hi, my name is piefke 3000 and i’m a bad programmer.

margaret gould stewart: how youtube thinks about copyright.

“the scale and speed of this system is truly breathtaking—we’re not just talking about a few videos, we’re talking about over 100 years of video every day between new uploads and the legacy scans we regularly do across all of the content on the site. and when we compare those 100 years of video, we’re comparing it against millions of reference files in our database. it’d be like 36,000 people staring at 36,000 monitors each and every day without as much as a coffee break.”

don’t ask what journalism can do for technology; ask what technology can do for journalism.

jeff jarvis: “americans mistrust government more than europeans even though we [americans] have arguably had better governments than they have. and we trust companies more than europeans even though we have arguably had worse companies.” (via schockwellenreiter.)

robin nagle: “every single thing you see is future trash.”

q.v. fresh kills, one of the only man-made structures massive enough to be visible from earth’s orbit.

»kunst kennt keine sieger, also breche ich die veranstaltung ergebnislos ab.« christoph schlingensief, 24.10.1960—21.08.2010.

she’s a beauty!

the periodic table of html5 elements. via @tputh.

julian assange, last october in computerworld: "you'd think the bigger and more important the document is, the more likely it will be reported on but that's absolutely not true. it's about supply and demand. zero supply equals high demand, it has value. as soon as we release the material, the supply goes to infinity, so the perceived value goes to zero." (via pressthink via columbia journalism review via @wblau.)

woman in technology and the end of men. (via @oberhamsi and motz.)