Will you remember when the web was something you accessed primarily via a computer? Will you remember when there were places you couldn’t get a wireless connection? Will you remember when “being on the web” was still a distinct concept, something that described only a part of your life, instead of permeating all of it? Will you remember Google? - http://minaemme.tumblr.com/post...
The Arpanet was not, in itself, intended as some kind of secret weapon to put the Soviets in their place: it was simply a way to enable researchers to access computers remotely, because computers were still vast and expensive, and the scientists needed a way to share resources. (The notion that the network was designed so that it would survive a... - http://minaemme.tumblr.com/post...
Gratifications and Seeding Behavior of Online Adolescents. C. Courtois. 2009; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication - Wiley InterScience - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal...
20 minutes of being punched in the face, kicked in the stomach, and the shameful sensations one gets when one is forced to watch a Lars von Trier film. That’s how I felt at Web2.0 Expo. - http://minaemme.tumblr.com/post...
The problem with a public-facing Twitter stream in events like this is that it FORCES the audience to pay attention the backchannel. So even audience members who want to focus on the content get distracted. Most folks can’t multitask that well. And even if I had been slower and less dense, my talks are notoriously too content-filled to make... - http://minaemme.tumblr.com/post...
I Love Alaska August 4, 2006, the personal search queries of 650,000 AOL (America Online) users accidentally ended up on the Internet, for all to see. These search queries were entered in AOL’s search engine over a three-month period. After three days AOL realized their blunder and removed the data from their site, but the sensitive private data... - http://minaemme.tumblr.com/post...
Q: “Cosa pensa dei programmi di recupero per la “dipendenza» da internet?” Sherry Turkle: “Non amo molto il termine dipendenza. Credo che prima di ricorrere a questa parola dovremmo porci altre domande: cosa spinge gli utenti ad utilizzare la rete in maniera compulsiva? Cosa trovano online che non riescono a trovare nel resto della loro vita? La... - http://minaemme.tumblr.com/post...