Raymond Cote

What Your Profile Picture Says About You (Hint: \"You\'re a Douchebag\")

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:11:45 -0400

Warning: this post contains graphic imagery of pricks, cunts and assholes.

I have a new favorite douchebag profile pic: Enthralling My Fucking Audience. This one is phenomenal; you’ve probably seen it somewhere amongst your fucking friends. It’s where a Very Important Dbag (VIDb) is captivating above-mentioned audience solely through the power of his personal presence.

Jesus Christ, the fucking hubris. The fucking insane, idiotic hubris.

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Tiny Chiplets Are a New Level of Micro Manufacturing - NYTimes.com

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:36:51 -0400

Tiny Chiplets Are a New Level of Micro Manufacturing - NYTimes.com:

“You can print mechanical objects, but a lot of things in the world today are more than mechanical,” said Stephen Hoover, PARC’s chief executive. “A lot of the opportunities we’re going to find in the ‘Internet of things’ are going to be about how to embed intelligence at very low cost in a distributed way into the world.”

The new manufacturing system the PARC researchers envision would allow easier customization. For example, just as today software customizes computers for each purpose, computers in the future could be individually shaped for each system they were added to. Or in the future the computer could just be another part, to be added to the component inventory of a 3-D printing system.

Statin Drugs May be dangerous ? Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr....

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:38:55 -0500

Statin Drugs May be dangerous ?

Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Seneff about Heart Disease (by mercola)

The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr | The Public Domain |

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:52:14 -0500

The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr | The Public Domain |:

Best summary I’ve seen so far!

In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:04:15 -0500

In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation

How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz--and Us : The New Yorker

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:03:42 -0500

How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz--and Us : The New Yorker

WORLD ORDER　”MACHINE CIVILIZATION”

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:01:58 -0500

WORLD ORDER　”MACHINE CIVILIZATION”

U.S. Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service the U.S. is rapidly losing the global race for...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:31:00 -0500

U.S. Internet Users Pay More

for Slower Service

the U.S. is rapidly losing the global race for high-speed connectivity, as fewer than 8 percent of households have fiber service. And almost 30 percent of the country still isn’t connected to the Internet at all… .

The FCC’s National Broadband Plan of March 2010 suggested that the minimum appropriate speed for every American household by 2020 should be 4 megabits per second for downloads and 1 Mbps for uploads. These speeds are enough, the FCC said, to reliably send and receive e-mail, download Web pages and use simple video conferencing… .

The South Korean government announced a plan to install 1 gigabit per second of symmetric fiber data access in every home by 2012. Hong Kong, Japan and the Netherlands are heading in the same direction. Australia plans to get 93 percent of homes and businesses connected to fiber. In the U.K., a 300 Mbps fiber-to-the-home service will be offered on a wholesale basis… .

The current 4 Mbps Internet access goal is unquestionably shortsighted. It allows the digital divide to survive, and ensures that the U.S. will stagnate…

Think of it this way: With a dialup connection, backing up 5 gigabytes of data (now the standard free plan offered by many storage companies) would take 20 days… . with a cable DOCSIS 3.0 connection, an hour and a half… . With a gigabit fiber-to-the-home connection, it can be done in less than a minute…

a Hollywood blockbusters could be downloaded in 12 seconds, video conferencing would become routine, and every household could see 3D and Super HD images. Americans could be connected instantly to their co-workers, their families, their teachers and their health-care monitors…

To make this happen, though, the U.S. needs to move to a utility model, based on the assumption that all Americans require fiber-optic Internet access at reasonable prices. …

As things stand, the U.S. has the worst of both worlds: no competition and no regulation.

Read full article by Susan Crawford @ bloomberg.com

Eben Moglen keynote “Innovation under...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:56:00 -0500

Eben Moglen keynote

“Innovation under Austerity”

or

Trench Warfare for Digital Democracy

Adventures in behavioral neurology OR What neurology can tell us about human nature

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:23:42 -0500

Adventures in behavioral neurology

OR

What neurology can tell us about human nature

Athene’s Theory of Everything (by AtheneWins)

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:01:00 -0500

Athene’s Theory of Everything (by AtheneWins)

A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY - by Nicholas Christakis Video is embeded in the...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:25:00 -0500

A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

FOR THE 21st CENTURY

- by Nicholas Christakis

Video is embeded in the middle of the post

The science of network-synchronized, emergent, self-oranizing, complex adaptive social systems!

Slime Molds:

How Amoebas Form Social Networks

Network Literacy Part 1 I’ve become convinced that understanding how networks work is an...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:24:00 -0500

Network Literacy Part 1

I’ve become convinced that understanding how networks work is an essential 21st century literacy. This is the first in a series of short videos about how the structure and dynamics of networks influences political freedom, economic wealth creation, and participation in the creation of culture. The first video introduces the importance of understanding networks and explains how the underlying technical architecture of the Internet specifically supports the freedom of network users to innovate.
- Howard Rheingold

Network Literacy Part One 2

Networking technologies visualized as extensions

of our basic biological cognitive scaffolding

The National Research Council defines Network Science as: “the study of network...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:45:00 -0500

The National Research Council defines Network Science as:

“the study of network representations of physical, biological, and social phenomena leading to predictive models of these phenomena.

THINKING IN NETWORK TERMS

- by Albert-László Barabási

(moving towards - Organic Process Literacy)

We always lived in a connected world, except we were not so much aware of it. We were aware of it down the line, that we’re not independent from our environment, that we’re not independent of the people around us. We are not independent of the many economic and other forces. But for decades we never perceived connectedness as being quantifiable, as being something that we can describe, that we can measure, that we have ways of quantifying the process. That has changed drastically in the last decade, at many, many different levels.

It has changed partly because we started to be aware of it partly because there were a lot of technological advances that forced us to think about connectedness. We had Worldwide Web, which was all about the links connecting information. We had the Internet, which was all about connecting devices. We had wireless technologies coming our way. Eventually, we had Google, we had Facebook. Slowly, the term ‘network connectedness’ really became part of our life so much so that now the word ‘networks’ is used much more often than evolution or quantum mechanics. It’s really run over it, and now that’s the buzzword.

The question is, what does it mean to be part of the network, or what does it mean to think in terms of the network? What does it mean to take advantage of this connectedness and to understand that? In the last decade, what I kept thinking about is how do you describe mathematically the connectedness? How do you get data to describe that? What does this really mean for us?

Read the full post @ edge.org/conversation/thinking-in-network-terms

This is the End of Business as Usual and the Beginning of a New Era of Relevance - By Brian...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:43:00 -0500

This is the End of Business as Usual

and

the Beginning of a New Era of Relevance

- By Brian Solis

His 10 step action list for creating a community based business strategy for relevance in an age of social-network connectitness.

1. Answer why you should engage in social networks and why anyone would want to engage with you

2. Observe what brings them together and define how you can add value to the conversation

3. Identify the influential voices that matter to your world, recognize what’s important to them, and find a way to start a dialogue that can foster a meaningful and mutually beneficial relationship

4. Study the best practices of not just organizations like yours, but also those who are successfully reaching the type of people you’re trying to reach – it’s benching marking against competitors and benchmarking against undefined opportunities

5. Translate all you’ve learned into a convincing presentation written to demonstrate tangible opportunity to your executive board, make the case through numbers, trends, data, insights – understanding they have no idea what’s going on out there and you are both the scout and the navigator (start with a recommended pilot so everyone can learn together)

6. Listen to what they’re saying and develop a process to learn from activity and adapt to interests and steer engagement based on insights

7. Recognize how they use social media and innovate based on what you observe to captivate their attention

8. Align your objectives with their objectives. If you’re unsure of what they’re looking for…ask

9. Invest in the development of content, engagement

10. Build a community, invest in values, spark meaningful dialogue, and offer tangible value…the kind of value they can’t get anywhere else. Take advantage of the medium and the opportunity!

“Disrupting the Marketplace”Interview with NiQ...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:35:00 -0500

“Disrupting the Marketplace”
Interview with NiQ Lai

Some good advice for the
Ass-Backward CEOs that run
North American’s ISPs

Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice & Power Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:44:20 -0500

Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice & Power Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:36:03 -0500

Mapping Racist Tweets

in Response to President Obama’s

Re-election

Microsoft's Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising - HotHardware

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:19:25 -0500

Microsoft's Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising - HotHardware

Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic « counternotions

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:59:31 -0500

Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic « counternotions

Raymond Cote

What Your Profile Picture Says About You (Hint: \"You\'re a Douchebag\")

Tiny Chiplets Are a New Level of Micro Manufacturing - NYTimes.com

Statin Drugs May be dangerous ? Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr....

Statin Drugs May be dangerous ?

The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr | The Public Domain |

Best summary I’ve seen so far!

In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation

How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz--and Us : The New Yorker

WORLD ORDER ”MACHINE CIVILIZATION”

U.S. Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service the U.S. is rapidly losing the global race for...

Eben Moglen keynote “Innovation under...

Eben Moglen keynote

“Innovation under Austerity”

or

Trench Warfare for Digital Democracy

Adventures in behavioral neurology OR What neurology can tell us about human nature

Adventures in behavioral neurology

OR

What neurology can tell us about human nature

Athene’s Theory of Everything (by AtheneWins)

A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY - by Nicholas Christakis Video is embeded in the...

- by Nicholas Christakis

Slime Molds:

How Amoebas Form Social Networks

Network Literacy Part 1 I’ve become convinced that understanding how networks work is an...

Network Literacy Part 1

Network Literacy Part One 2

Networking technologies visualized as extensions

of our basic biological cognitive scaffolding

The National Research Council defines Network Science as: “the study of network...

This is the End of Business as Usual and the Beginning of a New Era of Relevance - By Brian...

“Disrupting the Marketplace”Interview with NiQ...

Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice & Power Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election

Microsoft's Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising - HotHardware

Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic « counternotions

WORLD ORDER　”MACHINE CIVILIZATION”