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Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the… I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have…

April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments
Link Where Memes Really Come From
Though history will probably remember Richard Dawkins as the activist who spearheaded a new atheist movement, there is something far more famous and important that he invented — and few…

January 29 2013, 3:08pm | Comments
Link Rhizome | Using, Using, Used
Within the pages of Digital Folklore Reader, Olia Lialina, one of the book's editors, refers to a claim by the social media researcher Danah Boyd, that some American teenagers identify…

January 22 2013, 3:51pm | Comments
Link Digital Life Is A Hoax…Because There’s No Such…
I've poked fun at these lazy op-eds before and, indeed, it must be tempting to retreat into the safe conceptual territory of "The Internet is fake!" when a juicy story…

January 22 2013, 3:24pm | Comments
Twitter Links On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza
In the hot lava of social media flows the critical distance between performing and being a ‘somebody’, a subject type, seems to collapse, along…

November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments
Twitter Links Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?
As New York City Mayor Bloomberg gave numerous televised addresses about the preparations the city was making for Hurricane Sandy, and then the storm’s…

November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments
Twitter Links Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots
I’m particularly interested in the political uses of technology-enabled deception—uses that I suspect are likely to become more prevalent in the near future. Two…

September 18 2012, 6:18am | Comments
Twitter Links How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep…

September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments
Link Digital Curation Resource Guide
Digital curation involves selection and appraisal by creators and archivists; evolving provision of intellectual access; redundant storage; data transformations; and, for some materials, a commitment to long-term preservation. Digital curation…

August 25 2012, 2:53am | Comments
Link At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream
What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's…

May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments
Link The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital…
Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have…

May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments
Twitter Links Just how big are porn sites?
"It’s probably not unrealistic to say that porn makes up 30% of the total data transferred across the internet" It is a truth universally…

April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments
Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was…

April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments
Twitter Links Interactive Fluid Dynamics Rendered in ASCII

March 17 2012, 4:54am | Comments
Twitter Links On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks
Horse_ebooks is having a moment. Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social…

January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments
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November 26 2011, 11:36am | Comments
Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps,…

September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments
Link Animated GIFs Triumphant
The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video>…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments
Link Old Internet Getting You Down? Build Your Own!
The role of social networking in recent rebellions against repressive regimes may have been slightly overstated, but here’s the thing with repressive regimes: they sort of tend to overreact to…

July 5 2011, 12:22pm | Comments
Link A Medium for the Masses
The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within…

June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments
Link GlitchBot
GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona. GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily.…

May 30 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments
Link Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and…
[ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues…

March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments
Link R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay
R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay has been making the rounds lately and it sparked a healthy amount of curiosity and note-taking on my part that I felt I wanted to…

March 15 2011, 7:59am | Comments
Link North Korea’s Digital Underground
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike…

March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments
Link Infinite Glitch.com
Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is…

March 9 2011, 5:50am | Comments
Link Humans, Version 3.0
This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This deep…

March 5 2011, 4:01am | Comments
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February 14 2011, 2:49pm | Comments
Link Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive torrent
Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive.torrent file On Monday 24th January 2011 the BBC announced that it would be restructuring its online department - with 360 job losses and the deletion of 200…

February 10 2011, 9:08am | Comments
Link The internet: is it changing the way we…
Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". "Over the…

August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments
Link The Web Means the End of Forgetting
When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example…

July 25 2010, 7:15am | Comments
Link Losing our minds to the web
Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the…

July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments
Link Everything you need to know about the internet
The internet: Everything you ever need to know In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown.…

June 21 2010, 3:38am | Comments
Link 5 Things Old Media Still Doesn’t Get About…
Earlier this week, the New York Times company forced the iPad Pulse News Reader app to be pulled from the App Store. The reason? It took the Times’ RSS feed…

June 17 2010, 4:06am | Comments
Link Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital…
In 2006 Stacy Snyder, a 25-year-old student at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, was denied a teaching degree just days before graduation. University officials had discovered a photo of her, captioned…

June 13 2010, 11:59pm | Comments
Link How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was…

March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments
Link The World Question Center 2010: How is the…
Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page…

January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments
Link Art Fag City » The Best of Web…
Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their…

January 3 2010, 3:59am | Comments
Link The dark side of the internet
In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of…

December 8 2009, 7:14am | Comments
Link What happened to Second Life?
Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. Once…

November 21 2009, 4:20am | Comments
Link -R-G-B-
WARNING! THIS LINK HAS BRIGHT FLASHING COLORS. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU ARE PRONE TO SEIZURES

October 16 2009, 7:59am | Comments
Link Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation…
The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the…

September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments
Link HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web
Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of…

September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments
Link Dick Higgins: Statement on Intermedia
Art is one of the ways that people communicate. It is difficult for me to imagine a serious person attacking any means of communication per se. Our real enemies are…

January 30 2009, 6:03am | Comments

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