MachineMachine /stream - tagged with data http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011) http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4169 To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency, showing how creativity is stirred within the networks of digital culture. ]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 09:46:17 -0700 http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4169 In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/publication-isnt-preservation/ Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title, publisher and imprint, price, ISBN and barcode, as well as the size, the shape, the binding are clear, easily referenced at a glance. Part of the complicated process of digitizing books that the Hathi Trust, the Internet Archive, and Google, for example, faced was how to record and connect all of this information to a digital file. For scanned and even more seriously for born-digital e-books, as Digital Book… ]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 10:46:01 -0700 http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/publication-isnt-preservation/ The Arrow of Time (Debategraph) http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=100641&iv=09&mac=100641- The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows' or not prefigure present day philosophical arguments. In his talk to the Blackheath Philosophy Forum Huw Price chose as his starting point the views of cosmologist Sir Arthur Eddington - a prominent figure in the first half of the 20th century, but little known today. What made Eddington's view of time interesting is that he was prepared to part company with most physicists - who conceive time as it… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 08:12:52 -0700 http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=100641&iv=09&mac=100641- Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of the past back to life http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/heritage-sandbox "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the University of Bristol. His project, Reflecting the Past, will see augmented reality mirrors deployed in the saloon of the ship, SS Britain, to allow visitors to "glimpse characters from the past in a fragmentary, fleeting kind of way". When in situ in September, the content will not be triggered by the visitor but played on a random loop, he adds. "Sometimes you'll see things and sometimes you won't. We want… ]]> Fri, 04 May 2012 04:47:37 -0700 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/heritage-sandbox Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/apr/26/jonathan-lethem/ The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories Lethem relates of hosting "mailing parties" for the Philip K Dick Society or working in a bookstore seem like snapshots from pre-digital age. Recently I talked with the author about our rapidly dematerializing culture as well as appropriation as an art practice: ]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:43:24 -0700 http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/apr/26/jonathan-lethem/ Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video http://engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-explains-how-it-searches-the-internet-in-under-half-a-sec/&category=classic&postPage=1 Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks you through it in the above YouTube video. The short answer? Lots of backend firepower and, you know, a few years in the search game. If you remember the Google dance, Cutts explains what caused that, before going on to give a good idea about how today’s version of the site does what it does. If you’re thinking this all sounds a bit too much like SEO 101, you’d… ]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:49:39 -0700 http://engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-explains-how-it-searches-the-internet-in-under-half-a-sec/&category=classic&postPage=1 What Is the "New Aesthetic"? http://stunlaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/what-is-new-aesthetic.html The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also Bridle 2012, Kaganskiy 2012, Sterling 2012). Many of these discussions have a particular existential flavour, questioning the existence and longevity of the New Aesthetic, for example, or beginning to draw the boundaries of what is 'in' or 'out' of the domain of New Aesthetic things (See Twitter 2012).[1] Grusin (2012), for example, claims: '[t]he "new aesthetic" is just the latest name for remediation, all dressed up with nowhere to… ]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:21:06 -0700 http://stunlaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/what-is-new-aesthetic.html THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=703/ctheorynet Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface http://t.co/t4bOSiYv Norm Friesen – khaoid (khaoid) http://twitter.com/khaoid/status/192507088491126784 ]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:29:31 -0700 http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=703/ctheorynet Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/13/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders-inside-higher-ed Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders: http://t.co/W7pku7mG #x ]]> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:30:19 -0700 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/13/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders-inside-higher-ed Just how big are porn sites? http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites/just-how-big-are-porn-sites-extremetech "It’s probably not unrealistic to say that porn makes up 30% of the total data transferred across the internet" : http://t.co/T7MFHbvo ]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:06:36 -0700 http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites/just-how-big-are-porn-sites-extremetech Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-11-16-building-smarter-machines-that-serve-humanity/daily-maverick-daphne-koller-when-machines-are-almost-human Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human - http://t.co/pYs9zvvH – Dan R.D. (Ddrrnt) http://twitter.com/Ddrrnt/status/187448712191152130 ]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:42:57 -0700 http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-11-16-building-smarter-machines-that-serve-humanity/daily-maverick-daphne-koller-when-machines-are-almost-human Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-data-mining-but-were-afraid-to-ask/255388//everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-data-mining-but-were-afraid-to-ask-alexander-furnas-technology-the-atlantic Essential knowledge! "Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask" http://t.co/D8S8u6re @theatlantic – Pedro Monteiro (psesinando) http://twitter.com/psesinando/status/187280680881881088 ]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:33:32 -0700 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-data-mining-but-were-afraid-to-ask/255388//everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-data-mining-but-were-afraid-to-ask-alexander-furnas-technology-the-atlantic The Sound of the Internet http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-sound-of-the-internet?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20TheMorningNews/features%20(The%20Morning%20News) If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to JPGs—into music. ]]> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:44:48 -0700 http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-sound-of-the-internet?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20TheMorningNews/features%20(The%20Morning%20News) Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/sealand-and-havenco.ars A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think "Swiss banking" for data.) The best-known example comes from Neal Stephenson's 1999 best-seller Cryptonomicon, whose heroes go up against murderous warlords, rapacious venture capitalists, and epic authorial digressions in their quest to bring untraceable communications to the masses and get rich in the process. ]]> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:46:28 -0700 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/sealand-and-havenco.ars Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/sealand-and-havenco.ars A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think "Swiss banking" for data.) The best-known example comes from Neal Stephenson's 1999 best-seller Cryptonomicon, whose heroes go up against murderous warlords, rapacious venture capitalists, and epic authorial digressions in their quest to bring untraceable communications to the masses and get rich in the process. ]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:42:27 -0700 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/sealand-and-havenco.ars Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577285610212146258.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google's massive collection of scanned books. They claim to have identified universal laws governing the birth, life course and death of words. The paper marks an advance in a new field dubbed "Culturomics": the application of data-crunching to subjects typically considered part of the humanities. Last year a group of social scientists and evolutionary theorists, plus the Google Books team, showed off the kinds of things that could… ]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:04:54 -0700 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577285610212146258.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart http://www.iasc-culture.org/eNews/2012_02/Wellmon.pdf/why-google-isnt-making-us-stupid-or-smart-httptcot4oxsjbt Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid… or Smart : http://t.co/T4OXsjbt ]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:12:38 -0700 http://www.iasc-culture.org/eNews/2012_02/Wellmon.pdf/why-google-isnt-making-us-stupid-or-smart-httptcot4oxsjbt Billion Dollar Brain in a box http://www.nature.com/news/computer-modelling-brain-in-a-box-1.10066 Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers about Markram's controversial proposal for the Human Brain Project (HBP) — an effort to build a supercomputer simulation that integrates everything known about the human brain, from the structures of ion channels in neural cell membranes up to mechanisms behind conscious decision-making. ]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:33:55 -0700 http://www.nature.com/news/computer-modelling-brain-in-a-box-1.10066 "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..." http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/17947545876 “Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for communication: templates that guide, unavailing or not, concrete processes of human interaction, mass and interpersonal.”

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 ]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:21:08 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/17947545876 Games within videogames: Hoarding http://www.edge-online.com/features/games-within-games-hoarding/games-within-games-hoarding-edge-magazine Hoarding in videogames & MMRPGs Do you? : @Tont_Coles on value of cheese, mutilated limbs and torture tools... http://t.co/TF66uPTJ #kipple ]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:05:35 -0700 http://www.edge-online.com/features/games-within-games-hoarding/games-within-games-hoarding-edge-magazine