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Web ushers in age of ambient intimacy - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

  • ven the daily catalogue of sandwiches became oddly mesmerizing
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      Over-saturation of information, becoming hypnotic?
scross

Web ushers in age of ambient intimacy - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

  • A lot of this is just social norms catching up with what technology is capable of."
  • For many people — particularly anyone over the age of 30 — the idea of describing your blow-by-blow activities in such detail is absurd. Why would you subject your friends to your daily minutiae?
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      Ties in with "Overview of Media Ecology"- the idea of ecology of information changing and creating a gap in understanding.
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    This comment is particularly important. I've heard lots of people say things like, "We haven't even tapped into the capabilities of the information Google collects everyday." The things that have come out of learning even a small amount about what we can do with this information when it is organized or sorted or distributed easily are surprising... even though we are the ones who have created all of it.
Mike Wesch

MPR: The selfish generation? - 0 views

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    around 12:50 - question about the internet, american idol, etc.
Mike Wesch

Urban Dictionary: zub'lebrity - 0 views

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    The Z-list
Greta

Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." - 0 views

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    Description of Facebook's new creative content liscense.
Mike Wesch

Serious Business (best article on Anonymous to date) - 0 views

  • At the March 15 protest, an anon in his 30s who says he works in homeland security, compares Anonymous to the War on Terror--you can fight terrorists, but you can't fight an idea. Anonymous, he says, is an idea.
  • "Oh Fuck, The Internet is here."
  • Anonymous existed before it was called Anonymous.
Katie Hines

#106 Facebook « Stuff White People Like - 0 views

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    After the Ambient Intimacy reading today, I found this to be satirically relevant. Enjoy!
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