Charles covers the Google “Zeitgeist” announcement, and offers analysis of why Britons searched the way they did in 2011.
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Google crowns royal wedding as fastest-rising UK search of 2011
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[1984] Foyles 1984 photo show is open!
Thursday December 08, 2011 @ 03:01 PM (UTC)
71 of the 370 images I shot in 2010 for the 1984 photo project are on display in Foyles’ Charing Cross Road Cafe during December and January. Eleven images were shortlisted and selected by my Twitter & Flickr followers; the other 60 are of the first paragraph.
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[1984] The shop is open!
Saturday December 03, 2011 @ 12:21 PM (UTC)Due to popular demand, I’ve set up a shop selling prints and postcard packs of images from my 1984 365 photo series. It’s on etsy. There, you can select individual prints (with an emphasis on the images that will be in the forthcoming Foyles exhibition) or collections (including body, food, night, tiny, the – feat. some of the images from the London Word Festival show. a selection of photos from the Foyles show and Big Brother Is Watching You).
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From thatsinteres
15:00:17 Monday Nov 28 2011In this paper I look at what we want from a search engine, and what we’re currently getting (with Google, pre-eminently). I argue that piggy-backing search results on past users’ behaviour means that, instead of following a wise crowd, users are increasingly following foolish mobs. The result is that search is very useful indeed in many ordinary contexts, but in more specialised contexts – and particularly the contexts that academics are often in – search is of increasingly limited use.
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From thatsinteres
11:30:32 Monday Nov 21 2011what assumption is this software making about me, and what am i absorbing from it?
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From thatsinteres
20:57:47 Saturday Nov 19 2011How you know becomes even more difficult than what you know.
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From thatsinteres
12:02:11 Friday Nov 18 2011Google is busily acquiring “all the world’s information”. Facebook is gathering our personal data for the coming world of personalised advertising. Amazon is monopolising the book trade. The abandonment of net neutrality means corporate control of the web. Once all our books, music, pictures and information are stored in the cloud, it will be owned by a handful of conglomerates. While ethics committees debate the risks and merits of genetic engineering and reproductive technologies, nothing is done to regulate the commodification of human beings online that’s described so chillingly by Jennifer Egan in her dystopian novels A Visit From the Goon Squad and Look at Me.
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Sleights of Mind
11:19:47 Thursday Nov 03 2011Meetings with @matlock inevitably means leaving with a reading list of very interesting books.
Slights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions is by Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde. Published in 2010.
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Mysterious Site Creates a Horror Movie, Starring You (HT @booglysticks)
20:41:26 Tuesday Oct 18 2011Take This Lollipop is an app that pulls the things you publish on Facebook and integrates it into a horror movie in which you are the unwitting victim of a psycho. An interesting and effective viral that ultimately carries this message:
Sharing stuff on Facebook is scary. You could be tracked down and hacked to death by a maniac!
Like a Lex Luthor version of Intel’s Museum of Me.
Thanks to Booglysticks for the Hat Tip.
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Why are so few popular science books written by women? [Guardian]
09:49:21 Thursday Oct 06 2011Jo Marchant at The Guardian asks a VERY good question.
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