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08 Nov 09
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
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Her behaviour had nothing to do with getting the word out; it wasn’t about preventing harm to others, but rather a simple case of – as I said two weeks ago – “look at me looking at this.”
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26 Aug 09
Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman
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In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is
our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights
and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from
multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world,
where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods
of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.
Op-Ed Columnist - Stung by the Perfect Sting - NYTimes.com
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“The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,” says Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic. “The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.”
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The judge cited a Virginia court decision that the Internet’s “virtually unlimited, inexpensive and almost immediate means of communication” with the masses means “the dangers of its misuse cannot be ignored. The protection of the right to communicate anonymously must be balanced against the need to assure that those persons who choose to abuse the opportunities presented by this medium can be made to answer for such transgressions.”
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02 Jul 09
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker
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This is the kind of error that technological utopians make. They assume that their particular scientific revolution will wipe away all traces of its predecessors—that if you change the fuel you change the whole system.
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The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws.
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