abt. quotedPuritanism
The framing of the debate in advance of the availability of the iPad device has centered around control of the words “freedom, choice and health.” The reactionary forces claim the iPad will be detrimental to all three. Within minutes of the conclusion of Steve Jobs’s presentation, the swiftboating of the iPad was under way. Our freedoms are being curtailed; our choices limited and the health of the ecosystem is threatened. The iPad is a deviation from the one true path.
echovar zum iPad, dem puritanismus der debatte und dem iPotential.
(abt. sorry)
ReQuoting pt. 38 (The Meters Edition)
The deal constructs a world in which control can be exercised at the level of a page, and maybe even a quote. It is a world in which every bit, every published word, could be licensed. It is the opposite of the old slogan about nuclear power: every bit gets metered, because metering is so cheap.
ReQuoting pt. 37 (The Ours vs Theirs Edition)
The Net as a medium is not for anything in particular — not for making calls, sending videos, etc. It also works at every scale, from one to one to many to many. This makes it highly unusual as a medium. In fact, we generally don’t treat it as a medium but as a world, rich with connections, persistent, and social. Because everything we encounter in this world is something that we as humans made (albeit sometimes indirectly), it feels like it’s ours. Obviously it’s not ours in the property sense. Rather, it’s ours in the way that our government is ours and our culture is ours. There aren’t too many other things that are ours in that way.
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So, if we’re going to talk about the value of the open Internet, we have to ask what the opposite of “open” is. No one is proposing a closed Internet. When it comes to the Internet, the opposite of “open” is “theirs.”
Innenwelten
During the rush of the day we move through a thousand states. We flow from this to that as a result of our actions. Our many identities spring from the scenes we string together: the moment when we stop to shield our eyes from the sun; the quick turn of our heads when we think someone has called our name; the curse under our breath as the bus we’ve been waiting for arrives full and passes without stopping. They’re signifiers and contexts that circulate, they flow around us— around the things we do. They assign us a role within the never-ending series of stories that collect around us as we move through the world.
usw. echovar über Identitäten im Fluss.
ReQuoting pt. 36 (The March of Technology Edition)
So naturally the sociopaths are outraged that their control is being taken away. Newspapers, book publishers, television companies, ad agencies – their businesses are all failing, while Google’s is on the rise.
The thing that’s hard for the sociopaths to get their head around is that this isn’t because one of their rivals has outsmarted them – it’s just the march of technology.
Dear Geniuses
The problem isn’t that Google’s being an evil monopolist. It’s that you used to be evil monopolists, and failed to invest in the quality of production.
The Anti-Google Counter-Revolution
MC Hammer
When the market changes, you may be seeing all the new opportunities and problems the wrong way because of the solutions you’re used to. The reason so many organizations have trouble using social media is that they are using precisely the wrong hammer. And odds are, they will continue to do so until their organization fails. PR firms try to use the new tools to send press releases, because, you guessed it, that’s their hammer.
time-worn steps
Toxicity. Wall Street’s subprime crisis was built on toxic financial instruments. The mediascape’s subprime crisis is being built on toxic communications.
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Umair Haque extrahiert die Parallelen zwischen der Finanzkrise und der Krise der Medien.
Wetterfrösche
This sense of the cloud emerges when the number of things in front of us are too many to count. The things vaporize and form clouds. Here we move up the stack and relate to patterns instead of individual things. … But even before we begin to see patterns, we intuit the disposition of the cloud. We sense its energy, speed and direction; its density, the quality of its make up.
The Disposition of the Information Cloud
Clueless
The problem with “everyone” is that in order to reach everyone or teach everyone or sell to everyone, you need to so water down what you’ve got you end up with almost nothing.
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You don’t want everyone. You want the right someone.
Seth Godin über die meistens bescheuerte Obsession, den Markt von wasauchimmermanmacht auf möglichst alle ausdehnen zu wollen (und das video ist wirklich nett)
(dieses monotone schielen allein auf userzahlen und marktanteile ist übrigens auch das frustrierendste phänomene im webtechdiskurs)
Socially Useless
The real crisis is in the DNA of the industrial economy — and it’s just as lethal as ever. Most businesses are socially useless. They’re about as useful to society (to paraphrase Gloria Steinem) as bicycles are to fish.
Soda Economy
Now consider an open mediascape. Here, there are a million blogs – or more – that are predictable, partisan, and pedestrian: soda. But the quality of information has already hit rock-bottom, and at the bottom, soda offered via blogs is just a substitute for a slightly different flavor of soda offered on shock radio. The soda anyone can now offer in an open mediaconomy isn’t that much worse than the soda that big producers already offer.
Here’s what’s different: the wine is of a higher quality. In an open mediascape, what is truly different is not the quality of soda, but the quality of wine.
Hackr Minifesto
Hacking is most commonly associated with computers, and people who break into or otherwise subvert computer systems are often called hackers. Although this terminology is occasionally disputed, I think it is essentially correct — these hackers are discovering the actual rules of the computer systems (e.g. buffer overflows), and using them to circumvent the intended rules of the system (typically access controls).
Paul Buchheit mit einer Minitheorie des Hackens.
(er unterscheidet zwei serien: offizielle regeln – wie die dinge sein sollen – und eigentliche regeln – wie die dinge sind, realität – und die hacker gehen der realität auf die spur)
((natürlich nicht schlecht, wobei er als techniker naturgemäss noch an der ‘echten realität’ hängt und ein lacansches mapping (symbolisches/reales/imaginäres, mit dem hacken als ausdifferenzieren des imaginären, quick shot) gefühlsmässig noch fruchtbarer wäre))
The Thing To Be Done
In the frame of the task, the thing to be done owns the attention of the doer. The doer’s attention is released when the task is done. The idea of multitasking is to engage with a portfolio of tasks, rapidly switching attention among tasks, or initiating actions that affect more than one task. The critique of multitasking states that the energy expended on switching and re-engaging among tasks lowers overall productivity.
echovar über Tasks und Multitasking
Post-Medium Publishing
Economically, the print media are in the business of marking up paper. We can all imagine an old-style editor getting a scoop and saying “this will sell a lot of papers!” Cross out that final S and you’re describing their business model. The reason they make less money now is that people don’t need as much paper.
Paul Graham mit seinem September Sermon: Post-Medium Publishing
Toxic Assets
Intimate current personal information is also valuable for government security because it can be critical to taking security counter measures. Already in the UK, the previous two years of everyone’s email, web browsing, and telephone calls are becoming available to government officials at varying levels of detail.
Is intimate personal information a toxic asset in cloud datacenters? (radar über die kommende verarbeitung von privacy daten in der cloud)
How Twitter works in theory
At it heart Twitter is a flow – it doesn’t present an unread count of messages, just a list of recent ones, so you don’t have email’s inbox problem – the implicit pressure to turn bold things plain and get that unread number down. Instead, you can dip in and out of it, when you have time, and what you see is notes from people you care about.
Kevin Marks (exgoogler, war dort evangelist in der sozialabteilung) über die Theorie und Praxis von Twitter
(schwer zu komprimieren; neben dem flow auch noch zur nähe via gesichter (und also warum automatisierte tweets und deshalb wohl auch die kommenden retweets so stören), zu sozialen gesten, zum asymmetrischem verfolgen, und zu fragmentierten aber sich überlappenden microöffentlichkeiten)
5G
Here are ten rules for fighting a 5G war.
1. Speed it up.
2. Microchunk it.
3. Meta-attack.
4. Anti-defend.
5. Darwinian counterattacks.
6. Hack your enemy’s weapons.
7. Normatize it.
8. Self-organize hyperlocally.
9. Remix it.
10. Attack the base.
The Wormhole
Twitter came out of nowhere and dominated the information space by constraining the canvas to 140 characters. The URL became the application trigger, the wormhole through which we could leap back into the existing macrocosm of blogs, software, and services. URL shorteners then, and now, are the mechanism by which we send data to and from the message bus.
Steve Gillmor mit einem ästheto-philosophischen Murmeln über Twitter, Kurzurls und Co.
Data Driven Journalism
Access to data is important: it drives innovation and even social change. Governments that publish their data have to become more transparent. Humanitarian organizations that make their findings known could spark bigger projects and source innovative solutions from their communities. Scientific findings and raw information could be used to solve bigger problems than the result of a single experiment or trial could ever manage.
Zach Beauvais für RWW mit einem recht schönen Plädoyer für einen daten-getrieben Journalismus.
(definitiv einer der rettungsanker für massenmedien und durchaus als solcher wahrgenommen, man braucht sich nur anschauen, was die bbc, der guardian, die nyt oder die lat oder die wp in diesem bereich gerade unternehmen; nur in deutschland, und es ist echt mühsam das in einer endlosschleife immer und immer wieder zu wiederholen, gibts da noch nicht mal ein problembewusstsein, hier konzentriert man alle energie auf den kampf gegen windmühlen)