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Tapping the Alpha Geek Noosphere with EtherPeg

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amuse-themselves-to-death dept.

tadghin writes "Rob Flickenger has an amazing take on what's happening in the wireless noosphere at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference. Rob used EtherPeg, a great Mac OS X hack that lets you see the GIFs and JPEGs flying around on the local network, to key off on an amazing visual commentary on what people were doing during Steven Johnson's keynote."

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  1. amazing. like reading the gnutella traffic by kipple · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...more or less the content is the same, except that in the gnutella traffic there's no ads forced to appear. so basically reading the gnutella traffic flow is like watching a "live" statistic of what human beings are doing online.

    on the other hand, if you remove any porn- related keyword, probably you could reduce the traffic by a great 80%. but that's another issue (I thought of that because the 'sex' pic in the first jpeg of the article)...

    interesting though

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