Excellent article about online identity, privacy and reputation http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
05:13pm
James Tindall
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“We found that judgments of people based on nothing but their Facebook profiles correlate pretty strongly with our measure of what that person is really like, and that measure consists of both how the profile owner sees him or herself and how that profile owner’s friends see the profile owner.”James Tindall 05:13pm
"But the dawning of the Internet age promised to resurrect the ideal of what the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton has called the “protean self.” If you couldn’t flee to Texas, you could always seek out a new chat room and create a new screen name. For some technology enthusiasts, the Web was supposed to be the second flowering of the open frontier, and the ability to segment our identities with an endless supply of pseudonyms, avatars and categories of friendship was supposed to let people present different sides of their personalities in different contexts. What seemed within our grasp was a power that only Proteus possessed: namely, perfect control over our shifting identities."James Tindall 06:01pm
DREAM-LOGIC, THE INTERNET AND ARTIFICIAL THOUGHT - by David Gelernter : http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter10.1/gelernter10.1_index.html
IBM to demo world's most advanced question answering machine Watson on live TV http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html
2010 Jun 17th 09:17pm
James Tindall
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What makes language so hard for computers, Ferrucci explained, is that it’s full of “intended meaning.” When people decode what someone else is saying, we can easily unpack the many nuanced allusions and connotations in every sentence. He gave me an example in the form of a “Jeopardy!” clue: “The name of this hat is elementary, my dear contestant.” People readily detect the wordplay here — the echo of “elementary, my dear Watson,” the famous phrase associated with Sherlock Holmes — and immediately recall that the Hollywood version of Holmes sports a deerstalker hat. But for a computer, there is no simple way to identify “elementary, my dear contestant” as wordplay. Cleverly matching different keywords, and even different fragments of the sentence — which in part is how most search engines work these days — isn’t enough, either. (Type that clue into Google, and you’ll get first-page referrals to “elementary, my dear watson” but none to deerstalker hats.)zeroinfluencer 10:08pm
Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZv5Z2Iz_s
2010 Jun 11th 07:59pm
James Tindall
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The creator of the voltron series passed away last month at the age of 57. Apparently he was buried in five small coffins which combined to make one unstoppable giant casket. /tip @MalbonningtonJames Tindall 08:05pm
DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html
2010 Jun 9th 10:18am
James Tindall
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I took quite different things from my reading of this last night than when I read it a while ago.James Tindall 10:18am
Are Lanier's concerns about the dangers of collectivism partly addressed by the shift from a document centric web to a people centric web. Particularly a people centric web with a proper reputation layer?James Tindall 10:22am
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith http://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Forward-Michael-Marshall-Smith/dp/0006512666/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275921045&sr=8-1
William Gibson - Atemporality / end of the Future http://blog.williamgibsonbooks.com/2010/05/31/book-expo-american-luncheon-talk/
2010 Jun 5th 07:53pm
James Tindall
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"Say it’s midway through the final year of the first decade of the 21st Century. Say that, last week, two things happened: scientists in China announced successful quantum teleportation over a distance of ten miles, while other scientists, in Maryland, announced the creation of an artificial, self-replicating genome. In this particular version of the 21st Century, which happens to be the one you’re living in, neither of these stories attracted a very great deal of attention."James Tindall 07:54pm
