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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Tags: clayshirky, technology, sociology on 2008-05-03 and saved by20 people -All Annotations (4) -About

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Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as
a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might
otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.
And it's
only now, as we're waking up from that collective bender, that we're
starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a
crisis. We're seeing things being designed to take
advantage of that surplus, to deploy it in ways more engaging than just having a TV in everybody's basement.
And I said, "No
one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the
time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been
masking for 50 years."
So
how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit,
all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit,
every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia
exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100
million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but
it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of
thought.
It's precisely when no one has any idea how to
deploy something that people have to start experimenting with it, in order for the surplus
to get integrated, and the course of that integration can transform
society.
At least they're doing something.

Did
you ever see that episode of Gilligan's Island where they almost get
off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don't? I
saw that one. I saw that one a lot when I was growing up. And every
half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn't posting at
my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I
had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is
none of those things existed then. I was forced into the channel
of media the way it was because it was the only option. Now it's
not, and that's the big surprise. However lousy it is to sit in your
basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal
experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if
Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.
But media is actually a triathlon, it 's three
different events. People like to consume, but they also like to
produce, and they like to share.
One per cent of that is 100 Wikipedia projects per year
worth of participation.
I think that's going to be a big deal.
Don't you?

Well,
the TV producer did not think this was going to be a big deal; she
was not digging this line of thought. And her final question to me
was essentially, "Isn't this all just a fad?" You know,
sort of the flagpole-sitting of the early early 21st century? It's fun to go out and produce and share a little bit, but
then people are going to eventually realize, "This isn't as good
as doing what I was doing before," and settle down. And
I made a spirited argument that no, this wasn't the case, that this
was in fact a big one-time shift, more analogous to the industrial
revolution than to flagpole-sitting.

What's the next big thing for the wireless industry? - San Jose Mercury News

Tags: mobile, technology, future on 2008-04-28 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Plasma vs LCD: Which is right for you? - TVs

Tags: plasma, lcd, television, technology, guide, review on 2008-04-28 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Apart from better contrast due to its ability to show deeper blacks, plasma screens typically have better viewing angles than LCD.
Plasmas can also produce a brighter colour, once again due to light leakage on an LCD affecting its colour saturation.
Traditionally, the biggest advantage plasmas have had over their LCD cousins is price, particularly in the large screen end of the market.
LCDs tend to have higher native resolution than plasmas of similar size, which means more pixels on a screen.
LCDs also tend to consume less power than plasma screens, with some estimates ranging that power saving at up to 30 per cent less than plasma. LCDs are also generally lighter than similar sized plasmas, making it easier to move around or wall mount.
LCD pundits also point to the fact that LCDs have a longer lifespan than plasma screens. This was true of earlier plasma models, which would lose half of their brightness after more than 20,000 hours of viewing. Later plasma generations have bumped that up to anything between 30,000 and 60,000 hours. LCDs, on the other hand, are guaranteed for 60,000 hours.
If you're in the market for a big screen television -- and we're talking 50-inches and above -- then we'd suggest plasma as a safe bet. Plasmas give you more bang for your buck at the big end of town, and while LCDs can give you better resolution, plasma still has the edge in terms of picture quality.
One other thing to look for, whether you opt for plasma or LCD, is an integrated tuner -- many TVs still have analogue tuners, which look pretty terrible on a large screen. Try to get a model with an inbuilt HD tuner if you can.

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Cellphones - Third World and Developing Nations - Poverty - Technology - New York Times

Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?

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cityofsound: The street as platform

Tags: cityofsound, future, technology on 2008-04-11 and saved by8 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Excessive texting may signal mental illness - web - Technology - smh.com.au

People who send large numbers of text messages and emails may have a mental disorder, a doctor writing in a leading psychiatric journal said. Jerald Block, writing in the latest issue of the American Journal Of Psychiatry, said "internet addiction" was a "common disorder" that deserved inclusion in a manual of mental disorders used by health professionals.

Tags: addiction, internet, psychology, technology, texting on 2008-03-28 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Study: amount of digital info > global storage capacity

An IDC research study sponsored by information management giant EMC provides insight into the explosive growth of digital information. IDC uses a complex formula to estimate the size of the "digital universe," the total volume of digital information that is created and replicated globally.

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south by southwest festivals + conferences

The SXSW MUSIC AND MEDIA CONFERENCE showcases hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on over eighty stages in downtown Austin. By day, conference registrants do business in the SXSW Trade Show in the Austin Convention Center and partake of a full agenda of informative, provocative panel discussions featuring hundreds of speakers of international stature.

Tags: conference, festival, film, music, sxsw, technology on 2008-03-10 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Apple stabs Adobe in the back « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger

On a week when Microsoft landed a big deal to put Silverlight on Nokia phones, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, tells Adobe that there won’t be Flash on the iPhone. This is a real bummer for Adobe and many users and developers, because most of the world’s casual games are written for Flash. Just go over to game site Kongregate. Or, look at the world’s video like that on YouTube (or any other video site like the Qik one that I use on my cell phone). Almost all of it is done in Flash. Now developers at those sites will need to find some other method to get those games and videos onto the iPhone.

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Crackpot technologies that could shake up IT | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-02-18 | By InfoWorld staff

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MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make plants talk! They'll Twitter you when they need to be watered (and more)...

BREAKING NEWS FROM MAKE: The gang from Botanicalls (Kate Hartman, Kati London, Rebecca Bray, and Rob Faludi) used one of Adafruit's new Ethernet shields for Arduino to make some plants talk - and now you can too! That's right, having your houseplants Twitter you when they need water and more!

Tags: plants, technology, twitter on 2008-02-25 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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'One Laptop' a hit in Peruvian village - CNN.com

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

What's the next big thing for the wireless industry? - San Jose Mercury News

Plasma vs LCD: Which is right for you? - TVs

Cellphones - Third World and Developing Nations - Poverty - Technology - New York Times

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The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

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Study: amount of digital info > global storage capacity

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Apple stabs Adobe in the back « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger

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MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make plants talk! They'll Twitter you when they need to be watered (and more)...

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