A program that makes poems from our tweets / With rhyming lines and smooth iambic beats … Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote a program to find tweets in iambic pentameter and retweet them in rhyming pairs. With NPR’s Jacki Lyden, he shares some of the resulting couplets.
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/16/172031066/pentametron-reveals-unintended-poetry-of-twitter-users
Recording of a talk from NOTACON 2004 discusses the history of computing and creativity. It isn’t for for everyone, but anyone with an interest in this area could find this interesting.
The average person today consumes almost three times as much information as what the typical person consumed in 1960, according to research at the University of California, San Diego.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/29/132369113/the-price-of-having-your-brain-on-computers