just another technology blog on “the interweb”
here’s an interesting project: memiary. it’s simple -> write down 5 things you did today. save. search.
here’s a screenshot i stole from someone else’s blog:
actually what interests me most is the process and background surrounding the project. and the overall social implications of these kinds of services. sooooo, basically ur saying my computer will remember for me??? dude.
NYCLU plans to follow thru w/suing the Yankees & their no bathroom break policy during the national anthem.
Red Sox fans, of course, get extra-special treatment by security.
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the Next 5,000 Days of the Internet
We have to get good at believing in the impossible, he says. Internet as machine, black hole, oh boy
In the Social Media match between social networks Facebook & Mixi, Facebook wins US but Mixi takes Japan. But why the discrepancy?
Cultural differences dictate interactions that replicate themselves within digital social environments. Yup.
So when an application/product/whatever attempts to broaden its reach to a more global base, there is more than just a change in language to take into consideration.
Its official. What a sad day.
it’s just not evenly distributed. - William Gibson
I found myself quoting Gibson today in response a debate on the relevance of micro-blogging.
I took a photo yesterday of the incomplete (aka TBC) scrabble game -not the facebook version, which apparently I am obsessed with, but the “for real, physical, tangible, you can potentially destroy an entire game by knocking it over” version. Reason being, there was a high probability of it being knocked over in the time between last night and the continuation of the game (which btw did, in fact, occur.) There is precedence to this occurance in past scrabble games.
This, in turn, began a whole tangent in my head about the methods of storage, memory and documentation people use to retain data in order to compensate for the inevitable ephemeral quality of everyday life (aka the position of the letters on a game of Scrabble.)
As a whole, people have developed an increased necessity to store more things as well as the desire to instantly reverse the process. “COMMAND+Z, what would I ever do w/out you? You enabled me to avoid numerous typographic & visual catastrophes over the years!” (FYI, Command+ Z does not work for certain things, such as painting your walls.)
Transient. Temporal. Evanescent. Does these words still have meaning today or have they just gone on to another place- one of shooting stars, lightening bolts and Etch-a-Sketch?
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. Collaboration
Watch it. (And the video’s tagged, which is also super cool.)
Unexpected relevance transformed my perspective on the concept of “visual conversations” today. After partaking in a week-long (predominantly visual) email thread regarding, er… this blog is still PG-13, isn’t it? Nevermind.
So I was on the phone just now with my mom, catching up on the week, when she mentioned this book she’s reading about a Van Gogh. Something about a yellow house. Anyway, the interesting thing was that Van Gogh and his friends passed pictures back and forth, in a sort of 1 to 1 dialog. Conversations through pictures. Ha. And here I was, thinking this form of communication was ENABLED by the internet when its more like, it was perpetuated by it.
Oh, and ps. I did not make it to the beach today (obviously) but am going next wknd- maybe a trip! Can’t wait.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project ~7 months back (talk about time travel!), the top #1 method of communication for the most wired generation ever is… the telephone! (aka landline- for those of you who don’t remember, phones w/cords attached to a wall.)
Another interesting little factoid from the article-
“Teens choose the proper tool for each task, be it cellphone texting at a noisy party, Facebook for a quick hello, instant messages for multiple conversations, and seeing friends in person to, well, talk.” - USA Today
Anyway, I was originally thinking about the return to the past (either with devices, applications, clothing or music) and the growing demand for authenticity in both interface and quality of experience. Even simple - and arguably unnecessary - applications/add-ons are beginning to crop up (eg. Home Typist), offering this non-digital alternative that many people are really getting into.
For a more theoretical POV on authenticity, def check out Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” (which, btw, I so skillfully weaved into a conversation the other day about ice cubes. Yup.)
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