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Jonathan Harris
Personal blog · number27.orgdesignculture
Jonathan Harris's personal blog at number27.org covers design and culture. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jonathan Harris's essay World Building in a Crazy World, which argues online social connection has grown short and superficial, and his data visualisation work on the emotional content of the internet.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jonathan Harris is an American artist and computer scientist known for his work with data, story, and ritual. He is the creator of the publishing studio Sunlight Papers and a steward of High Acres Farm.
What Hacker News says?
Hi Craig, hi folks. I'd like to hear you talk with Buster Benson, currently at Slack, and Jonathan Harris, http://number27.org/ Thank you for rethinking the series! Al
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on “Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?”Submitted World Building in a Crazy World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis may be a tiny blip in a larger trend, actually. Jonathan Harris wrote an essay sometime back called World Building in a Crazy World ( http://www.number27.org/worldbuilding.html ) where he argues, approximately, that social connection over the Internet has been moving towards the short and superficial for some time now, and has found an end-point in Twitter. I believe he's right - when you've hit Twitter, the on…
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on “How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. ”Submitted Our digital crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think an interesting related avenue of research would be investigating analytically the "emotional" content of the Internet. Johnathan Harris over at http://www.number27.org has made some great strides in the area looking at blog posts and global news content (see http://www.wefeelfine.org and http://www.tenbyten.org ). While Harris has some very impressive visualizations of massive amounts of data I believe we ar…
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on “Official Google Research Blog: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data”Submitted Universe by Jonathan Harris (data visualization) as a story · 1 points
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