MachineMachine /stream - tagged with network 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 Network Science of the Game of Go http://bit.ly/JoYn3H They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games, they began to construct these networks. Of course, the Go board is very large and so you can’t compare entire board layouts. Instead, they decided to make it much more tractable and look at the board composition surrounding a newly placed piece (a move in Go consists of putting a stone on an intersection of the grid lines of the board). In this case, they looked at the pieces… ]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:29:50 -0700 http://bit.ly/JoYn3H Madmen Bittorrent Edition http://vimeo.com/20465929/madmen-bittorrent-edition

Video comprising one episode of Madmen incompletely downloaded from the internet via bittorrent. The video has been linearly edited, no digital effects were used and all jump cuts and repeats are in the corrupted file.

The video captures an episode of the popular TV show in the act of being shared by thousands of users on bittorent. The video simultaneously acts as a visualisation of bittorrent traffic and the practice of filesharing and is an aesthetically beautiful by product of the bittorrent process as the pieces of the original file are rearranged and reconfigured into a…

]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:01:40 -0700 http://vimeo.com/20465929/madmen-bittorrent-edition 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 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 Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/science/bacteria-use-chemical-twitter-and-prisoner-s-dilemma-to-make-decisions-211625.html/bacteria-use-chemical-twitter-and-prisoners-dilemma-to-make-decisions-beyond-science-science-epoch-times http://t.co/fcnjW9hb Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and 'Prisoner's Dilemma' to Make Decisions @RiceUniversity @AmerChemSociety ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:06:01 -0700 http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/science/bacteria-use-chemical-twitter-and-prisoner-s-dilemma-to-make-decisions-211625.html/bacteria-use-chemical-twitter-and-prisoners-dilemma-to-make-decisions-beyond-science-science-epoch-times The Era of Networked Science 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 The Manichean World of Tim Wu http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_manichean_world_of_tim_wu For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has been Lawrence Lessig, who argued in his 1999 book, Code, that under corporate and governmental pressures, the Net could be flipped to serve top-down control instead of individual freedom. In The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (2008), Jonathan Zittrain showed why this reversal might come about as a result of popular demand. Both the personal computer and the Internet are what Zittrain calls “generative” technologies,… ]]> Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:34:27 -0700 http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_manichean_world_of_tim_wu Old Internet Getting You Down? Build Your Own! http://www.broadbandexpert.com/blog/wireless-carriers/old-internet-getting-you-down-build-your-own/ The role of social networking in recent rebellions against repressive regimes may have been slightly overstated, but here’s the thing with repressive regimes: they sort of tend to overreact to any perceived threat at the best of times.

Also, repressive regimes watch CNN.

Going on and on about how helpful Twitter was to protesters in Iran or Egypt and even going so far as government requests for Twitter to postpone maintenance so that protesters can use it to communicate was eventually going to clue someone in.

There’s also the small matter… ]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:22:53 -0700 http://www.broadbandexpert.com/blog/wireless-carriers/old-internet-getting-you-down-build-your-own/ Foucault, Deleuze, and the Ethics of Digital Networks http://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/faculty/frohmann/Documents/ICIE%20IV%20Foucault%20Deleuze.pdf Information ethics has become a scholarly growth industry in recent years, especially through the work of Rafael Capurro, the  founder of the International Center forInformation Ethics (ICIE). The maturity of the debate is reflected in the leading question of the International ICIE Symposium 2004 in Karlsruhe, Germany: how isembodied human life possible within local cultural traditions and the horizon of a global digital environment? The Symposium  explores ethical ramifications of thisquestion by encouraging research and reflection on effects of the Internet and postInternet developments of digital networks on a wide range of phenomena, includingcommunity, democracy, customs, language, media, economic development,… ]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:32:11 -0700 http://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/faculty/frohmann/Documents/ICIE%20IV%20Foucault%20Deleuze.pdf The Principle of Notworking Concepts in Critical Internet Culture http://zotero.org/therourke/items/X794PSXW/the-principle-of-notworking-concepts-in-critical-internet-culture
Type Conference Paper
Author Geert Lovink
URL http://www.hva.nl/lectoraten/documenten/ol09-050224-lovink.pdf
Place Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Date 24 Februari 2005
Accessed 2011-04-13
Abstract Lector Interactieve Media in het Digitaal Publiek Domein Instituut voor Interactieve Media
]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:24:50 -0700 http://zotero.org/therourke/items/X794PSXW/the-principle-of-notworking-concepts-in-critical-internet-culture The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text) http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/literal by John Cayley

Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged. It has acquired a history or at least some genuine engagement with the reality principle, now that the Net is accepted as a material and cultural given of the developed world, now that the dot.coms have crashed, now that unsolicited marketing email and commercialism dominates network traffic. Nonetheless, artistic practice in digital media is still often driven by youthful, escapist, utopian enthusiasms. Net Art as such… ]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:33:00 -0700 http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/literal Chtodelat? / What is to be done? http://www.chtodelat.org/ Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see full list of participants on the web site) with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism.

Since then, Chto delat has been publishing an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to engaged culture, with a special focus on the relationship between a repoliticization of Russian intellectual culture and its broader international context. These newspapers are usually produced in the context of collective initiatives such as… ]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:10:00 -0700 http://www.chtodelat.org/ A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/provisional.htm By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A "logical picture" differs from a natural or realistic picture in that it rarely looks like the thing it stands for. It is a two dimensional analogy or metaphor - A is Z.

The Non-Site (an indoor earthwork)* is a three dimensional logical picture that is abstract, yet it represents an actual site in N.J. (The Pine Barrens Plains). It is by this dimensional metaphor that one… ]]> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:53:00 -0700 http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/provisional.htm When the Meganovel Shrank http://nymag.com/arts/all/aughts/62514/ It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place in 2009, which means that we’ve all just survived the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. It also means that David Foster Wallace’s prophetic window has now (at least in the most literal sense) closed forever, in the same way Orwell’s did when we reached the actual 1984. And in fact Infinite Jest’s vision of the future does, these days, look slightly dated. One of the book’s nightmare scenarios is… ]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:21:00 -0700 http://nymag.com/arts/all/aughts/62514/ Home Shopping Fail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5woNs9WRE&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:49:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5woNs9WRE&feature=youtube_gdata