Inspiration Overload

hashtags have transcended the 140-characters-or-less microblogging platform, and have become a new cultural shorthand, finding their way into chat windows, e-mail and face-to-face conversations.

Interessant artikel over de binnenkomst van de twitter hashtag in populaire cultuur. #whatsnext?

Speciaal voor die linkdumperts die hun Tumblr en Posterous blogjes volplempen met allerlei verwijzingen naar video's, foto's en sites die "leuk","OMGWTFBBQROFL" of "Epic" zijn...geef goede attributie! Deze poster legt het stap voor stap uit. En ja, ik heb hem besteld.


Social media is just the latest term, pushed by IT consultants and internet evangelists. It would be good to ‘deconstruct’ their position first, before answering such questions. The future is an collective obsession of corporate marketing departments, but you never hear any surprising scenario coming from these circles. For kids these days the internet is boring. Why should they embrace the gadgets of their parents? I would like to see the future as a truck that incidentally drives into your front room: something that is very unlikely, sparking off all sorts of events. I know this is already included in the ’scenarios’ of large corporations. We just do not hear enough about the unlikely paths we as humankind can wander off on. History is speeding up, that’s for sure. But is the future as well?

Een kort interview met Geert Lovink over digitale netwerken en het delen van informatie over die netwerken

So good for the brothers, I guess, for proving yet again that people will believe anything they see on the Internet.

Wederom een hoax? Maar wel een erg goeie!

In the situation that there is an catastrophic security breach–say, a terrorist cyberattack– at least five of the seven Trusted Community Representatives (TCRs) would be required to travel to the United States in order to combine their respective “encrypted cryptographic fragment[s] of the Recovery Key for the DNSSEC signing Key used to sign the ROOT Zone.” According to the New Scientist, Kane said he plans to store the smartcard in a “tamper-proof bag” in “a secure deposit box.”

Klinkt als een moderne Lord of the Rings als je het mij vraagt...of een hele slechte SciFi met JC vanDamme!

I think we’re shifting toward shallower, less interesting intellectual lives and, more generally, a shallower culture. That doesn’t mean we’re getting dumber or stupider. It means that the emphasis of our thought is shifting away from the more contemplative and solitary modes of thought that I believe give richness and distinctiveness to our thoughts and even our selves.

Fraai gesprek met Nicholas Carr over zijn boek The Shallows, de invloed van het web op ons intellectueel denkvermogen.

The Culture Industry, deemed thusly by the Frankfurt School’s Adorno & Horkheimer, produces standardized units of popular culture that are utilized by companies to keep the masses continually participating in capitalism.