2016 - Page 17 of 18 - Sam Harrelson

Ad Tech Industry’s Impending Crash

Sam Harrelson on January 11, 2016

“But when networks engage in excessive arbitrage by packaging and reselling inventory multiple times, visibility into the quality of their inventory diminishes, creating an opening for bad actors to inject invalid impressions into the ecosystem. If this sounds eerily like the relationship between collateralized residential mortgages and the 2008-2009 financial crisis, that’s because it is.”

Source: Malvertising: Three Things You Need To Know – Forbes

Sam Harrelson on January 11, 2016

Throughout his career, Bowie pushed the boundaries of music from all angles: His public persona constantly evolved as he shifted genres like a time traveler’s temporal jumps. He also wasn’t afraid to grasp at the future of business: He launched an ISP called BowieNet in 1998, saying at the time, “If I was 19 again, I’d bypass music and go right to the internet.”

Source: David Bowie predicted the Apple Music future in 2003 | Cult of Mac

The Human Hope, the Cloud, and why 70% of internet traffic flows through Northern Virginia

Sam Harrelson on January 10, 2016

Short but fascinating-to-ponder pilgrim’s progress piece…

And maybe my desire to submerge myself in that sediment, to weave The Cloud into the timelines of railroad robber-barons and military R&D, emerges from the same anxiety that makes me go try to find these buildings in the first place: that maybe we have mistaken The Cloud’s fiction of infinite storage capacity for history itself. It is a misunderstanding that hinges on a weird, sad, very human hope that history might actually end, or at least reach some kind of perfect equipoise in which nothing terrible could ever happen again. As though if we could only collate and collect and process and store enough data points, the world’s infinite vaporware of real-time data dashboards would align into some kind of ultimate sand mandala of total world knowledge, a proprietary data nirvana without terror or heartbreak or bankruptcy or death, heretofore only gestured towards in terrifying wall-to-wall Accenture and IBM advertisements at airports.

Source: Up to 70 Percent of Global Internet Traffic Goes Through Northern Virginia – Nextgov.com

Episode 23: Thinking Religion 62: No one gets crucified for being too nice – Thinking.FM

Sam Harrelson on January 8, 2016

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Thomas and Sam discuss the demise of Evernote but their renewed use, why app stores are the new platform, their love of This Is Ground products, and how Christians should and could deal with violence.

Show Notes:

Lame-O | Urban Dictionary
Evernote’s Demise and the 5% Problem | VentureBeat
Riff | This Is Ground
Liberty University president urges students to be armed | CNN
Should Christians Be Encouraged to Arm Themselves? | John Piper
“Go Buy a Sword!” Luke 22 and Christian Gunslingers | Patheos
A Reply to Dale Martin’s JSNT Essay (Part 1) | The Jesus Blog
A Reply to Dale Martin’s JSNT Essay (Part 2) | The Jesus Blog
Pleasing the Lord in Oregon | Thomas in Marginalia

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The New York Public Library Uploads 200,000 Images for Public Use

Sam Harrelson on January 6, 2016

What the web was made for… much more beneficial to humanity than social media silos or native content ads:

The New York Public Library just uploaded nearly 200,000 images you can use for free | The Verge: “The New York Public Library just released a treasure trove of digitized public domain images, featuring epic poetry from the 11th century to photographs of used car lots in Columbus, Ohio from the 1930s. Over 180,000 manuscripts, maps, photographs, sheet music, lithographs, postcards, and other images were released online Wednesday in incredibly high resolution, and are available to download using the library’s user-friendly visualization tool. It’s a nostalgist’s dream come true.”

Episode 22: Thinking Out Loud 95: We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby – Thinking.FM

Sam Harrelson on January 5, 2016

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Elisabeth and Merianna talk about their New Year’s Resolutions including reading, writing and personal challenges. They also talk about how far they have come since they first started podcasting and some exciting plans for 2016!