streaming memory
“After a wait, the 24 year-old law student got what he was seeking: a CD with all his data stored on it - 1,222 files in all. The collection of PDF format documents was roughly the length Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace but told a more mundane story: a record of Schrems’ years-long relationship with the world’s largest social network.”
—Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages | threatpost
December 2011
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“They genetically modified some mice to lack a gene that codes for PKR formation, and subjected the mice to some memory tests. A spatial memory test required mice to use visual cues to find a hidden platform inside a circular pool, for instance. Regular mice had to repeat the task a few times over a few days to remember where the platform was located, but the PKR-deficient mice figured it out after just one training session, according to a Baylor news release. Dr. Mauro Costa-Mattioli, assistant professor of neuroscience at BCM and lead author on the paper, said the researchers found that another immune enzyme, gamma interferon, took over some of PKR’s memory functions. It increased synaptic communication among neurons and gave the mice a sort of “super-memory,” Costa-Mattioli said.”
—Brain-Enhancing Drug Shown to Greatly Improve Mouse’s Memory | Popular Science
“Zeitgeist 2011: How the World Searched
What mattered in 2011? Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year’s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011.” —Google Zeitgeist 2011
What mattered in 2011? Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year’s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011.” —Google Zeitgeist 2011
“1. The discovery process is remarkably social, and the social interactions come in amazingly diverse forms. Sometimes it’s overhearing a conversation on Twitter between two complete strangers; sometimes it’s the virtual book club of something like Findings; sometimes it’s going out to lunch with a friend and bouncing new ideas off them. It’s the social life of information, in John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid’s wonderful phrase — we just have so many more ways of being social now.”
—stevenberlinjohnson.com: Anatomy Of An Idea
Memories for the Future
Japan: Before and After the Earthquake and Tsunami Pre- and post-disaster imagery in Google Street View
“They’re also perpetually unfinished; unlike the flash-of-insight modernism of mid-twentieth century photojournalism, these images are figured and worked post-hoc on the gordian assembly line of the internet meme factory. We browse these pictures like raw data, surfing them for signification. Their total aesthetic effect (but it’s never total, rather it’s always unfolding) is shaped emergently through shares, likes, blog-posts, and mashups; in aggregate they pick out resonances, add colors, suggest outlines. Take this video of polish security forces double-timing it to the scene of recent street actions in Warsaw:”
—Swarm Aesthetics | HiLobrow
