Note to Self

Is your phone watching you? Can texting make you smarter? Are your kids real? Note to Self explores these and other essential quandaries facing anyone trying to preserve their humanity in the digital age.

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Senaste avsnittet: 25 juni, 2018

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2018-06-25 | 26 min

Dear (Data) Diary

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Long-distance friends Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec spent a year tracking the little things in life. Thanks yous, coffees, complaints, street sounds. And each week, they turned their small-scale data collections into <a href="http://www.dear-data.com/thebook/">whimsical hand-drawn postcards.</a>On a minute level, they may not say much. But look at them together and they tell an intimate story. This week, Giorgia and Stefanie talk us through three weeks of data, and all the big lessons in our most mundane moments.-------For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but Note to Self will be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Look at more postcards by Giorgia and Stefanie <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/dear-data-quantified-self-tracking">here</a>.

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2018-06-20 | 17 min

A Different Kind of Streaking

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With former Google designer Tristan Harris, who explains how far Silicon Valley will go to capture and control your eyeballs. And Snapchat artist CyreneQ, who makes her living drawing on her phone all day. For real.-------For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but Note to Self will be back before you know it with some changes and surprises.

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2018-06-07 | 20 min

Your Metadata is Showing

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We asked you guys to send us photos. Then we gave them to Andreas Weigend, veteran of Xerox Parc, former chief scientist at Amazon, to see what he could deduce. A lot, it turns out.A little Google image search, a little metadata, and we can find where you are. Maybe who you are. What color phone you’re using to take the shot, and how many SIM cards you have.Reading photos is more than a digital parlor trick. It’s the future of commerce, marketing, policing, lending, and basically everything else.-------For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but Note to Self will be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on <a href="https://twitter.com/manoushz">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/manoushz/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, and on <a href="http://www.manoushz.com/newsletter/">her website</a>.

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2018-05-16 | 19 min

Whose Bot Army Is Following Manoush?

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Generic usernames, no photos, no tweets. This week, we investigate the dozens of mysterious accounts following Manoush on Twitter. Plus, what makes a good bot – and a bad one.-------For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but Note to Self will be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on <a href="https://twitter.com/manoushz">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/manoushz/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, and on <a href="http://www.manoushz.com/newsletter/">her website</a>.

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2018-05-02 | 22 min

The Fourth Amendment Needs Your Attention

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This week, the Supreme Court cases that defined privacy for the digital age. Because the founding fathers didn’t write the Bill of Rights with the internet in mind.-------For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but she’ll be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on <a href="https://twitter.com/manoushz">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/manoushz/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, and on <a href="http://www.manoushz.com/newsletter/">her website</a>.

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