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• Bookmark The Thoughts of a Spiderweb | Quanta Magazine

  Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind and started to focus on a new strategy. Before, they would…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dark Web Is Mostly Full of Garbage

  The dark web—the portion of the deep web only accessible through specific software—exists to serve the needs of hackers-for-hire, hitmen, internet drug kingpins, child pornographers, and their inevitable customers. That’s the…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark "She wore a USB cord instead of a necklace": whatever happened to…

  The movement was young, energetic, educated, and art school-heavy. Above all it was “positive”: both cyber-positive and sex-positive. Sometime in the late 1990s, I met someone else called Joanna Walsh. The fact that…

  May 27 2016, 12:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident…

  Looks like the geniuses who run UC Davis never Googled the words “Streisand Effect.

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Research Pirates of the Dark Web - The Atlantic

  There’s a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark web.

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 23 2015, 2:13pm | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Andrew O’Hagan · The Lives of Ronald Pinn · LRB 8 January…

  I first went to Camberwell New Cemetery about six years ago, looking for the grave of a young man called Melvin Bryan, a petty criminal who died after being stabbed at…

  February 2 2015, 11:14am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web 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 no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

  April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 people…

  January 29 2013, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark 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 as…

  January 22 2013, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Life Is A Hoax…Because There’s No Such Thing » Cyborgology

  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 of…

  January 22 2013, 3:24pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

  November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots

  September 18 2012, 6:18am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

  September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark 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 is…

  August 25 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  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 been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Just how big are porn sites?

  April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments

• Ask 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 famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interactive Fluid Dynamics Rendered in ASCII

  March 17 2012, 4:54am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 26 2011, 11:36am | Comments

• Ask 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, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | 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 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 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. GlitchBot…

  May 30 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Ask 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 in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

  May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments

• Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

  April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator

  [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 of…

  March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Thoughts of a Spiderweb | Quanta Magazine

  Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind and started to focus on a new strategy. Before, they would…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dark Web Is Mostly Full of Garbage

  The dark web—the portion of the deep web only accessible through specific software—exists to serve the needs of hackers-for-hire, hitmen, internet drug kingpins, child pornographers, and their inevitable customers. That’s the…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark "She wore a USB cord instead of a necklace": whatever happened to…

  The movement was young, energetic, educated, and art school-heavy. Above all it was “positive”: both cyber-positive and sex-positive. Sometime in the late 1990s, I met someone else called Joanna Walsh. The fact that…

  May 27 2016, 12:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident…

  Looks like the geniuses who run UC Davis never Googled the words “Streisand Effect.

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Research Pirates of the Dark Web - The Atlantic

  There’s a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark web.

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 23 2015, 2:13pm | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Andrew O’Hagan · The Lives of Ronald Pinn · LRB 8 January…

  I first went to Camberwell New Cemetery about six years ago, looking for the grave of a young man called Melvin Bryan, a petty criminal who died after being stabbed at…

  February 2 2015, 11:14am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web 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 no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

  April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 people…

  January 29 2013, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark 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 as…

  January 22 2013, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Life Is A Hoax…Because There’s No Such Thing » Cyborgology

  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 of…

  January 22 2013, 3:24pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

  November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots

  September 18 2012, 6:18am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

  September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark 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 is…

  August 25 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  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 been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Just how big are porn sites?

  April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments

• Ask 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 famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interactive Fluid Dynamics Rendered in ASCII

  March 17 2012, 4:54am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 26 2011, 11:36am | Comments

• Ask 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, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | 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 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 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. GlitchBot…

  May 30 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Ask 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 in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

  May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments

• Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

  April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator

  [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 of…

  March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments

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