links for 2009-01-22

"All kinds of mobile media can be used to register and track behavior, varying from spatial use (where was I last week) to consumption patterns (what did I buy, what was I reading, listening to on my iPod etc). I will call this Google Earth Urbanism: the possibility to leave one’s tracks and markup actual space. These track records can be analyzed on aggregate, or used on an individual base. They can be used as the base for what one could call Long Tail Urbanism: reference to potential sites or persons of interest through ‘discovery algorithms’. "

Remember life before e-mails and cell phones?

The hi-tech devices were supposed to help simplify our lives and give our brains a break by storing phone numbers and other important information.

But the real impact of all that technology is that we're now being overloaded with information and we may be actually losing our memory!