February 2012
“Dyson: Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone...”
– Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired’s Kevin Kelly | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
The Boy Who Played With Fusion | Popular Science →
www.popsci.com
“Every time I hear someone on a podcast say that RSS is dead I can’t help but...”
– inessential.com: Podcasts (via superfeedr)
“Rather than tell her 11th-grade English students the definition of...”
– Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story - NYTimes.com
“I ask because I worry that we increasingly externalise problems rather than...”
– Goodreads | Chris McDowall (New Zealand)’s review of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“The Mahabharat was crowd-sourced over centuries,” he told his Nasscom audience....”
– Shekhar Kapur Announces Qyuki: A Social Network For Stories - NYTimes.com
“The “possessed” spider even crochets a specific geometric design in the net,...”
– How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The Atlantic
“[iCloud in OS X Mountain Lion] not a replacement of traditional Mac file...”
– Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion
“factual errors, including some that contradicted their own cited sources”
– The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia
“You should not delete information supported by the majority of sources to...”
– The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia
“Experienced data journalists list spreadsheets as a top data journalism too”
– The bond between data and journalism grows stronger - O’Reilly Radar
“When information was scarce, most of our efforts were devoted to hunting and...”
– The bond between data and journalism grows stronger - O’Reilly Radar
“The standards process doesn’t only help with interoperability, it also helps...”
– A List Apart: Articles: Every Time You Call a Proprietary Feature “CSS3,” a Kitten Dies
life is grand.: An almost perfect personal... →
ericaberger:
I’m editing this a bit, but this is a beautiful worldview from al3x:
In terms of social ideology, I identify as a secular humanist. On matters of faith, I’m an agnostic. Politically, I’m a [registered—I’m not registered] independent; my politics are closest to that of The Economist…
“The function of a newsroom in the future is to coordinate the voices of the...”
– Scripting News: NYT growing the wrong way
“applicants should focus on how existing systems can be used to deliver...”
– KNC 2.0: The Knight News Challenge revamps to quicken the pace of journalism innovation » Nieman Journalism Lab
Testing mp3.
Test Chat
Dog: Hello
Man: How are you?
Dog: Great!
Man: Share pictures?
Dog: Woof!
Test Link →
A test link.
“One interesting detail that emerged in the case was that the U.S. Patent Office...”
– Jury to Eolas: Nobody owns the interactive web - O’Reilly Radar
“ It’s been said it a thousand times before, by me and many others, but it’s...”
– stevenberlinjohnson.com: Anatomy Of An Idea
“Zynga generates over 15 TB of new data every single day”
– Big Data and Little Data: from Zynga to Moneyball - Inside Enterprise IT - Enterprise - Dell Community
“Ultimately, this is a false construct. What these discussions need is the...”
– When you commit to “release early and often” you have to actually do it - O’Reilly Radar
“technically the web was invented in France, not Switzerland”
– David Galbraith’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tim Berners-Lee. Confirming The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented
“In every case, humanity and common sense made the insoluble problem just get up...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“White-collar crime happens through an intersection of pathology and opportunity;”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“criminal activity seems like most other human choices—a question of contingent...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“If mass incarceration is considered as a system of social control—specifically,...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged; a liberal is a conservative who’s...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“A policy of good jobs in principle, but no jobs in practice, might assuage our...”
– Slate - Dismal Scientist - March 20, 1997
“[Zuckerberg] owns 28.4 percent of the company outright and he controls 57...”
– For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches - NYTimes.com
“Google as an organization has moved on; they’re focussed now on market position,...”
– Nelson’s Weblog: tech / no-longer-loving-google
“We are going to permanently remove networks from Ning that have never purchased...”
– An unnecessarily passive-aggressive email from Ning.com.
“social cachet for those invited, and a feeling of anxiety for those left out”
– BBC News - Trendfear: Do you ever feel you’re being left behind?
January 2012
“Charles sold his ignorance rather than his expertise. When you sell your...”
– A Case For Ignorance / Cultural Capital
“It does suggest someone or something else needs to take Twitter’s place as a...”
– When Twitter Blocks Tweets, It’s #Outrage - NYTimes.com
“When Google buys Netflix in the next 18 months — and it will — it...”
– We Need to Empower Hollywood—Not Kill Hollywood - LAUNCH -
“For discovery, Twitter and Stellar. No RSS…stopped doing that a few months ago...”
– 5 Minutes on The Verge: Jason Kottke | The Verge
books & bits asthore: Banana-skin pirouette and... →
Nobody wants a motorcar till there are motorcars, and nobody is interested in TV until there are TV programs. This power of technology to create its own world of demand is not independent of technology being first an extension of our own bodies and senses. When we are deprived of our sense of…
