De WordPress-plugins beschermen goed, of ik ben gewoon, gelukkig, al lang niet meer populair bij de comment-spammers. Alleen dit type glipt er nog wel doorheen:
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En ze doen hun best! Ze proberen zelfs een WordPress hash-cash mee te sturen.
Het blijft interessant hoe snel een menselijk wezen kan herkennen dat zulk commentaar niet ‘echt’ is. Dat wil zeggen: er is geen menselijke link tussen mijn tekstje en de comment, ook al zijn de commentaren misschien geformuleerd door een mens (en in bulk door spamsoftware verstuurd).
Waarom krijgen internetters (soms) wel een warm gevoel van een stel Facebook-thumbs-up? Omdat er een menselijk moment ‘achter’ zat…
Oftewel: een diagram van bijna alle personages in DFW’s IJ, enzovoorts. Gemaakt door Sam Potts. Hier: http://sampottsinc.com/ij/. Mooi.
Nieuw tijdschrift over hedendaagse compositie: The Ear Reader. Ziet er erg goed uit, zin om al die essays te lezen en Kyriakides & Vigier’s Queer Foreign Objects te spelen. Goed werk van Rozalie Hirs & anderen.
“One of the most surprising advantages to reading on an iPad is the ability to read without having to hold the book in your hands. After years of wrestling with books which won’t lay down flat at the dining table, it’s been a great pleasure to put my iPad in front of me and only have to use one finger to advance a page. This is also true in bed, where it takes at least two hands (if not three) to read a hardback book-one or two to hold the book and another to turn the page.”
Said Bob Stein. No he didn’t. He said it in 1995 about his Powerbook. From the Feed-archives: http://www.feedmag.com/templates/old_article.php3?a_id=1230
In 1962 when he was 19 my father was stationed as a conscripted soldier on Biak, Dutch Papua New Guinea. It was a complete mess. The Papuas were betrayed by international diplomacy and Papua New Guinea became Indonesian after Dutch rule, instead of independent. Found this excellent set of 1962 photographs on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/toni_uni/sets/72157606249748644/
A few things I’ve been checking out:
Graham Harman’s : The Prince of Networks, Bruno Latour and Metaphysics; Bernhard Stiegler’s Technics and Time (difficult to read); a short list of Simondon’s terminology at Fractal Ontology; and different text-editors for Mac, after reading Jacket’s styleguide, or spot-on long explanation of what the f— it means to edit a text in these times.
GEORGE DYSON
Science Historian; Author, Darwin Among the Machines
KAYAKS vs CANOES
“In the North Pacific ocean, there were two approaches to boatbuilding. The Aleuts (and their kayak-building relatives) lived on barren, treeless islands and built their vessels by piecing together skeletal frameworks from fragments of beach-combed wood. The Tlingit (and their dugout canoe-building relatives) built their vessels by selecting entire trees out of the rainforest and removing wood until there was nothing left but a canoe.
The Aleut and the Tlingit achieved similar results — maximum boat / minimum material — by opposite means. The flood of information unleashed by the Internet has produced a similar cultural split. We used to be kayak builders, collecting all available fragments of information to assemble the framework that kept us afloat. Now, we have to learn to become dugout-canoe builders, discarding unneccessary information to reveal the shape of knowledge hidden within.
I was a hardened kayak builder, trained to collect every available stick. I resent having to learn the new skills. But those who don’t will be left paddling logs, not canoes.”
Copypasted from Egde 2010
Edge 313. David Gelertner – the conservative – on taking the internet seriously. Follow links from there.
Keep yr browsers pointed here: Sonic Acts XIII The Poetics of Space. The programme will be online, finally, in a few days – or sooner. The book will be for sale from the 25th of February on.
And yes, I have been busy working on all this, together with the others (Nicky, Annette, Lucas, Gideon, Martijn etc.)
Therefore there were no updates here.
And btw, due to all the snow and the freezing I haven’t been able to get out on the bike for weeks now. I have even installed the old Tacx, for the first time in 5 years, to do a bit of riding inside. (I find that completely boring but my legs begin to ache from not riding).
Brief history of social media, yes, and starting with the phone phreaks. Sure one could go before that? Conference calls? Chatboxes on landlines? As this is an American history Minitel isn’t mentioned either. I can think of a few things more even. Yet, good as an overview: http://socialmediarockstar.com/history-of-social-media.