Where a potted history of the subject is offered, we touch on unresolved questions, and try to answer, or at least ruminate upon, the experience that may, or may not, have happened over these common t...Read More
Carry over questions: (from a couple of weeks ago): Why didn’t Tim Berners-Lee patent the web? We’re used to the idea of the internet being characterised as a democratic, open, non-hierarc...Read More
David D on the Facebook hack, Kevin Bacon, why not become a hub, and that you need to do it. (Related to that thanks to Boglarka for this gem.) Denham on the Facebook hack, making, and the new world o...Read More
Daniel J on notes from the first part of last week’s unsymposium. Ditte has stuff on data mining and how a shop could know if a customer was pregnant, and Tamrin went seeking out more informatio...Read More
Shannen digs up some supplementary reading on technique and technology (well done). Anna C with notes. Victoria L, with streamed notes that seems to have kept up well. Brittany has dot points, and Pat...Read More
Last week Brian left us with the intriguing "the 80/20 stuff isn't what I think really matters in the chapter", so we will begin this week with this prompt about what does then matter from the chapter...Read More
Anderson states that infinite access to entertainment media is accommodating more niche tastes, encouraging exploration away from a hit-driven culture that thrives on “brain-dead summer blockbus...Read More
It is trivial to make games that you can't necessarily win, but they are still rule governed, procedural (e.g. turn taking) and about the accruing of points, even where the game doesn't call them poi...Read More
Molly picks up my post about recommendation systems and notes that she hates the ads on Facebook but likes Spotify. Exactly, the former is only selling ads, not recommendations of what other peop...Read More
A link is treated by Google as a sort of endorsement, that a link from that term or phrase, to that page, means there's probably some relation between the link text and the destination, and this is a ...Read More