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Video from John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly's Webcast, "Web Squared," presented on 25 June 2009.

Source: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1358

Today's Wikipedia article is "Simulacrum":

Simulacrum (plural: -cra), from the Latin simulacrum which means "likeness, similarity," is first recorded in the English language in the late 16^th century, used to describe a representation of another thing, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god; by the late 19^th century, it had gathered a secondary association of inferiority: an image without the substance or qualities of the original. Philosopher Frederic Jameson offers photorealism as an example of artistic simulacrum, where a painting is created by copying a photograph that is itself a copy of the real. Other art forms that play with simulacra include Trompe l'oeil, Pop Art, Italian neorealism and the French New Wave.

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Today's Wikipedia article is the "Internet of Things":

In computing, the Internet of Things refers to a network of objects, such as household appliances. It is often a self-configuring wireless network. The concept of the internet of things is attributed to the original Auto-ID Center, founded in 1999 and based at the time in MIT.

The idea is as simple as its application is difficult. If all cans, books, shoes or parts of cars are equipped with minuscule identifying devices, daily life on our planet will undergo a transformation. Things like running out of stock or wasted products will no longer exist as we will know exactly what is being consumed on the other side of the globe. Theft will be a thing of the past as we will know where a product is at all times. The same applies to parcels lost in the post.

If all objects of daily life, from yogurt to an airplane, are equipped with radio tags, they can be identified and managed by computers in the same way humans can. The next generation of Internet applications (IPv6 protocol) would be able to identify more objects than IPv4 which is currently in use. This system would therefore be able to instantaneously identify any kind of object.

The Internet of objects should encode 50 to 100,000 billion objects and follow the movement of those objects. Every human being is surrounded by 1,000 to 5,000 objects.

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Fat Lab challenged NYC Resistor to a war! From 15 Feb—15 March we'll be tracking Web site hits, YouTube views, Twitter followers, Facebook fans, RSS subscribers, etc.! Whichever team posts the biggest gain wins! Grading to be conducted by Internet Famous Class technology.

The official war page with preliminary stats is available at http://internetfamo.us/war/.

Help NYC Resistor win!

• Sign up for the NYCR Facebook group.
• Follow NYCR on Twitter to receive frontline dispatches.
• Digg our stuff!
• Tell your friends!

is a Media Temple dedicated-virtual server. I'm looking forward to redesigning this site and re/launching a number of projects in 2009.

"This is analog work for the digital age."

Source: Rocketboom and http://www.stevegerberich.com/

The team at Oblong is getting closer and closer to bringing Minority Report like gesture control to the market.

Source: GeekBrief.TV

I was excited to run into Joe Milutis at Conflux today. Joe is an old friend of mine from Milwaukee who left the city a long time ago. Since then, we haven't kept in contact, and I don't think I've talked to him in at least five years. It was a total surprise to run into him here, today.

Joe does a lot of cool things, which you can check out at his site, but I especially wanted to plug his book, Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything. Joe was working on this book when I knew him in Milwaukee, and I was excited to learn that is has finally been published. While I haven't read it (yet!), I'm certain it's great, and I'm going to get a copy tomorrow.

I was quoted in today's amNewYork in "Conflux to open this weekend, then to close for good" by David Freedlander:

"You live in this city and after a while you get into a habitual routine and you don't pay attention," said Jeffrey Barke, who moved to the city after attending Conflux in 2003. "Conflux opens up the city again as a source of creativity and play. That's something you risk losing as you get older and Conflux helps you reawaken it."

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Rapping about CERN's Large Hadron Collider!

Source: YouTube