abt. quotedSeeking to Understand
If you are seeking to understand what is happening and how to respond to it, calling it “theft” immediately shuts the door on a variety of important points. It closes off a path to understanding both what’s happening and how one might best deal with it. I find that incredibly dangerous from the perspective of a content creator. Calling infringement theft or not isn’t just a semantic argument from people who like to argue.
Mike Masnick über den Kampf um die korrekte Terminologie.
(masnick ist übrigens einer der wenigen, die die verschiedenen ebenen von positionen (in diesem fall also die rechtliche, die betriebswirtschaftliche, die netzökonomische, die kulturelle, die moralische, etc.) auch in den ebendiese ebenen völlig vermischenden diskursgemengen auseinanderhalten können; wobei das (eigentlich interessante) szenario bleibt: wie reagiert das system auf einen kämpferischen platzhirsch, dem ganz grundsätzlich an keiner lösung gelegen ist usw.)
ReQuoting pt. 49 (The Rechtsfreier Raum Edition)
The Internet is a space without any Law. In this space without Law, a new kind of Law must emerge. In the world of tomorrow, a new type of Law must emerge. If you want to regulate the world of today with old Law, you will fail
Michel Serres via Guillaume’s blog
Autonomously Flying Robotic Penguin
… I’d rather watch other people use new things than use them myself.
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Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.
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I like physical browsing. It activates the hunter-gatherer module differently.
William Gibson im Interview
Social Machines
We speak of social media, but rarely of social machines. On the Network, the machine is virtualized and hidden in the cloud. For a machine to operate at full efficiency, each of its cogs must do its part reliably and be able to repeat its performance exactly each time it is called upon. Generally some form of operant conditioning (game mechanics) will need to be employed as a form of crowd control. Through a combination of choice architecture and tightly-defined metadata (link, click, like, share, retweet, comment, rate, follow, check-in), the behavior of individuals interacting within networked media channels can be scrapped for input into the machine.
echovar über crowds, social machines und social media.
ReQuoting pt. 48 (The Steam Edition)
After getting one step ahead of the pack, he remained ahead not by superior innovation, but by superior exploitation of the legal system.
Out of Sync
Building your success on being more in sync than everyone else is a sharp edge to walk on. You’ll always be near the edge of perfect sync, but never there.
The alternative is to be a lot out of sync.
ReQuoting pt. 47 (The Lockstep Conformity Edition)
The entertainment is not packaged; it is intrinsic.
cluetrain via exciting commerce
Fantastic Spaces
A space, unlike a place, is an electronically created environment. It is where more and more of the economy happens. Unlike place, space has unlimited dimensions. Entities (people, objects, agents, bits, nodes, etc.) can be adjacent in a thousand different ways and a thousand different directions. A person in an electronic space can communicate to 10 million people at once, or interact in a game with 20,000 others—things that would be impossible in physical space.
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The invention of communication allowed life to evolve from globular organisms into fantastic beings, just as networks allow place-based firms to blossom into fantastic spaces.
kevin kelly in seinem new rules reblog
Original: July 8, 2004
hui, Nova Spivack legt seinen Text zur Physik der Ideen/Meme aus dem Jahr 2004 neu auf (via), was die damals schon wussten.
(durchaus ein grosser wurf mit einer ganzen reihe von guten gedanken und ansätzen, ein bisschen beigeschmack hat für mich allerdings (1) eben diese grösse des projekts (zu gross bedeutet immer auch gleichzeitig, dass man die realisierung immer auf morgen verschieben kann, siehe die probleme mit dem semantic web, welches ja nur ein müdes subset von seinem ansatz ist), (2) die grösse der metapher (physik sagt sich leicht, ist aber schwerer zu verstehen und noch schwerer zu implementieren; gleichzeitig ist es leicht zu übertreiben, er deutet das eh mit der quantenmechanik, die man eigentlich bräuchte, an, aber natürlich bräuchten wir mindestens eine allgemeine relativitätstheorie der meme etc.), (3) die utilitaristische haltung, wie man die ergebnisse auswerten könnte (was könnte man nicht alles machen: börsenprognosen, auswertung der effektivität von werbekampagnen, hyperdemographie und -targeting, usw.))
The Decision (Before the Decision Edition)
This is the one that was made before you even showed up. This is the one that sets the agenda, determines the goal and establishes the frame. The decision before the decision is the box.
mal wieder seth godin
Yellow Strom
But Twitter didn’t start with blogging or blogging tools as its central metaphor, it began with the message streams that flow through dispatching systems. The tweet isn’t a small blog post, it’s a message in a communications and logistics system. There’s a tendency to say that the tweet is a “micro” something— a very small version of some normally larger thing. But tweets are full sized, complete and lack nothing. Their size allows them to flourish in multiple communications environments, particularly the SMS system and the form factor of the mobile network device (iPhone).
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Like the tweet, the post-it note doesn’t have a specific purpose. Arthur Fry, one of the inventors of the post-it note, wanted a bookmark with a light adhesive to keep his place in his hymnal during church choir. The rapid acceptance of the yellow sticky, in part, had to do with not defining what it should be used for. It’s hard to imagine someone saying that you’re not using a post-it note correctly, although people say that about Twitter all the time.
echovar über twitter und pretty much das kompaktbeste, was ich bisher über twitter gelesen habe.
(das grösste problem bei der beschreibung von twitter sind ja die ähnlichkeiten, die zwar nicht völlig falsch sind, die aber das wesentliche verpassen und dann serien von falschen schlussfolgerungen triggern. die abgrenzung zu dem, was es nicht ist, ist fast wichtiger als die beschreibung von dem, was es ist)
The Personal and the Tailored
But there’s something important to note about all these curatorial roles I enjoy: none of them are coercive. … The beauty of noncoercive curation is that there are so many reasons we value things, it’s really impossible to imagine that any one place will serve as a one-stop shop for our needs.
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Two categories in particular won’t ever be fulfilled by a curator: first, the personal.
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Second, the tailored. I have loads of little scripts, programs, systems, files and such that make perfect sense to me, even though they’re far from elegant or perfect. There’s the script I use for resizing and uploading images to Boing Boing, the shelf I use to organise my to-be-read pile, the carefully-built mail rules that filter out spam and trolls and make sure I see the important stuff. I am a market of one … But again, these are the nuts and bolts that hold my life together and I can’t live without them.
Cory Doctorow über die Vorzüge des wilden, nicht hegemonial/exklusiv kuratierten Webs.
Memories
When we say that the Web doesn’t forget, what we mean is that if something is stored in a database, unless there’s a technical problem, it can be retrieved through some kind of search query. If the general public has access to that data store, then information you’ve published will be available to any interested party. It’s not a matter of human remembering or forgetting, but rather one of discovery and random access through querying a system’s indexed data.
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While we’re enraptured by the metaphors of memory and forgetting, intelligence and thinking, as we talk about computers, when we speak of forgiveness we tamp down the overtones and resonance of the metaphor.
echovar über Erinnerung und Vergebung
(abt. datenschuld und sühne)
Numbers Stations
Can we ever embrace the impermanence of a moment that can only be imperfectly replayed in human memory?
echovar über Numbers Stations, one-time Pads, ephemere Kommunikation, etc.
Favela Chic
But when the margins of the urban environment grow larger than the traditional center, there’s a good chance that it’s in the improvisational economies of the favelas, shanty towns and slums that these new disruptive financial services will take root.
echovar sinniert über kommende financial services.
As Machines May Think…
Clearly some filters, algorithms and agents will be better than others, but none of them will think, none will have intelligence. If part of thinking is the ability to make new analogies, then we need to think about what we do when we create and use these software machines. It becomes an easier task when we start our thinking with augmentation rather than a separate individual intelligence.
Rock Lobster
I was struck by how panda-like we are when we use the Internet. Roaming a massive world wide web of forests, most of our time is spent searching for delicious bamboo and consuming it. 40 times a day we’ll poop something out — an email, a text message, a status update, maybe even a blog post — and then go back to searching-and-consuming.
netter rant über die soziale unfähigkeit (via)
Der Wächter
… is almost as irrelevant as the continual stories which gleefully report Twitter has more users than media outlets like The New York Times. One’s a network, the other’s a news publisher – this is not comparing like with like.
In the same way, one can’t group Twitter together with web search services and proclaim: “Twitter has taken the title.” Sure, both such services have a search function, but each indexes a very different kind of material – one, rapid-fire conversations and news updates; the other, deeper, more static and longer-lasting information.
der guardian über den x-kills-old-y hubbub pt. 1
Of course, none of those media are dead, and neither is blogging. Instead, what’s happened is that they’ve been succeeded by new forms that share some of their characteristics, and these new forms have peeled away all the stories that suit them best.
cory doctorow im guardian hubbub pt. 2
Dumbness Offensive
You’ve already guessed the punchline—if just one player enters the field and works to make people smarter, the competition has a hard time responding with a dumbness offensive.
Betting on smarter or betting on dumber
A Shot In The Dark
Here’s what I like about Bolder : it turns the relationship between companies and people inside out and upside down. Instead of activists pressuring companies to do something responsible, companies ask people to take small steps with them.
umair haque (im ersten eintrag einer neuen hyperkonkreten serie namens green shoots)