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Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 9:50am | Comments
Twitter Links Threshold science
How walking through a doorway increases forgetting

November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments
Twitter Links Poor memory? Blame Google
Poor #memory? Blame #Google #ExtendedMind #science #technology #mind #Internet #fb

July 16 2011, 6:27am | 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 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 Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive torrent
Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive.torrent file On Monday 24th January 2011 the BBC announced that it would be restructuring its online department - with 360 job losses and the deletion of 200…

February 10 2011, 10:08am | Comments
Link Talks Tree of Codes and Conceptual Art
There’s something about Jonathan Safran Foer that drives a certain breed of dyspeptic New York writer/blogger to drink—more so than usual, anyway. They chafe at the six-figure advances, the visiting…

November 13 2010, 4:58pm | Comments
Link The Dudleys
THE DUDLEYS! takes the adolescent memories of a man and translates them into a malfunctioning 8-bit video game, the kind he used to play as a young adult. But instead…

July 28 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Link The Web Means the End of Forgetting
When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example…

July 25 2010, 7:15am | Comments
Link Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital…
In 2006 Stacy Snyder, a 25-year-old student at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, was denied a teaching degree just days before graduation. University officials had discovered a photo of her, captioned…

June 13 2010, 11:59pm | Comments
Link How Slate Edited History
To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment…

May 28 2010, 4:30am | Comments
Link Beware, your imagination leaves digital traces
by Bruno Latour ’Who would know how to love without having read novels?” This saying seems to take on a new meaning with the multiplication of virtual worlds, even though…

May 19 2010, 7:18am | Comments
Link The Wall and the Books
by Jorge Luis Borges I read, in past days, that the man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti,…

December 13 2009, 4:17pm | Comments
Link Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation…
The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the…

September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments
Link How to Change the Song in your Head
You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way,…

July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
Link Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation
On the making of novels into films, there are two general schools of thought. Some feel that the film should be faithful to the original and are dismayed when it…

July 6 2009, 9:39am | Comments
Link Immortal Information
For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount…

June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments

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