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Let's throw this out into the either and see what we come up with. I'm looking for thoughts and references on the broad subject of information theory. Anything really, but the focus here is more to do with technology and information.
Things like how technology (esspecially computer networking, including the internet) has changed how people gather and process information. Be it blogs or smart mobs or something else (esspecially interested in what people think that something else is)
The reason that I'm asking is I've recently found my interest peeked in these two areas. One, in the whole blog issue. Less the diary aspects of it, and more the acctual collection and pooling of information. Cory Doctorow touches on this here. And I read another article by Dylan Tweney, who writes for Business 2.0, about how businesses can use blogs as knowledgebases. Which lead me to this thing he wrote as well on the subject of blogs. There are parrells between this in some problems that we've got in the company I work for, so the information deffinetly stuck. But, in a broader sense, I can't help wondering about how blogs can affect what information we receive and how we receive it.
I've also been a huge fan of Smart Mobs since I first followed a link from Boing Boing, which has some similiar posts now and then. Esspecilly since Xeni Jardin started posting for them. The whole scope of the smart mob paradigm gets my juices flowing. Again, it's the idea of technology causing a shift in how we receive and process information. Of course, with smart mobs, this has more of a social slant.
Of course, I'm not trying to limit the discussion to just these subjects. Just trying to provide some focus. Please throw out any thoughts or reccomendations that you've got. Be it thoughts on how things like blogs and smart mobs have/can change the gathering and processing of information. Or good books you've read on the subject of information theory. Or other "things" that have either recently come about, or may come about soon, that you think will change how we process information. |
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