Quoted: This is the kind of error that technological utopians make. They assume that their particular scientific revolution will wipe away all traces of its predecessors—that if you change the fuel you change the whole system.

nice review. couldn't agree more with the above statement based on personal experience.

Quoted: By looking at patterns of hyperlinks, web traffic and search engine usage, Hindman shows that the hierarchies of traditional media and politics are reproduced online, even more entrenched in some ways.

looks interesting. amazon *buys*

Quoted: "You don't need a TV. You don't need a radio. You don't even need a newspaper," says Mr. Pitts, an aspiring poet in a purple cap and yellow fleece jacket, who says he has been homeless for two years. "But you need the Internet."

Quoted: TAGallery by CONT3XT.NET extends the idea of a "tagged exhibition" (1) and transfers the main tasks of non-commercial exhibition-spaces to the discourse of an electronic data-space. The method of "tagging" allows the attribution of artworks to different thematic fields. In TAGallery the act of selecting and recombining -- besides chronologically ordered show-rooms, exhibition-titles in a semantically concentrated form and various ways of contextualizing the presented artworks -- will be published as well: The continuous progression of curating can be followed by the public, using newsfeeds.

yes. very.

Quoted: So, here’s the question: how does the Web look now, when it’s no longer seen as the technology of the future, when it’s intertwined with our daily lives and filled by people who are not excited by the mere fact of its existence? At a first glance, this question looks like a purely aesthetic one. One might think it’s almost unimportant. But in fact, nothing demonstrates the state of the Web in general and the state of its services, in particular the ones that follow the Web 2.0 ideology, as clearly as the style and look of ordinary users’ home pages.

Quoted: We have more BlizzCon 07 footage that’s going to come out, but I couldn’t resist publishing this interview now!

the man behind the legend

Quoted: Network generated pictures, online art by Yann Le Guennec

nice generative art.

Quoted: In an American courtroom this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will stand accused of stealing the idea for the site from three fellow Harvard students.