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Bookmark 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 share…

March 15 2011, 7:59am | Comments
Bookmark 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 the…

March 9 2011, 6:11am | 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 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 respect…

March 5 2011, 4:01am | Comments
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February 14 2011, 2:49pm | Comments
Bookmark 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 of…

February 10 2011, 9:08am | Comments
Bookmark The internet: is it changing the way we think?
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 past…

August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark 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 of…

July 25 2010, 7:15am | Comments
Bookmark 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 US…

July 1 2010, 6:50am | 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 5 Things Old Media Still Doesn’t Get About The Web
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 and…

June 17 2010, 4:06am | Comments
Bookmark Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
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 “Drunken…

June 13 2010, 11:59pm | 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 The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…
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 and…

January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments
Bookmark Art Fag City » The Best of Web 2009!
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 discretion.…

January 3 2010, 3:59am | Comments
Bookmark 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 openness…

December 8 2009, 7:14am | 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 -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
Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently
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 way…

September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments
Bookmark 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 writing…

September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments
Bookmark 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 the…

January 30 2009, 6:03am | Comments

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