Technoculture Blog

Hi folks, since we've been talking about free labor, we might as well do some. No compulsion here -- only on the Discussion Board. Also no payment. I thought this might be a good place to list links that relate to class themes. I mentioned the AOL data dump in class: here's a USA Today piece on it. Once the data was released online some free laborers put it into a searchable, sortable database [warning: many of the pre-fab searches here yield explicit results] which lead to some disturbing findings -- a portrait of the type of things people wonder about when they think no one is watching. If you Google AOL and Splunk, you'll find more examples of searches conducted on the data [same warning applies].