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5 Paradoxical Time Travel Stories - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/5-paradoxical-time-travel-stories

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Can you imagine a time before we dreamed about time travel? The idea of altering an unpleasant future disclosed by an oracle, and the associated paradoxes of Fate, have been with us for millennia; but before H.G. Wells’ The Time Traveller, in 1895, the concept of time travel was wispy and of very little cultural import. Wells’ thrilling tale of adventure catapulted it into the popular imagination. Because Wells popularized time travel, his description of time travelling is allowed to be blurry; he was exploring brand-new territory, after all. Stories since then have had to be just as inventive, and most opt to take the concept in a new direction. (Read “A Nonlinear History of Time Travel,” James Gleick’s Nautilus feature, to appreciate the concept’s journey.) From the physics-challenging (...)

Librarians of the Twitterverse - by James Gleick | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

►http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jan/16/librarians-twitterverse

The Library of Congress is now stockpiling the entire Twitterverse, or Tweetosphere, or whatever we’ll end up calling it—anyway, the corpus of all public tweets. There are a lot. The library embarked on this project in April 2010, when Jack Dorsey’s microblogging service was four years old, and four years of tweeting had produced 21 billion messages. Since then Twitter has grown, as these things do, and 21 billion tweets represents not much more than a month’s worth. As of December, the library had received 170 billion—each one a 140-character capsule garbed in metadata with the who-when-where.

The library has attached itself to the firehose. A stream of information flows from 500 million registered twitterers (counting duplicates, dead people, parodies, imaginary friends, and bots) who thumb their hurried epistles into phones and tablets and PCs, and the tweets pour into Twitter’s servers at a rate of thousands per second—tens of thousands at peak times: World Cup matches, presidential elections, Beyonce’s pregnancy—and make their way in “real time” to a company called Gnip, a social-media data provider in Boulder, Colorado. Gnip organizes them into one-hour batches on a secure server for download, where they are counted and checked and finally copied to reels of magnetic tape, to be stored in a couple of filing cabinets. In different locations, for safety. If you have ever tweeted, rest assured that each of your little gems is there for posterity.

#twitter #US #LOC

Internet : l’impossible archivage
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/01/28/internet-limpossible-archivage

La lecture de la semaine est un post de blog sur le site de la New York Review of books (@nybooks), on le doit à James Gleick (Wikipédia, @JamesGleick) et il s’intitule : “les bibliothécaires de la twittosphère”.
“Dans les années 1850, les compagnies de télégraphe anglaises et américaines eurent l’idée, vite abandonnée, qu’ell …

Source : InternetActu.net - Xavier de la Porte

Internet : l’impossible archivage
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/01/28/internet-limpossible-archivage

La lecture de la semaine est un post de blog sur le site de la New York Review of books (@nybooks), on le doit à James Gleick (Wikipédia, @JamesGleick) et il s’intitule : “les bibliothécaires de la twittosphère”. “Dans les années 1850, les compagnies de télégraphe anglaises et américaines eurent l’idée, vite abandonnée, qu’elles pourraient (et devraient) archiver chaque message…

#analyse_des_réseaux #économie_de_l'attention #big_data #humanités_numériques

Ruth’s Reviews – “The Information” - James Gleick : Nature
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/11/ruths-reviews-the-information.html

It is charming to read the excitement and fear these advances engender. The excitement of being able to send text at speed was met by a fear that this would mean the death of newspapers. One journalist is quoted, worrying that “intelligence, thus hastily gathered, and transmitted, has also its drawbacks, and is not so trustworthy as the news which starts later and travels slower”. This will sound familiar to anyone concerned with the rise of the internet and citizen reporting today.

ah oui là il s’agissait du télégraphe…

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#journalisme #internet #histoire