From Wired: 6 word science fiction 
It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling

From “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century” (PDF) by Henry Jenkins for the MacArthur Foundation. Link courtesy of Sivacracy.
Rather than dealing with each technology in isolation, we would do better to take an ecological approach, thinking about the interrelationship among all of these different communication technologies, the [...]

So I haven’t checked my site stats in a few months, but tonight I am busy procrastinating, so I decided to see whats up. The only thing really interesting to get out of the statcounter I use is the ‘came from’ stats that show exactly where people were before they entered my site. Most of [...]

And the Spiders from Mars
 David Bowie says:
“Ziggy, particularly, was created out of a certain arrogance. But, remember, at that time I was young and I was full of life, and that seemed like a very positive artistic statement. I thought that was a beautiful piece of art, I really did. I thought that was a [...]

This is worth watching:
A Brief History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads
One of the many perversely fascinating things about YouTube is that its users have uploaded a remarkable percentage of those ads to the site, including both famous and obscure examples. Watch enough of them, in the right order, and what you have [...]

I always forget this. On October 6th, this blog turned 2 years old. My old blogger site has turned into a graveyard of spammers, and looks quite out of date. I’m actually thinking that my blog could use a face lift too. What do you think?
Also, here’s a picture of a robot to celebrate:

Set Players = 0.

DNA computing targets West Nile Virus, other deadly diseases
These DNA computers won’t compete with silicon computing in terms of speed, but their advantage is that they can be used in fluids, such as a sample of blood or in the body, and make decisions at the level of a single cell,” [...]

Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute

How to Overcome Participation Inequality
You can’t.

Just found this great article that tries to explain the Internet. It should be required reading for anyone who even thinks of regulating the net.
A world of ends
All we need to do is pay attention to what the Internet really is. It’s not hard. The Net isn’t rocket science. It isn’t even 6th grade science [...]

I boldly stepped outside of Greg Hall today to attend a talk offered by the Library and Information Sciences Department. I felt the talk, entitled “What’s an Author to Do? Google, Digitization, and the Future of Books”, by Vaidhyanathan, was somewhat scattered, but it was aimed at a Library Sciences audience so that might have [...]