Get real

...capture it. Egan doesn't anticipate the Web 2.0 wave of capturing immaterial labor with seductive "sharing" peer-to-peer platforms, or the Big Data approach of capturing everything and sorting out the...

Weather

...more personal (by beth at dresshead.com). The weather is so contentless as to evade all significant discourse, but then it’s also so universal as to underpin it. Simultaneously too large...

Sunday Reading

...The US government starves science. Martin O'Malley, data technocrat. German sociologists boycott academic rankings. "The scene reads a bit differently if the choice was dictated by a CIA propaganda officer."...

Sunday Reading

...r>g: NBA Owner Sterling from 2005 $500 million net worth to $1900 million today. Watch the big internet companies further consolidate dominance. Search engines as invisible power. Robot Bartleby's as...