This is fascinating and useful in almost any discipline, I think. I would love to create a book that's just long-form interviews with people about projects that failed -- for all the different values of "failure" -- exploring how and why in detail. Doing history of technology makes you deeply aware how much failure matters, far more success in most cases -- it's often just the epiphenomenon of far deeper processes of failing.

Learning about Netochka Nezvanova (the Chaz turned me onto her) ... fascinating stuff, to finish reading.

This looks really interesting: about ways of extracting or demanding activity in return for perceived value online -- paywalls, graywalls, etc. Some experiments. Don't have time to finish this now.

I'm really looking forward to reading this essay about the great, or at least enormously complex, Stafford Beer. There's a book coming out about his Cybersyn project in Chile with Allende, but if ever someone qualified for a full-on biography it would be yogi/poet/cybernetic Johnny Appleseed/management consultant/aesthete/etc. Beer. Going to finish this on the train one of these days.

db's talk is very useful for this obfuscation article I'm working on. Need to finish reading it but have other work to do right now.

For latter parts of the spam project -- mission creep with malware.

Got to remember to dl (when I'm on a school connection) and read this for my spam article. Interesting implications for how we define "communities" when we talk about things on computer networks.

This seems like a really important, and long, collection of materials about curation, aggregation, museums and network knowledge practice but I'm too tired to read it right now. For later.

Article about the context of Iranian democratic resistance that acts as a bit of a corrective to the (my) tendency towards naive techno-determinism.

Outstandingly weird and unpleasant story about suicide voyeurism, assumed identities, the complex emotional advantage you take of people in the odd pseudo-intimacy of a late-night chat session. Need to finish reading this

On methodology and the Internet. Need to read this.

A book about the global history of yodeling I'd like to read at some point.

Article on Harrison White, the sociologist Andrei intro'd me to, whose work seems really important to what I'm trying to do.

Essay on atemporality that I'd like to take a look at. (Joanne recommended it.)

Moot interview to read for Wednesday

Interview with one of my favorite obsessive creatives.

Article on games in the Cold War, particularly chess, to model conflict, and artistic responses. I'd like to read this for the WRG.

Nice graphic overview of some of spam's history and economics and cycles.