10 month ago
joshua : The Bottom is Not Enough - on peer production
Linkorama : Bottom up demands time - The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further than even seems possible. It keeps surprising us in this regard. Given enough time, dumb things can be smarter than we think. At that same time, the bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I think the top-down function of editors -- to select, prune, guide, solicit, shape, and guide the results from the crowd -- is essential to excellence."
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37 month ago
kayodeok : The Right's of Photographers (when shooting in public places) - The security guard on duty told me that since 9/11 they have become extremely sticky about picture taking in the stations however I didn't look like a terrorist so sure, I could go down the escalator into a "paid fare zone" to take a couple of shots
Matthew M. Boedicker : the rights of photographers when shooting in public places
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Are You Infected by Sony-BMG's Rootkit? - EFF has confirmed the presence of XCP on the following titles (each has a data session, easily read on a Macintosh, that includes a file called "VERSION.DAT" that announces what version of XCP it is using)
Matthew M. Boedicker : list of Sony-BMG cds infected with a rootkit
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kayodeok : The structure of collaborative tagging systems - In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, through the study of the collaborative tagging system Delicious, we are able to discover regularities in user activity, tag frequenci
joshua : Patterns in del.icio.us
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41 month ago
kayodeok : The State Of Surveillance - Artificial noses that sniff explosives, cameras that I.D. you by your ears, chips that analyze the halo of heat you emit. More scrutiny lies ahead
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kayodeok : CollaborativeRank: Motivating People to Give Helpful and Timely Ranking Suggestions - CollaborativeRank addresses two problems with PageRank: (1) the lack of motivation for people to link to other sites; and (2) the ack of consequences for any links that they do create.
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41 month ago
kayodeok : The Birth of Google - Larry thought Sergey was arrogant. Sergey thought Larry was obnoxious. But their obsession with backlinks just might be the start of something big
Linkorama : The Birth of Google - Battelle's book excerpt in Wired
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Driven to distraction by technology - The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state
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41 month ago
kayodeok : CommonTimes - a social bookmarking community for news readers - "We publish the most important news from the Web and the blogosphere based on the stories you link to most"
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Social Machines - The arrival of continuous computing means that people who live in populated areas of developed countries can spend entire days inside a kind of invisible, portable "information field."
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Evolving viruses - "It will no longer suffice for an Antivirus vendor to develop a signature for a particular instance of a virus, because from one copy to the next, that signature will change - there will be no constant decryptor section to latch onto."
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44 month ago
kayodeok : Sony patents technology that transmits sensory data directly into the human brain - "Imagine movies and computer games in which you get to smell, taste and perhaps even feel things"
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