Barthes-Roland_LaPreparationDuRomanI_1978_01.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) Adventure Story Starters: Writing Prompts for Kids. The New York Times imagines the kitchen table of the future. At The New York Times Company’s R&D Lab, the group’s collective of technologists, artists, and journalists talks a lot about “information shadows” — the auras of data that surround us in our daily lives.
Tracking and processing the info trails we leave, the thinking goes, allows for deeper insights into ourselves — and it can also help media organizations to provide their users with news consumption experiences as intimate as they are relevant. We tend to emphasize the “self” aspects of “the quantified self“; the R&D Lab is exploring what it means to be a part of a quantified community — and, for the Times, what it means to be a provider of information to that community. I recently had the chance to visit the R&D Lab, which is housed on the 28th floor of the Times building in New York. In the video above, Matt Boggie, The Times Co.’s Media & Technology Strategist for R&D, demonstrates the Times’ screen-top version of a kitchen table. Stfj 3.0. CTheory.net. Lose/Lose - The Game That Deletes Your Files.
This is the sort of post that once upon a time would have been fodder for Alt+Escape , but I cannot in good conscience recommend that people actually play this game. is an art game that aims to instill in-game actions with real-life consequences. In real life, shooting somebody means that you've ended a life; you've broken a family or killed somebody's best friend, but in the game there's none of that effect - they're just little ones and zeroes, right?
Attempts to do away with that - every time you shoot down an alien starship, the game will randomly and permanently delete a file ( file) from your hard drive. If you get shot down, the game will delete itself. Here's what the creators had to say: is a video-game with real life consequences. Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon an awarded for using it, that doing so is right? Reallifeconnect. Welcome to info.cern.ch. Internet Seeks ‘Off Switch’ For Joe Lieberman. Fearmongering terror toad Joe Lieberman is the worst person in the Senate — not because he’s the dumbest, or the most personally repulsive, but because he has spent the past decade using his supposed “credibility” as a Democrat senator to wage domestic war against the American People.
His latest attempt is an Internet Gulag for anyone who types “like a Muslim.” Vinegar Joe wants some button on every blog so all the assholes like him can “flag” and presumably remove anything on the entire Internet that offends Lieberman’s two interests (invading/destroying Muslim countries and bombing all individual Muslims). The Verge reports: [Lieberman has] written a letter to Google asking that its blogging platform Blogger be equipped with a flagging feature … for terrorists. It was Lieberman, you may recall with the usual intestinal gas produced when thinking about Lieberman, who proposed a “kill switch” for the entire Internet, in case anyone did anything that “sounded Muslim.” Hola wonkerados. Microsoft Productivity Vision Video. Introduction to the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon - China Digital Space.
“I'm a grass-mud horse.” Translating the Resistance Discourse of Chinese Netizens Xiao Qiang About the Project The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is an online glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. This project is part of our effort to contribute to a deeper understanding of the Internet’s cultural, social, and political impact by moving beyond anecdotal evidence and systematically documenting and interpreting political discourse created by Chinese netizens. Is the Internet acting as a “safety valve” to prolong the life of the Chinese authoritarian regime, or are new forms of networked communication enhancing opportunities for social change and helping to move China toward the “threshold” for political transformation? Origins of the Grass-Mud Horse In early 2009, a creature called the grass-mud horse appeared in an online music video which became an immediate viral hit. Building the Lexicon How You Can Help About China Digital Times.