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"What’s emerging is a new rhetoric of development and globalization in what I am calling neo-informationalism: the belief that information should function like currency in free-market cap it al ism — border-less, free from regulation, and mobile. The logic of neo-informationalism rests on a moral framework that is tied to what Morgan Ames calls “information determinism,” the belief that free and open access to information can create social change. This moral frame work of neo-informationalism is so naturalized that Google and like-minded companies work their way around the world unquestioned for their position on open information. Phrases such as “information wants to be free” reflect the techno-anthropomorphizing of information, a necessary step in naturalizing any neo-informationalist agenda."

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Tricia Wang on Neo-informationalism

After reading Ben’s writeup of Tricia’s talk on Neo-informationalism, I had to revisit her passage on the anthropomorphization of information. It’s a brilliant challenge to the religion of ‘Open’ that many of us subscribe to. If you’re the type who likes to question their own beliefs every now and then, it’s definitely worth your time.

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Many of us have sat through countless meetings, listening to pundits make wild generalisations and call it wisdom: mainly that the citizens of these fine four countries desire our products, services, and culture like a man in the desert wants water. This is especially true about the internet and China. The Chinese waiting for X, or the Chinese will do Y online being almost as good for the morale of Western industrialists as the x-hundred-million New Consumers Yearning for Your Product story. Taking Facebook to China is told like we’re taking Levis into East Germany.

Of course, it’s nonsense. The Chinese internet is just as mature and sophisticated — if not more so — than it is in the West. We just don’t have the reporting to know it, or perhaps the will to under stand, say, the size of QQ or RenRen.

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— Ben Hammersley on Tricia Wang’s Neo-Informationalism

Joshua Jackson Stages Own Pacey-Con at Comic-Con.

Someone wandering around at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend happened to spot Fringe’s Joshua Jackson. He says: “I was walking back to my hotel after eating at Cafe Diem to take a break and a small group of people were gathered on the lawn a distance from the convention center. They were standing around Joshua Jackson from ‘Fringe’, he was staging his own ‘Pacey-Con’, giving out fan fiction he wrote and getting pictures with the women, all while the ‘Dawson’s Creek’ theme music played on a boom box, it was quite funny, to say the least.”

interweber: (Okay, there is anOTHER Comic-Con-related thing I am currently in love with.)

mememolly: I had a physical reaction to this somewhere between my lungs and my intestines.

via ohnotheydidnt

Graffiti Analysis v3.0 - Trailer (by Evan Roth)

Usher-Papers (lyrics) vs. Man Goat by VJ Ann O'Nymous | YouTube Doubler

Please click through. This had me in tears.

Shoe-shi.

elspethjane: This might’ve been my fault. Maybe.
chrismenning: From the other room I heard a crash followed by lots of apologizing… Then I saw sushi in Yatta’s shoe.

Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today’s social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre.
You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom “premium” cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called “mooney”), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.

justinday: Click on for the how and why. Great read.

Clever cow.

Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today’s social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre.

You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom “premium” cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called “mooney”), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.

justinday: Click on for the how and why. Great read.

Clever cow.

Etiquette of 4chan

knowyourmeme: Tip #5 is the best. :)

thedailywhat: Consequences of the Day: In honor of troll-magnet-du-jour Jessi Slaughter’s recent interview with Good Morning ~~Today~~ America, 4chan has gone (temporarily?) SFW (sorta). Above is the revised code of conduct currently stuck to the front page of the normally notoriously NSFW /b/.

See Also: A sample SFW thread. (via.)

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On Basketball - Traded by Knicks, David Lee Was Still a Team Player - NYTimes.com

The funeral for Scott Jaffer, a longtime N.B.A. security official whose primary post was Madison Square Garden, was held July 11. [David] Lee had been in St. Louis, his hometown, after being dealt by the Knicks to the Golden State Warriors in a sign-and-trade transaction that was announced soon after LeBron James’s all-about-me ESPN extravaganza.

Lee was stunned to hear that Jaffer, 63, had died.

After five years in New York, Lee had one final act of hustle on behalf of the Knicks, flying into town on Saturday night and getting in his car Sunday morning for a one-hour drive to Airmont, N.Y., from his apartment on Manhattan’s West Side.

He knew much of the Knicks’ basketball staff would be working at the summer league in Las Vegas and he wanted to make sure that the team — given its extreme state of transition — would be represented.

The same team, of course, that could not wait to replace him with its latest high-end acquisition, Amar’e Stoudemire.

There are some players who, even after they leave the team, I will always consider a Knick.

5 Questions With…Know Your Meme‘s Kenyatta Cheese

Q: What’s the one big issue/law/attitude/restriction that you think is holding back the industry?

A: Is there really something holding us back? Is there some imaginary finish line somewhere in Hollywood that we’re all looking to cross? Web video has this inferiority complex, as if we have to explain away why we’re not television. Meanwhile, we forget that television had the same exact anxiety, going 30-plus years before TV stars were held in the same regard as film stars.

I responded to NewTeeVee’s 5 Questions with about 10 answers. Also, today is Blog About Your Own Press Mentions Sunday.