March 2012
91 posts
The Phantoms of Google - Slashdot →
By generating an unsearchable ‘ghost profile’ when a member of the social network invites a Google+ adverse friend to join, Google explains, non-believers get to participate in social networking activities without providing user information.
ze frank on tumblr: Kickstarter post-mortem →
zefrank:
Some thoughts and advice from my recent Kickstarter campaign.
NOTES ON THE HARD STUFF (FACTS AND FIGURES)
:: This campaign was created to help re-start an online video blog I had done in 2006. It was fairly popular and there was a significant amount of interest in my doing it again. I have a…
I hate it when people write ethnographies in narrative form.
– New Law Cafe
16/3/12
(via thingsmypretentiousfriendssay)
If Blow’s Braid was criticized for practically forcing its complicated...
– Getting lost in Jonathan Blow’s The Witness
now that the Internet has annihilated the problems of duplication and...
– Visibility is currency in academia but it is scarcity in publishing. The push for open access shows that academic publishers can’t serve two masters | Impact of Social Sciences
In social news media, our participation is sandboxed. We play inside the...
– Kony 2012 and the case of the invisible media
new-aesthetic:
stamen design | Watercolor Process
Of course the picture is an artificial and ephemeral fragment, just a flake of a...
– Telling grief II: Menticulture Blog
R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX » Blog Archive » Problems of... →
http://babel.391.org/remix_runran/problemsofeverydaylife.swf
iPhones and other Apple products—at least when compared to devices running...
– Anatomy of a leak: how iPhones spill the ID of networks they access
We’ve been creating digital afterlives for years, so naturally someone...
– Deleting the voice of the dead - Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
We’re so saturated by the multiplicities and disjointments of this remaindered...
– DAILY SERVING » Reading the Internet with Joan Jonas: The Task of the Cultural Critic in the Ambient Age
social networking has made it possible for people to know “500-600 other...
– Technology can push our crazy buttons, make social skills weaker - USATODAY.com
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click...
– I’m Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
I understood some of the reasons why people might need to use...
– Telling grief I: Menticulture Blog
In classical continuity styles, space is a fixed and rigid container, which...
– Post-Continuity: full text of my talk « The Pinocchio Theory
I felt what God was like. It was something that was smaller than anything. It’s...
– Interviews with People Who Just Smoked DMT | VICE
I was really attracted to the kind of trashy quality of it and also being this...
– How GIF Trash Became Internet Culture Glue
Phenomenology’s gesture of returning to things, of attending to things in their...
– Dylan Trigg « Figure/Ground Communication
I want to urge far more capacious sense of the posthuman. This is partly for...
– Hacking Humans
Einstein Archives | Home →
The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era. It also enables access to the Einstein Archive Database, a comprehensive source of information...
Untitled (by Amanda Erickson)
Robots of Brixton (by Kibwe Tavares)