April 2009
19 posts
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“LIFE IS STRONGER THAN DEATH”
– A church sign in Newton.
I feel like there are plentiful counterexamples.
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Sunlight Labs →
Turning Government Data into Usable Information. API’s for “civic coders” inclined towards transparency through data visualization. God this is sexy.
“It’s not surprising that it took me so long to discover the extent of my...”
– The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: an article by William Deresiewicz about how universities should exist to make minds, not careers | The American Scholar
“On Christmas 2006, tens of thousands of people found Linksys routers under their...”
– Groundswell (Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff)
(I lol’d.)
Telekinesis - Imaginary Friend (from...
“For Farina, the notable thing about virtual communities is not that they replace...”
– ted hirsch’s media lab masters thesis
“Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office wasn’t so sure. Although the mayor...”
– Mirkarimi proposal: Let S.F. sell medical pot
At least they have a sense of humor about it.
“I pulled Keyes aside before his speech and asked him what he would do if he were...”
– Conservative protesters hold a “tea party” without any tea bags. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
You can’t really make this stuff up.
“A few days ago I wrote about the Twitter revolution in Moldova. Today we are...”
– #Amazonfail and the politics of anti-corporate cyberactivism | Net Effect
This is a pretty good post otherwise… but I feel like this paragraph is symptomatic. Why can nobody write a post about Twitter and anything without concluding that Twitter and consumers or students or activists or...
“if Twitter *isn’t* a strategy, what would you propose? http://is.gd/s2YL...”
– Twitter / Jon Pincus
Any other questions about the disadvantages of in-stream metadata?
MoveOn's Adam Green:: Profiles in Bad Online... →
Every activist email must have a plausible “theory of change.” People should see some concrete theory about why taking action could lead to a desired result. But some people choose to inflame people’s passions just to get their email addresses (and, more likely than not, to fundraise from them — as opposed to later engaging them in quality activism). This sullys the online...
“The Obama Administration goes two steps further than Bush did, and claims that...”
– In Warrantless Wiretapping Case, Obama DOJ’s New Arguments Are Worse Than Bush’s | Electronic Frontier Foundation
tweenbots | kacie kinzer →
Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. … The results were unexpected.
(a...
“I didn’t think much of it, I assumed he was camped on a search.twitter...”
– This Machine Eats Tweets: The System Behind @Comcast and Others - ReadWriteWeb
Twitter / Chris Lehmann →
Libertarians propose “seasteading”; will fend off Somali pirates with fusillades of “Atlas Shrugged”: http://tinyurl.com/czdrgj
(Ana Marie Cox has been almost disappointingly earnest lately. But happily, her husband still brings the snark. I lol’d.)
“In the last year, hundreds of companies have decided that social networks are...”
– “Autistic Social Software” :: Supernova 2004
Birth-Control Pill Lands Fairfax Student 2-Week... →
“When a Fairfax County mother got an urgent call from school last month reporting that her teenage daughter was caught popping a pill at lunchtime, she did not panic. “It was probably her birth-control pill,” she thought. She was right. Her heart dropped that afternoon in the assistant principal’s office at Oakton High School when she and her daughter heard the mandatory...
A.P. Moving to Halt Use of Articles on Web Sites -... →
“There has already been a similar backlash in Europe. In 2007, a Belgian court blocked Google from using articles from some newspapers in that country, and Danish newspapers successfully warned Google away from using their material without first reaching some kind of agreement. Several days ago, the British newspaper industry asked the government to intervene on its behalf to force Google to...