Web semantics: algorithmic reconstruction of ancient extinct languages
*Some interesting implications here, for instance that these reconstructed languages may be the first human languages that machines can speak better than any surviving human being....
View ArticleWeb Semantics: encapsulated universes
*Space and time. http://edge.org/conversation/encapsulated-universes (…) “What has lacked up until now, up until quite recently, is actual empirical evidence to answer the question: do speakers of...
View ArticleFormer Wired Editor second to none at awesome maker neologisms
*Those are beautiful. I’m tempted to buy one of his weird flying gizmos just to reward this form of poetry. If I could just hook it up to a Little Printer with an Arduino… how hard could that be? *And...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: the miracle of textspeak
*The miracle will come if any of this jargon survives the death of those little boxes. *Telegraphese in Morse Code also used to be “fingered speech.”...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Google Glass jargon
via Timothy Jordan, Glass evangelist, at a speech at SXSW 2013. *The ultimate Google Glass collector item is a see-through glass bar with your developer number etched on it. “Glass” (never “glasses”)...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: John Quijada and Ithkuil, his personal invented language
*My goodness. *It gets really weird when Internet strangers start sending him eager fan mail. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer (…) “By the nineteenth century, the dream...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: North Korea Loudly Declares War
*What a strange society. via Reuters. “Full war declaration statement from DPRK (via KCNA): “The moves of the U.S. imperialists to violate the sovereignty of the DPRK and encroach upon its supreme...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Stingrays, or wiretapped mobile cell-towers
*Looks like they’re legally good to go. via SANS –Judge Denies Motion to Suppress Evidence Gathered With Cell Tower Spoofing Technology (May 8, 2013) A judge in Arizona will allow evidence collected...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Brussels English
*All bureaucracies create some bureau-speak, but the European Union is a special case because they’ve got so much regulation going on while most of them don’t speak English as a first language. *I...
View ArticleAugmented Reality: Speculating about use-cases for Google Glass
*Since I’m a writer, I hate to say stuff like this, but this written screed would have been a lot more effective as a short design-fiction video. Describing this situation with words is like dancing...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Indignadese
*This politicized language is quite an interesting mix of English, Spanish, and network activist jargon. FYI I have just released the english translation of my text on tactics learned in the Net and...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Contemporary Poetry Generators
*No, they’re not “advancing” toward “autonomous cognitive abilities.” They do run off big blabbery networks rather than little desktops, though, so they’re getting better at speechifying....
View ArticleTen years of Flarf poetry
http://www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com/category/blog/ Putting Down My Burger To Kick In the Door: An Appreciation of Flarf Written by Sharon Mesmer on 31st July 2013 “1. The Big Ugly Thing That Totally...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: NSAspeak
*Well, what else can they say? Except nothing. Historically speaking they have long preferred nothing. *One would think that the NSA might learn to talk like everybody else, but it’s also likely that...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Cable jargon
*This guy’s tech jargon is truly extraordinary. *The thing I like best about it is the knowing assumption on his part that his audience is totally up to speed on his topics — so much so that he can be...
View ArticleMatt Webb of BERG pontificating on connected devices
*It’s quite interesting for a good many reasons. BERG is like some roundabout cross-station between William Gibson and P. G. Wodehouse....
View ArticleSPIMESENSE
*I dunno whether this Canadian startup is gonna prosper or not, but check out the density of the tech jargon here. You could pound in nails with that stuff. *It’s a press release....
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Chinese censorship technology
*I wonder what Chinese censors do on weekends. Goldfarming, I would guess. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519066/academics-launch-fake-social-network-to-get-an-inside-look-at-chinese-censorship/...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: global English saturation
*Time is on the side of literatures like this. Not because the locals get better at writing literature, but because the structure of language is globalizing....
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