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• 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 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

• Link Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

  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…

  January 15 2012, 2:32pm | Comments

• Link The Era of Networked Science

  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…

  January 13 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Twitter Links On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  Horse_ebooks is having a moment. Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social…

  January 10 2012, 7:06am | 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 The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  To many, the internet holds great promises of freedom, wealth, power, and opportunity. One great example of this is the dot com bubble. When…

  December 18 2011, 4:51am | 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

• Twitter Links Out of Imagination Came a New Online World

  Neal Stephenson doesn’t like talking about how he predicted the future.

  December 7 2011, 6:06am | 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

• 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 Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  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…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments

• Link Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  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…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Link The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)

  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,…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | 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 The 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.…

  September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community 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,…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

• Twitter Links Learn/Unlearn/Relearn

  The internet makes it hard to concentrate. Good. Distraction sparks innovation & creativity

  August 31 2011, 1:03pm | Comments

• Twitter Links GIF.TV: Digital Addiction At Its Finest

  GIF.TV: Digital Addiction At Its Finest

  August 29 2011, 6:29am | Comments

• Twitter Links Animated GIF Q & A

  Animated GIF Q & A : on @tommoody blog

  August 22 2011, 2:10am | 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

• Twitter Links Rhizome | Keeping it Online

  Keeping it Online (digital art preservation) @rhizomedotorg : http://t.co/UHrkwq4 via @nancygrcia digital #online #internet #archive #x

  August 17 2011, 9:26am | Comments

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  August 17 2011, 8:18am | Comments

• Link Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | 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 Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or…

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Twitter Links Poor memory? Blame Google

  Poor #memory? Blame #Google #ExtendedMind #science #technology #mind #Internet #fb

  July 16 2011, 6:27am | Comments

• Link How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing…

  On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was…

  July 13 2011, 3:09am | 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

• Twitter Links Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

  A short #history of the #Internet (and how the #utopian dream is over) #technology #community #politics

  July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments

• Link #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Link 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…

  July 5 2011, 12:22pm | 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

• Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from…

  June 12 2011, 3:59pm | 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

• Link Cory Arcangel Goes Old School

  Arcangel’s conflicted relationship  with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be…

  June 6 2011, 3:11pm | Comments

• Link Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for…

  While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on…

  June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments

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