December 2010
15 posts
Coming to terms with the information age →
Mark Pesce, for the ABC’s The Drum:
The one thing we’ve all gleaned from 2010 is both simple and a bit dizzying: trust no one.
Happy new year!
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“So I started looking for other definitions of what design could be. There’s...”
– ‘Know No Boundaries’: an interview with Matt Webb of BERG London (via iamdanw)
Yes. This.
Other aesthetics for cars →
I’m personally more likely to drive a hybrid vehicle that makes me feel slightly like Boba Fett than slightly like Jensen Button.
— Russell M Davies
Change This - The Low-Information Diet: How to... →
rainbowhill:
This is an oldie but a a goody from Tim Ferris. Whatever you might think about the veracity of some of the claims he makes in his book The Four Hour Work Week, there are some immediate remedies for information overload in this gem of an article for Change This. In a nutshell, selectivity, batching and decreasing the volume of information you deal with with will help you distinguish...
"The Speakularity" →
dbreunig:
Over at the Nieman Journalism Lab, NPR’s Matt Thompson predicts a massive moment in our future: “The Speakularity.” Thompson writes,
At some point in the near future, automatic speech transcription will become fast, free, and decent. And this moment — let’s call it the Speakularity — will be a watershed moment for journalism.
After this moment phone conversations, press...
Pinboard →
onethingwell:
Yahoo! are shutting down del.icio.us, ending their careless stewardship of a once-great service.
If you’re still using the bookmarking service, I recommend jumping ship to Pinboard. It will happily import all your del.icio.us bookmarks, and works very much like del.icio.us used to, minus the social aspects. At the time of writing, signing up will set you back $7.
See my...
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Enoch and Randy discuss mythology, technology,...
Enoch: And in the case of Trickster gods the pattern is that cunning people tend to attain power that un-cunning people don’t. And all cultures are fascinated by this. Some of them, like many Native Americans, basically admire it, but never couple it with technological development. Others, like the Norse, hate it and identify it with the Devil.
Randy: Hence the strange love-hate relationship that Americans have with hackers.
/via chapter 88 of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
Data Shadow (2)
plsj replied to your link data shadow:
What’s the opposite of the shadow? You know, when data precedes us and directs/limits our passage forward…
I tried for a while to figure out what the opposite of a shadow is and if there as a name for such a thing. I couldn’t figure one out.
Then I figured out that a shadow is directional, depending on where the light source comes from. A data...
What's wrong with OpenID? →
marco:
The short answer is that OpenID is the worst possible “solution” I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people don’t really have. That’s what’s “wrong” with it.
(via Alex Payne)
We need a name for the class of things that are technical solutions to the wrong non-problem.
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“This is what makes the world boring, quite frankly: the absolute refusal to risk...”
– Steve Martin Isn’t Predictable Enough!: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things : Monkey See : NPR
“After a talk on Manhattan’s Upper East Side between an art critic and the...”
– Salon: 92nd Street Y goes “American Idol” on Steve Martin
data shadow →
n. The trackable data that a person creates by using technologies such as credit cards, cell phones, and the Internet.