Ann Bartow:
From this article entitled “Start-Up Links 65 Million IP Addresses To Users, Readies Targeting Platform”:
… [T]he company ClearSight Interactive is getting ready to launch a form of targeting based on users’ IP addresses. ClearSight, which describes IP addresses as the bridge between users’ offline and online data, has spent the last 18 months acquiring more than 100 million IP addresses — along with email addresses and postal addresses — from publishers. As of today, ClearSight Interactive believes it has collected enough data from publishers to reliably link 65 million “sticky” IP addresses — typically for people who connect to the Web using cable modems — to specific individuals, ClearSight president Tim Daly told MediaPost today during a break at the OMMA Behavioral conference. …
People’s surfing can be tracked by exploiting a browser loophole basically which lets anybody see where else a site’s visitors have been on the Internet, see e.g. two “online target marketing services” Beencounter, and Haveyourfriendsbeenthere.
Hackers can figure out who we are. And of course Google has entered into some sort of agreement with the federal government. Soon simply a typing cadence may identify the person typing.
For those who kick it old school, at least one survey of subpoenas against anonymous Internet speakers is underway.
@1D4TW “FACEBOOK.COM: intelligence agencies’ espionage site” http://bit.ly/b0wtJW
@PhilippaBeeb RT @cward1e The sudden rise of facebook as portal for news is staggering. This data gives weight to my anecdotes about my students http://bit.ly/bqjSlv
@PD_Smith Five journalists have spent the last five days locked up in a farmhouse in France w/ only Facebook & Twitter to rely on http://bit.ly/bpYCCY
@evgenymorozov the world is coming to an end: New York Review of Books reviews books about Facebook http://bit.ly/9vgYq5
@ybalagian The Post-Breakup Facebook Effect http://bit.ly/8LMLT5
More Information than You Ever Wanted [pdf] - link between time on facebook and romantic jealousy http://bit.ly/1ger84 via @researchdigest
@semioticmonkey APA Style Blog: How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part II: Reference List Entries and In-Text Citations http://tinyurl.com/yhxrbjp #biblio
“We journalism/new media nerds like to think of ourselves as being pretty open, but we can be a bit clannish at times: We close ranks to defend a few core principles, we have our own hierarchy of gurus and we use our own set of words and phrases. When I dove into the future-of-journalism world, I quickly found that a few of these phrases function as shorthand for big, fundamental ideas. They often get traded without explanation and sometimes without links, leaving the uninitiated pretty confused and possibly a little turned off, too.
Consider this your dictionary for those phrases. If you’ve got any more suggestions, by all means, let me know in the comments. This guide is very expandable.”
via @jayrosen_nyu
— This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post - Coyote Crossing (via guerrillamamamedicine)
All the best theories are…
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environment, and how the systems used for production influence the way the users perceive and work with the memory. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts of memory co-/production, re-/mediation, en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass interpretation and preservation.
Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following themes:
1. Digital Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation of Individual and Community Memory. Identifying Key Features and Issues.
2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Web 2.0 Services as a Medium for Production/Dissemination of Memory. Representational Principles for Memory Recording.
3. Memories and Cybercultures
Social Networking and Fan Cultures. New Media Arts and Memory.
4. Memory and Inter-Culturalism
Expatriate, Dissent and Emigrant Cultures and Communities Online.
5. Memory and Technology
The Memory of Digital Media and Systems. The Memory Infrastructures and the User Response.
6. Emergent Technologies for Memory Capturing
The Spatialization of Memories in Virtual Worlds. Prototyping Tools for Digital Autobiographic and Biographic Productions. Experimental Interfaces.
7. Archiving and Dissemination of Memory Data
Digital Data Recording. Memory Restoring and Preservation Strategies. Digital Libraries and Archives as a Community Memory. Database Structuring, Data Retrieval and Usage. User Response and Modelling.
8. Uses of New Media for Production of Historical Knowledge
National Identity and Memory in the Digital Age. Political Uses of Cybermedia for Historical Revisionism.
9. Specific Research on Community Memory
Social Issues Research. Online Ethnographic Research. Privacy and Legal Issues in Community Informatics.
Anonymous asked: keefak?
Ah, my first question. Noshkoralla 3aysheen :o) I think I’ll try and be more creative for other questions, since tumblr gives you a full text editor to answer… but this is a great proof of concept, tashakkurati for playing along. Salamat!
— semioticmonkey on Dec 30th, 2009
Twitter Mosaic - the human network.
via wildcat2030 + Brian Solis
I love how glitchy it looks. Apt :)
collection of some good slideshare presentations on web 3.0
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Chuen-Ferng Koh in Internet: Towards a Holistic Ontology,
Communications & Society: Enter the Rhizome: Non-duality
via wildcat2030
“Rhizomes are inclusive of hierarchies. Hierarchies, however, do not include rhizomes, at least not formally. I think it certain that rhizomes have existed in the most rigid of hierarchical structures throughout history, but on a clandestine, ad hoc, submerged basis that is almost never recognized by the power structure of the hierarchy and never sanctioned. Indeed, one of the formal characteristics of hierarchies is that they are exclusive of all that is not within the hierarchy, and they invest great resources in marking the boundaries between the organization and the rest of the world. Hierarchies are always mindful of managing their entry and exit procedures, and they tend to make the barriers to entry and exit rather high.
Rhizomes are not opposite to hierarchies so much as they simply ignore hierarchies, cutting in arcs across hierarchical boundaries and levels, connecting nodes at various levels within the hierarchy to each other and to nodes totally outside the hierarchy. Hierarchies find such connections and collaborations highly disruptive and treasonous.
Rhizomes are indifferent to entry and exit barriers. Whoever will can enter the rhizome, and whoever won’t can exit. In either case, the rhizome is largely unaffected. Its formal characteristics persist.”
via @brainpicker
