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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:21:15 -0000

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Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:50:25 -0000

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Interesting project... posted by moritzjakobsen

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Digital Natives

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:44:35 -0000

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Hulu - Koyaanisqatsi

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:12:43 -0000

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Digital Vision Program » Ken Banks

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:37:09 -0000

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kiwanja.net :: Where technology meets anthropology, conservation and development

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:40:41 -0000

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trackstick II

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:30:35 -0000

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Using Brainwaves To Chat And Stroll Through Second Life: World's First

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:39:16 -0000

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Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:44:02 -0000

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Paralyzed Man 'Walks' In Second Life | Game | Life from Wired.com

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:04:07 -0000

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:06:51 -0000

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Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.

And it's only now, as we're waking up from that collective bender, that we're starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a crisis. We're seeing things being designed to take advantage of that surplus, to deploy it in ways more engaging than just having a TV in everybody's basement.

And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."

So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.

It's precisely when no one has any idea how to deploy something that people have to start experimenting with it, in order for the surplus to get integrated, and the course of that integration can transform society.

At least they're doing something.

Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan's Island where they almost get off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don't? I saw that one. I saw that one a lot when I was growing up. And every half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn't posting at my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then. I was forced into the channel of media the way it was because it was the only option. Now it's not, and that's the big surprise. However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.

But media is actually a triathlon, it 's three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share.

One per cent of that is 100 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.

I think that's going to be a big deal. Don't you?

Well, the TV producer did not think this was going to be a big deal; she was not digging this line of thought. And her final question to me was essentially, "Isn't this all just a fad?" You know, sort of the flagpole-sitting of the early early 21st century? It's fun to go out and produce and share a little bit, but then people are going to eventually realize, "This isn't as good as doing what I was doing before," and settle down. And I made a spirited argument that no, this wasn't the case, that this was in fact a big one-time shift, more analogous to the industrial revolution than to flagpole-sitting.

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The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:14:40 -0000

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Excessive texting may signal mental illness - web - Technology - smh.com.au

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:00:55 -0000

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Those with the condition suffered withdrawal symptoms of anger and tension when a computer was inaccessible, and often lost their sense of time through excessive use, Dr Block said.

Other symptoms included feeling "the need for better computer equipment, more software, or more hours of use", and having arguments, lying, social isolation and fatigue, he said.

Excessive gaming, sexual preoccupations and excessive text messages and emails were all evidence of having the disorder, he said.

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Study: amount of digital info > global storage capacity

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:32 -0000

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"We discovered that only about half of your digital footprint is related to your individual actions—taking pictures, sending e-mails, or making digital voice calls," IDC senior vice president John Gantz said in a statement. "The other half is what we call the 'digital shadow'—information about you—names in financial records, names on mailing lists, web surfing histories or images taken of you by security cameras in airports or urban centers. For the first time your digital shadow is larger than the digital information you actively create about yourself."

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