Monday, October 25, 2004
Johnny Mnemonic Time
"The resulting chip is meant to simulate the processing of biological neurons in the slice of rat hippocampus: accepting electrical impulses, processing them and then sending on the transformed signals. The researchers say the microchip is doing exactly that, with a stunning 95 percent accuracy rate." /Wired News/
Creative Digital Kids
"Foe Romeo reports on fascinating research suggesting that the Internet turns kids into creators, not consumers, of media." /Boing Boing/
Friday, October 22, 2004
The Slitscan Audience
"(Slitscan’s audience) is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It’s covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections." --Idoru, 1999 / William Gibson and the MediaConsumingPotato/
Welcome to the Blogosphere
"Cyberspace's most dynamic journalistic innovation may be the 'blog' or 'Web log' -- an electronic diary of personal commentary. The 'Blogosphere' is expanding so rapidly (estimates of the number of American bloggers range from 200,000 to 500,000) that MSNBC.com just replaced its highly successful discussion boards and their 600,000 posts per day with 'Weblog Central.' It posts its own blogs and provides a weekly list of links called 'Best of Blogs.'" /MEDIA MATTERS: PBS/
Monday, October 18, 2004
Transcending Hierarchy
"After thinking about the future for as long I have, I agree with Bucky Fuller that humanity's fate is locked into one of two possible outcomes - utopia or oblivion. I believe such an outcome comes down to just one thing: Unless humanity trancends hierarchy, we are doomed to oblivion." /Future Hi/
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Eastern Standard Tribe
Cory Doctorow's fantastic novel Eastern Standard Tribe might be coming true:
(A) handful of iPod owners (are) using the device to transmit FM radio stations from their car. He uses a bumper sticker on the back of his fender that reads "iPod @ 89.1 FM" to let passers-by know how to tune in... Once a friend suggested using a bumper sticker to advertise the frequency on which he was transmitting, Lynch was off and running. He became his own mini-pirate radio station.
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Cory Doctorow Speech at Web 2.0
"Cory just gave a rousing speech about the history of copyright and innovation. His basic theory is that the technology industry has gone soft and people like Intel are selling out the startups. He cited examples (i.e. radio, VCR, etc.) of technologies that didn’t give in and changed the world for the better." /The Web 2.0 Weblog/
Lessig at Web 2.0
"Web 2.0 update: Lawrence Lessig is going off on fair use and mashups at Web 2.0 conference right now... Holy shit… standing ovation for the double L!!! Best presentation of the event—hands down." /The Web 2.0 Weblog/
Downtown Digital Futures
"Downtown Digital Futures, a multi-year program of public art events, performances, artists' talks and conferences. Downtown Digital Futures provides a platform to creatively interpret and transform the experience of new technologies and imagine fresh possibilities for the city's future." /LMCC/
Semi-Organizing Personal Attacks
"The result was what Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, calls 'a semi-organized swarming.' It is but one of a spate of recent incidents that underscores the power of a rapidly mobilized group online to accomplish a goal -- and the potential for harm when online mobs form." /Wired News/
Stakeholder Analysis
An interesting article on stakeholder analysis at Mind Tools
Friday, October 01, 2004
SciFi: Novel Inspiration
"We're living in a science fiction world. The headlines of our newspapers trumpet cloning experiments, the teleportation of atoms, computers controlled by brainwaves, robots that walk and play musical instruments, private planes that carry passengers to the edge of space, space probes that rendezvous with asteroids, and implantable devices that restore hearing to the deaf. When miracles like these are the baseline, how can fantasy measure up? More simply put: Why on earth should we read science fiction? Here are some of the reasons..." /Business Week/
The Web is Dead; Long Live the Web!
"The Web is over. Now comes the next big thing." /USATODAY.com/
