Tag Archives: Technology
All Your Base
With Analytics finally (you know, 24 hours is a lot of internet time) working for most people, Google is now pushing About Google Base, what seems to be a way of archiving semi-structured data. My first reaction, as with several Google initiatives, is that it’s a few more eggs for the same basket. What happens […]
Diffusion, individuality, and Hitpredictor
We chatted in the Com Theory course about the intersection between Horkheimer and Adorno’s “Culture Industry” and the ideas surrounding diffusion. The theme I’ve been pushing all semester has been where human agency exists and where it is constrained. I think that this is the most interesting and important question that communication has to answer, […]
Amazon Mechanical Turk
A few times this week, I have chatted with folks about the use of humans by computers. To what degree does the introduction of a new user interface or, for that matter, any technology change the nature of individual thought or social interaction? There are plenty of specific and general examples of this that are […]
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