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*I used to have a lot of hope in crowdsourced collective intelligence, but I’ve come to realize that these networked wisdom-of-crowds entities are not very bright… they’re about as “smart” as, say, the helpful and publicly-minded Rotary Club. The WELL: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
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“In essence, we brainstormed the question, ‘What would we do if the goal was to aggressively cannibalize ourselves?’ ” What that meant more than anything else was forcing one of the nation’s oldest magazines to stop thinking of itself as a printed product. Separations between the digital and print staffs in both business and editorial…
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But mostly my skepticism stemmed from the suspicion that the World Wide Web wasn’t, in essence, much more than a gigantic, unthinking Xerox machine (albeit with inhuman “memory”), and thus posed the same old threat to copyright and to the livelihoods of writers and publishers alike. I Won’t Hug This File — I Won’t Even…
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Maggie Koerth-Baker at 4:37 PM Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011 The Atlantic turned its first profit in at least a decade, largely thanks to embracing the Internet. The owner of longtime rival magazine Harpers—who hates the Internet with burning fire of 10,000 suns and is, thus, not at all likely to be biased in his assessment…
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We tried an impromptu paper workshop based on a New York theme …kind of a speed-paper-engineering experiment. Matt Hawkins « Toy Concepts Class-Parsons Illustration
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You know what I’ve learned? A person only flails around in regards to their rig when they don’t have a clear idea of what constitutes their work. Suitability and fit is paramount, and one is never going to find what they’re looking for if they don’t know what they need. So, I looked at my…
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*This is very much a science-fiction critical problem. *Here the issue is being tackled in a not-particularly-lucid translated Italian curatorese. http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1953 How to Evaluate Science Art Projects | Beyond The Beyond
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*Disciplinary silos just kind of VAPORIZING there.Lady Gaga’s Polaroid gadgets, a closer look *Note that the headmounted photo-display glasses are vaporware. Everybody somehow thinks they can build these. Why? Lady Gaga, industrial design maven | Beyond The Beyond