February 2010
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Is it time to take a more active approach and... →
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Avoiding a Digital Dark Age →
Data longevity depends on both the storage medium and the ability to decipher the information…
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“Community — a stable job, shared national experience, extended family, labor...”
– Roger Cohen
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Watchvia GOOD:
When a blackout hit parts of the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in early February, a 2HeadedHorse filmmaker took to the roof of his building and started playing with his camera, focusing on the lights of helicopters and cars against a dark city. The results are this little video for “The Long Night,” a song by Patrick Park. Read...
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The current tone of John Cage's ORGAN2/ASLSP As... →
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“Today, the phenomenology of the mind is stepping indignantly aside for a host of...”
– Ewa Hess on neurocapitalism
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An Online Debate: Do School Libraries Need Books? →
Participants:
James Tracy, headmaster, Cushing Academy
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, English professor, University of Maryland
Liz Gray, library director, Dana Hall School
Nicholas Carr, author, “The Big Switch”
William Powers, author, “Hamlet’s BlackBerry
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Nobody is home in the cities of the future. →
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Austrian millionaire gives away his £2.7m... →
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“Most of us simply exist, never asking why it should be this way or how it might...”
– Mike Treder (Discouraging, but true. I don’t agree that the Singularity is any different than any other offer of a ‘way out’, though.)
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The volume of mobile data traffic is expected to... →
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Dystopia Now! Darpa is looking to re-write the... →
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The iPad is a device for 3rd spaces--a device for... →
Totally agreed on this peripheral point, too:
Even better would be to ditch the shelf metaphor altogether in favour of something more appropriate for digital content; something more innate to the medium.
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“Meanwhile, the digital age is in full force on other fronts as well as Search...”
– Rene Daalder
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“Man is no longer the measure of all things. The dimensions of human endeavor...”
– — From “Digital Ground” by Malcolm McCullough
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If you’re going to plummet 35,000 feet from a... →
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WatchThis is a wonderful PBS documentary on the digital life. It’s given me a lot to think about.
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“Exponential growth requires the exponential consumption of resources (matter,...”
– Jeff Hawkins
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