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Hackers and Players

April 1, 2012Business, Media, Politics, Technologyapproaches to hooking up networks, Computer hacking, Computer programming, Culture, Cyberwarfare, educational tool, Electricity, Facebook, gamer, gaming, Hacker, Hacker ethic, Hacker Manifesto, hacking, Hollywood, Mainstream, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, MIT, mobile devices, on developing new approaches to hooking up networks, pure software, reward systems, Social psychology, Socialization, software methods, Tech Model Railroad Club, technology industry, technology world, telephone networks, Trends, Video game culture

The trends around supporting the idea of play as a way to learn systems co-relates to the increasing acceptance of hacking society.

A nuclear mushroom cloud

I killed the Internet

March 3, 2012Politics, Technologya lot of private networks, Access, amazon, Android, AOL, app maker, Apple, AT&T, Bluetooth, Computer law, Culture, democracy, device maker, digital media, Exxon, Facebook, flat-rate online service, General Electrics, Google, GPS, HTML, Human–computer interaction, IBM, Internet Access, internet community, internet resources, Internet Service Providers, Internet technology, Internet There, internet traffic, Internet users, Internet When, internet world, ipad, iPhone, ISP, kindle, law relating, LinkedIn, Microsoft, mobile device, mobile devices, net neutrality, Network neutrality, Open, open internet, open web version, particular online service, path, Photo sharing, Prodigy, Product Release, public internet site, search engine, search engines, silo, silo of Facebook, similar capabilities to what devices, smart phone, Smartphone, social media, social network, society, substantial infrastructure, Tim Berners-Lee, Twitter, web, Web 2.0, web browser, web interface, web server, World Wide Web, Worldnet, Yahoo

Our actions have impact

New York City Skyline

Valley vs. New York: Culture

January 8, 2011Business, Politics, TechnologyBrady Forrest, Business, California, Culture, Design, Fairchild, Geography of California, heavy algorithms, Information Age, Innovation, media space, Monoculture, New York, Pendulum, personal car, Polyculture, Santa Clara County, Science and technology studies, semiconductors, Service innovation, Silicon Valley, Structure, technology field, technology world, Valley vs. New York, venture capital, World Trade Center

Silicon Valley monoculture opens the door for New York tech dominance.

Fear of Geeks

October 4, 2010TechnologyBill Gates, Blade Runner, car industry, Culture, David Fincher, entertainment devices, Facebook, Fashion, Finance, Fritz Lang, Geek, Internet culture, Linguistics, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, media pieces, media treatments, Movie Release, Popular culture, Ridley Scott, social media, Stereotypes, Steve Jobs, technology space, technology world, The Social Network, Will, word internet

Why does hollywood always paint geeks as remote

Modular by Design — Music Industry

August 8, 2004Business, Mediacent, Culture, Entertainment, Music, music producer, online music store, Online music stores, Personal life

Yesterday, I highlighted the modular by design approach and what modules are. Today, we delve in, looking at the first industry to get impacted: the music industry. When Napster introduced the concept of sharing songs, it was not so much the idea of sharing that was wreaking havoc on the music industry; it was the fact that albums were now being sliced and diced. Traditionally, the music industry has been organizing around the concept of album sales. When developing a new music album (which is only a compilation of several music tracks,) the music industry decided to bundle some good songs, along with some so-so and sometimes some bad ones. The idea is that they would promote a few songs in the media and use those as a way to sell albums. Where the economic breakdown happens is that not all songs have the same value. As a result, the idea that a hit song is worth the same amount as a B-side falls apart. So if you take the current album-related economics model, you end up with a product of 10-15 tracks, which retails for somewhere between 15 and 20 dollars. Based on that concept, one can argue that…

A declaration of bloggerdom

March 4, 2003Business, PersonalBlogging, Cinema of Denmark, Culture, Danish culture, Dogme 95, Film, Marketing, MetaFilter, World Wide Web

Ed suggested in a Metafilter thread that we come up with a blogging vow of chastity similar to the one Dogme film-makers did in 1995. Here’s my stab at a first draft of this: Declaration of bloggerdom We are bloggers. We are individuals. We are not for sale We are not a target market. We link to sites because we find them interesting, not because we think we’ll get free goods or money out of our links. If we have a relationship with a product/company/service/person we link to, we will disclose it in the same post. We believe in contributing. We believe in truth. Our writing is our own. Our words are our own. Like them or not, our opinions are our own, too. It’s a start. But does it need more?