September 2008
3 posts
August 2008
9 posts
John McCain made a vice presidential choice, but no one knows her? Time to establish a complete waste-of-time TWITTER MEME in which one may use other INTERNET MEME JOKES to describe her. This is the most important Internet development since TUMBLR. Oh who are we kidding. We’re still getting over the lack of Mittens on this ticket, and it’ll take some time. (Wonkette)
Amazing
This is a little bit genius. One of the new features of FriendFeed (a Twitter-like thingie) is “fake following”. That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it appears that you’re paying attention to them when you’re really not. Just like everyone does all the time in real life to maintain their sanity. Rex calls it “most...
The conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia region has extended to Internet, both countries having launched cyber-attacks and blocking each other’s broadcasting sites. Georgian authorities have blocked access to Russian news broadcasters and websites, the action being justified by Georgia’s Interior Ministry with the argument that Russian broadcasts would “scare...
McCain campaign offers prizes to commenters who... →
The initiative is called “spread the word.” This is crowd-sourced astroturfing with material incentives. They are giving people stuff in exchange for the legitimacy that supposedly comes with online identity—specifically, their status as not part of the campaign. Obviously, McCain’s official shills can’t go around doing this: that wouldn’t be the awesome...
m. migurski →
“blog all dog-eared pages” doctrine
odd
keyholez:
I kind of love Milwaukee.
A tweet, not a tumbl.
Blogs as dead media →
Thank god we jumped that ship in time!
Safer "data portability"
I’m starting to think that the only “safe” way to get your laptop into the US would be to create a VM containing your chosen OS and data and then leave this at home. Travel without a laptop until you arrive at your destination. At this point you can acquire a machine, generate a keypair and export the public key. A trusted third party then encrypts the VM and makes it available...
The Future of Blogging Revealed - ReadWriteWeb →
Troubling. At least there are angry comments?
July 2008
35 posts
NEW YORK (AP) — A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations.
Many researchers want to rethink the Internet’s underlying architecture, saying a “clean-slate” approach is the only way to truly address security and other...
notesonskynet:
notesonskynet:
notesonskynet:
Let’s spread a rumor that someone has died. Habermas? How many Tumblrs will have to pick up on it before he kills himself?
You’re bad.
Lévi-Strauss? Dude is 99…
Also, Wikipedia edit allowed or no?
It’s survived two minutes.
Don’t you get it? IF YOU DIE ON WIKIPEDIA, YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE.
notesonskynet:
notesonskynet:
Let’s spread a rumor that someone has died. Habermas? How many Tumblrs will have to pick up on it before he kills himself?
You’re bad.
Lévi-Strauss? Dude is 99…
Also, Wikipedia edit allowed or no?
It’s survived two minutes.
Proposal
notesonskynet:
Let’s spread a rumor that someone has died. Habermas? How many Tumblrs will have to pick up on it before he kills himself?
You’re bad.
Lévi-Strauss? Dude is 99…
Also, Wikipedia edit allowed or no?
Proposal
Let’s spread a rumor that someone has died. Habermas? How many Tumblrs will have to pick up on it before he kills himself?
Endasher read this as 'community fetishism'
endasher:
groupuscule:
notesonskynet:
losing the conversational thread
Does this mean that commodity fetishism is disintegrating, and that that’s bad? Oh Knol!
Commuity fetishism is actually on the ups.
notesonskynet:
notesonskynet:
It seems like being able to integrate into spheres that rely heavily on “social media” or whatever requires forfeiting some privacy. … Legitimate expectations of general privacy, or I think maybe more accurately anonymity, are becoming outmoded. It’s unclear what this all means. Probably a backlash in the other direction.
Also, it seems, especially after reading...
darkwingdach:
I like “Constructive Summer” and “Stay Positive” a good deal. “Magazines” and “Joke About Jamaica” are growing on me. It’s not the album the last two are, but it’s not not good (imo).
seedz:
Their new album is not good.
Boys, boys, boys, why don’t you just let an established authority like Barnes and Noble Dot-Com settle this for you? Shut up, I know I’m a hack.
notesonskynet:
Ah, but the drawbacks. Tumblr is a new way to put blogs into dialogue, but the service (at least as we’re using it) definitely draws one towards rapid-fire, meandering conversation. Your standard blog, or better still, books and journal articles, put a group of writers at a distance that can be helpful. Holding a conversation over time and across sites, when done right, requires...
Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist" - July... →
notesonskynet:
It seems like being able to integrate into spheres that rely heavily on “social media” or whatever requires forfeiting some privacy. … Legitimate expectations of general privacy, or I think maybe more accurately anonymity, are becoming outmoded. It’s unclear what this all means. Probably a backlash in the other direction.
I understand the argument that using social media...
notesonskynet:
It’s true that this changes the dynamic, but isn’t it more efficient and conducive to continuous, coherent activity?
Ah, but the drawbacks. Tumblr is a new way to put blogs into dialogue, but the service (at least as we’re using it) definitely draws one towards rapid-fire, meandering conversation. Your standard blog, or better still, books and journal articles, put a group...
Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist" - July... →
notesonskynet:
Specifically: I didn’t know we were faced with a choice between liking privacy and being hermits.
It seems like being able to integrate into spheres that rely heavily on “social media” or whatever requires forfeiting some privacy. Regardless, some people will always do it, whatever it might be. It looks like massively transparent web presence is the direction a lot...
seedz:
Let’s talk about this IRL.
Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist" - July... →
Google lawyers (Googlawers?): “Today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist. In any event, Plaintiffs live far from the desert and are far from hermits.”
Specifically: I didn’t know we were faced with a choice between liking privacy and being hermits.
Generally: I’ve been wanting to know why privacy...
Oblivious texters hurt as they walk, even skate -... →
Synchronization with the machine precedes immediate surroundings.
notesonskynet:
So one joy of which Tumblr — or, more specifically, the “Follow” feature — robs us is the difference between the act of blogging in one’s own little world and that of checking others’ blogs.
This is true, and that’s probably the way that it’s most like twitter. Maybe this is a decent definition (or at least characterization) of the otherwise rather ambiguous...
So one joy of which Tumblr — or, more specifically, the “Follow” feature — robs us is the difference between the act of blogging in one’s own little world and that of checking others’ blogs.
If I want to post a self-centered tumbl about what happened on the Subway (or even at Subway) today, I can’t do it without seeing what everyone else wrote about the...
I reblogged something Keyhole wrote and accidentally referred to him by his given name. I quickly realized that I’d committed a party foul and edited the post. But by then someone who follows me had already reblogged my reblog of Keyhole! And she did so before I made my edit. So anyway I emailed her and everything’s fine. Imagine if we were officials of some sort though.
Tumblr Critical Mass
My new theory: Likelihood that a person will follow a tumblr feed is related inversely to the number of posts and directly to the feed’s IRL (“in real life”) proximity to the reader.
For example, not knowing what it was, I saw “Notes on Skynet” reblogged by Lux earlier and was like, “Whoever this ‘Notes on Skynet’ guy is, I don’t know him and...
“This is so not terrorism.”
– THE REAL DEAL
Could you give us directions to Olive Garden?
seedz: so wait
this is the Internet tumblr
where we talk about the Internet
lux: i emailed you the code
seedz: yes i see
so you are notesonskynet
as am i
and the group guy
and sam
okay i'm up to pace i think
lux: we will see how it goes - it was sort of a whim
seedz: we will
whoa it is not possible to reblog oneself?
tumblr gets confusing when this stuff happens
lux: unclear
seedz: maybe where blogspot comes back into play
lux: not a bad point
but that's a thing about the internet!
seedz: whoa
you're right
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X... →
This one makes site-specific browsers for your desktop. Useful for (potentially old fashioned?) types who like the Gmail interface but can’t be bothered to initiate actual ‘web browsing’ every time they check their email. Also: muxtape, tumblr, etc.
Notae: Organize your notes, organize your life. |... →
The simple tag-driven database we’ve been waiting for.
Your notes used to be bundled together in Word documents. A bunch of things would be grouped together under one document, whose name you had to remember in order to access any of the particular things. This name could not have been providing enough information, but splitting up your notes into a zillion Word documents was also obviously...
What I've always wanted
For while I’ve tried my best to avoid needing to use a touch pad or mouse to use my computer. It’s one of the main reasons I prefer desktop applications to web-based services. The ability to assign application-specific keyboard shortcuts easily through Mac system preferences and the amazing versatility of Quicksilver has made this reasonably doable for most tasks. The gaping whole, however, is...
All the help we can get
“A judge in New Zealand dismissed charges against an 18 year old man, Owen Thor Walker , who had pleaded guilty for his part in an international cyber-crime network that stole over $20.4m from private bank accounts. Walker, who went by the online moniker of “Akill,” was accused of writing a sophisticated Trojan which employed encryption techniques enabling it to bypass anti-virus software. New...
Nick Carr, skeptical of SaaS →
“Anyone who thinks the software-as-a-service business is a gold mine is wrong. The economics are fundamentally different from those of the traditional software business - and not in a good way. As Lacy writes, the Web is “just as good at displacing revenue as it is in generating sources of it. Just ask the music industry or, ahem, print media. Think Robin Hood, taking riches from the elite and...
Artificial Artificial Intelligence →
ESSPs
Andrew McAfee has coined a new and potentially very useful term: “emergent social software platforms” (ESSPs). “web 2.0” has come to mean almost nothing outside “recent things having to do with the web” and “social media” isn’t much more specific. ESSPs is a bit more specific for a couple reasons.
First, it makes clear that the thing in question is a platform. Part of the problems with “web...
It's just going to get more interesting from here
Of the new apps that’ll be available for the iPhone on friday, “Friend Book”:
The coolest feature without a doubt is the new “Handshake”: put two iPhones running Friend Book together, shake them up and down, and the personal contact information of the phones’ owners will be beamed through the net to the paired phones. Handshake doesn’t work through a device-to-device connection, but instead...
This is why, actually
I tried to do this on blogger, but it didn’t seem right. The “e” made everything seem so serious. Same thing with WordPress. This, however, is light—the way flickr or del.icio.us is.
Both Yahoo! services incidentally, but neither mandatorily integrated with the rest of the Yahoo! universe. A tendancy pointed to when explaining how the disorganized nature of their web properties has contributed...