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Twitter Links Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural…

January 29 2012, 4:05am | Comments

Twitter Links Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

Most computer users are all too aware of the threat of viruses and worms infecting their machines, but according to security research firm BitDefender…

January 28 2012, 11:36am | Comments

Twitter Links The Pirate Bay - Physibles

Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything…

January 24 2012, 3:11pm | Comments

Twitter Links Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

Since the core function of copyright is to incentivize the production of creative works, it’s also worth looking for signs of declining output associated…

January 19 2012, 8:08am | Comments

Twitter Links File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

The Missionary Church of Kopimism: "I think that more people will have the courage to step out as Kopimists. Maybe not in the public,…

January 4 2012, 10:52am | Comments

Twitter Links How the internet transforms scientific discovery

Internet users with no scientific training have helped discover a new type of galaxy and crack a problem in protein biochemistry that stumped experts,…

December 18 2011, 3:05am | Comments

Link Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

December 9 2011, 9:35am | Comments

Twitter Links What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

We live in a world where in the past few years the nature of facts has been called into question. You have political entities…

November 29 2011, 7:37am | Comments

Link Tom McCarthy: My desktop

I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but…

November 27 2011, 10:34am | Comments

Link Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as…

October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

Twitter Links Evolution and Innovation

George Dyson: “Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive”

October 29 2011, 3:55pm | Comments

Twitter Links On Distributed Communications Networks

Paul Baran (1962)

October 23 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

Link “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and…

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…

September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

Link How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical…

The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful…

September 21 2011, 4:23am | Comments

Link How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical…

The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

Link 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…

August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

Link Our Emergent Digital Future

What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

Link Information Wants to be Consumed

Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments

Link How Google Dominates Us

Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase…

July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

Link Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft:…

For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron…

July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments

Link Animated GIFs Triumphant

The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video>…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments

Link Why we must remember to delete - and…

In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early…

July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments

Link Knowledge, not the way you knew it

17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an…

June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

Miscellanous Projects Digital Autonomy

June 11 2011, 4:02am | Comments

Link Foucault, Deleuze, and the Ethics of Digital Networks

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…

June 11 2011, 2:32am | Comments

Instapaper The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation

Old Skool article @sciam : The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation #information #data

June 1 2011, 11:44am | Comments

Link Our data, ourselves

Who owns the data in that cloud has been the subject of ferocious debate. It’s not all stored in one place, of course — our lives are tracked and documented…

May 30 2011, 3:11pm | Comments

Link GlitchBot

GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona. GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily.…

May 30 2011, 2:17am | Comments

Link Depicting Relationships: The limits of language

The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit…

May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments

Link ImageGlitcher

Offsets images automatically to create simple, but effective glitches

May 25 2011, 8:34am | Comments

Link Wonderful: Robots Develop Own Language

Researchers at The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology have taught robots how to develop their own language. That way, when they're about to deal the finishing blow…

May 19 2011, 2:11am | Comments

Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments

Link Technology Of Writing

Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments

Link A Thing Like You and Me

by Hito Steyerl What happens to identification at this point? Who can we identify with? Of course, identification is always with an image. But ask anybody whether they’d actually like…

May 11 2011, 3:03am | Comments

Link Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future

The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together…

May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments

Link The Information Essay

Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential,…

April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments

Link James Gleick’s History of Information

Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information…

March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

Link 40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300…

March 16 2011, 2:50pm | Comments

Link Francis Fukuyama on Why Analog Is Often Better…

Visual and audio reproduction have undergone massive changes as their underlying technologies shifted from analog to digital over the past two decades. It's clear that it is far more convenient…

March 9 2011, 11:02am | Comments

Link Infinite Glitch.com

Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is…

March 9 2011, 6:50am | Comments

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