Visualizing Pressible

August 10, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment 

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada. Using Processing, he created this animation, showing an evolving system over the span of a year.

About his work: “I’ll be working with data from Pressible, a network of sites published by Teachers College students, faculty and staff. I’m interested in looking at the growth of this system, and in examining intertextuality between content in a network with a broad range of research interests.”

Yochai Benkler on the wealth of networks

July 28, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment 

Five years ago Benkler presented his views on how open source social production would transform markets, and looking back we can see how quickly nascent economies based on collective production can shift the balance of power.
(2005) (18 min.)

Organizing Twitter’s Content into Segments

April 27, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment 

“Eddi” organizes Twitter’s content. Researchers at PARC Lab, feed tweets into a search engine to extract content topics. “Eddi” takes the tweets, and feeds them into Yahoo!’s search engine. The search engine points “Eddi” to the topics contained in the tweet. “Eddi” then classifies all the tweets, and summarizes all the activity in a tag cloud. This approach generates tags by tapping the web’s collective intelligence.

Douglas Rushkoff on Being a Programmer or Being Programmed

April 8, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment 

SWSX, Austin TX. Rushkoff’s talk on the value of being an active participant in the programming of technology’s ecosystem.

Steve Gillmor Panel on the Significance of the iPad

January 29, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment 

Steve Gillmor, Nicholas Carr, Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, and Kevin Marks.
Fresh perspectives and context from different POVs, making some sense out of its impact and ramifications. (Jan 28, 2010, 55 min)