Through a series of 15 hypotheses, this Critical Atlas of Internet aims to develop 15 conceptual spatialization exercises. The purpose of the atlas is to use spatial analysis as a key to understanding social, political and economic issues on Internet. The atlas seek to discern the shape of the Internet in order to understand the concrete issues and stakes involved.
The Rise And Fall Of Mobile.
Mobile platforms never really offered the same way to build complex interactions between components (sorry, “apps”) that earlier platforms did with languages like AppleScript, Rexx, and Bash. Designers told us our software should “do one thing well”, a catastrophic reduction in ambition from “making the simple things simple and the complex things possible”.
Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion, launched on July 3rd, 2012.
The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and opinion as news, Lehrer seems like one of the last of a breed of journalist who took seriously the integrity of informing the American public about important events.
Nach diesen Standards arbeitet der SPIEGEL.
Im Jahr nach dem Relotius-Skandal haben wir unsere journalistischen Grundsätze neu formuliert. Lesen Sie hier das Ergebnis: die SPIEGEL-Standards.
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age.
Digging through the Geocities Torrent.
Amazon Dating.
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Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover.
Devastating takedown of what went wrong at Boeing with the 737 Max – presented in straightforward terms non-engineers can understand.
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(…) when you go online, you’re not only choosing between the New York Times and the Washington Post, you’re also choosing between reading tweets, your Facebook feed, and Instagram. This leads to an enormous race to the bottom in quality of the news provided. It’s resulted in clickbait, crappy videos, misinformation being published quickly to beat out the hundreds of other providers that can provide it.
Just started the week-end installing and using Beets – “the media library management system for obsessive music geeks” (guilty).
Suddenly, all my MP3s became liberated again and my local music collection became the single point of truth again. No more iTunes (after my recent move to Linux, anyway), no more cumbersome graphical user interfaces. Beets is like grep for digital music files.
If you want to get started with Beets yourself I recommend to install the discogs plug-in already before the first import run, especially the more your taste of music diverges from the anglo-american mainstream. Same goes for the fetchart, embedart and thumbnails plug-ins if you like your file system the way I do:
