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Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…
Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments
Bookmark 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 a…

March 9 2011, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Gif and Take: dump.fm
Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social relations…

March 2 2011, 3:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived
It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an artist;…

July 18 2010, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark 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. Here…

June 21 2010, 3:38am | Comments
Bookmark 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 to…

March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments
Bookmark Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic Trends
The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the huge…

December 23 2009, 3:49am | Comments
Bookmark 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 upon…

November 21 2009, 4:20am | Comments
Bookmark The Library in the New Age
Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What,…

October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments
Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments
Bookmark in Bb 2.0
In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously…

September 14 2009, 8:37am | Comments
Bookmark How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments
Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia
When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

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