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__NOTOC__ ==30 April 2011== timoreilly Key question from Doug Engelbart: "How do we improve our ability to improve?" Via @barneyp loic The Scientology e-meter! Seriously, I'd LOVE to see a technical teardown of this thing http://ping.fm/zJX44 *If You’re Going To Kill It, Open Source It! timoreilly RT @venessamiemis: Why the Online Identity & Data Ownership Debate Matters http://bit.ly/lAstCe I agree. It does matter. loic Wise cost cutting = France Is Dropping Concrete Chunks on Libya http://ping.fm/CGbPw timoreilly Prepare your AWS app for failure: get chapter 1 and 2 of this book for free http://oreil.ly/j3v5a3 (#amazon #ec2 #aws) cshirky .@jilliancyork Why we shouldn't expect Facebook and its peers to act in the world's best interests http://bit.ly/mQSGsC cshirky Mockingbirdz, an experiment with fake Twitter profiles anyone can use. It's like a Twitter costume party. http://mbirdz.com hrheingold Cooper on successful creative collaboration http://bit.ly/l3avcD timoreilly Dancing, sleep, novelty, learning new skills among the recommendations for brain health. http://bit.ly/lDLh9B loic Is your CEO sharing stories? http://ping.fm/zto1E timoreilly RT @oscon Registration for OSCON 2011 is now open. See the full schedule of tutorials, sessions, speakers, and events http://oscon.com timoreilly Nice to see that @strobe (@OATV investment) won Best of Show at Under the Radar http://bit.ly/jgKBVh Cross-platform HTML5 apps FTW! Prokofy Yeah, the Lindens never tire of Insilico, breeding place for Emerald, etc. Ten Photogenic Spots in Second Life: http://bit.ly/mfDNfe hrheingold Public slideshow abt discovering feeds for infotention part of Intro to Mind Amplifiers http://bit.ly/InfotentionDiscovery #mindamp *3 videos hrheingold Pt 2 of my series for dmlcentral on Rheingold U & related issues: http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/pop-university hrheingold Learning in networks of knowledge http://www.knowledgenetworklearning.net/concepts/ timoreilly Thought-provoking: RT @zephoria Youth find privacy online not by limiting the access to content, but by limiting access to meaning. #privacy dsearls Personal leverage for personal data: http://bit.ly/mNQBv8 HTs to @r @williamheath @gammydodger @berkmancenter #VRM #CRM #IIW #IIW12 *UK Cabinet pdf: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/better-choices-better-deals.pdf loic Delicious saved by @chad_hurley ! You rock, Chad! http://ping.fm/dhEbz ==29 April 2011== Wagner James Au - Koster: "What was a hypothetical exercise is so no longer, and we should expect the same waves of questions that existed with avatar identities and virtual governance to return" in questions about social networks. *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/04/social-network-rights-like-virtual-world-rights.html ==28 April 2011== JustAmira Global Voices: Syria: The Revolution Continues (Video): It's the Friday of Rage in Syria, with tens of thousands... http://bit.ly/kUvXJK Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Syrian Revolution : Another Anger Friday , Another day http://goo.gl/fb/UvBi7 weddady Footage of the people of #Damascus thanking god for rain (i.e protesting against the regime) http://is.gd/RtW8RR #LetItRain #Syria #Courage SultanAlQassemi CNN: Kuwaiti royal calls for democracy inside 'own house' http://bit.ly/ixlJT2 weddady In ancient Rome, even slaves, once freed, could rise to become senators. Not so in today’s UAE http://is.gd/ndNY7g #Activism JustAmira 8 Must-Follow Twitter Feeds for Syrian Protests http://t.co/ITm0dJv Signup for New Facebook Messages *http://www.facebook.com/about/messages loic Delicious saved by @chad_hurley ! You rock, Chad! http://ping.fm/dhEbz dsearls "Client-server is not the only truth and Facebook is (just) a modern version of a Telco." (And FB ? the Internet.) http://t.co/HGXJbht #vrm timoreilly How mealsnap app works (it's powered by Mechanical Turk) http://bit.ly/fsyEIM via @josephflaherty hrheingold Digital Africa http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/jm-ledgard/digital-africa?page=full hrheingold Mark Elliott's thesis on stigmergic collaboration (PDF) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4144387/elliott_phd_pub_08.10.07.pdf *Google group about cooperation commons: http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons weddady If Arab philanthropy culture was anywhere near the US, then ppl like Walid Al Saqqaf from #Yemen would be famous http://is.gd/iJCDrR *Yemeni Activist, Walid al Saqqaf, Awarded TED Fellowship for anti-Censorship Efforts shadihamid Looks like the Palestinians have reached a unity agreement. If so, this is a very, very big deal: http://bit.ly/io2A1S ==27 April 2011== Delia Lake Why Virtual Worlds (like Second Life) Have More Value Then Twitter & Facebook | Sand Castle Studios *http://changingworldsbuildingdreams.com/why-virtual-worlds-like-second-life-have-more-value-then-twitter-facebook Mitch Wagner If the Royal Wedding would be like this, I wouldn't hate it. *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug David Orban I activated 'Secure Browsing' (default connection via encrypted https instead of http) on Facebook. You should too, especially if you frequently use public wifi connections. https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130 Gwyneth Llewelyn - A hilarious test designed by Dr. Epstein to figure out who is human and who is not! I utterly failed — I'm just 71% human, which is pretty bad :) Thanks to Khannea for the test :) *http://howhumanareyou.com/ Wagner James Au via Malorie Lucich Facebook Launches Send Button, Replaces Email to a Friend *http://mashable.com/2011/04/25/facebook-send-groups ShababLibya http://bit.ly/eGEHRC Ex-Gaddafi ‘Nun’ Reveals Perverse Regime Secrets (Translated) #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes SultanAlQassemi @ArabianBusiness list of "Top Arabs on Twitter" http://bit.ly/h99I2B via @nalshaikh acarvin RT @25nonstop: 'No Humanity Left' in #Syria | http://goo.gl/8LBaG | Truly epic eyewitness account from a journalist near #Daraa. Must read. acarvin Wow. Yes, read this. RT @matthewteller: Take 5 mins, Andy. Best story you'll read today. "A Gay Girl in Damascus" http://bit.ly/eDleXY taterunino Why Gamification doesn’t mean anything http://j.mp/hXXj2A #gamification TishShute Must read! via @jeremie & .@sixwing: & the work of the @lockerproject becomes ever clearer http://nyti.ms/eipyoR c u @ pii2011 @techpolicy loic Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project http://ping.fm/2PaqH loic How to survive the next amazon cloud fail http://ping.fm/uq1tG acarvin Good enough for me. RT @tarekshalaby: You all need to #follow @rania_hafez because she's fuckin' cool and is becoming my role model in life. weddady RT @T1B0: RT @ByLasKo "Tueur en Syrie" en #Une de Libération mercredi 27 avril 2011 http://twitpic.com/4pvhpa acarvin In case you missed @gsquare86 on the Daily Show last night: http://bit.ly/fZaneQ #egypt #jan25 acarvin Candlelit Syrian protest: http://youtu.be/42PkDNKxBCI ==26 April 2011== weddady RT @vatyma: Great footage of yesterday's Day of Anger http://bit.ly/f2aBIs #Mauritania #25Avril weddady RT @rallaf: Read every word of Samar Yazbek's haunting "A Damascene Diary" - so proud of compatriots like her! http://bit.ly/i4NudK #Syria ShababLibya Please see this #Libya relief guide: http://goo.gl/WX6K7 Donate now! Let us know of any other fundraising events/organizations #feb17 ArabRevolution Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantanamo - Glenn Greenwald - http://bit.ly/ciwJzl http://bit.ly/hxg01a *WikiLeaks is responsible for more newsworthy scoops over the last year than all media outlets combined: it’s not even a close call. ShababLibya http://bit.ly/eSKUfm comedy sketch from East Libya - Arabic only #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes ==25 April 2011== ShababLibya This is the First free public opinion poll to be conducted in Free #Libya What do Eastern Libyans think of the NTC etc? http://bit.ly/fytzK9 shadihamid My new, longish essay in the Cairo Review on "Why the Arab street finally revolted": http://bit.ly/hAjFGZ #Egypt SultanAlQassemi Wired: Wael @Ghonim Leaving Google to Launch Tech NGO in Egypt http://bit.ly/fbWJtN shadihamid Scorecard: No Arab monarchies have had revolutions yet. 2 republics have. 2 more are likely to follow SultanAlQassemi The Telegraph: Crown Prince of Bahrain politically sidelined by senior royal advisers http://bit.ly/gVADd2 via @halmustafa shadihamid Article profiling #Bahrain human rights activist @Maryamalkhawaja. Check it out: http://bit.ly/ehY1TI Scobleizer I still can't answer every inbox message, but at least now I have a chance. My secret? Hundreds of Gmail filters AND Gmail's Smart Labels. Scobleizer In just four days my Gmail account saved my inbox from: 367 spams. 43 bulk. 6 Forums. 63 notifications. 274 other messages filtered. Thanks! timoreilly RT @edyson Getting From the Internet What It Knows About You http://nyti.ms/f0d8zL Good piece on why owning our data is good for everyone timoreilly I agree: The Amazon AWS failure shows why the cloud is so important. http://oreil.ly/hElCTr How to think about cloud reliability timoreilly I'm speaking at the Good Internet conference in Berkeley this morning, at around 11:15. http://bit.ly/dJcj7V timoreilly "We’ve moved from the lonely tinkerer to the social tinkerer who can share ideas." @dalepd in http://nyti.ms/gVKaEz #make #makerfaire #diy timoreilly Nice: Fair Trade meets the CSA as community supported agriculture goes global with coffee http://nyti.ms/eDtCQU timoreilly The world still contains such surprises! Bacterial Ecosystems Divide People Into 3 Groups http://nyti.ms/eesJ4z Makes sense Scobleizer Video: Tara Hunt @missrogue explains @theBuyosphere which helps you find more of the things you like http://t.co/rvjYXCF dsearls Freeing up Layer 7: http://bit.ly/gdCJvB in @LinuxJournal HTs to @zeo @getdigifit @withings @runkeeper @dailyburn @quantifiedself #VRM timoreilly The Founder's Library - great collection of articles for entrepreneurs http://bit.ly/f1ExsO via @edd timoreilly Mr. Jassy, Tear Down This Wall! Open letter from @RomanStanek of @gooddata in response to the AWS outage http://bit.ly/fGMiKQ Howard Rheingold hrheingold RT @carlacasilli http://bit.ly/epygRq *Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: A 21st-Century View of Meditation taterunino Linden Lab abandons XMPP replacement for Second Life messaging. Again. http://j.mp/gd0osp #secondlife ==24 April 2011== weddady :) RT @JustAmira: RT @diptychal #Syria: President Bashar al-Assad faces indictment by the International Criminal Court http://zite.to/gE0Vh6 acarvin Excellent article. RT @SultanAlQassemi: Just published: My article in @Gulf_News "McCarthyism in Gulf social media" http://bit.ly/fh72pG Use private browsing mode for the NYTimes: *http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/gwbit/i_just_hit_the_nytimes_article_limit_and_to/ acarvin Wow. RT @ijohnpederson: Best piece of writing I've ever seen out of Merlin Mann. Possibly the best blog post. Ever. http://bit.ly/eP1DA4 ShababLibya ChrisMcGreal reveals how #Libyan revolution is unlike anything he's seen. Truly inspiring http://goo.gl/e81mF #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes ==23 April 2011== cshirky National Science Foundation blocks Global Voices, on the grounds that they discuss Tor, which is US-funded http://bit.ly/gbnTwY #facepalm timoreilly Hyperarchy: Open Decision-Making for Open Organizations: from dinner choices to democratic institutions http://bit.ly/hbxdNJ OpenSim Creations *http://opensim-creations.com/about-opensim-creations/ *OSC uses wordpress as the main software, bundled with buddypress to handle community tools, and bbpress to handle the forums software. The theme is Sight by WPShower. For statistics, we use Statpress reloaded and Google Analytics. timoreilly Absolutely fascinating teardown of the economics of the music scene from the perspective of an artist http://bit.ly/gj7F96 via @mikeloukides Scobleizer “@pdparticle: This article nails it on iPhone Tracking. Unfortunately it won't get much press. http://t.co/OMxlcDB cc: @counternotions” timoreilly .@tonystubblebine's Notes from his talk to an entrepreneurship class at Carnegie Mellon are fabulous. http://bit.ly/exFFMY Must read. Prokofy No, No, Keep the Game Gods from Self-Regulatory Bodies http://bit.ly/eOYBfA dsearls Prepping for #IIW: http://bit.ly/idwCjV *Internet Identity Workshop loic after the aurora borealis another INCREDIBLE video by Terje Sorgjerd: the mountain http://ping.fm/JzcJy timoreilly RT @radar: A hidden file in iOS 4 is recording the location of devices. @petewarden and @aallan explain http://oreil.ly/fEE5GR #where20 ShababLibya Aljazeera reports: How freedom fighters evaded phone network shutdown http://goo.gl/SMMmL #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes SultanAlQassemi Washington Post Op Ed: Reforms the Arab monarchies cannot avoid http://wapo.st/gexWAR by Abdulaziz Sager, Chairman of Gulf Research Centre ShababLibya If someone want to support #Musrata #Libya by charging their Thuraya phones please contact hfsa11@yahoo.com #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes Zeinobia Syrian Revolution : The Great Friday “Graphic” #HumanRights #media #citizenJournalism ? http://bit.ly/e0pjXU tariqkrim "Apple Rated Least Green Tech Company by Greenpeace: Will Consumers Care?" http://t.co/rkQzLJJ ==22 April 2011== JustAmira Photo: jilliancyork: http://tumblr.com/xmo285atwj JustAmira Fascinating article about homosexuality in the Baha'i faith and sexuality in 19th century Iran http://tumblr.com/xmo28597p7 acarvin RT @octavianasr: 'Journalists, opinions and the code of conduct on social media.' http://bit.ly/hWE8Kn shadihamid My new piece for The National Interest on #Egypt's foreign policy shifts & what it means for US: http://bit.ly/i6jbhH Egyptocracy Women have emerged as key players in the Arab spring http://t.co/cJYFjFx l Guardian #Syria #Yemen #Libya #women #arabspring JustAmira "For all the talk of Arab Spring, we should not expect these dramatic shifts to end as quickly as they..." http://tumblr.com/xmo27xu5tx *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_of_Democratization SultanAlQassemi Wael @Ghonim tops @Time magazine's 2011 list of the most influential people in the world. Complete list here: http://ti.me/gGIlJc acarvin At Jewish weddings back in the day, they'd sometimes hire a "tummler" whose job it was to help break the ice and get people interacting. acarvin The sound of gunfire in this #Syria video is extraordinary. Hear those high-pitched whizzes? Close calls. http://youtu.be/nCSP-pGuOlE 7our Algérie: ce n'est pas encore l'après-pétrole, mais c'est déjà l'après-cerveaux (BD de Slim) http://bit.ly/hr7cDa :) ==21 April 2011== David Orban Bitcoin P2P Virtual Currency - I wish you good luck, and good fortune, against the ire of Nation States everywhere. http://www.bitcoin.org/ *http://www.bitcoin.org/ Wagner James Au In Terminator, it's Skynet's birthday today, but Second Life founder Philip Rosedale has been trying to build a real life Skynet in SL since last year! *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/02/philip-rosedale-ai.html Wagner James Au 10 Charts About Sex « OkTrends *http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/ Blanka Eckstein via David J Otness *When Alan Met Ayn: "Atlas Shrugged" And Our Tanked Economy *http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/when-alan-met-ayn-atlas-shrugged-and-our-tanked-economy David Orban Google Mapmaker Pulse by @googlemaps is mirror-world zillionics in the making http://www.google.com/mapmaker/pulse Fabulous... arabist RT @fastcompany: Behind The Mystery Of Spam Tweets Clogging Syrian Protesters' Streams http://bit.ly/frdzZX arabist Libya, Searching for a Political Map: On the political forces in Libya [PDF] http://arb.st/ftYqBs JustAmira Paranoia and Mobile Phones : http://tinyurl.com/3uemh9b by @mahmood weddady The regime in #Bahrain is going to put human rights leader Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja on a military trial tomorrow. #Apartheid shadihamid Why are we more productive in coffeeshops? Interesting piece by @conor64: http://bit.ly/gxeOrc *http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/working-best-at-coffee-shops/237372/ shadihamid Can it really be that Omar Suleiman is more popular than Mohamed ElBaradei in #Egypt? http://bit.ly/ew8sMw JustAmira 5 "Rules" for journalists using Storify by @girljournalist http://t.co/PNihka1 Egyptocracy Artists reflect Egypt's revolutionary spirit http://t.co/bMyXkLY l CNN #Egypt #art #Jan25 #creative #inspiration themoornextdoor Very good read RT @blakehounshell: Must read. RT @HannahAllam: My story today on the leadership vacuum in Suez http://t.co/CnfZbcD #Egypt ==20 April 2011== loic The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything http://ping.fm/cGBVN timoreilly If you want to reach the enterprise, see@nickgrossman's The Enterprise End-Run http://bit.ly/g8OKhS @bryce just wrote something on this too dsearls Let's move tweeting off Twitter: http://bit.ly/hxtGZO @evanpro @DaveWiner cshirky Henry Farrell's "Against studying the Internet" http://bit.ly/ftzHkq timoreilly "Apple has sunk to the level of claiming infringement of rectangles" http://bit.ly/eNTJYF #absurdlawsuits #android via @mikeloukides lessig good summary. preso up soon. RT @ipwatch: Lessig @ CERN: Sci Knowledge Should Not Be Reserved For Academic Elite http://t.co/Ha8lMaT” dsearls I have revoked access to everything at https://twitter.com/settings/connections and I still get "hourly usage limit" messages. This is f'd. Scobleizer Thanks to @davidgosse for getting me the tour (he runs http://t.co/stbfKkj cool way to see available names on social networks). *Namecheck arabist In Egypt, Revolution Moves Into The Factories : NPR: Quotes @3arabawy http://arb.st/hP9YwU timoreilly RT @digiphile: Wonderful @washingtonpost article by @mikerosenwald on makers http://bit.ly/fKjEGW #make #makerfaire ==19 April 2011== Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Syrian Revolution : Homs’ own January 25 !! http://goo.gl/fb/ULjbf SultanAlQassemi The Syrian dictator's Mufti abandons him & condemns the daylight murder of civilians http://bit.ly/fgJERS Arabic Video 5:27min via @LeShaque Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Syria Revolution : Homs on Tahrir Path “Graphic” http://goo.gl/fb/nd3LV AlexGrech Al Jazeera's Social Media Experiment "The Stream" Launches Online Today http://ow.ly/4CrKH *Launches on May 4: http://stream.aljazeera.com ==18 April 2011== Mitch Wagner "There is much to behold in the photo—piled rolls of flesh, a five-foot-wide chair, tent-size overalls, brotherhood. I did not think to write about any of that. I stared at the picture for much of the day, and when I considered how to describe such a scene, one thought kept returning. I knew the heavy man was lonely." *http://www.chicagomag.com/core/pagetools.php?url=%2FChicago-Magazine%2FJune-2001%2FHeavy%2F&mode=print Blanka Eckstein Fascinating! If you are sitting, stand up and walk in place. NOW! *Is Sitting a Lethal Activity? *http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.html?_r=1 loic trying The Email Game http://ping.fm/0LbCk Scobleizer Check out my bookshelf after spring cleaning. Vaynerchuk, Ferriss, Godin, Kawasaki, and Peters will like! http://socialcam.com/v/dlHjGdFU Most popular camera on Flickr *http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/04/iphone-set-to-rule-flickr-in-the-next-few-months/ Scobleizer By far the most productive thing I've done this year is turn on Gmail's Smart Labels: http://t.co/5Y9gCD7 Have you turned them on yet? mkapor You may need more sleep than you think http://t.co/uTvXvJ6 lessig See Dan Kahan, http://t.co/AS57s6U RT @jamie_love: Why is the extreme right in so hostile to science or evidence? Are we that medieval? Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Syrian Revolution : Real Independence Day “Graphic” http://goo.gl/fb/3kQle weddady I wouldn't be surprised if ppl chanted in Benghazi: "We want Maggie!" RT @ZahratTrablis: http://t.co/OMoacp4 #Libya ==17 April 2011== Wilson on altruism *http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/04/17/where_does_good_come_from/ loic The Android Explosion: How Google’s Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens iPhone http://ping.fm/M56dd John Carter McKnight Wanna know the type of mind gamification appeals to? Here ya go. Via Michael Biff Burnam-Fink. *The World of Holy Warcraft - By Jarret Brachman and Alix Levine *http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/13/the_world_of_holy_warcraft acarvin NPR: Egypt Finds Its Own 'Jon Stewart'-More at http://n.pr/dJRKNJ ==16 April 2011== John Carter McKnight How to make voice calls. I love it! :D *Autostraddle — The Lost Art of Actually Talking on the Phone *http://www.autostraddle.com/the-lost-art-of-actually-talking-on-the-phone-84832/ lessig Oh YouTube, we hardly knew you. "YouTube Copyright School": http://t.co/xfoV6eR via @youtube Scobleizer GEEK PORN: Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter http://scoble.it/eislml Massive new datacenter operational officially today. Prokofy Charlie Sheen in the Sims? They have no shame http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSims?blend=23&ob=5#p/a/u/2/L4FxE3t-7Aw timoreilly as much as 70% of the energy a laptop will consume during its lifetime is used in manufacturing it http://bit.ly/hhoCr8 #embodiedenergy timoreilly Love it: why Google should just buy the music industry http://bit.ly/dYImlJ via @slashdot Scobleizer Inside a row of racks of Open Compute servers at Facebook's new datacenter - 360 view: http://occip.it/pyh02cymaj http://yfrog.com/h02cymaj Scobleizer Panoramic photo inside Facebook datacenter. Geek porn! http://occip.it/pyh41grdgj http://yfrog.com/h41grdgj dsearls How to fix or kill data about you: http://nyti.ms/dRVxh1 #vrm #crm hrheingold Anybody interested in volunteering to integrate http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/ w/ http://socialmediaclassroom.com ? TishShute Have a playful, musical Friday http://bit.ly/ekFSC8 . pro tip from @WELLO click and drag over many boxes SultanAlQassemi .@ahramonline: How Gamal brought down the whole Mubarak house http://bit.ly/i1T84x #Egypt #Jan25 acarvin Wait, what? What's up w/ this? RT @LibyaInMe: Introducing the Zenga Zenga chips :D #libya #feb17 http://yfrog.com/h0llbmqj acarvin Heh - and @antderosa too. RT @kdando: @acarvin -- you get a nice mention in this @carr2n article -- http://nyti.ms/gmrfdf *Keep Your Thumbs Still When I’m Talking to You SultanAlQassemi Committee to Protect Journalists: Al-Wasat newspaper founder dies in custody in Bahrain http://bit.ly/h9Z4JQ SultanAlQassemi Saudi women threaten to breast-feed their drivers & turn them into their sons in bid to drive http://bit.ly/gUTorx ? @monaeltahawy @Aalia_F Ghonim FP Passport: Wael the Plumber? http://bit.ly/h0Exk6 #Egypt ==15 April 2011== John Carter McKnight via Gemma Thomson Educational building blocks: how Minecraft is used in classrooms *http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/educational-building-blocks-how-minecraft-is-being-used-in-the-classroom.ars David Orban “@bruces: http://j.mp/fm9Mrw "crippling 3D printing with IP laws" #fab #spime #helltopay” *Free CAD program Blender John Carter McKnight Amen. "“The alternative to gamification is philosophy, and that’s not easy for many people.” *http://systemicbabble.com/society-politics/the-downside-of-gamification/ Denis Chauvot Les risques de radiation en provenance de Fukushima ne sont « plus négligeables » | EurActiv *http://www.euractiv.com/fr/sante/les-risques-de-radiation-en-provenance-de-fukushima-ne-sont-plus-gligeables-news-503952 Gwyn - Eggy Lippmann is Jorge Lima *http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4978500 timoreilly .@wordspy is right. Neologisms are a great source for understanding the zeitgeist. The latest: pancake people http://bit.ly/dQltMs timoreilly On the subject of working on big problems vs advertising, 2 brilliant posts by @jstogdill: Amygdala Farmville http://oreil.ly/hVtzlT 1/2 *The people that know the most about you are the people you know the least about. timoreilly RT @hugs "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks." http://buswk.co/dUEyCf *"It offers companies access to a captive pool of people who have effectively volunteered to have their actions monitored like so many lab rats." *Hammerbacher created Cloudera loic Check-ins Are Dead? Location App Life360 Adds 1 Million Users in 10 Weeks http://ping.fm/mDieE Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Syrian Revolution : The first million man protest Friday "Graphic" http://goo.gl/fb/H05MZ acarvin Subtitled version of the Zenga Zenga song: http://youtu.be/cpw7y6rhf20 #libya ShababLibya With #Tripoli's freedom fighters underground. Pray for the success of the people of #Libya trying to remove #gaddafi. http://t.co/qmjEgSm JustAmira Over the Firewall and into the Fire http://t.co/GZRszDl via @advox acarvin Libya's Pathway to Peace, an op-ed co-written by Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron: http://nyti.ms/g1lgag #libya arabist CNN puts recommends of ME blogs, including Arabist.net. If you're confused about the picture, I'm the one with the fez. http://arb.st/f8J9oJ arabist Why Egypt’s Generals Need Mubarak – as a Whipping Boy - Global Spin - TIME.com: http://arb.st/euIXFu acarvin Re: syria negotiations. RT @NexusIndivulsus: Reuters report: http://reut.rs/fy1uKQ David Wilkins via Todd Larcombe *Dog vs. Mountain Lion - Who will win? *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a97C8hK5q0 Cindy Harris *ATTENTION! While on FB, look at your URL address. If you see "http:" instead of "https:" then you DO NOT have a secure session & can be HACKED. Go to Account - Account Settings - Account Security - click Change. Check box (secure browsing), click Save. FB has automatically set it on the non-secure setting! Do your friends a huge favor, copy and re-post. David Wilkins via Mike Doyle *Bored with Wikipedia? *Main Page - Dickipedia - A Wiki of Dicks *http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Main_Page Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick likes a link. *Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn't as fun as it sounds. *http://www.slate.com/id/2289302/pagenum/all ==14 April 2011== TishShute RT @mdzimm & @evanpro: "88+ Projects & Standards for Data Ownership, Identity, & A Federated Social Web" http://ur1.ca/3u0c5 Good list! loic Congrats @klout for API traction and Seesmic is #1 in volume in it http://ping.fm/x5Dd1 Scobleizer Note to developers: if you don't use TestFlight I'm no longer doing beta testing using the old UUID. Get on board! hrheingold mindamp If U attended Intro to Mind Amplifiers, U should be able to log in to alumni community http://bit.ly/fCK5zj Scobleizer Is @Bill_Gross planning a Twitter competitor? http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/04/13/ubermedia.twitter/ Yowza. Scobleizer My thoughts about what @VMware's @cloudfoundry means, especially to @rackspace http://tinyurl.com/5vcvafa lessig Misspoke: I meant "the BI-PARTIZN NN mvmt" RT @lexdigerati: Lessig realizes net neut. is "dead as a political mvmt" http://t.co/LZHtaZ6 hrheingold In general, this first issue of a "civil society zine" looks juicy http://www.arsehsevom.net/zine/?p=90 Scobleizer I'm a real man, @EvaLongoria says. http://mediaite.com/a/bpmex Yowza. Made my day (see end of second video here). timoreilly RT @SocialWebMining Stoked that Mining the Social Web is being used by @aweigend's @socialdata course at @stanford http://bit.ly/hC7C3K #in arabist RT @abuaardvark: Frustrated Iraqi Youth (Warning: NYT) http://is.gd/xCyXWR ArabRevolution RT @Sarahcarr: Man takes Arabic subtitling to Tahrir Square http://bit.ly/hS8BEH SultanAlQassemi Young Omani engineers launch online campaign "We don’t want SHELL in Oman any more" http://bit.ly/hr6ZiN SultanAlQassemi The @Guardian: While the Saudi elite looks nervously abroad, a revolution is happening http://bit.ly/e03y6G by Soumaya Ghannoushi SultanAlQassemi .@OpenDemocracy: Qatar & the Arab Spring http://bit.ly/g1fWxw by @Dr_Ulrichsen Great read on Qatar's rise SultanAlQassemi New York Times: A Film Angers an Emirate Festival http://nyti.ms/eXggMI #Sharjah SultanAlQassemi Daily Mail: Briton 'beaten to death' in a Dubai police cell after being arrested for swearing http://bit.ly/hY669J acarvin +1 RT @_8x: Great piece by Mark Colvin RT @Colvinius: Social media is like a big wave: if you miss it, it'll dump you. http://colv.in/gXfwAu Egyptocracy RT @seerwan7 Seerwan Says: The Controversial Niqab Debate http://t.co/6M3nqcU #niqab #Islam #freedom #women #WomensRights 7our & SA-7 RT @tweetsintheme: French journalist in #Libya says AQIM has "certainly" taken some Milan anti-tank missiles... http://bit.ly/i1dFdZ ArabRevolution Engineers Hijack Libyan Phone Network For Rebels http://bit.ly/egAoh8 ==13 April 2011== acarvin Going to this site to auto-generate my next tweets gives some hilarious results: http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/ arabist Yes, Saif is a Gaddafi. But there's still a real reformer inside | Benjamin Barber | Comment is free | The Guard... http://arb.st/fwRWoB Prokofy Handy list to ban of inworld griefers, Woodburies, copybotters, Emeralds, Twitter board ho haters, etc. http://bit.ly/dFfVCu *ban Prokofy dsearls fwiw, I like live search better than real time search. Always did. HTs to @cgerrish and @icerocket, btw dsearls Wow: Live search a $30b market: http://bit.ly/ifmG89 @DSifry, the original Technorati and competitors were way ahead of their time. timoreilly Machine learning and astronomy: telescopes as autonomous agents. Some lessons here to be applied more broadly http://oreil.ly/dZrobz timoreilly RT @BloomsburyPress Of the top 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% --Joseph Stiglitz in VF http://bit.ly/eSfxDI [in case @timoreilly missed it.] lessig talk at #ABATechshow : Code is Law: Does Anyone Get This Yet? http://t.co/xoYshnj #rootstrikers loic Build Your Own Facebook & Use It on Your Desktop: Seesmic Adds Elgg http://ping.fm/7wR4B timoreilly If you want to see Michael Porter writing like @umairh, read his HBR article on creating shared value: http://bit.ly/htxSyu A must-read! timoreilly "When the quality of mathematical predictions start to flatten out, I recommend increasing your observation space." http://bit.ly/ehFLzd hrheingold A daily search quiz for learning to search more effectively http://agoogleaday.com Wagner James Au Now in 3D, Angry Birds... or as I call them, Exploding Avian Jihadists v. Footless Fort-Making Bacon. *New World Notes: Play Angry Birds in Second Life (Kinda Sorta)! *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/04/angry-birds-in-second-life-1.html Jan Isakovic Makes sense *2011: The Year the Check-in Died *http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2011_the_year_the_check-in_died.php Wagner James Au If you want an augmented reality, dogfighting jet fighter in your pocket... there's an app for that! *New World Notes: Augmented Reality Coolness: Pocket Jets, New iPhone Game from Second Life Innovator John Carter McKnight YES! " But if virtual worlds can break us out of this "real world digitized" paradigm and offer us a richer, more engaging imagination space, where we can inhabit, move around in, and manipulate reality -- then we are talking about something." *http://www.betterverse.org/2011/04/ny-times-on-virtual-worlds-as-3d-meeting-spaces.html ==12 April 2011== themoornextdoor RT @CFR_org: Did Operation Odyssey Dawn Prevent a Libyan Genocide? #CFR's Lindsay discusses: http://is.gd/BBkOUO #Libya acarvin Yeah, I know. :-) RT @ehsankooheji: @acarvin Not to discourage you or anything... http://t.co/9AhuuRd *hard languages themoornextdoor algeria #dz2011 RT @fbess: http://is.gd/0qFOFf *étudiants dont le nombre dépasse les 10.000, selon des délégués arabist The specter of Egypt's colonial interior | Al-Masry Al-Youm: On politics and the neglected Egyptian countryside. http://arb.st/h4wc35 arabist Egypt: Egyptian protesters increasingly disenchanted with military - latimes.com: Good take on the military-prot... http://arb.st/eEaE2U SultanAlQassemi Huge thanks to @abubakrabdullah for translating Nadine al Budeir's important article: "The Rotten Liberalism of Saudi" http://bit.ly/hvYhOe John Carter McKnight via The New York Times *Why am I reminded of the old internet meme MY HED IS PASTEDE ON YAY! ? *3-D Avatars Could Put You in Two Places at Once *http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/science/12tier.html John W. Verity Some great dancing! *STREET BATTLE | YAK FILMS | Les Twins VS. Bones+Pee Fly VS. Laura+Boubou | FLEXING NEW STYLE DANCE *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLcKX1f9tnM&feature=share arabist Moses Courgette headed to Doha “@ian_black: Moussa Koussa to leave Britain http://t.co/I8DPY87” arabist Letter from Army to Egyptian Newspapers: Not to Publish Any Content About the Militar... http://arb.st/idZ4qQ arabist Youthquake in the Middle East | The Australian: Demographics attracting the marketeers. http://arb.st/dPGoR8 JustAmira Egypt: “We are all Maikel Nabil” http://t.co/Rn6FEY7 via @globalvoices acarvin Beginning to believe that @ichamza is Yemen's Mohamed Nabbous. And he really knows how to produce quality video. http://bit.ly/dSq9Fy acarvin RT @weledalnas: Great article on Bab El Aziziya http://bit.ly/hxG40c fyi...they probably are on speed #libya SultanAlQassemi The Spoof: Saudi Arabia introduces beret ban http://bit.ly/fs3IBw #Satire SultanAlQassemi Bahraini tweep @AngryArabiya explains in a letter to Obama why she's going on a hunger strike http://bit.ly/hOiyAq acarvin Checking out The Crescent Post, "bringing diverse voices about the 'Muslim Street' together in one place." Cool. http://www.crescentpost.com acarvin Shaun Dakin is launching a "reverse robocall" project. Get a robocall from a politician? Call them back. http://bit.ly/eUn2HW arabist Cairo University security imposes strict controls | Al-Masry Al-Youm: http://arb.st/h8B2Bh Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Regarding Maikel Nabil’s sentence : It pours http://goo.gl/fb/0wJo4 ==11 April 2011== Prokofy Mikey Doesn't Like It...and I'm Winning! http://bit.ly/hNQJFR timoreilly Once the hobby of tech geeks, #iPhone jailbreaking now a lucrative industry http://wapo.st/dWSwXw weddady Silence.. ppl are being killed.. http://is.gd/ZVjebM #Bahrain ShababLibya Picture of the day: "Gaddaffy Duck" http://goo.gl/YszrF #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes ShababLibya 31 year old graffiti artist gunned down by Gaddafi forces http://goo.gl/0cvmg #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes @cnnbrk acarvin RT @ChangeInLibya: Whoa, I just realised the that #EpicLibyanTroll here http://youtu.be/_C6dkwD2Qps is none other than @thisiskhaledm acarvin Hilarious. RT @sarahraslan: type 'illuminati' backwards in your browser with a .com at the end... *http://itanimulli.com arabist Alternative strategy for liberation of Libya: An argument that Libyans should turn to Arabs or Iran rather than ... http://arb.st/hsjNKE Egyptocracy The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking: http://bit.ly/bqUdzo #WomensRights #females #girls #education #HIV #pregnancy #health *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8xgF0JtVg ==10 April 2011== dsearls Twitter failings: http://bit.ly/h2dDWv What app is it that exceeds the "hourly usage limit" of Twitter's API? And how can one fix it? Tateru Nino taterunino In harm’s way http://j.mp/hAMett *more on leaving out a female character option Prokofy These are like the signs of griefers too: http://health.msn.com/medications/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100260596&GT1=31036 *signs of addiction taterunino The five worst excuses for leaving out a female character option http://j.mp/hj5G1o (a touch ungrammatical but worth it) acarvin From the LA Times: Where even cellphones aren't safe http://lat.ms/h7Kqgq #bahrain The man behind Suleiman *http://nohaatef.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/the-man-behind-omar-seluiman/ ==09 April 2011== Jan Isakovic Peggy Sue got old *http://www.economist.com/node/18527255 Steven K. Roberts Thanks Sky and Suzan for this delight... *Cat and Dolphins playing together *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynvewVe21Y&feature=player_embedded Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick Um, I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with private companies and individuals taking cases to court to change Google's behaviour. Is it to know no bounds?! *http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/google-private-web-censorship-lawsuits-would-create-trolls.ars John Carter McKnight World Bank: go go gold farming ( Michael Biff Burnam-Fink is right: somewhere around 1980 reality ended, and we all took up residence in a satirical sci-fi novel) *http://www.infodev.org/en/Article.696.html Gwyneth Llewelyn Regretting that our corporate blog has no new articles... but we certainly have lots of new projects! Our best year so far. *http://betatechnologies.info/gwynethllewelyn/2011/04/08/perhaps-i-should-blog-a-bit-more-here/ timoreilly Hope others follow: Facebook open sources their data center architecture http://bit.ly/eJGeZb I saw this last month but was sworn to secrecy timoreilly if you are using any internet connected device, it is now possible to trace your location to within less than 1km http://bit.ly/ebzBgv loic Five Easy Pieces of Online Identity by @ev http://ping.fm/dYwvw hrheingold My posts for the digital media and learning blog (DMLcentral) http://dmlcentral.net/blog/3663 *http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/einstein-youtube-and-new-media-literacies-connected-age dsearls World Wide Catacombs: http://bit.ly/i7h1uv The non-commercial Web is now buried, if not dead. HT to @vwadhwa + @DaveWiner JayRosen_NYU too, *http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2011/04/08/world-wide-catacombs/ taterunino What's up with all the natural disasters? I blame these two people ;) http://bit.ly/fTsZ2P shadihamid Here are a number of videos, some graphic, which activists say are from yesterday's protests: http://nyti.ms/gn7etw #Syria shadihamid Syria opposition activist estimates that total number of protesters may be in the hundreds of thousands: http://nyti.ms/eyz2r0 shadihamid A revolution against the "revolution"? Seems increasingly possible in #Egypt: http://bit.ly/e7i0th #jan25 shadihamid An account of army's crackdown in Tahrir, which happened earlier today: http://bit.ly/glHv9f #Egypt #jan25 (v @arabist) arabist A few links + videos, and a detailed eyewitness account from Tahrir, here: http://arb.st/gSCjN8 arabist New on Arabist: An account of the army crackdown on Tahrir http://arb.st/dKIrE6 SultanAlQassemi AOL News: Imprisoned Father of Autistic Boy Called 'the Bravest Man in #Saudi Arabia' http://aol.it/dRrm9c acarvin Sounds of gunfire in #Tahrir captured in the latest video to be posted. http://youtu.be/G793yhiMA5k #egypt acarvin One of the first videos to come out of #Tahrir tonight. Very tense, lots of chanting. Don't hear shooting tho. http://youtu.be/E5pVU2HvgVs acarvin Here's @mosaaberizing's collection of photos from today's protest in #Tahrir Sq. http://flic.kr/s/aHsjubJ4QV #egypt SultanAlQassemi BikyaMasr: #Saudi rights activist jailed for speaking out http://bit.ly/gwh9tl Detailed account & info via smuggled prison letter ==08 April 2011== Doc Searls dsearls F-quality Internet connection at the SFO United club: http://bit.ly/f0xeWU #t-mobile *http://speedtest.net acarvin RT @alaa: tahrir is back baby http://twitpic.com/4iair8 #Jan25 #Egypt arabist http://t.co/Spx1ljR impressive video of tahrir ==07 April 2011== John Carter McKnight I feel the prof's pain: "The handful of English majors in the class were decidedly less enthusiastic about the mapping assignment than the many more non-English majors in the class. Several times I came across the comment, “I would have much rather just written a paper.” *Mapping Novels with Google Earth - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education *http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/mapping-novels/32528 David Orban likes a link. *With a Little Help: Hitting My Stride - Doctorow *http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/pw-select/article/46707-with-a-little-help-hitting-my-stride.html?page=1 ShababLibya 'Making something out of nothing' #Libyans are not naive about their future and the formidable tasks that lie ahead http://t.co/OuWlM2W Gsquare86 @Ghonim @gamaleid @monasosh @3arabawy @waleedrashed @Ayman_Nour @amrwaked @SherineT were featured in this Vanity Fair http://t.co/N96lSKu arabist Happened before in Egypt, with Menufi man RT @Insurgentleman: #Georgian #woman cuts off #web to whole of #Armenia http://arb.st/edTyKD timoreilly Infographic shows the impact of slow page loads on ecommerce http://bit.ly/go6Drg via @jesserobbins article http://on.mash.to/eYiEB1 TishShute RT @missrogue: “13 Things You Must Do Every Week As A Startup CEO” http://readon.ly/2870 (I miss out on 4 of these. I\'ll work on them.) hrheingold mindamp I've changed assignments, too. Wot think? http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/mindamplifier2/lockedwiki/assignments hrheingold mindamp I've modified syllabus for next round. Wot think? http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/mindamplifier2/lockedwiki/main-page dsearls RT @TooTallSid you really owe it to yourself to visit http://isharedwhat.com/ to get a reminder about fools names and fools faces #VRM Scobleizer Quora: The Stats Behind the Buzz [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/aX11284 via @mashsocialmedia @mashable loic Google's new cloud-based Android Music app leaks out http://ping.fm/QvPX6 hrheingold Understanding today's economic transformation project: http://rockethub.com/projects/1349-understanding-today-s-economic-transformation Scobleizer Wow http://t.co/717DXXw is a nice Twitter search engine. @marshallk you should check that out as per our conversation yesterday. timoreilly Fabulous account of how the new FCC.gov applied web 2.0/gov 2.0 principles in its design. A model for other agencies! http://oreil.ly/fSU7DN arabist Too optimistic but some good points “@Sandmonkey: New Sandmonkey post 7 Popular Myths about the revolution http://t.co/AuImKMV" ==06 April 2011== Wagner James Au OK this is totally wacky cool! *New World Notes: Minecraft-Style Mining Comes to Second Life (Kinda Sorta)! *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/04/minecraft-in-second-life.html Scott Macleod and World University (friend of Rheingold) *http://scottmacleod.com/ *http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University arabist March 9 Movement criticizes campus security restrictions: http://arb.st/e2tZkf shadihamid I'm skeptical but here's Radwan Ziadeh's new piece on "why #Syria will be next" http://bit.ly/fpya0D (v @mideastchannel) arabist Feuding Brothers - By Ed Husain | Foreign Policy: A bad piece. What's "suburban"? What does "engagement" mean? D... http://arb.st/eO0JqE weddady RT @ahmed: The video of Khaled al-Johani with English subtitles http://youtu.be/mxinAxWxXo8 #WhereIsKhaled #saudi *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxinAxWxXo8 ShababLibya "Epic" internet meme brings levity to Libya crisis. Love looking at all the #Epiclibyan pics. Keep up the good work! http://t.co/sSjs7Zx *http://epiclibyan.tumblr.com/ dsearls Question for #VRM developers: can SugarCRM open source provide *personal* tools for individuals? See http://bit.ly/fo7RID and dig down. cshirky RT @BAHRAINIAC Security guide for tweeters, bloggers & activists in English & Arabic: http://bit.ly/gb5cYE Scobleizer Read http://t.co/SgB0ASK @rww about @datasift then listen to http://t.co/zZvCoDJ Really important stuff! *Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k Keyword Filters for 30 Cents! Scobleizer Which TV shows are most popular on social networks? http://t.co/QY7HTEl knows. Glee, really? Yikes. acarvin RT @CyrusShares: V @washingtonpost Libyan rebels hoping for one state, but preparing for two http://wapo.st/eNCzBE #Libya arabist What powers my links RT @TheEconomist: On the unexpected rise of Pinboard, a new social-bookmarking service http://econ.st/i9S5Qk ==05 April 2011== cshirky Nerd Collider: What would you change about US's Data.gov to make more people care about open data? http://bit.ly/dRDalY cshirky Don't let the US Congress kill digital transparency: http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/ mkapor Google Books Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library - NYTimes.com http://t.co/cP6rcxw timoreilly Excellent piece about a publisher who burned the boats and went digital only http://reut.rs/etaj55 via @petermeyers ShababLibya Libyan woman #EmanAlObeidi speaks out about rape- http://bit.ly/fbMSdG #cnn MUST WATCH if you haven't seen!!! #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes arabist Fouad Abdelmoumni et les réformes constitutionnelles: Fouad is awesome! http://arb.st/gBi4F7 No safe radiation *http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/20114219250664111.html acarvin Interesting: US lifts economic sanctions against Mousa Koussa, hopes it encourages more Gaddafi associates to defect http://1.usa.gov/eoORcF Wagner James Au Check out last month's Top 50 sims in the metaverse. Pictured above: GOL 7, a very beautifully designed nightclub. Not pictured, never will be pictured: Bukkake Bliss Island. (You stay classy!) *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/04/top-50-second-life-sims-march-2011.html R2P *http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/ Gwyn - Zimbabwe using Linden Dollars *http://appfrica.com/2010/04/01/zimbabwe-switches-to-linden-dollars/ acarvin That's it - thanks! RT @gbengasesan: That would be the mobile app for election monitoring, #ReVoDa, right? See http://revoda.org #nigeria acarvin Love it! RT @lexinyt: The @nytimes has launched its first Tumblr! Introducing T Magazine on Tumblr: http://bit.ly/hbUKjq acarvin RT @nassrf: 4 ur lunch time entertainment RT @abubakrabdullah: The Muppet - Arab Leader Connection - http://goo.gl/qeOv2 Botgirl - thank you pirates *http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2011/03/thank-you-pirates-real-lesson-in.html chrismessina Love @austinkleon's advice: http://j.mp/dSbSNM /cc @brynn Ghonim A very cool tool to track the conversations between any two #Twitter users: http://bettween.com Libya zintan videos from a few days ago http://t.co/yGb4LKP http://t.co/C5Xcqkn http://t.co/5A3TA1M http://t.co/mwAKWyi http://t.co/O3m78vq ==04 April 2011== arabist Detained blogger's trial adjourned to Monday: The Mikaiel Nabil trial - sent to mil. court for blogging "the peo... http://arb.st/e6GKVP arabist SS officers return to universty campuses, 83 Lt. Colonels recycled in other police departments: Hossam continues... http://arb.st/g7Qptx arabist Sex and the Souk - NYTimes.com: Profile of Joumana Haddad. http://arb.st/gfzRNz Scobleizer ShopSavvy says Andoid is kicking iOS's ass in downloads. http://t.co/IiXGiSY @Loic tells me @Seesmic is seeing "straight up" growth too. Waterlink *http://www.waterlink-international.com/ dsearls Revealing @DailyMail pictures of burned-down #Fukushima reactors. http://bit.ly/f21xbi Can't put a happy face on this one. It's bad. ShababLibya Our #Egyptian friends kicking #gaddafi supporters out of #Tahrir square. We are one-fighting for freedom. http://bit.ly/hkfBcx #Libya arabist Oh, Julian. RT @mxbw: assange's sick nasty dance moves at a club in reykjavik: http://is.gd/siWaqn ShababLibya Freedom Tea; http://bit.ly/guOs9A cuz I needed to smile & a reminder of how much spirit the Libyan people have #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #libya ==03 April 2011== Gwyneth Llewelyn Awesome integration: Unity3D + Facebook = Second Life? *http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2011/04/01/unity3d-facebook-second-life/ Prokofy What the hell is this? http://www.metaversestandards.org And why is it being done in stealth without the SL public. hrheingold Also: Non-Coercive or Voluntary Societies: http://www.stanford.edu/~somik/2005/08/non-coercive-education.html Scobleizer Exclusive: Snafus forced Twitter data center move: sources | Reuters http://t.co/p4lctRw Yikes, so Twitter didn't go to Salt Lake CC: @jesse Prokofy The picture on this is the coolest part! https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-6691 loic How Fast Is Your Site? Measure It With Google’s Page Speed Online http://ping.fm/GnaxU lessig I broke my #fb page a long time ago and hoped the new migration tool would fix it. vsorry that it hasn't. http://t.co/dAsunyU timoreilly Nice: The HTTP Archive tracks how the Web is built. Interesting stats: http://t.co/usCWVPm TechCrunch April Fools roundup *http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-2011-the-big-list/ timoreilly RT @marytreseler Twitter APIs: Getting Started with the RESTful Interface http://t.co/KVzjmLg #PayPalX arabist Ex-Mujahedeen Help Lead Libyan Rebels http://on.wsj.com/ea2nk0 Great quote: "we now hate US less than 50%." ==01 April 2011== acarvin This is pretty funny. April fools and all that. RT @CamboDonut: EXCLUSIVE! Moussa Koussa’s leaked Facebook page http://bit.ly/hLSlrZ Bouazizi page on Wikipedia: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi SultanAlQassemi The @Guardian Op Ed: Israel President Shimon Peres: We in Israel welcome the Arab spring http://bit.ly/fYcrX9 via @Brian_Whit weddady Tariq Ramadan is the ultimate Muslim Thinker of our time #AprilFools #NOT #Creep weddady Internet Rights & Principles Coalition: irpchater.org, if u agree pls retweet https://eff.org/r.27J via @rafik [[Category:LinkLogs]]
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