What are our reasons to stay alive
random tasks or nine to five
unprovable theories, facts, obsessions,
deep minutiae, shallow lessons
ironic humour with sporadic timing
acting dumb or occasionally miming
do what you would have done anyway
believe what you will then do as I say...
The accumulated remains of selected ideas in blog form
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Straight Illin' Yo
"Are you gonna finish that hover sandwich?"
Deltron 3030 - Event II
"Get a job! Robot."
It Was Predicted On a Seinfeld Episode
What's the easiest language to rap in? As in has the most rhyming words?
New subject:
Member the good old days when Kosovo tried to break away from Serbia and the Russians were all like "Small wee places shouldn't be doing that kind of breakaway shit!"
Completely different:
Then in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia were all like we'll join you, and the Russians were all like breakaway from that shit!"
Crimea river, Putin/Putout...
But I couldn't just clitocise Russia without doing the same to other big powers.
They are all self-interested to the point of aggrression>!<>!gggrrrrIUG I!!111!
The only event that could capture the attn of the whole planet (humans and sentient beings capable of abstract thought) would be the apocalypse. Or pain to ourselves.
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"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes..."
~Stanley Kubrick ~
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Sunday, March 09, 2014
Cut and Paste Brigade Rides Again!
[thought this was interesting enough to pillage and display here, as I think sometimes about what will be when I am gone. And I sometimes think of this blog as a bit of a record of what I thought and that it'll live on beyond me, as a portfolio of me online and stuff :]Digital immortality in an online age |
March 4, 2014
Digital immortality in an online age
What happens to your online photos, videos and texts when you die? And will a digital archive of your life help or hinder historians and your descendants as they delve into life in the 21st century?
Digital immortality describes the online digital archive of writing, photos, videos and blogs that outlive the content’s creator/user.
It’s a topic that has fascinated Associate Professor Pete Seel, who is visiting Massey University’s Albany campus from his base at Colorado State University. He is currently in New Zealand researching a book on the topic, to be published in 2015.
Hosted by the School of English and Media studies, Dr Seel will be presenting a lecture on digital immortality to students and the public in the Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatres at the Albany campus on March 11 at 1pm.
The relatively new development of digital technology and the proliferation of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram means people are accumulating online archives which could become permanent historical records of their lives, says Dr Seel. If the user’s descendants agree to keep that content online after their death it could serve as an ongoing memorial and resource for historians, genealogists and the descendants themselves.
“Humans have sought immortality since the dawn of homo sapien consciousness, and it has been a driving force for civilization,” he says. “Today we can achieve a form of cultural immortality, dependent on power supply and digital storage, that is an aggregation of a lifetime of posted online text, photos, and now video. Could the day come when we will be able to upload our consciousness? If so, what are the implications for society if this occurs?”
Although embarrassing photos posted online may appear to live on forever, social media archives can be manipulated by users – something Dr Seel will also address in the lecture.
“If we teach our students that ‘the Internet never forgets’ as they post personal images and text online, should we also ethically teach them how to make the Internet ‘forget’?” he says.
Dr Seel was a photojournalist, and television producer-director for ten years in the US and now researches telecommunications, new media technologies, digital television, and documentary history and production in the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication at Colorado State University.
His book, Digital Universe, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2012.
The lecture starts at 1pm in the Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatre 100.
For more information on upcoming lectures and events, go to the website:http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/student-life/about-our-campuses/albany-campus/campus-events/campus-events_home.cfm
Taken from:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1403/S00023/digital-immortality-in-an-online-age.htm
Unrelated Bottom of Post Query: Should I do a post about Derek and Clive?
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