Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you came to this post from my Facebook you’ve been participating in a little not-so-scientific experiment on my behalf. For most of the month of January almost all of my Facebook shares have passed through a new site I set up with WordPress and PressForward. On Chronoto.pe I archive a copy of everything I’ve read…
As I found myself unexpectedly snowed in this weekend, I decided to take on a weekend project for fun. While searching for something to catch my fancy, I ran across an old Slate article claiming that they found a foolproof strategy for finding Waldo in the classic “Where’s Waldo?” book series. Now, I’m no Waldo-spotting…
A couple of months ago, I pitched a feature on the music industry that I was totally qualified to write. But the editor questioned my experience: What exactly had I published about the music industry? By my count, over two thousand blogposts since 2009. But the links to my author pages bounced back because the…
Tom Wheeler was feeling the heat. It was August and the head of the Federal Communications Commission was sitting on the deck of his family’s vacation home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Sweat dripped onto the paperwork before him. For months, the tall, bespectacled Wheeler had been consumed by an arcane but important debate over how…
Gobs of new open source projects are released every year, but only a few really capture the imaginations of businesses and developers. Open source software management company Black Duck tries to spot these, measuring which projects attract the most contributors, produce the most code, and garner the most attention from the developer world at large….
This year marked a time when media companies began seeing themselves akin to technology companies. Media and tech have always been in lockstep, one driving innovation in the other, but in 2014 that partnership started to creep into they way some companies actually defined themselves. And technology suppliers have been all too happy to…
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Michael Connor | Wed Jan 21st, 2015 1:06 p.m. This is Rhizome Today for Wednesday, January 20, 2015. This post will be deleted on January 21. Rafaël Rozendaal, tinycursor.com (2008). Screenshot from Chrome browser on Android device. It’s well known by this point that, while mobile use rises, the web browser’s popularity is declining. Forbes reported last…
Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War “If we only look through the interface we cannot appreciate the ways in which it shapes our experience” — Bolter, Gromala: Windows and Mirrors Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied: “Rich User Experience” from the series With Elements of Web 2.0, 2006 This essay is based on my…
We’re not living in an algorithmic culture so much as a computational theocracy. Algorithms are everywhere, supposedly. We are living in an “algorithmic culture,” to use the author and communication scholar Ted Striphas’s name for it. Google’s search algorithms determine how we access information. Facebook’s News Feed algorithms determine how we socialize. Netflix’s and Amazon’s…