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Iron Sky

February 8, 2012

Looking forward to this zany bit of participatory cinema, with lunar ufo Nazis attacking earth:

Pinterest is the rave du jour for Inernet mavens. You know it’s mainstreamed when the U.S. Army produces a guide: Social Media Roundup – Introduction to Pinterest View more presentations from U.S. Army

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AR glasses coming from Google

February 7, 2012

Google glasses (or maybe we should all ‘em Google Goggles) will be an interesting AR advance, more science friction happening now, if they do happen. Preview (aka rumor) at 9to5Google. These glasses, we heard, have a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality apps. It will also take pictures. The [...]

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Howard Rheingold: Net Smart

February 3, 2012

In 2009, Howard Rheingold created an excellent mini-course in network literacy, a substantial resource for those who want to learn more about the Internet. Here’s the introductory video: Howard’s written a book on network and digital literacy called Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. See larger image Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (Hardcover) By [...]

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Moon

January 30, 2012

A moonlit night near Inks lake. (And a test of Flickr image embedding…)

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Bots can shape social interaction

January 24, 2012

Scientists experimenting with Twitter bots found that the bots could “shape” activity on Twitter to some extent. They’re continuing their studies to get a better understanding of what they’re seeing. [Link] The origin of the study was explained by Tim Hwang, one of the authors of a research paper describing the socialbot experiments. “A lot [...]

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PIPA and SOPA explained

January 20, 2012

Clay Shirky has the best overview I’ve seen/heard/read of PIPA and SOPA and the context from whence they emerged: Bottom line: the legilsation’s about wanting us to be passive consumers, not producing and not sharing.

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JOHO: Messages from the Dark

January 19, 2012

At “JOHO the Blog,” David Weinberger has a simple and very cool summary of the meaning of yesterday’s SOPA-induced blackout. “This is our Internet. We built it. We built it for us, not for you. We get to turn off the lights, not you.” Yes, indeed. It took a long time for the the Internet [...]

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“Quantifed Self” Art

January 15, 2012

As a follower of the “Quantified Self” work catalyzed by Kevin Kelly et al, I was eager to see Laurie Frick’s exhibit “Quantify Me” at “women and Their Work” – Marsha and I hung out there last night exploring the aesthetic representation of Frick’s mind. Using her background in engineering and technology she explores self-tracking [...]

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State of the World 2012

January 5, 2012

Bruce Sterling and I are holding forth in our annual State of the World conversation on the WELL. Here’s the short url for access: http://bit.ly/yNcL9L If you have questions or comments for us, and you’re not a member of the WELL, just send them to inkwell at well.com. It’s a pretty juicy year for this [...]

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Gothic High Tech

December 31, 2011

See larger image Gothic High-Tech (Hardcover) By (author) Bruce Sterling List Price: $25.00 USD New From: $16.50 In Stock Used from: $85.63 In Stock New short story collection from Bruce Sterling. “He’s the legendary Cyberpunk Guru. He roams our postmodern planet, from the polychrome tinsel of Los Angeles to the chicken-fried cyberculture of Austin… From [...]

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Internet Code Ring! (Interview with Phil Zimmermann, circa 1993)

December 30, 2011

Discovered that this interview is no longer findable online, so I’m republishing it here. A version of this was published in bOING bOING (the ‘zine) in 1993 or 1994. We were sitting in a circle on the floor at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, March ’93 in San Francisco, St. Jude and I with [...]

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Multiverses, dark matter, infinity: Occupy Reality

December 21, 2011

The idea that there’s a set of consistent first principles behind the existence and operations of the universe is undermined by evidence of a multiverse – many universes with potentially different properties – and the existence of “dark matter.” In this universe and on this planet, we’ve had just the right conditions for life – [...]

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Adriana Lukas: how to avoid hierarchies

December 20, 2011

Adriana discusses her thinking about heterarchy, including initial thoughts about five laws of heterarchy. “Hierarchies seem to be like oxygen: they’re all around us, pervasive, visible only to those who study them. Hierarchies are the most efficient system for management and distribution of scarce resources… given that the physical world is defined by scarcity of [...]

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