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  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

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  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

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  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

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  Digital tools 'to save languages'

  February 18 2012, 5:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language

  This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

  February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments

• Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

  February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

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  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

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  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  Evolution and Innovation

  October 29 2011, 3:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The ancient cloud

  The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It…

  September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Natural Contract

  “Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take place. There can’t be an argument…

  August 9 2011, 5:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Traces of humanity

  What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

  August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 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> tag.…

  July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison

  For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

  July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…

  APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

  June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 a…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• 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 Technology Of Writing

  Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

  May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Information Essay

  Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

  April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digital tools 'to save languages'

  February 18 2012, 5:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language

  This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

  February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments

• Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

  February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Evolution and Innovation

  October 29 2011, 3:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The ancient cloud

  The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It…

  September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Natural Contract

  “Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take place. There can’t be an argument…

  August 9 2011, 5:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Traces of humanity

  What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

  August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 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> tag.…

  July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison

  For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

  July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…

  APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

  June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 a…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• 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 Technology Of Writing

  Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

  May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Information Essay

  Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

  April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

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