February 2012
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Urgently needed: new epistemology, new ontology
I'm experimenting now with apps such as Glancee, Sonar en ban.jo, all
"people discovery services". Robert Scoble says this will be the big
thing during SXSW. 2007 was Twitter, 2009 Foursquare, last year group
messaging, thus year "people discovery".
Glancee is pretty impressive. Using Facebook data they no only scan
your environment, but also match you with people sharing interests and
contacts....
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The-Church-of-CyberPunk: Cyberpunk Philosophy →
churchofcyberpunk:
1. The Hacker Ethic: “Attack anything that tries to hide information from the masses”. 2. Rebel against harmful or oppressive authority. 3. Screw everyone but your friends. 4. Never trust anyone. 5. Style over substance, blur meat and machine (more on cybernetics later). 6….
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Jay Rosen on What I Think I Know About Journalism
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Jay Rosen, What I Think I Know About Journalism
[…] what I think I know about journalism.
It comes down to these four ideas.
The more people who participate in the press the stronger it will be.
The profession of journalism went awry when it began to adopt the View from Nowhere.
The news system will improve when it is made more useful to people.
Making facts public does not...
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futurejournalismproject:
“If your infographic makes sense when you look at it for 5 seconds, but is still teaching you things after you have looked at it for a full minute, then you know it is good.” — Mike Volpe, CMO, HubSpot. 16 Experts Answer, “What Makes a Great Infographic?”
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“Forbes has joined a group of 30 clients using Narrative Science software to...”
– Forbes Among 30 Clients Using Computer-Generated Stories Instead of Writers - GalleyCat (via new-aesthetic)
“In other news, this development naturally, this adds a layer of variability in...”
– The Latest Market Craze: Stock Trading Robots Reacting To Stories Written By… Robots | ZeroHedge (via new-aesthetic)
And so our new Overlords will finally destroy capitalism to replace it with errr….
“TED attempts to present itself as fresh, cutting edge, and outside the box but...”
– - Nathan Jurgenson, Against TED – The New Inquiry
There is a Disneyland feel to TED. A sort of creepy, contrived atmosphere, as if we are being primed for a peak experience or undergoing a secret ritual in techno-utopianism. And that feeling that great people are doing great things out there, so...
December 2011
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August 2011
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Underpaid Genius: Three Scenarios: Umair's Way,... →
underpaidgenius:
I think Umair is right about what is wrong, but wrong about what’s right. Here’s his diagnosis:
Umair Haque, Why This Crisis Isn’t Going Anywhere—And What To Do About It
The clanking, wheezing institutions of the industrial age are beset by a titanic flaw. They overcount real benefits, and…
July 2011
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“Technology is everything that emerged after you turned thirteen. What was around...”
– Jamais Cascio, The Future Of Work Tour video (via stoweboyd)
Stowe Boyd: Trust Is Trust, Online And Off →
stoweboyd:
Recent Pew research that shows that those that use the web more, trust people more:
The typical Internet user is more than twice as likely as others to feel that people can be trusted,” with regular Facebook users the most trusting of all. “A Facebook user who uses the site multiple times per…
Futurist Conversations: The Future of Money (Ross... →
mediafuturist:
Gerd Leonhard and Ross Dawson, Futurists, on The Future of Money
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“If your infographic makes sense when you look at it for 5 seconds, but is still...”
– Mike Volpe, CMO, HubSpot. 16 Experts Answer, “What Makes a Great Infographic?” (via futurejournalismproject)
Google's social network is the online equivalent... →
June 2011
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WatchWhat can Design do for Business Innovation, an inspiring video from the UK Design Council. (via FutureLab).
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Seven Things Human Editors Do that Algorithms... →
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#3 & #4 on the list, which I find particularly resonant to discussions within msnbc.com:
The whole picture. A newspaper front-page does a lot of informational heavy lifting. Not only do the headlines have to engage readers and sell copies, but most great front pages have a sense of representativeness — a sampling of “all the news that’s fit to print” for that day. The front page is a...
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Stowe Boyd: In A Liquid World, Twitter Will Own... →
stoweboyd:
Twitter throws another hand grenade in the swimming pool, and decides that photo-sharing is something it needs to control.
The bigger question isn’t just photo-sharing (although why didn’t they buy one of the existing players instead of a odd partnership with Photobucket?) but their larger…
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Tune in on The Future of Work session broadcasting... →
stoweboyd:
You don’t have to be in New York to know and discuss the future of work. We will be live streaming the event and would love for you to join us. Just save this link http://www.livestream.com/podio and click it on Thursday 7pm EST to watch the session.
Stowe Boyd is joining the Podio World Tour. He is known for his writing and pioneering work around social tools and their impact...
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May 2011
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“It is also thought that posthuman space will be more virtual than real....”
– Postgenderism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via torley)
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More Like A City Than An Army →
stoweboyd:
In recent appearances, I have used a certain example to make a case about the openness in businesses of the future, contrasting today’s organizations with cities. ‘You don’t have to ask if you want to move to NYC’ I say. ‘You just show up, and start doing your thing, interacting with people,…
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WatchJeff Jarvis at Disrupt NYC: Jeff Jarvis: When It Comes To New Journalism, ‘Transparency Is The New Objectivity’
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bijan sabet: Comparing Tumblr to Wordpress →
bijan:
Yesterday, I received a few emails linking to this post on Pingdom that describes the growth of Wordpress and the faster growth of Tumblr (disclosure: I’m a board member and investor in Tumblr).
But comparing Tumblr to Wordpress is like comparing apples and oranges. They are completely…
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