http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/28/2753951/computer-viruses-infect-worms-frankenmalware?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter/computer-viruses-infecting-worms-to-create-hybrid-frankenmalware-says-bitdefender-the-verge IT'S ALIVE! Computer viruses begin infecting worms to create 'Frankenmalware' http://t.co/jlDkGP7t #hybrids ]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:36:02 -0700 http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/28/2753951/computer-viruses-infect-worms-frankenmalware?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter/computer-viruses-infecting-worms-to-create-hybrid-frankenmalware-says-bitdefender-the-verge http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/internet-regulation-the-economics-of-piracy//internet-regulation-amp-the-economics-of-piracy-cato-liberty Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy http://t.co/CXiWp8I0 ]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:08:17 -0700 http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/internet-regulation-the-economics-of-piracy//internet-regulation-amp-the-economics-of-piracy-cato-liberty http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21334-kopimism-the-worlds-newest-religion-explained.html Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government. Tell me about this new file-sharing religion, Kopimism. We were founded about 15 months ago and we believe that information is holy and that the act of copying is holy. Why make a religion out of file-sharing? Why not just be an ordinary club without defining yourselves as being a religious community? Because we see ourselves as a religious group, a church seems like a good way of organising… ]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:32:57 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21334-kopimism-the-worlds-newest-religion-explained.html http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/michael_nielsen_reinventing_discovery.php The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Nielsen argues that networked digital tools, such as discussion boards and online marketplaces, can make it easier for scientists to pool their data, share methodologies, and find far-flung collaborators. Even non-scientists are participating in large-scale citizen science projects. In Nielsen’s view, however, public policy has yet to catch up to technology. The digital environment will amplify our collective intelligence, but only if there are incentives for people… ]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:41:40 -0700 http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/michael_nielsen_reinventing_discovery.php http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/the-ballad-of-horse-ebooks-splitsider On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks : http://t.co/QYGn0092 #fb ]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:06:45 -0700 http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/the-ballad-of-horse-ebooks-splitsider http://gizmodo.com/5873001/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden File Sharing Is now an official Religion In Sweden: The Missionary Church of Kopimism http://t.co/Fq8kKFKr #CtrlC #CtrlV #copying #Piracy ]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:52:39 -0700 http://gizmodo.com/5873001/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden http://www.theemotionmachine.com/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self RT @furtherfield: The Dark Sides of Our #Digital Self - http://t.co/C9JyB0O9 ]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:51:26 -0700 http://www.theemotionmachine.com/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/12/14/spark-open-science.html/how-the-internet-transforms-scientific-discovery-technology-amp-science-cbc-news Open Science: How the internet transforms scientific discovery http://t.co/VzvVH0Xt ]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:05:43 -0700 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/12/14/spark-open-science.html/how-the-internet-transforms-scientific-discovery-technology-amp-science-cbc-news http://www.nytimes.com//the-new-york-times-breaking-news-world-news-amp-multimedia Out of Imagination Came a New Online World: http://t.co/n5mJpqB6 / '#NealStephenson doesn’t like talking about how he predicted the future.' ]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:06:07 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com//the-new-york-times-breaking-news-world-news-amp-multimedia http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=big-data-future-knowledge-internet-age/what-is-the-future-of-knowledge-in-the-internet-age-scientific-american What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age? http://t.co/sRP1qCUf ]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:37:06 -0700 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=big-data-future-knowledge-internet-age/what-is-the-future-of-knowledge-in-the-internet-age-scientific-american http://theeuropean-magazine.com/352-dyson-george/353-evolution-and-innovation/george-dyson-evolution-and-innovation-information-is-cheap-meaning-is-expensive-the-european-magazine George Dyson: “Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive” http://t.co/wKQfp6rP ]]> Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:55:49 -0700 http://theeuropean-magazine.com/352-dyson-george/353-evolution-and-innovation/george-dyson-evolution-and-innovation-information-is-cheap-meaning-is-expensive-the-european-magazine http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2005/P2626.pdf/on-distributed-communications-networks Paul Baran (1962) ]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:08:44 -0700 http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2005/P2626.pdf/on-distributed-communications-networks http://blog.whitneyannetrettien.com/2010/12/zombie-editions-archaeology-of-pod.html This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly print editions published by university presses, indistinguishable at first glance except for a few glaring markers. Like a mismatched cover image -- -- or excessively expressive titles: Closer examination reveals their undead status. In the case of English Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica, the publisher is the aptly-named BiblioLife, a project of BiblioLabs, which designs software "to address the challenges of cost-effectively bringing old books back to life." (BiblioLabs takes… ]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:06:15 -0700 http://blog.whitneyannetrettien.com/2010/12/zombie-editions-archaeology-of-pod.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/do-androids-dream-of-electric-authors.html But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear waste. But how could we have allowed them to commandeer one of the most gratifying occupations, that of author? Which brings me back to Lambert M. Surhone. Might he be a robot? Reading the fine print, I traced some of Surhone’s books to a VDM branch office in the island nation of Mauritius, off the coast of Madagascar. I called. As the faraway phone rang, I fantasized about what… ]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:04:52 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/do-androids-dream-of-electric-authors.html http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-cyberspace-real Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained by any symbolic Law or by any impossibility of some Real? If not, how are we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the other two dimensions of the Lacanian triad ISR, the Symbolic and the Real? As to the symbolic dimension, the solution seems easy — it suffices to focus on the notion of authorship that fits the emerging domain of cyberspace narratives, that of the "procedural authorship":… ]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:33:41 -0700 http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-cyberspace-real http://nedrossiter.org/?p=286 For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything about how our complex technical society is made up, we must pay attention to the underlying structures that surround us, from industry norms to building regulations, software icons and internet protocols. Yet our ordinary understanding of the world resists this very idea. If we call for another society, with more equality and style, it is not enough to think differently; the very framework of that thinking must be negated… ]]> Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:36:53 -0700 http://nedrossiter.org/?p=286 http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/ancient-cloud The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It has been the source of human invention all along. Human technological advancement depends not on individual intelligence but on collective idea sharing, and it has done so for tens of thousands of years. Human progress waxes and wanes according to how much people connect and exchange. ]]> Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:50:36 -0700 http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/ancient-cloud http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/196170 I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been asked to help implement a website/blogging platform for a community of 20 MFA students.

Basically I'd like to gather up some examples of dynamic websites attached to academia (or similar i.e. the arts). These examples will be then passed on to my superiors with an eye to developing our own platform that takes the best… ]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:26:18 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/196170 http://t.co/e75AE1R/learnunlearnrelearn-the-internet-makes-it-hard-to-concentrate-good-distraction-sparks-innovation-amp-creativity-httptcoe75ae1r-x Learn/Unlearn/Relearn. The #internet makes it hard to concentrate. Good. #Distraction sparks innovation & creativity http://t.co/e75AE1R #x ]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:03:29 -0700 http://t.co/e75AE1R/learnunlearnrelearn-the-internet-makes-it-hard-to-concentrate-good-distraction-sparks-innovation-amp-creativity-httptcoe75ae1r-x http://t.co/HYXCCuK/giftv-digital-addiction-at-its-finest-httptcohyxccuk-via-psfk-via-designtaxi-gifs-x-internet-animatedgifs-art-digital GIF.TV: Digital Addiction At Its Finest http://t.co/HYXCCuK via @PSFK via @designtaxi #GIFs #x #Internet #animatedgifs #art #digital ]]> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:29:10 -0700 http://t.co/HYXCCuK/giftv-digital-addiction-at-its-finest-httptcohyxccuk-via-psfk-via-designtaxi-gifs-x-internet-animatedgifs-art-digital