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‘Open Informant’ attempts to confront the unsettling realties of surveillance in a networked age. Open Informant is a phone app and e-ink badge. The app searches your communications for these NSA trigger words and then sends text fragments containing these words to the badge… more ›
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Design for the New Normal – talk by Anab Jain, from the awesome Superflux more ›
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“Why? “The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You’re watching a great television show you’re really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes… more ›
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“The code itself is “big data.”” – The Algorithms of Our Lives – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education more ›
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“we need to figure out how to adequately represent “software performances” as “data.”” – The Algorithms of Our Lives – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education more ›
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“The internet is a great international distribution tool, but it’s also a marketing tool. So if you’re going to market something to people and then not give it to them, you’re asking for trouble. You’re asking for piracy.” – Netflix’s… more ›
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Netflix's Ted Sarandos: the 'evil genius' behind a TV revolution » more ›
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“The web isn’t magic. It’s not some faraway place we just ‘connect’ to, but a vast and complex system of computers, connected by actual wires under the ground and the oceans. Every time you open a website, you’re visiting a… more ›
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A word from our host Hello there. You might have noticed that all the previous posts were published in rapid succession. That’s because I’ve been busy importing some of the research posted elsewhere (mostly here and here and here). That’s done. So… more ›