April 2010
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http://futurity.org/top-stories/molecular-managers-... →
March 2010
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From slate.com: how the U.S. military used social... →
February 2010
4 posts
"Missed Connections" conference at Penn →
Not sure how relevant this will be, but it certainly looks interesting….
Anyway, it’s this Friday 9am-4.45pm at the Penn Museum.
Surveillance and Invisibility: how to disappear... →
In Summer 2009, Evan Ratliff, a journalist for Wired magazine, tried to ‘disappear’ for 25 days. He was caught by some tenacious Wired readers who, through Twitter and IRC channels, pooled their information and tracked him down. It’s a fun read and shows how hard it is to escape surveillance and one’s online identity.
Now Wired is carrying out the experiment again,...
Vint Cerf on cloud computing →
Vint Cerf discusses the problem of cloud computing, remarking that it is the same as the problem networks faced when they couldn’t talk to one another: “We’re at the same point now in 2010 as we were in ‘73 with internet.”
There’s a short article and a 5min video of Cerf talking about this problem.
Paris: Invisible City →
Bruno Latour’s mapping of Paris to show how networks, connections and interactions form the social. Using ANT (see Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Oxford: OUP, 2005), the project uses text and collaged images to bring to light the networks which create a city, but which usually remain ‘invisible’.
January 2010
2 posts
Nate Silver's analysis of Obama's SOTU address →
Not sure if this counts as a network…maybe?
Anyway, it’s fivethirtyeight.com’s analysis of the key terms of Obama’s State of the Union address last night compared to every presidents’ pre-midterm elections SOTU address from JFK (1962) onwards.
It seemed network-y in terms of the website in general, which liveblogged the SOTU address, and has a twitter box on its...
Hillary Clinton, 'Remarks on Internet Freedom',... →
Speech given by H. Clinton last week in which she uses the word ‘network’ 36 times. Nothing groundbreaking here, comparisons of US freedom v rest of the world, but in terms of internet freedom, e.g.
‘Now, pursuing the freedoms I’ve talked about today is, I believe, the right thing to do. But I also believe it’s the smart thing to do. By advancing this agenda, we align our...