hackr.de abt. quoted

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ReQuoting pt. 45 (The Exobrain Edition)

Everything we create becomes a de facto data storage device and brain accessory.

Scott Adams via Kottke

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Macro Institutional Innovation

The right question is: are organizations and markets making decisions that help make people, communities, and society better off in the long run, by allocating their scarce resources to the most productive uses? The correct role of governance is to shape the decisions of markets, by breathing life into social preferences and expectations.

Umair Haque mit einem seminalen Text über die Rolle von Governments und diy innovators in Bezug auf den (dysfunktionalen, vampirischen) ökonomischen Komplex.

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ReQuoting pt. 44 (The Bicentennial Man Edition)

Ein Denken des Denkens, dass die Möglichkeit der Zukunft mit einschließt, muss sich der Nichtmenschlichkeit, der Artifizialität seiner Voraussetzungen jederzeit bewusst sein.

mspro via mauszfabrick

(mspro antwortet auf einen text von david ‘lifestream’ gelernter, in dem dieser die vorstellungen von künstlicher intelligenz problematisiert. beide texte sind lesenswert und auf jeweils interessante art sinnlos. gelernter macht im grunde eines: er koppelt den begriff intelligenz per definitionem an den säugetierischen körper und spricht in der folge computern/dem web intelligenz (wenn man die annahme schluckt folgerichtig) ab. (wenn man will mit lacan: das symbolische traut er den computern noch zu, aber das imaginäre, das können sie nie). das kann man machen, aber dadurch gewinnt man auch nichts (ausser jedem, der von ai schwafelt, sagen zu können: i ist das nicht). mspro kritisiert dann diese anthropozentrische grundannahme, allerdings pickt er sich ein argument heraus, das gelernter nicht macht (es gibt keine natürliche menschliche intelligenz, medien haben immer schon auf uns und unsere gedankenwelt eingewirkt usw. – aber gelernter behauptet ja nirgends das gegenteil; dass sich unser denken verändert ist ihm schon klar, nur bleiben die menschen das, was denkt). in der folge ist sein ‘schaun wir mal’ natürlich richtig, bringt uns aber auch nicht weiter.)

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ReQuoting pt. 43 (The Connected To The Moon Edition)

@david_lynch

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Coffee and Streams

As we try to weave value-laden real-time message streams through the collaborative groupware surgically attached to the corporate balance sheet, we may do well to look back toward Bloomsday and also ask for a stream of unconsciousness. It’s in those empty moments between the times when we focus our attention that daydreams and poetic thought creep into the mix.

echovar über joyce, kaffeehäuser und streams

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Clever & Smart

There is no easy way to get through a media revolution of this magnitude; the task before us now is to experiment with new ways of using a medium that is social, ubiquitous and cheap, a medium that changes the landscape by distributing freedom of the press and freedom of assembly as widely as freedom of speech.

Does the Internet Make You Smarter?

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ReQuoting pt. 42 (The Electronic Identity Edition)

What does it matter who is speaking, someone said, what does it matter who is speaking?

Samuel Beckett via echovar

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ReQuoting pt. 41 (The Sharecropping Edition)

It’s ok to sharecrop copies, especially when the copies link back to your original. That’s called distribution.
It’s not ok to sharecrop the original and aggregate copies on your own site. You’re still sharecropping and you’re still beholden/vulnerable to those 3rd party sites going down, censoring your content, renaming you, or being blocked by some nationwide internet filtering firewall.

Tantek Celik via pfefferle

(bin mir nicht sicher, ob sein einwand gegen das sharecropping und zurückkopieren stimmt – durch die tatsache das kopierens hat man ja selbst die copy und verliert sie nicht durch pannen und/oder bösartigkeiten beim landowner, aber das ändert trotzdem nichts an der tatsache, dass man die ‘kanonische’ url abtritt)

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tl;dr

With all this in mind I think it’s time to admit that the problem with your content is, in fact, everyone elses content. The problem with the democratization of ideas is that people aren’t machines and we don’t always make rational choices — we make fast choices and when there is an unlimited number of them to make we often make less than optimal ones. We pick things that are available to us readily, we pick things that our friends tell us about, we pick things that are loud, obnoxious or backed by enough money to make it out past the noise we’ve created around ourselves.

how to split an atom mit einer nicht unzutreffenden beschreibung des (woher und wohin nur) dilemmas mit dem content.

(kann man auch auf die wahrnehmung / benutzung von webapps umlegen)

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ReQuoting pt. 40 (The Dangerous Habit of Believing Edition)

What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust — of course you can’t, it’s just people talking — but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV — a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make. One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’.

Douglas Adams via kottke

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Final Note

(ich würde sogar sagen, dass privacy nicht nur nicht nur eines der probleme mit facebook ist, sondern dass privacy überhaupt kein echtes problem mit facebook ist; echtes problem mal heuristisch definiert als problem, das durch ein bissl an wissen ob der funktionsweise eines dings und durch eigenes verhalten nicht gelöst werden kann)

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Stuck

In biological terms, the new economic landscape is “rugged,” disrupted by gulfs, precipices, and steep slopes. Trails are riddled with dead ends, lead to false summits, and made impassable by big-time discontinuities. Because the economic terrain is jumbled with no overall pattern, there is no certainty that a company intending to head up a slope toward a peak new market is actually climbing anything larger than a hill. In biospeak, they may succeed in getting to the top yet find themselves stuck on a suboptimal peak.

kk vor 12 jahren und aktueller denn je.

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Competitively Challenged

“What your fiercest rival does badly, do incredibly well.”

Umair Haques Goldene Regel

(seine einleitung “The single most common competitive mistake investors, CEOs, and entrepreneurs alike make is this: striving to do slightly better what their fiercest rival already does incredibly well.” könnte man im facebook-zeitalter umschreiben in “The single most common competitive mistake investors, CEOs, and entrepreneurs alike make is this: striving to do slightly worse what Facebook already does incredibly well.”)

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capacitors, resistors, crystals

There is a natural arc by which each invention moves from the generative openness in a new-born to the refined generativity of a well defined idea. Some folks mistakenly believe that the modern regime of manufacturing and consumerism inevitably closes off all cool inventions to the first kind of generativity, but this maturity has always happened, long before the industrial age.
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Each new unformed, hackable, potential invention is quickly refined by use, and this use makes a technology more specific, more conditional, more open to use by know-nothings. Therefore each technology eventually becomes less malleable, less powerful in undefined ways but more powerful in defined ways. It moves from the margins to the center.

kevin kelly mit einem parallaktischen beitrag zur iPad-diskussion.

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OAuthcalypse Now

And boy did the Twitter guys get it. Last week they came up with a new term that is so freakishly stupid and self-destructive, it’s a form of corporate insanity of the scale I’ve never seen in my long career. The term is OAuthcalypse [http://www.countdowntooauth.com/]. It’s the day in June when all the Twitter apps break. All of them. None will make it through this transition without being reconceived.

dave winer

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The Elevator Kool-Aid Acid Test

Today, elevator pitches are the economic equivalent of speeches at a beauty pageant: predictable, often vapid, always bland.

Forget Your Elevator Pitch — What’s Your Dumbwaiter Pitch?

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The Cell

One cell carries the coding for all of them.

godin

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Die digitale Faszination

Manchmal gibt es Sternstunden, in denen die Ruhe der Unendlichkeit herabsinkt in all das Gequatsche.

… die keynote von peter glaser bei der #rp

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When in doubt, disaggregate

The typical American buys precisely one book a year.
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There are a lot of Americans who buy zero books for pleasure each year. And then there are people like me who buy 400. The average is irrelevant.
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When you can’t figure out the best way to treat all your customers, the best way to price things, the best thing to offer, realize that the problem is almost always this: you’re trying to treat everyone the same.

godin

(abt. snack sized insights)

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Forming the Responsive Landscape

It seems, though, that organizations and individuals that focus more on their responsibilities and less on their rights tend to outperform.

(darunter in 5 oder 6 tweets eine mehr oder weniger vollständige einführung in haques konzept vom thin value / die zombieconomy)

Godin über Rights and responsibilities und soda makers.

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