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This is project intends to: 1. Transcribe and upload relevant citations from key texts related to history and theory of media/technology change, 2. Make these citations searchable in database format, and 3. Visualize this information in a manner that graphically highlights interconnections and gaps between technologies, chronologies, geographies, and theories.

Trent Reznor decided to quit social media, or Twitter at least, as you may already know. As he stated quite clearly, he finally found out that "the problem with really getting engaged in a community is getting through the clutter and noise." (continue...)

I lend media on ya to a him & looking the smoke & noise (the rosie condition) (...)

Here's an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls "Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance". Some highlights from my transcription below... (continue...)

"A new microformat for online news has been developed by the Media standards Trust and the Web Science Reaseach Initiative: it's called hNews. The goal is to make relevant elements of news articles machine-readable, and at the same time, to disply these metadata in a user-friendly format. ....."

Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks & issues related to libraries. My personal highligths from this work: * The turn from groups to social networks lays the basis for a new social operating system * Being more civically engages on social networks helps building better communities (continue...)

What does "real-time web" actually means? Basically, getting all the informations you're looking for at the very moment they're are produced, from your sources of choice. (continue...)

Interesting slides, that "introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process of cyberspace and the uman collective intelligence, which is dynamic, in constant change and made in different languages, from different approaches."....