Victim of the Brain is a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos, loosely based on The Mind’s I, a compilation of texts and stories on the philosophy of mind and self, co-edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The film weaves interviews with Hofstadter with adaptations of several works in the book: Dennett’s Where am I?, The Soul of the Mark III Beast by Terrel Miedaner, and also the short story The Seventh Sally by Stanisław Lem. The film was shown several times on television in the Netherlands in the late eighties. (Wikipedia)

Came across it because science journalist Steven Stroeykens called it his favourite Youtube moment (the embedded version is Google Video, Youtube only allows fragments up to 10 minutes).

You might know Dan Pink from A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself.

“Internet of things” is one of those metaphors in tech that is causing more harm than it is useful as most people see it as a technology/trend in itself and not a holistic description of a co-evolution of both technological and organisational developements.

This short movie by IBM does a good job in explaining the meme (via).

The guys who talked last year about hacking MySpace are back. They’ve got a new tool that automates the hacking of user-generate content across a bunch of sites. Listen to these security researchers talk about the implications of unsafe Web 2.0 security.

Another blitzily designed video on social media, actually a viral to promote the book and other socialnomics^TM -branded activities (notice the TradeMark?).

At 3’50’’:

“A high quality landing page should have relevant, original content, be easily navigable with quick load times and minimum pop-ups and pop-unders and be transparent about the nature of your business, how it interacts with the visitor’s computer, and how you intend to use the visitor’s personal information.”

Interesting. Wondering just how they quantify that transparency.  Is it an on-off switch i.e. do they just check the availability of a privacy/terms of use page?

Possibilities are mindboggling.  This (type of) interface can become as widespread as Google Maps.

Excerpt from Twitter Conversation (in Dutch, reverse chronological order):

Aza Raskin demonstrates the faster and more userfriendly way of developing Firefox extensions, released last month.

New Google search options are impressive.  Only available on the English Google.com though.  More here.