January 2011
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The Little Ones “Lovers Who Uncover (Crystal...
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Facebook Gives Your Home Address to Developers →
In Facebook’s Friday blog post explaining the expanded permissions, Facebook said users have to explicitly allow access to their address and phone number. The problem is, Facebook’s permissions dialog only gives you two choices: hand over your address or don’t use the product or service you want to access.
Via PC World
Like I needed another reason to leave FB.
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The Rise of White People Food →
Are you wealthy enough to afford cuts of [insert farm name] [insert special breed of pig] slow poached in [insert another farm name’s] [insert special type of milk] served with greens from [insert urban rooftop garden]? Then you are eating like a White Person. Do you feel really good about yourself while you’re doing it? Then you are a White Person.
Did this seriously get published in GOOD.is...
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Web 2.0, Prosumption, and Surveillance →
Abstract: “Web 2.0” platforms such as YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter that focus on data sharing, communication, community, and co-production have become very popular. It is therefore important to understand the economic organization of these platforms. The discussion of surveillance in web 2.0 is important because such platforms collect huge amounts of personal data in order to...
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“If you don’t learn how to be alone, you’ll always be lonely, that...”
– From Fast Company’s interview with Sherry Turkle about her new book Alone Together:Why we Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other
This is on my list of things to read in the coming weeks. I tend to use the word alienation to make the same points Turkle makes about loneliness....
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“Buying a gift card that restricts what the money can be used for is just another...”
– From the Op-Ed “The Best Present Money Can Buy”
Zelzier’s book The Purchase of Intimacy is worth reading.
Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism is great too.
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“Documents are undergoing an transition from object to data. The paper copies...”
– From “The Objectless Office: Dematerialization 3”
Via Quiet Babylon, a blog about all things cyborgian and tech-culture.
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“Documents are undergoing an transition from object to data. The paper copies...”
– From “The Objectless Office: Dematerialization 3”
Via Quiet Babylon, a blog about all things cyborgian and tech-culture.
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“The question of social mobilization is a difficult one and we should continue...”
– “First Thoughts on Tunisia and the Role of the Internet”
Via Evgeny Morozov | Foreign Policy Magazine’s “The Net Effect” Blog
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“Buying a gift card that restricts what the money can be used for is just another...”
– From the Op-Ed “The Best Present Money Can Buy”
Zelzier’s book The Purchase of Intimacy is worth reading.
Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism is great too.
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“Defenders of traditional authority will object to the relativism of all this,...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary
h/t to Matt Hayles
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Watchratsoff:
Did You Read?
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein offer us another excellent glimpse into Portlandia, their 6-part sketch series coming to IFC 1/21, illustrating that when Portland is not duking it out over locally sourced pork, we’re busy fighting about what I’ve read and you haven’t.
(robotindisguise.)
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“If any good can come out of something as unfathomably horrible as...”
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From The Giffords shooting’s gay, Hispanic hero: Daniel Hernandez helped save the congresswoman’s life — and yes, his sexuality and ethnicity matter
It’s saddens me that this argument even needs to be made and yet here it is and I agree with it.
Via Salon
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“In closing, I would like to say that the Internet has become a veritable...”
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E-mail Auto Response
Via The New Yorker.
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“In closing, I would like to say that the Internet has become a veritable...”
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E-mail Auto Response
Via The New Yorker.
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“You can read as many reports about inequality as you want (and there are lots)...”
– How The Facebook Generation Keeps People Poor Via PSFK Two notes: 1. Expect a lengthy response to this ridiculous argument about class and globalization to follow. 2. Facebook has not kept people poor; Neo-liberal capitalism has. An economic system that conflates exploitation with efficiency and...
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“You can read as many reports about inequality as you want (and there are lots)...”
– How The Facebook Generation Keeps People Poor Via PSFK Two notes: 1. Expect a lengthy response to this ridiculous argument about class and globalization to follow. 2. Facebook has not kept people poor; Neo-liberal capitalism has. An economic system that conflates exploitation with efficiency and...
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“A text is a text because it is massively addressable at different levels of...”
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“A text is a text because it is massively addressable at different levels of...”
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“I love that I don’t really have to talk to anyone. I don’t have to...”
– Jodi Dean, “How Not To Be Critical”
Jodi Dean is a badass critical theorist and political scientist. Her book Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy is brilliant and incredibly interesting. File under: criticism of neoliberalism, capitalism, post-modernism...
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“I love that I don’t really have to talk to anyone. I don’t have to...”
– Jodi Dean, “How Not To Be Critical”
Jodi Dean is a badass critical theorist and political scientist. Her book Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy is brilliant and incredibly interesting. File under: criticism of neoliberalism, capitalism, post-modernism...
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“Putting down ways of communicating foreign to you as inherently less deep, real...”
– From : “Myth: Instant Communication is Shallow”
Via Cyborgology, The Society Pages
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“Putting down ways of communicating foreign to you as inherently less deep, real...”
– From : “Myth: Instant Communication is Shallow”
Via Cyborgology, The Society Pages
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“Although I don’t have thousands of followers, I can honestly say that a...”
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“People now say there is no direction to evolution—upward to any height; that the...”
– From “How Should a Person Be”
Via N+1 Magazine