Catégorie : trying to make sense
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Space captain: real-life corporation wants its name back
The players of the online game Eve Online manage many useful websites and services and one of the most significant is Dotlan. Dotlan provides the community with an efficient interface to exploit the game’s public API. Wollari, who runs the site, mentioned on Twitter that a real life company got in touch with him about an in-game…
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The content society 3: value in a world of copiers
EN The digital environment makes the old content economy obsolescent. This provides us with a chance to re-assess what is the value of content and, further, what is the purpose of value. Once again, I am trying to make sense of what is a very public debate in the 2010’s. Content is everywhere Content is…
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The content society 2: the new faces of meaning
EN I might have titled this article « the slow march to irrelevancy of language as we know it » because that is all I am going to talk about here (using, incidentally, the English language – quelle ironie !). Language, if anything, is meaning. (The sentence « you know what I mean » actually signals « I » have reached the limits…
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The content society 1: 2012
EN Thoughts about what I call, for lack of a better word, the « content society » keep nagging me lately. Let’s try to spell them out in order to achieve temporary peace of mind. Content in the news The news reports are buzzing with content-related conflicts: the “Search Plus Your World” update of the Google search…