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I'm with Patrick, the bigger, faster, more resilient it is built now, the better off we will be, it is the difference in defining useful as an extractive economy (dig it up, sell it) versus a knowledg... Read More
Recommendation Engines
This makes it fundamentally different to the recommendation algorithms used by services such as Amazon and iTunes because for these latter services there is an enormous catalogue of material and as re... Read More
Intent and Why?
She has a good question: I walked away from this ‘unlecture’ thinking ‘well if you can guarantee intent, and authorship is such a flimsy notion, then why do we create? In my own ... Read More
Latest Unsymposium VoxPops
Holly applies all this to the recent election battle over Indi (Obama also cracked this with his first campaign, which everyone has been trying to imitate ever since), which is very much long tail an... Read More
Vacant Possession
Quite a few of the terms for Niki haven't been used (for a variety of reasons). ... So, if you are in a group that's been given a term, and it is empty, but you are planning to put something in there... Read More
Networky Stuff
Lucy also discusses the second reading noting how the web isn't static, its structure changes over time, and that hubs and connectors are important attributes of these sorts of networks, which occur ... Read More
From the Niki
make something that others can use, to make to leave behind things for others (this was the founding rationale and ethos of the internet) learn how to make small things easily, and to learn from the... Read More
Unsymposium 0.5
Anderson says this model allows for more diversity, however, do you think problems such as a recommendations hierarchy could emerge? ... Anderson states that infinite access to entertainment media i... Read More