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The Big Brother isn’t a person as it turns out, it’s the collective consciousness that watches us. […] It’s not that living in public is going to be impose on us. We’re going to be conditioned to ask for it.

✖ Via Josh Harris has he appeared in Errol Morris’ series First Person (season2, episode 01).

“The 3rd millenium has been ushered into existence. No apocalypse. No Four Horsemen. No en to the world. No nothing. Nevertheless, Josh Harris, Internet entrepreneur and aspiring artist has decided that the 2nd coming is at hand. And “the new Messiah” is none other than Gilligan, that’s right, the Gilligan, from Gilligan’s Island. No, not Bob Denver, that actor playing Gilligan. He is but an avatar or the messianic life force, which is Gilligan himself. For Harris, life is a sad tug-of-war between those who control reality and those controlled by it. The weapon is media. And Harris, in an all-out onslaught on the world, has decided to make his own torpid existence into a new religion.” (errolmorris.com)

See also the documentary We Live In Public (Ondi Timoner, 2009)

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✖ Via The New Yorker, March 15th, 2010, p. 22 : “OMG Just Got Born!” by Mick Stevens

About Mick Stevens:

“I began drawing while still a tiny person in Lake Grove, Oregon, and have continued to do so, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of the unlikelyhood of making a living. My first drawing was accepted at The New Yorker in 1979. I immediately moved from San Francisco, where I’d been experimenting with alternative lifestyles and underground comics, to New York. There, I gradually began selling more cartoons and ideas to The New Yorker and eventually received a contract with the magazine.” (more)

Visite Mick Stevens official website.

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✖ Via Neoformix / “Twitter Venn: Celebrity Deaths” by Jeff Clark, June 26, 2009

“Here is a Venn Diagram made with Twitter Venn that shows the relative frequency of tweets made about the recent deaths of three celebrities - Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon. This analysis was done around 7am EST today and the absolute numbers for tweets/day will certainly increase as more people in the US come online. I expect the proportions among the various combination regions to stay roughly the same.

A couple of points of interest:

– Celebrity interest ranked by number of tweets is Michael > Farrah > Ed with ratios 62:6:1
– Ed was mentioned together with both Michael and Farrah more often than he was by himself

To explore the data using the interactive application click on the image below or this link: Twitter Venn for #michaeljackson, #farrahfawcett, and #edmcmahon.”

About Jeff Clark:

“I have been a professional programmer for about twenty years and my current areas of interest include data mining, statistical analysis and visualization. I enjoy discovering the patterns in the apparent chaos of real life data and exploring new techniques for communicating what I discover in a visually compelling manner.

As you might expect from my interests described above I intend to publish here the results of any analytical projects I undertake as well as sharing with you my thoughts on any tools or techniques I learn something about. I will also write some entries pointing you towards some other places on the web related to these topics.” (read more).

Previously on Skandalon : Michael Jackson.

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Internet Archeologist Find Ruins Of 'Friendster' Civilization
✖ Via Innovation Is dead:

A fake video from The Onion about the social site friendster. Something called Facebook happened, but they don’t know. What will be left of us and how will they interpret it ?

Indeed, a good reminder that we’re the ruins of tomorrow.

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There’s a ticker on top of every page on YouTube that links to disaster relief via Oxfam. Not to be outdone, Google has created a disaster relief page, containing the most recent news about Haiti and information on its hospitals. You can easily donate to UNICEF and/or CARE, and SMS shortcodes are provided; text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross and text “YELE” to 501501 to donate $5 to Yele Haiti’s efforts.

✖ Via The Huffington Post: “The Web Is Flat — The World Responds To Haiti’s Earthquake Online” by Jose Antonio Vargas, Jan 13th, 2010.

So does Tumblr.

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The internet may kill newspapers; but it is not clear if that matters. For society, what matters is that people should have access to news, not that it should be delivered through any particular medium; and, for the consumer, the faster it travels, the better. The telegraph hastened the speed at which news was disseminated. So does the internet. Those in the news business use the new technology at every stage of newsgathering and distribution. A move to electronic distribution—through PCs, mobile phones and e-readers—has started. It seems likely only to accelerate.

✖ Via The Economist: “Newspapers and technology: Network effects” Dec 17th, 2009

Interesting article overall. But the quotation above is problematic, for it could be argued that a change of medium would result in a change of message (right Marshall?). The anticipated disappearance of traditional newspapers should be studied (before being condemned or celebrated) as a global change in the means we use to shape our experience of the world and, thus, in the world itself. The news won’t be the same. Our experience of the news will change.

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You’re gonna run into jerk offs. But remember, it’s not the size of the asshole you worry about, it’s how much shit comes out of it.

✖ Via Justin (shitmydadsays) on Twitter

About Justin: “I’m 29. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he says.” As of today, Justin has a little over 400,000 followers.

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✖ Via InToone: Mike Keefe, “Evolution of Communication” published in The Denver Post, Match 27, 2009.

About Mike Keefe: “Keefe has been the editorial cartoonist for The Denver Post since 1975. Throughout the nineties he was a weekly contributor to USA Today and a regular on America Online. Nationally syndicated, his cartoons have appeared in Europe, Asia and in most major U.S. news magazines and hundreds of newspapers across the country.” (read more).

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Just over a fortnight ago, Matthew Robson had never worked in banking. This was mainly because he was 15 years and 7 months old and attending a comprehensive school in South London. Today he is the talk of Tokyo, Wall Street and the City. Fund managers, CEOs and analysts are poring over his report, How Teenagers Consume Media, which he wrote last week while on work experience at Morgan Stanley. In it he laid out the world according to the teenager: a confusing place where the PC is a radio, the games console is a telephone, the mobile telephone is a stereo and text-message machine, the DVDs are pirate copies and no one uses Twitter.

✖ Via Times Online : ” Twitter is for old people, work experience whiz-kid tells bankers” by Will Pavia and Soraya Kishtwari, June 14, 2009.

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Chichikov bought records of these dead souls from landowners eager to lighten their own tax burdens. Papers certifying Chichikov’s ownership of 400 “souls” rapidly elevated Chichikov’s status: landed gentry opened their homes to him, tried to give away their daughters in marriage, and celebrated him at town functions. And all it took was a record of ownership of hundreds of “souls.” So every time I see another article or an ad about how to acquire more followers on twitter, friends on Facebook, or otherwise collect more “souls” for money, fame, or reputation, I start thinking about Chichikov. He did come to an ignominous end, finally fleeing town. Makes me wonder.

✖ Via Boing Boing: “Collecting dead souls in social media” by Marina Gorbis.

Marina Gorbis, executive director at Institute for the Future and guestblogger for Boing Booing, offers an analogy between the way social media’s followers can be used today and Nicolay Gogol’s novel Dead Souls. See also how you can buy followers for your Twitter account.

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