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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Mikenna Pierotti

Mikenna Pierotti

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011) - YouTube - 1 views

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    For all the times I was saved by a good book. I still have a secret desire to be a librarian!
Mikenna Pierotti

How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Another shrouding tactic is to use the search engine DuckDuckGo, which distinguishes itself with a "We do not track or bubble you!" policy. Bubbling is the filtering of search results based on your search history. (Bubbling also means you are less likely to see opposing points of view or be exposed to something fresh and new.) *I don't particularly care about my privacy (nothing to hide and honestly don't care whose watching), but I do care about the information being fed to me through search engines. I pride myself on doing all the research I can before supporting or criticizing a position. If google is simply feeding me what I want to hear, how do I know I have the full story? This seems like a particularly nefarious form of censorship--one that makes sense in an age of "truthiness" and pandering to ignorance. Bad google. No bubbles.
Mikenna Pierotti

Who is a Web Content Writer? Skills Job Description & Duties - Online Content Writing - 1 views

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    What do content writers do? A little bit of this, a little bit of that...
Mikenna Pierotti

A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day. Expanded Corning Vision. - YouTube - 0 views

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    This is the second version of a promotional video made by specialty glass and ceramics company Corning Inc. I interned there in 2008. Seems to fit with a lot of McLuhan's ideas of technology becoming an extension of our bodies. I think my fingers would get sore. Also, if this is the future, would buy stock in Windex...
Mikenna Pierotti

Welcome to the Webby Awards - 0 views

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    16th Annual Webby Awards are coming up! May 21st.
Mikenna Pierotti

Can A Computer Grade Essays As Well As A Human? Maybe Even Better, Study Says : All Tec... - 0 views

  • Computers have been grading multiple-choice tests in schools for years. To the relief of English teachers everywhere, essays have been tougher to gauge. But look out, teachers: A new study finds that software designed to automatically read and grade essays can do as good a job as humans — maybe even better.
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    My last day teaching was Friday and already they're trying to make it so I can't come back :( Though, I've seen computer poetry and I'm not sold on the idea that computers can gauge quality...
Mikenna Pierotti

Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook - 0 views

  • 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.
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    From facebook itself on the idea of memorializing.
Mikenna Pierotti

Dori Hartley: When You Die on Facebook - 0 views

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    Interesting yet slightly morbid. Does immortalizing the dead on a social media platform that by definition requires interaction among the living to fulfill its purpose reveal yet another narcissistic impulse? For whom are we writing? Obviously not the dead (unless you can make some sort of argument that they check their feeds from the afterlife). For ourselves? If that were the case, we could just as easily sit at home and mourn a photograph. It seems more like this type of mourning is much more performative and public than that...
Mikenna Pierotti

Skyrim Badass - YouTube - 0 views

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    I'd like to say that this has implications for Bogost's book, but really it's just awesome.
Mikenna Pierotti

Webmonkey - The Web Developer's Resource | Wired.com - 1 views

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    Google's New Search Algorithm to Crack Down on 'Black Hat Webspam' By Ars Technica By Matthew Braga, Ars Technica Nefarious search engine optimizers be warned. Google is coming for you-again. Following previous changes to Google's ranking and page layout algorithms, the search giant is pushing yet another update to its algorithm this week with the hopes of curbing "black hat webspam" from creeping into search results. * Google thinks that by increasing the complexity of its algorithms, it can weed out malicious intent. Funny thing about complexity is that it tends to breed more complexity. This reminds me a bit of Bogost's book on games. This cat and mouse scenario between Google and fake SEO creators seems to lead to ever evolving code much like in natural systems where the adaptations of the prey animal to take advantage of an environment are eventually matched by a predatory animal with adaptations designed to match or exceed the prey's abilities...
Mikenna Pierotti

House Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Measure CISPA | Threat Level | Wired.com - 1 views

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    Interesting in terms of issues of ownership. Once our identities are "published" online, who owns them? Who "owns" our search histories? Google owns most of mine, I'd say, but it also allows me to supposedly delete items. Are our search histories too public now to be hidden? And who ever said we had a right to privacy on the world wide web? It does seem contradictory to the nature of a "web."
Mikenna Pierotti

April 17, 2012 - Jonah Lehrer - The Colbert Report - Full Episode Video | Comedy Central - 0 views

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    Jonah Lehrer's argument sounds a bit like it was re-purposed from Goldsmith...uncreatively?
Mikenna Pierotti

The Official Cory Arcangel Website - Super Mario Clouds (2002-) - 0 views

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    Interesting idea from Bogost. Although he labels it as game art, I might consider this a multimedia piece as the code itself, the process of "re-soldering" and essentially rebuilding the game cartridge, and then the finished project performed online with DIY functionality seems much more complex than the book describes. Personally I think it's a brilliant but I'm not sure I know what (if anything) it means...
Mikenna Pierotti

Open Source Ecology - 0 views

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    Really fascinating take on McLuhan and many of the other writers we've been discussing. It also pertains to my interest in both sustainability and digital media.
Mikenna Pierotti

At Last, They See: E-Books 'Democratize' Publishing : NPR - 0 views

  • the world of publishing has been slow to embrace the transition from print to e-books
  • It was the kind of crowd where some were more inclined to say "Steal my book!" than to argue over what that e-book should cost
  • Dominque Raccah, CEO and publisher of Sourcebooks, is experimenting with the "agile publishing" model — which allows authors and readers to interact as the book is still being written.
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  • Digital enhancements may even make the book smarter, but the experience of reading will be fundamentally the same.
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    Interesting in terms of our discussion on the democratic nature of electronic literature.
Mikenna Pierotti

Our Media, Ourselves: Are We Headed For A Matrix? : NPR - 0 views

  • And here we are, catching up to that vision of the future. Sales of physical books dropped 30 percent last year, while e-book sales more than doubled. Sales of DVDs fell during that same period, while online streaming rose. And in 2011, for the first time, digital music downloads overtook sales of CD
  • Nothing physical to establish that one person is different from another. It's a horror story in which humanity has abandoned all of what makes us human.
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    Interesting in terms of McLuhan and discussions last class.
Mikenna Pierotti

Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism | Video on TED.com - 0 views

  • Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.” (Paul Conneally)
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    Paul Conneally describes the future of humanitarianism in a hyper-connected world. The idea of re-typing and transforming texts to tweets to websites and digital maps in disaster situations etc. seems like an act of uncreative writing--something that is, in a way, re-presenting information while at the same time creating a profound new piece of writing.
Mikenna Pierotti

Webby Nominees - 0 views

  • Conservation International - Save a Mile http://www.conservation.org/act/g...
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      Nice design. I wonder how compliant it is? :P
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      47 errors 61 warnings!
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