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Mikenna Pierotti

Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook - 0 views

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death

shared by Mikenna Pierotti on 28 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • The question soon came up: What do we do about his Facebook profile? We had never really thought about this before in such a personal way. Obviously, we wanted to be able to model people's relationships on Facebook, but how do you deal with an interaction with someone who is no longer able to log on? When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network. To reflect that reality, we created the idea of "memorialized" profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who've passed.We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized. For instance, just last week, we introduced new types of Suggestions that appear on the right-hand side of the home page and remind people to take actions with friends who need help on Facebook. By memorializing the account of someone who has passed away, people will no longer see that person appear in their Suggestions.
  • Mikenna Pierotti on 28 Apr 12
     
    From facebook itself on the idea of memorializing.
dibyadyuti roy

Shunning the Internet for a year! - 0 views

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shared by dibyadyuti roy on 02 May 12 - No Cached
  • dibyadyuti roy on 02 May 12
     
    Dare to do this? "Paul Miller gave up the Internet at midnight Tuesday. Miller, who was and still is a senior editor at a tech news site called The Verge, plans to stay offline for a full year. When he needs to post something to the website that employs him, he will hand his editors a thumb drive with his stories saved in offline files. If he needs to look up a phone number, he'll get on the phone and start calling people -- who hopefully know people who know the person that he's trying to reach for an interview."
  • Aaron Dawson on 02 May 12
     
    DO IT!
Eric Wardell

Twouble with Twitters: SuperNews! - YouTube - 0 views

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comedy supernews twitter youtube web2.0 Humor

shared by Eric Wardell on 11 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Eric Wardell on 11 Mar 12
     
    This is a short cartoon that satirizes the experience of using twitter to communicate. It has some funny phrases including when one friend inquires about people on twitter "who are they talking to?" the other friend responds "this is how we communicate now in bite sized yippity-yap!" Once the first friend becomes extremely cynical and essentially awakens the people in the "twitter-sphere" from a zombie-like slumber, the whole reality begins to crumble. As silly as it is, it says some interesting things about social networking and the public's perception of the different forms of communication.  Also, it's worth noting that the video was made prior to some of the Iranian and Egyptian conflicts in which twitter played such an important role in empowering the masses (but is it the opiate of the masses?).
Ben Bishop

What People Think I Do / What I Really Do | Know Your Meme - 2 views

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meme web

shared by Ben Bishop on 16 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • What People Think I Do / What I Really Do
  • Ben Bishop on 16 Feb 12
     
    The story, templates, and examples of that meme that has blown up on Facebook recently.
Jessica Murphy

Over 90% of Facebook Users Hate Having Photos of Them Posted Without Approval - 0 views

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digital web social politics copyright privacy Facebook

shared by Jessica Murphy on 20 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Jessica Murphy on 20 Feb 12
     
    This title made me think, "Duh," but apparently 8% of survey participants thought that posting photos or videos of other people without consent should be illegal. One person said the issue "should be regarded the same as it is for printed materials." Another person pointed out that it's actually illegal to record people without their permission, but that photos/video taken in a public setting tend to fall under public domain. I usually create a private folder and then let the people in the photos review them and consent to my publishing them first. What do you think?
Jessica Murphy

Enhanced Brain-Computer Interface Promises Unparalleled Autonomy for Disabled - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...120228114203.htm

social electronic technology communication research virtual

shared by Jessica Murphy on 29 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Jessica Murphy on 29 Feb 12
     
    Moving closer to the Matrix? A Spanish research center called Barcelona Digital is coordinating a three-year initiative called the BrainAble project to develop technologies that will improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. By developing advanced brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, ambient intelligence (AmI), and virtual reality (VR), researchers enable users to operate a robot, interact in virtual environments, communicate more easily, and remotely control lighting, heating and other devices in their homes. Plus, this technology could also benefit the eldery and people in rehabilitation, as well as allow the remote monitoring of people with neurological disorders.
Bonnie Thibodeau

WristQue wearable sensor connects you digital world | Cutting Edge - CNET News - 0 views

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wearable sensor smart building control

shared by Bonnie Thibodeau on 25 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Bonnie Thibodeau on 25 Apr 12
     
    ...and on that note, technology and people are getting even cozier these days. I used to think it was impressive how quickly cell phones got smaller and smarter and how quickly internet went wireless and made sharing easier. Now, inventions like this wrist control system and the idea of "smart buildings" seems to shadow earlier technology, and make us wonder if there is anything we won't try to give a technology interface-lift to.
dibyadyuti roy

OCELOT - 1 views

www.ocelot.english.vt.edu

shared by dibyadyuti roy on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • dibyadyuti roy on 01 May 12
     
    An excellent e-resource for first time and returning composition teachers made by the wonderful people at Virginia Tech!
Benjamin Myers

Quantified Self | Self Knowledge Through Numbers - 0 views

quantifiedself.com

digital web Social data tracking quantification panoptic Marx productivity

shared by Benjamin Myers on 14 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Benjamin Myers on 14 Mar 12
     
    I've only given cursory attention to this site (when I checked it out, I found it less useful than I had thought it would be), but we've talked about technology monitoring people, breaking their identity into tiny bits of data, etc. and this website encourages people to do that to themselves to live a productive life ... in some ways it is kind of like the guy who photographs all his food, combined with an OCD, capitalist mindset. See also: any website that tracks your miles run, your calories consumed for the day, etc.
Bonnie Thibodeau

An Erotic Novel, '50 Shades of Grey,' Goes Viral With Women - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...rey-goes-viral-with-women.html

viral e-books publishing amazon novel erotic literature digital writing

shared by Bonnie Thibodeau on 11 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • The problem has been finding it.
  • distribution in print has been limited and sluggish, leaving bookstores deprived of copies.
  • more than 250,000 copies
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • has come from ever-discreet e-book downloads, which have propelled “Fifty Shades of Grey” to No. 1 on the New York Times e-book fiction best-seller list
  • “The people who are reading this are not only people who read romance. It’s gone much broader than that.”
  • “We’re making a statement that this is bigger than one genre,”
  • No. 3 position on Amazon’s best-seller list.
  • “It’s taboo for women to admit that they watch pornography, but for some reason it’s O.K. to admit that they’re reading this book.”
  • habit of printing lengthy contracts and e-mail exchanges between characters in the text.
  • Bonnie Thibodeau on 11 Mar 12
     
    What strikes me as especially interesting about this book review is that it emphasizes and leads with the buzz surrounding its predominantly digital publication instead of the controversy about the popularity of hardcore erotic literature for women.
Jillian Swisher

Moving Beyond The Check-In, Foursquare Introduces "Radar" | TechCrunch - 0 views

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shared by Jillian Swisher on 20 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Jillian Swisher on 20 Mar 12
     
    The popular app Foursquare will notify users of nearby places/things to do/people that the user may want to explore on its update in iOS 5. With this update, the user can receive notifications of places to eat and things to do nearby even when the app is closed.
Eric Wardell

AXE's Community in Graphic Novel - 1 views

www.youtube.com/axe

axe community participatory Social

shared by Eric Wardell on 19 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Eric Wardell on 19 Mar 12
     
    I talked about this in class and I've posted on this before, but when I first posted this the idea was still in the inchoate stages of development. Now you can click on different chapters of the story and there will be a menu on the right hand side that shows animated versions of people added to the story. By clicking on this drawing, the story will advance to the period where this person makes a guest appearance and will show the real photo used for the drawing which is sometimes a facebook profile picture. Why I think this is especially interesting is that it has elements of IF that are in use in electronic literature, but it also creates a participatory community based around a specific exigency which is buying products from AXE.
Rachel Henderson

Just Fucking Google It - 1 views

www.fuckinggoogleit.com

digital language technology google

shared by Rachel Henderson on 21 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Rachel Henderson on 21 Mar 12
     
    This is a completely pointless website that kind of made me laugh. I'm one of those people of 50% of the time uses "Google" as a verb ("Just Google it") and who 50% of the time still asks an actual human being the question first but inevitably gets: "Well, did you Google it?" So...this isn't an article. But still kind of funny. Digital technology is certainly changing our language: Just Google it, Wiki it, I friended her the other day, when I was Pinning, I wish I had a "Like" button right now!, and so on...
Eric Wardell

Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past - 0 views

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history open source wikipedia future

shared by Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • possessive individualism
  • A historical work without owners and with multiple, anonymous authors is thus almost unimaginable in our professional culture
  • freedom
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • “avoid bias.”
  • Are Wikipedians good historians? As in the old tale of the blind men and the elephant, your assessment of Wikipedia as history depends a great deal on what part you touch. It also depends, as we shall see, on how you define “history.”
    • Eric Wardell
      Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12
       
      A parable often used to describe the different interpretations of religion.
  • You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided … you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License.”
  • Wikipedia as History
  • online historical writing
  • Part of the problem is that such broad synthetic writing is not easily done collaboratively.
  • Yet what is most impressive is that Wikipedia has found unpaid volunteers to write surprisingly detailed and reliable portraits of relatively obscure historical figures—for example, 900 words on the Union general Romeyn B. Ayres.
  • whatever-centric,” they acknowledge in one of their many self-critical commentaries.
  • Wikipedia can act as a megaphone, amplifying the (sometimes incorrect) conventional wisdom.
  • great democratic triumph of Wikipedia—its demonstration that people are eager for free and accessible information resources.
  • Even Jimmy Wales, who has been more tolerant of “difficult people” than Sanger, complained about “an unfortunate tendency of disrespect for history as a professional discipline.”
  • Wikipedia's view of history is not only more anecdotal and colorful than professional history, it is also—again like much popular history—more factualist.
  • the problem of Wikipedian history is not that it disregards the facts but that it elevates them above everything else and spends too much time and energy (in the manner of many collectors) on organizing those facts into categories and lists.
  • also affect how scholarly work is produced, shared, and debated
  • Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12
     
    This is an article that discusses the views of professional historians regarding wikipedia. I think it makes a number of interesting claims both regarding the management or historical data and wikipedia's role in promoting a particular historical paradigm.
Eric Wardell

AXE's Channel - YouTube - 1 views

www.youtube.com/axe

social digital web

shared by Eric Wardell on 24 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Eric Wardell on 24 Feb 12
     
    This probably seems ridiculous that I'm sharing this, but this directly relates to a paper I wrote last semester about the rhetoric employed by AXE and now I think they're making a move that applies to this class. Here we have some combination of McLuhan's idea of media being an extension of man and we see elements of IF as people actively contribute the making of a graphic novel and then are characterized by the creators for their input all the while fusing their digital selves to some sort of global and digital AXE alliance. Imagine how difficult it would be to by a different product once you become part of their story and your digital self participates (to channel the ideas of Barry Brummett) in this particular reality.
Rachel Henderson

How to delete your Google Browsing History before new policy - 0 views

www.digitaljournal.com/...320137

shared by Rachel Henderson on 28 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Rachel Henderson on 28 Feb 12
     
    This was interesting trying to turn off (or "pause") my web history! This kind of stuff creeps me out-how much "web people" know about us and our personal lives.
Benjamin Myers

HowStuffWorks "Is your workplace tracking your computer activities?" - 0 views

computer.howstuffworks.com/workplace-surveillance.htm

tracking computer activities digital web social politics government

shared by Benjamin Myers on 29 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Benjamin Myers on 29 Feb 12
     
    This is a pretty straightforward, simplistic article (it is How Stuff Works ... I mean, come on) that deals with tracking computer use in the workplace. While not directly related to the Kirschenbaum, I thought it connected enough to post. It seemed like a potential point to launch into discussions on the permanence of data, and it reminded me of a year or two ago when Michelle sent out an e-mail asking people to stop using the resource room computers to look at porn. 
Eric Wardell

Ian Bogost - 0 views

www.bogost.com

videogames design academic people blog digital electronic

shared by Eric Wardell on 15 Apr 12 - Cached
  • Eric Wardell on 15 Apr 12
     
    This is Bogost's personal webpage and I thought it was interesting to look at not just to gather more info about Bogost, but also because the website itself has an interesting layout worth dissecting or borrowing for our own sites. :)
Jessica Murphy

Chinese iPhones Smell Of Pineapple, Mango, And Apple - 0 views

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design iphone manufacturing effect

shared by Jessica Murphy on 24 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Jessica Murphy on 24 Apr 12
     
    Apparently people in China claim that their phones smell like fruit when charging. According to the article, the smell might come from the organic solvents used in the manufacturing process that heat up when charged. One Apple China rep advised iPhone owners not to inhale too hard.
dibyadyuti roy

Tim Berners-Lee - 0 views

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berners-lee w3c

shared by dibyadyuti roy on 16 Feb 12 - Cached
  • dibyadyuti roy on 16 Feb 12
     
    Find it especially fascinating due to the protocols that Berners-Lee specifies in order to send him an e-mail.
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