October 2011
19 posts
“But with Findings, we are trying to do something that is dedicated explicitly to the task of curating quotations. In other words, it’s not designed to be a broader publishing platform, or a more generic notebook app that happens to include quotes every now and then. It’s a social commonplace book.”
—stevenberlinjohnson.com: Introducing Findings
“Before you make a complete fool of yourself when you send a link to your friends,
colleagues or twitter followers, enter it here to make sure it’s fresh enough.” —Is It Old?
colleagues or twitter followers, enter it here to make sure it’s fresh enough.” —Is It Old?
“Memes circulate like jokes and, more often than not, are jokes. But while nobody seems to know where jokes come from, thanks to the elephantine memory of the Internet it’s often possible to trace memes back to the source. We can name Wasik as the inventor of the flashmob in a way we will never be able to name the man who first asked why the chicken crossed the road. That makes even the silliest meme potentially useful as a way of understanding the structures and behaviors of digital social networks.”
—What memes like Maru the Cat and Star Wars Kid say about us - Slate Magazine
“Different media and technologies have different memories, and we have to make sure that our students don’t make casual assumptions about the future accessibility of the data they share online. Consider Facebook’s recent changes. While it used to be difficult to access older information on Facebook, the new changes allow users to more easily navigate through the archive of their posts. However, these changes don’t make Facebook a good archive. The site still controls your data and your access to it, and at any time they could decide to take away this access or limit it in whatever way they choose.”
—Digital Literacies for Writing in Social Media | DMLcentral
“In reductive terms, the me cares what people think while the I cares about what it alone thinks. Most of Jurgenson’s students thought Facebook emphasized the me. Which makes sense given that there are such tight feedback loops between what you do and how people react to what you do. It’s hard to find the cognitive space to “act creatively.” While I wouldn’t argue “I-ness” is impossible or even all that difficult on social media, the current crop of social networks looks tilted toward the me from where I sit. What do you think? Does anybody think Twitter and Facebook emphasize the I?”
—Does Facebook Emphasize the ‘Me’ or the ‘I’? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
also here: Errol Morris has some thoughs on photography →
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- All photographs are posed.
- The intentions of the photographer are not recorded in a photographic image. (You can imagine what they are, but it’s pure speculation.)
- Photographs are neither true nor false. (They have no truth-value.)
- False beliefs adhere to photographs like flies to flypaper.
- There is a causal connection between a photograph and what it is a photograph of. (Even Photoshopped images.)
