“I know “checkin fatigue” is important… but doing it manually means that the place where people check-in are more meaningful to others… since Foursquare removed the leaderboards (and hence the incentive to gain as many points as you can), users I have interviewed said that they stopped checking-in everywhere (supermarkets…) and only made their position available when they wanted to meet others or access to certain information”
— Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Location-Based Social Media and the automation bias
“One thing I came to understand is that “digital strategy” means a lot of things to a lot of people; my job as Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship had been newly created, and it fell to me to define what I thought the work entailed. In the end, I came to believe that what the Library needed most was a narrative, a vision for what it would be in a future seen by many as threatened by the gathering digital stormclouds, and I spent a lot of my time (in the eyes of some, probably too much of my time) talking to internal and external audiences, telling them stories about the current and future library.”
“Tanks with glider wings were the subject of several unsuccessful experiments in the twentieth century”
“I do have some ambivalence toward the Wikileaks operation, but I was intrigued enough to download their mysterious “Insurance file” on to a small removable memory card, thus transforming it into a sciencefictional object. So much mystery surrounding it, so much potential power.”
“The cyberpunkification of reality continues apace. Another Wikileaks volunteer was recently detained on reentering the US, his laptop and cellphones are confiscated for analysis. Of course, since “border guards imaging laptop disks” was already a hacker-paranoia meme for more than a decade, strategies are already effected (in this case the seized laptop contained no permanent storage device, so nothing to image).”
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