Missiverna #78
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Pax Vobiscum,
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Erik Stattin
erik.stattin@gmail.com
@mymarkup
@missiverna
- Manucripts, en app som sägs låta dig "experience the future of scholarly writing".
- Lens Writer är ett initiativ från tidskriften eLife, som vill vara en manuskript-editor i webbläsaren, experimentellt.
- Konferens-tips: Stop Starting 2015, på temat snabb feedback, hypotesdriven utveckling, Kanban, m.m. 20 oktober i Stockholm.
- MP 01 är en Jasper Morrison-designad telefon från schweiziska Punkt. Så stilig. Från Cool Hunting:
"Software entrepreneur Petter Neby founded technology design company Punkt. in 2008 with that idea in mind: to be more conscious of what we do with our lives, and make sure that the user is in charge of the technology, rather than the other way around."
- Som vän av serendipitöst finnande är jag glad att informationsforskaren Naresh Kumar Agarwal nu har kommit fram till en definition av vad det är:
"Thus, we can define serendipity as an incident-based, unexpected discovery of information leading to an aha! moment when a naturally alert actor is in a passive, non-purposive state or in an active, purposive state, followed by a period of incubation leading to insight and value."
- Från Göteborgs universitet, inspelningar från en konferens i somras med titeln "Reconsidering Humanity: Big Data, the Scientific Method, and the Images of Humans".
- Var inte alls bekant med den "effektiva altruism"-rörelsen och dess ledare William MacAskill, men en recension av hans bok Doing Good Better hos London Review of Books åtgärdade det. Utdrag:
"Doing Good Better is a feel-good guide to getting good done. It doesn’t dwell much on the horrors of global inequality, and sidesteps any diagnosis of its causes. The word ‘oppression’ appears just once. This is surely by design, at least in part. According to MacAskill’s moral worldview, it is the consequences of one’s actions that really matter, and that’s as true of writing a book as it is of donating to charity. His patter is calculated for maximal effect: if the book weren’t so cheery, MacAskill couldn’t expect to inspire as much do-gooding, and by his own lights that would be a moral failure."
- En massa att lyssna på från dConstruct-konferensen som nyligen ägde rum i Brighton. Temat är "Designing the Future".
- En liten film om Noma, apropå att man stänger den nuvarande restaugraneg och satsar nytt.
- Boken Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest låter lite intressant.
"To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage—especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves."
- En rätt fantastisk listning av nya album och singlar hos Spotify varje vecka, klustrat efter genre. Under rubriken "Swedish Indie Pop" hittar du Tvärvägens This River So Red, som jag rekommenderar.
- En del av Every Noise At Once, som i sig är ett slukhål av musikalisk serendipitet.
Pax Vobiscum,
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Erik Stattin
erik.stattin@gmail.com
@mymarkup
@missiverna
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