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Slaves of the feed – This is not the realtime we’ve been looking for
The amount of available info online is increasing at an exponential rate, some say it doubles every second year. This mean that any illusion of being able to stay up to date with everything that is going on is utopian and has been probably since Guttenberg invented the press... One might even say that we have become slaves of the feed. Human social interaction also moves online at an accelerating pace, which mean that the consequences of our actions in the digital space exponentially affect what happens not only in the digital space but also in the physical space and vice versa. Info is becoming more and more transparent... With the increase in info and near zero friction emerges the issue of noise and redundancy.... We find ourselves in a situation where there is no shortage of info in the digital space but only a very limited ability to extract relevant info thus making us depending on so much manual labor, one would be excused to think that slavery had in fact been re-inserted.
The dark side of the internet | Technology | The Guardian
The darkweb; the deep web; beneath the surface web–the metaphors alone make the internet feel suddenly more unfathomable and mysterious. Other terms: "darknet", "invisible web", "dark address space", "murky address space", "dirty address space". While a "darknet" is an online network such as Freenet that is concealed from non-users, with all the potential for transgressive behaviour that implies, much of "the deep web" consists of unremarkable consumer and research data that is beyond the reach of search engines. "Dark address space" often refers to internet addresses that, for purely technical reasons, have simply stopped working. #The deep web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined world wide web". "The deep web is the fastest growing category of new info on the internet. The value of deep web content is immeasurable. internet searches are searching only 0.03%. of the [total web] pages available. It's not actually feasible to index the whole deep web
Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
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.
Information overload - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Information overload - a term coined by Alvin Toffler which refers to an excess amount of info being provided, making processing and absorbing tasks difficult for the individual because sometimes we cannot see the validity behind the info. In a new era of globalization, an increasing number of people are logging onto the internet and are given the ability to produce as well as consume the data accessed on an increasing number of websites. As of February 2007 there were over 108 million distinct websites and increasing. Users are now classified as active users because more people in society are participating in the Digital and Information Age. #The general causes of info overload: *A rapidly increasing rate of new info being produced *The ease of duplication and transmission of data *An increase in the available channels *Large amounts of historical info *Contradictions and inaccuracies *A low signal-to-noise ratio * A lack of a method for comparing and processing
Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee - an English computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. In 2007, he was ranked Joint First in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses. At CERN from June to Dec. 1980, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating infor among researchers. In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet. He designed and built the first Web browser, which also functioned as an editor (WorldWideWeb), and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon). The first Web site built was at CERN, and was first put on line on 6 August 1991.
The Internet's Big Bang - TIME's Annual Journey: 1989 - TIME
Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Webin 1991. When Tim began his work with Robert Cailliau in 1989 at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab in Geneva, the Internet was just beginning to emerge as a commercially available service. It lacked standardized systems for formatting, storing, locating and retrieving info. Tim solved it by writing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a computer lang for communicating docs over the Internet, and by designing a system to give docs addresses. He also created the first browser — the WorldWideWeb — as well as a lang. (Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML) for creating Web pages and the first server software allowing those pages to be stored and accessed by others. In early 1993 Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina released their graphical browser called Mosaic. It had a stunning impact on the community of Internauts who until that time were accustomed to text-based tools and keyboard navigation for retrieving content. Thus search engines were born
Internet art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Internet art (often called net art) is art which uses the Internet as its primary medium or platform. Artists working this way are sometimes referred to as net artists. Internet art projects are: "projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/expressing/participating." – definition by Steve Dietz, former curator in new media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Internet art can also happen outside the purely technical structure of the internet, when artists use specific social or cultural traditions from the internet in a project outside of it. Internet art is often, but not always, interactive, participatory and based on multimedia in the broadest sense.
The term Internet art does not necessarily imply work that can be viewed over the internet through a browser, such as photographs uploaded for viewing in an online gallery. Rather, this genre relies intrinsically on the internet to exist, taking advantage of such aspects as an interactive interface and its multiple social, and economic cultures and micro-cultures.
YouTube - What is a Browser?
What is a browser? was the question we asked over 50 passersby of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York. Watch the many responses people came up with.
On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired - WSJ.com
an interesting article about about a man who had without street address but do have an Internet addresse. Mr. Livingston says his computer helps him feel more connected and human. "It's frightening to be homeless," he says. "When I'm on here, I'm equal to everybody else."
What is Web 3.0? Semantic Web & other Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English
#Web 1.0 - That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz.
#Web 2.0 - This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0 era.
#Web 3.0 - This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.
Where is Everyone? - Articles - Baekdal.com
1998 was the year when the internet changed from being a geeky place that had little relevance, to ‘every company needs to have a website'. The revolution had started 3 years earlier, but in 1998 it reached critical mass and caught everyone's attention. In 2004 the internet had revolutionized how we approach information. In 2004 everyone was making new websites. People could do an incredible amount of things, participate in many areas, that a new concept appeared - information overload. 2004- Social Networking. NOW: the new internet is completely dominating our world. The new king of information is everyone, using social networking tools to connect and communicate. FUTURE: News is no longer being reported by journalists, now it comes from everyone. And it is being reported directly from the source to you - bypassing the traditional media channels. A new wave of entertainment is emerging one dominated by the games, video and audio streams.
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll -- New York Magazine
Clay Shirky, who has studied these phenomena since 1993, has a theory about that response. "People are always eager to believe that their behavior is a matter of morality, not chronology, Shirky argues. “You didn’t behave like that because nobody gave you the option.”.... “It is a constant surprise to those of us over a certain age, let’s say 30, that large parts of our life can end up online,” says Shirky. “But that’s not a behavior anyone under 30 has had to unlearn.” .. “It used to be that we were all in this together. But now my job is not to demystify, but to get the students to see that it’s strange or unusual at all. Because they’re soaking in it.”...It’s hard to pinpoint when the change began. Was it 1992, the first season of The Real World?
Researchers find racial bias in virtual worlds - Internet - iTnews Australia
Real-world behaviours and racial biases could carry forward into virtual worlds such as Second Life, social psychologists say.
According to a study that was conducted in There.com, virtual world avatars respond to social cues in the same ways that people do in the real world.
The finding is consistent with previous DITF studies -- in real and virtual worlds -- that demonstrate that physical characteristics, such as race, gender and physical attractiveness, affect judgment of others.
Numerous studies done in the real world show that people are more uncomfortable with minorities and are less likely to help them.
“This study suggests that interactions among strangers within the virtual world are very similar to interactions between strangers in the real world,” said Paul W. Eastwick, who conducted the study at the Northwestern University. “people exhibited the same type of behaviour -- and the same type of racial bias -- that they show in the real world all the time.”
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*INTERNET: Benedikt, Bruckman, Foster, Healy, Heim, O'Hara, Reid, Stefik, Wertheim, *FICTION-SHORT STORIES: E.M.Forster, W. Gibson, B. Sterling (1998), *SF CRITICISM: S. Bukatman, J. Sutherland, P. S. Warrick, S. Napleton, P. Delany
The Memory Bank » Blog Archive » An anthropology of the internet
Even more than before, an anthropology of the internet relies on auto-ethnography, on fieldwork as personal experience. We each enter it through a unique trajectory. The world constituted by this ‘network of networks’ does not exist out there, independently of our own individual experience of it. Nor is the internet ‘the world’, but rather an online world to which we all bring the particulars of our place in society offline. In reaching for the human meaning of the internet, we need to combine introspection and personal judgment with comparative ethnography and world history. Each of us embarks on a journey outward into the world and inward into the self. We are, as Durkheim said, at once collective and individual. The digital revolution is driven by a desire to replicate at distance or by means of computers experiences that we normally associate with face-to-face human encounters. All communication, whether the exchange of words or money, has a virtual aspect in that symbols and their media of circulation stand for what people really do for each other. It usually involves the exercise of imagination, an ability to construct meanings across the gap between symbol and reality. The power of the book depended for so long on sustaining that leap of faith in the possibility of human communication. In that sense, capitalism was always virtual. The idea of virtual reality goes to the heart of the matter. It expresses the form of movement that interests me — extension from the actual to the possible. ‘Virtual’ means existing in the mind, but not in fact. When combined with ‘reality’, it means a product of the imagination that is almost but not quite real. In technical terms, ‘virtual reality’ is a computer simulation that enables the effects of operations to be shown in real time. The word ‘real’ connotes something genuine, authentic, serious. In philosophy it means existing objectively in the world; in economics it is actual purchasing power; in law it is fixed, landed property; in optics it is an image formed by the co
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