way you delete files! Except we also keep backup copies. Only for a little while, though, and we won’t let anyone else use it. Pinky promise."

technology humor facebook tos terms bro from delicious
august 2011 by earth2marsh

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Deeper Connections Between Apps with Web Intents
Analysis Technology Actions Chrome Events Firefox Google Mozilla Web_Intents from google
august 2011 by earth2marsh

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Science Friday Archives: Persuasive Technologies

"Researchers are studying how we interact with the devices around us -- and how, at times, they interact with us. Such a device could be as simple as a pillbox that reminds and encourages a patient to take a needed medication, or as complicated as the design of a Facebook computer application that encourages you to return to the site, interact with it, and tempt your friends and associates to do the same. In this segment, we'll talk about the field of 'persuasive technology,' and the design of devices, computer programs, and spaces"

podcast persuasive persuasion technology design from delicious
july 2011 by earth2marsh

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Manhattan in motion
"Long_Shorts" Long_Term_Art Technology The_Big_Here from google
june 2011 by earth2marsh

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Augment Your Next Stroll Down Market Street
Long_Term_Art Long_Term_Thinking Technology from google
may 2011 by earth2marsh

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Men’s Journal » The Blind Man Who Taught Himself To See » Print

RT @tferriss: “Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.” Maybe my f ...

technology science article audio echolocation blindness inspiration from twitter
may 2011 by earth2marsh

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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web

"Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web"

openid xml json atom technology evolution trends
february 2011 by earth2marsh

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A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail

"We will still be annoyed by people who pun, but we will be able to show them mercy because punning will be revealed to be some sort of connectopathic glitch: The punner, like someone with Tourette's, has no medical ability not to pun"

culture humor pessimism puns technology trends future
october 2010 by earth2marsh

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YouTube - Repurpose

"Last year this short documentary came out on hardware hacking called Repurpose. It’s based on the projects of a Montreal hackerspace called Foulab. It does a good job at describing and explaining circuit bending and general hardware hacking, and why people do it. It also gives a nice look into what many hackerspaces are like — a worldwide phenomenon of grassroots labs like Foulab that provide a means for hobbyists and amateurs (in the best sense of the word) to explore their passions. " via thought exploratorium

!to_watch hacking hardware documentary diy community culture technology hacker video
september 2010 by earth2marsh

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What Happened to Yahoo

"By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto pyramid scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!""

paul_graham hackers entrepreneurship business yahoo startups search technology lessons history internet advertising culture
august 2010 by earth2marsh

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Why Arduino Is a Hit With Hardware Hackers | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

great lessons in here

arduino technology adoption development community
july 2010 by earth2marsh

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DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

"Pervasive wireless communication, he believes will "bring us back to behaviour patterns that were natural to us and destroy behaviour patterns that were brought about by the limitations of technology." We are natural villagers. For most of mankind’s history we have lived in very small communities in which we knew everybody and everybody knew us. But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together. But that is changing. Interactivity. Many-to-many communications. Pervasive networking. These are cumbersome new terms for elements in our lives so fundamental that, before we lost them, we didn’t even know to have names for them."

douglas_adams essay future geek humor interesting internet media sociology society technology essays culture
july 2010 by earth2marsh

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The Technium: The Shirky Principle

""Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -- Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds me of the clarity of the Peter Principle, which says that a person in an organization will be promoted to the level of their incompetence. At which point their past achievements will prevent them from being fired, but their incompetence at this new level will prevent them from being promoted again, so they stagnate in their incompetence. The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions (like a company, or an industry) can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem."

business economics entrepreneur ideas innovation organization problems technology quotes solution clay_shirky
june 2010 by earth2marsh

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gruber's take on apple's patent dispute with htc
android apple legal patents innovation technology google history business iphone htc
march 2010 by earth2marsh

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Hubble Detects Mysterious Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH

RT @techdelight: Hubble Detects Mysterious Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH #technology

technology from twitter
february 2010 by earth2marsh

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Projection on Buildings on Vimeo

"Impressive and stylish projections on buildings, a renewing way of communicating.For those who want to carry out a message in a striking and visually attractive way with guaranteed exposure: 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2009, and what an impact! NuFormer Digital Media develops high-skill 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections will be custom-made to fit any specific building and will be exposed by a battery of powerful projectors."

animation 3d projections projection lightshow visual inspiration awesome art visualization lighting creative technology video projector
november 2009 by earth2marsh

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The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2009 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

"In order to make this list, a site had to be: * accessible to English Language Learners and non-tech savvy users. * free-of-charge. * appropriate for classroom use. * completely browser-based with no download required."

via:hrheingold education technology list bestof resources apps applications free educational
october 2009 by earth2marsh

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Post-Medium Publishing

"In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn't better content cost more?"

culture technology essay paulgraham content business marketing media publishing
september 2009 by earth2marsh

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MF Bliki: TechnicalDebt

"You have a piece of functionality that you need to add to your system. You see two ways to do it, one is quick to do but is messy - you are sure that it will make further changes harder in the future. The other results in a cleaner design, but will take longer to put in place. Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt. Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future."

programming design reference software technology development debt projectmanagement architecture management
september 2009 by earth2marsh

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The Technium: Amish Hackers

"A similar communal motivation lies behind the Old Order Amish practice of living without electricity. The Amish noticed that when their homes were electrified with wires from a generator in town, they became more tied to the rhythms, policies and concerns of the town. Amish religious belief is founded on the principle that they should remain "in the world, not of it" and so they should remain separate in as many ways possible. Being tied to electricity tied them into the world, so they surrendered its benefits in order to stay outside the world. For many Amish households even today, you'll see no power lines weaving toward their homes. They live off the grid."

amish hacker steampunk Kevin_Kelly technology hacking agriculture religion sustainability farming
august 2009 by earth2marsh

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Symposium for the Future » It is easy to fall in love with technology… (by danah boyd)

"Technology does not determine practice. How people embrace technology has less to do with the technology itself than with the social setting in which they are embedded. Those who are immersed in a techno-savvy, technophilic community are far more likely to embrace technology than those whose social world is shaped by other patterns of consumption and communication. People’s practices are also shaped by those around them. There are cluster effects to socio-technical engagement. In other words, people do what their friends do." "Putting Facebook or MySpace into the classroom can create a severe cognitive collision as teens try to work out the shift in contexts. Most problematically, when teens are forced to navigate Friending in an educational setting, painful dramas occur because who you’re polite to in school may be very different than who you socialize with at home. Using technology that ruptures social norms in the classroom can be socially and educationally harmful."

danah_boyd social education technology culture
august 2009 by earth2marsh

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The Case Against Apple–in Five Parts « The Jason Calacanis Weblog
!to_describe antitrust apple monopoly microsoft iphone business technology
august 2009 by earth2marsh

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The Technium: Chosen, Inevitable, and Contingent

So does any technology lurch forward on its own inertia as "a self-propelling, self-sustaining, ineluctable flow", in the words of technology critic Langdon Winner, or do we have clear free-will choice in the sequence of technological change, a stance that makes us (individually or corporately) responsible for each step?

future philosophy essay technology culture Kevin_Kelly evolution
july 2009 by earth2marsh

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Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change

"First, that we always pay a price for technology; the greater the technology, the greater the price. Second, that there are always winners and losers, and that the winners always try to persuade the losers that they are really winners. Third, that there is embedded in every great technology an epistemological, political or social prejudice. Sometimes that bias is greatly to our advantage. Sometimes it is not. The printing press annihilated the oral tradition; telegraphy annihilated space; television has humiliated the word; the computer, perhaps, will degrade community life. And so on. Fourth, technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything and is, therefore, too important to be left entirely in the hands of Bill Gates. And fifth, technology tends to become mythic; that is, perceived as part of the natural order of things, and therefore tends to control more of our lives than is good for us. "

luddism technology ideas theory
july 2009 by earth2marsh

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Pulse Laser: The New Negroponte Switch

Matt Jones's latest, "talk I gave at Frontiers of Interaction V in Rome yesterday, primarily about the territory of “the Internet of Things” moving from one of academic and technological investigation to one of commercial design practice, and what that might mean for designers working therein."

Matt_Jones innovation design technology service services product thingfrastructure
june 2009 by earth2marsh

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Shaping a Culture of Conversation: The Discussion Board and Beyond | Academic Commons

"Remarkable guide to shaping a culture of conversation via discussion boards" via HRheingold on Twitter

discussion conversation community encourage tips learning teaching elearning collaboration pedagogy education technology social writing
june 2009 by earth2marsh

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OverviewBanners2 - Field - Trac

"a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind: Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and pristine code utopia, Field tries to bridge to as many libraries, programming languages, and ways of doing things as possible."

programming technology visualization art graphics python hacking opensource editor ide generative vector graphic
may 2009 by earth2marsh

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MHC

"a collection of disorganized notes from random local (and not so local) hackers"

maine club hackers technology hacks portland
april 2009 by earth2marsh

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"Where Tinkerers Take Control of Technology" By Mike Musgrove

At a recent HacDC get-together, Tim Collins displays his latest toy to a visitor. It's a microcontroller, a $6 mini-computer on a chip smaller than his thumb. 'This has more computing capacity than my first computer, which cost thousands of dollars,' he observes.

hacking club hacks hack dc organizaiton microcontroller technology culture nonprofit
april 2009 by earth2marsh

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tweenbots | kacie kinzer

cardboard robots with missions that require random people to help them.

sociology social psychology interactive space culture art robots experiment NYC technology human
april 2009 by earth2marsh

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Facebook's photo storage rewrite

describing FB's move from Akamai and Limelight to internal solution

caching photos serving technology architecture infrastructure cache distributed scaling scalability cdn performance facebook media storage
april 2009 by earth2marsh

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Gartner's Top Ten Predictions for 2009 and beyond

"By year end 2012, physical sensors will create 20 percent of non-video internet traffic. We are all familiar with CCTV systems for monitoring traffic movement, license plates and many other applications, but how about collecting data from the hard-disk shock sensors in your notebook to collect data to better understand earth tremors and earthquakes? The extent and diversity of real-time environmental sensing is growing rapidly as our ability to act on and interpret the growing volumes of data to capture valuable information increases. Gartner says organisations should consider how use of the growing volume of real-time data might create new business models and enable better informed business decision making."

via:preoccupations Gartner predictions trends technology ubicomp sensors 2009
march 2009 by earth2marsh

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Silicon Valley soothsayer - CNET News

"Why does the computer industry not learn from the past? It's the same reason that they call their customers "users." That the computer industry drips with scorn for everything except themselves. As has been said, there are only two industries on this planet that would use such a sneering term like "user" for its customers: the computer industry and the drug cartels."

future technology change forecasting paul_saffo via:preoccupations
march 2009 by earth2marsh

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You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? - NYTimes.com

"Mr. Brown and about 100 other students living in Random Hall at M.I.T. have agreed to swap their privacy for smartphones that generate digital trails to be beamed to a central computer. Beyond individual actions, the devices capture a moving picture of the dorm’s social network. The students’ data is but a bubble in a vast sea of digital information being recorded by an ever thicker web of sensors, from phones to GPS units to the tags in office ID badges, that capture our movements and interactions. Coupled with information already gathered from sources like Web surfing and credit cards, the data is the basis for an emerging field called collective intelligence."

technology surveillance privacy mobile collective_intelligence nytimes
february 2009 by earth2marsh

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The Renegades at the New York 'Times' - The All New Issue -- New York ...

"What are these renegade cybergeeks doing at the New York Times? Maybe saving it."

nytimes innovation newspapers infographics interactive online media internet future journalism publishing technology
january 2009 by earth2marsh

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Better Learning With Sites and Sound :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

"One qualitative study, which surely won’t be welcomed by manufacturers of basic word processing software, found that students who create and edit documents using Web-based collaboration tools include more complex visual media in their assignments — and come away with a better understanding in the process. Another ongoing experiment finds, with statistical significance, that instructors can be more effective in grading students’ work if they record their comments directly into documents as audio."

lsi collaboration technology learning elearning teaching skills
december 2008 by earth2marsh

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Brightstorm launchs 19 video based courses | Infinite Thinking Machine

"Lessons Learned: * We need to provide multiple routes through the materials and allow students to make their own choices. * We need to communicate proactively with the students and provide structured formative feedback on achievement. * We need to allow the students to build on their existing skills and knowledge and to undertake learning activities that are relevant to their interests and learning needs. * We need to provide plenty of opportunities to communicate for those who are most comfortable in a community of learners, whilst allowing those who wish to plough a lone furrow to do so."

education teaching pedagogy technology
november 2008 by earth2marsh

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Fiat revs up new free fuel tool | Green Tech - CNET News

Finally, someone's starting to provide the feedback we need... "Drivers can download the free Eco Drive software from the Internet to their computer and plug in any normal USB drive. Drivers then plug the prepped USB drive into their car's Blue&Me system and it will automatically start collecting data on the car."

Pollution transport technology car driving usb information feedback efficiency
november 2008 by earth2marsh

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3M Launches first Pocket Projector | Popular Science

yep, a projector that fits in your pocket.

hardware technology projector pocket
september 2008 by earth2marsh

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Google Blogoscoped

Details about GOOG's browser, built on top of webkit. Includes a JavaScript VM and innovations for stability and security. Read the comic book!

Google chrome webkit browsers technology opensource development javascript VM future
september 2008 by earth2marsh

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Can Technology Save the Planet? - July/August 2005 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
environment Bruce_Sterling technology sustainability future !to_read
september 2008 by earth2marsh

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We magazine - Ten Futures

Stephene Downes indulges his futurist-slash-scifi side. Some good stuff in here.

web learning future technology ai trends prediction
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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Essay - At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner - NYTimes.com

The educational bottom line, it seems, is that while computer technology has matured and become more affordable, the most significant development has been a deeper understanding of how to use the technology. “Unless you change how you teach and how kids work, new technology is not really going to make a difference,” said Bob Pearlman, a former teacher who is the director of strategic planning for the New Technology Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

elearning education technology
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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Future of Internet Search: Mobile version « petitinvention

imagining a future transparent device that demonstrates context-aware applications

interface search mobile technology trends future gadgets context IxD
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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Making Visible the Invisible

“Making Visible the Invisible” is a commission for the Seattle Central Library, situated in the Mixing Chamber, a large open 19,500 sq ft space dedicated to information retrieval and public accessible computer research. The installation consists of 6 large LCD screens located on a glass wall horizontally behind the librarians’ main information desk. The screens feature real-time calculated animation visualizations generated by custom designed statistical and algorithmic software using data received each hour. This data consists of a list of checked-out items organized in chronological order. The item may be a book, a DVD, a CD, a VHS tape, etc. and from the list we can collect and aggregate titles, checkout time, catalog descriptors such as keywords, Dewey classification code if they are non-fiction items. There are approximately 22000 items circulating per day. Items with Dewey Decimal System labels provide for a way to get a perspective on what subject matters are of current interes

data visualization technology seattle library installation design
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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PigeonBlog

"enlists homing pigeons to participate in a grassroots scientific data gathering initiative designed to collect and distribute information about air quality conditions to the general public. Pigeons are equipped with custom-built miniature air pollution sensing devices enabled to send the collected localized information to an online server without delay. Pollution levels are visualized and plotted in real-time over Google’s mapping environment, thus allowing immediate access to the collected information to anyone with connection to the Internet."

via:kevan science research maps mapping gps technology animals birds pollution pigeons
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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Photography as a Weapon - Errol Morris - Zoom - New York Times Blog

"there’s no doubt that it is remarkably powerful. For example, when you put out a fake, like the Kerry/Fonda one.[2] And even like this missile one. You start putting it out there and saying, “Oh look, this picture? It’s a fake. This picture? It’s a fake.” But you know what people remember? They don’t remember, “It’s a fake.” They remember the picture. And there are psychology studies, when you tell people that information is incorrect, they forget that it is incorrect. They only remember the misinformation. They forget the tag associated with it. "We should remember that the power of photographs comes not only from their ability to copy reality, but also to alter reality. Photographs can be used — to borrow Heartfield’s phrase — as weapons. They can be used to warn us about the dangers of impending war. They can also be used to ratchet up the blind forces of rage and unreason that drag us into conflict."

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august 2008 by earth2marsh

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What's really killing newspapers: They're no longer the best providers of social currency. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine

Not that long ago, the daily newspaper was an indispensable coiner of social currency, and it gave its readers piles of the stuff in each edition. The phrase, which comes from sociology, is often used to describe the information we acquire and then trade

trends technology socialmedia sociology newspapers media currency social value
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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Low-tech Magazine: Carbon sequestration: bury the idea, not the CO2

Why introduce yet another expensive, energy-intensive and risky technology if there are so many other and better ways of fighting global warming?

technology environment co2 carbon climate sustainability lsi sequestration
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed - Software Development Times On The Web

internal Microsoft documents that outline Midori’s proposed design, which is Internet-centric and predicated on the prevalence of connected systems.

technology microsoft os windows future
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Using your browser URL history to estimate gender

clever: "analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate age and gender"

technology stats statistics social tools javascript
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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Cory Doctorow: Filesharing deal will drive swapping underground | Technology | guardian.co.uk

The record industry will not be in charge of the characteristics of filesharing systems. They may get remunerated for their use, but they won't be able to dictate their functionality... If they want to cash in on filesharing, they'd better do it soon, bef

technology surveillance riaa privacy piracy music sharing business model
august 2008 by earth2marsh

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psiphon

a censorship circumvention solution that allows users to access blocked sites in countries where the Internet is censored. psiphon turns a regular home computer into a personal, encrypted server capable of retrieving and displaying web pages anywhere

proxy privacy circumvent filtering blocked websites software windows technology tools web
july 2008 by earth2marsh

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Jonathan Huebner: A possible declining trend for worldwide innovation (pdf)

"the evidence presented indicates that the rate of innovation reached a peak over a hundred years ago and is now in decline. This decline is most likely due to an economic limit of technology or a limit of the human brain that we are approaching"

!to_read innovation future technology pdf
july 2008 by earth2marsh

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The Brains Behind the Image Fulgurator | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

lies in wait until an unsuspecting photographer takes a picture using a flash. When the device's sensor sees this flash, it fires its own unit throwing up an image to be captured by the hapless photographer's camera while remaining unseen by the naked eye

art camera technology flash advertising
july 2008 by earth2marsh

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Vernor Vinge on the Singularity

from 1993

futurism singularity technology future evolution intelligence airline
july 2008 by earth2marsh

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the why of it all: an unexamined summer

cleverly written post about using technology to engage students

storytelling digital_literacy teaching technology parable story
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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FOXNews.com - Northrop Grumman to Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

contract to develop intelligent binoculars that would help soldiers detect threats from miles away. The defense contractor says electrodes placed on the scalp will record the user's electrical brain activity. Responses will train the system over time to r

brain engineering science technology vision binoculars
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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on social network sharecropping - D'Arcy Norman dot net

"Publishing content into a third party proprietary application is nothing more than sharecropping. You don’t truly own what you are doing, and you are not the primary beneficiary of your actions."

identity openid opensource ownership privacy socialnetworking technology sharecropping
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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TED | Talks | George Dyson: The birth of the computer (video)

"Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of the first computer engineers."

!to_watch TED computers history video George_Dyson evolution hardware technology computer
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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The Obvious?: Most companies who try to do Enterprise 2.0 will fail

eight reasons why... pretty true too.

enterprise2.0 change technology business collaboration adoption socialnetworks socialsoftware
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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Why Online "Noise" is Good For You - ReadWriteWeb

i'm looking forward to lots of innovation in the signal/noise/attention space in NEAR future

noise socialnetworking friendfeed technology information filtering filter tagging web2.0
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

Poverty is the natural beginning state of all societies, east or west. Rather, decentralization is the engine which removes poverty and brings wealth.

poverty wealth economics cellphone mobile development markets technology bangladesh lsi
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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I.T. 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb

looks like i'll be ok at least until I.T. 3.0

enterprise2.0 technology IT trends Enterprise business
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions.

History timeline wikipedia Technology invention List inventions culture
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mobile phones expose human habits

The whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements.

mobile mapping technology privacy information phone tracking study patterns traffic travel movement
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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China's All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone

With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.

china surveillance privacy security politics technology lsi democracy Culture cameras state article
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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Location Technologies Primer

from Eric Carr, the VP of Location Technologies at Loopt

mobile location gps technology reference Geolocation
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab

creates insight into how computing products — from websites to mobile phone software — can be designed to change what people believe and what they do.

captology Research technology stanford design psychology change mobile
june 2008 by earth2marsh

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AAPM/RSNA Physics Tutorial for Residents: Fundamental Physics of MR Imaging -- Pooley 25 (4): 1087 -- RadioGraphics

very accessible explanation of how MRIs work