January 2006
December 2005

Authentication & Identification

"The traditional connection between signification (the use of a sign to attribute identity) and instantiation (the actual instance of a human body) has been lost"

Honey, I'm home!

In the old world, the economic activity started when the phone call began. In the new world, that’s when it ends. The money is all in presence, social networking, filtering, privacy management...

Attention Networks vs. Social Networks

"Many social relations are unequal; they are rooted in directional graphs - fandom, power, hierarchy. So why do we use undirected models"
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005

MAS.965 Social Visualization, Fall 2004 | Readings

MIT OpenCourseWare | Media Arts and Sciences

Google Unlikely To Change Fragmented IM Market

"Grouping people by their relationship with the IM subscriber, such as a family member, friend or colleague, the directory also establishes whether they are reachable"

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Suitably re-interpreted, could point the way that the future of — for want of a better term — “telephony” networks
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