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[Tags: egov transparency everything_is_miscellaneous ]
Posted: Jan. 8, 2009 09:30 PM
Spite marketing
I’m on a mailing list where one particular member is so abusive of those who disagree with him — which includes most of the people on the list — that reading his latest post reminded me to donate to the ACLU.
In fact, I’d like the ACL
Posted: Jan. 8, 2009 11:42 AM
Reform the FCC
There are lots of ideas, resources, and discussion about how to reform the FCC at the aptly named Reforming the FCC site put together by Public Knowledge and Silicon Flatirons.
[Tags: fcc net_neutrality ]
Posted: Jan. 7, 2009 10:10 AM
Daily (intermittent) Open-Ended Puzzle: Wikipedia body parts
Einstein’s brain has its own Wikipedia entry. There is in fact a Wikipedia category for articles about famous body parts. Without referring to that page, what body parts of which individuals do you think deserve their own Wikipedia entries?
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Posted: Jan. 6, 2009 03:20 PM
Ada Lovelace Day
Suw Charman-Anderson has started a pledge at PledgeBank that asks 1,000 people to agree to blog about a woman in technology on the birthday of Ada Lovelace, March 24. [Tags: ada_lovelace women_in_technology ]
Posted: Jan. 6, 2009 03:10 PM
Vague research question: Atoms vs. bits
How far back does the “atoms vs. bits” idea go? Did anyone talk about it before Nicholas Negroponte in “Being Digital“?
Some specifications of what I’m looking for:
- It has to be actual bits, i.e., binary units of inf
Posted: Jan. 6, 2009 09:47 AM
Doc Searls - Washington Post photographer
Not that Doc needs validation by the mainstream media, but I still think it’s pretty cool that the Washington Post has snagged one of his photos off of Flickr to illustrate their article about Dean Elena Kagan being selected as Obama’s So
Posted: Jan. 5, 2009 02:26 PM
Alternative voices
Habib Battah has an op-ed in Al Jazeera about the disparity between the American media coverage of the Israeli invasion and the Arab world’s. And there’s always Global Voices if you want to hear what bloggers in the region are saying.
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Posted: Jan. 5, 2009 09:57 AM
Tags made smarter, easier
Sarah Perez at Read Write Web has a good post about a service that “understands” the meaning of of your tags (Zigtag) and another that suggests tags based on its analysis of Wikipedia (faviki). These services — I haven’t tried th
Posted: Jan. 5, 2009 09:23 AM
Getting past the self-reflexive beginning
A tweet from Jeff Jarvis:
My son says his problem with Twitter is too much Twittering about Twitter. Judging by today, he’s right. And I just added to it.
That used to be the case with blogging when it first started. Every other post (includi
Posted: Jan. 4, 2009 11:50 AM
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