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__NOTOC__ ==04 January 2011== Howard Rheingold I was interviewed recently by Project Information Literacy about my experiences with so-called "digital natives" and other info-media-literacy stuff. *http://projectinfolit.org/st/rheingold.asp Wagner James Au - New World Notes: 2010's Top 10 Most Popular New World Notes Posts *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/01/top-10-new-world-notes-posts-2010.html S.K. Roberts - ExifTool by Phil Harvey: Read, Write and Edit Meta Information! *http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool Steven K. Roberts via Mi Robin - Grrrrrr... *What is Traitorware? by EFF *https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/what-traitorware ==03 January 2011== Scobleizer Must-read post about Google from @codinghorror (he-coauthored Stack Overflow). http://goo.gl/TdupK I am seeing Google get worse lately too. TechCrunch Digg Founder Kevin Rose Launches Private Newsletter Called Foundation http://tcrn.ch/gjqdtJ by @arrington TechCrunch BitTorrent Hits 100M Active Monthly Users, 400K Client Downloads Per Day http://tcrn.ch/gGox6A by @leenarao timoreilly Great tech insight by @mikeloukides: 6 themes to track in 2011 http://oreil.ly/e0SzCD Important for developers chrismessina Looking forward to Mozilla's Drumbeat.org relaunch: http://blog.eval.ca/2011/01/03/drumbeat-org-relaunch /by @paulosman via @msurman *http://www.drumbeat.org/ chrismessina A look back on lifestreaming in 2010 suggests an uncertain future: http://bit.ly/fbAT7e /by @krynsky cc @toddbarnard #activitystreams davewiner Gotta check this out: http://www.unhosted.org/ *Unhosted is a project for strengthening free software against hosted software. With our protocol, a website is only source code. Dynamic data is encrypted and decentralised, to per-user storage nodes. davewiner Scripting News: What will become of Twitter? http://r2.ly/uh5k *Twitter will be unbundled. timoreilly Good one from Andy Kessler: How videogames are changing the economy http://on.wsj.com/hKGTPg davewiner Scripting News: Rebooting RSS, revisited. http://r2.ly/uchd davewiner Is it wise spending our time writing for *other* sites? http://r2.ly/9ipc loic Loving the virtual mirror idea AVC: Predictions and Prognostications http://ping.fm/ziUdd loic What I shipped in 2010 #yearinreview http://bit.ly/h8UcrA cshirky Re-reading Boyer's "10 open problems in explaining culture" http://bit.ly/SURs Its socio-geekery, but its *good* socio-geekery. davewiner Steve Gillmor is like a pet cat I used to have who would bring me dead birds as gifts. I suppose she meant well, but just the same... timoreilly On the increasing uselessness of Google http://bit.ly/dQuCg7 I agree. Even the google alerts I set are almost all turning up spam. davewiner Reining in freedom on the Web. http://r2.ly/6hf4 *To help prevent spamming, members are invited to report nuisance messages: Facebook then suspends the nuisance user's account. All kinds of activists have used this maneuver to get their political adversaries suspended. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/01/INEL1H161G.DTL#ixzz1A0IWBfF5 davewiner To people who are concerned about RSS-in-the-browser, Mozilla and Chrome are open source. Let's fork one of them and make it *great* at RSS. loic RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried http://ping.fm/gs7Br *Mozilla will deal the final blow that kills RSS off. In Firefox 4.0, there will be no RSS button on the toolbar by default. Mozilla outright refuse to listen to their users on this matter. Doc Searls: Good Faith Collaboration, The Culture of Wikipedia, by Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. *http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/ Jeff Sandine's Joomla site *http://ipvideodirectory.com *Mosets Tree directory component with a template for same Mitch Wagner: sniglets *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet Alex Olteanu You can either buy the book here or, if you have an iPhone, get a Kindle for iPhone app and download it to your mobile for less than ten bucks - which is what I did.... *Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage: Amazon.ca: Roger L. Marti David Orban An informed optimism beats a pessimism stemming from ignorance *Opening Gambit: Best. Decade. Ever. - By Charles Kenny *http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/best_decade_ever Gwyneth Llewelyn Check out new post about How my 2010 predictions failed, and what to expect in 2011 *http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2011/01/02/how-my-2010-predictions-failed-and-what-to-expect-in-2011/ ==02 January 2011== TechCrunch 2011: The Enterprise Resets http://tcrn.ch/fvWpVl *the cloud has tipped Scobleizer Crack for technical recruiters: best StackOverflow users handed over http://scoble.it/hQMtdc Thanks @brianbondy !!! hrheingold Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age" by @gsiemens foundational PLN text http://bit.ly/hhWp51 #pln Prokofy Unfair Google practices: "I was sacked by a Google algorithm" -- http://bit.ly/hl7ifC TechCrunch Streamonomics http://tcrn.ch/g7Re05 *Steve Gillmor davewiner Detroit in ruins. Breath-taking photos. http://r2.ly/6hau davewiner Daniel Bachhuber read @ev's interview with @om and came to a 3-word conclusion. Worth reading and thinking about. http://r2.ly/6hag *This future is slavery. hrheingold I've moved the Intro to Mind Amplifiers syllabus-in-progress permanently to http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/mindamplifier TechCrunch Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google http://tcrn.ch/hHHtFZ by @vwadhwa *But it turns out that you can’t easily do such searches in Google any more. Google has become a jungle: a tropical paradise for spammers and marketers. *We ended up using instead a web-search tool called Blekko. lessig Happy #publicdomainday! http://bit.ly/gGEfkE TechCrunch A List Of The Best Of The Best Meme Lists Of 2010 http://tcrn.ch/gx0551 by @alexia TechCrunch An iPhone Lover's Take On The Nexus S http://tcrn.ch/f0YVJH by @parislemon hrheingold Ancient report on Open Design I did w/ @asaveri & @iftf years ago: http://www.rheingold.com/texts/OpenWorld.pdf cshirky Half-formed thought on Wikileaks & Global Action: http://bit.ly/e8mXjv cshirky Alternet's description of several mischaracterizations of Wikileaks common to mainstream reporting: http://bit.ly/hAkmSv TechCrunch How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company http://tcrn.ch/hszY4M dsearls A toast to common genius: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/?p=3560 HT to @gapingvoid *Group IQ: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/12/19/group_iq/ mkapor Chris McCann's Startup Digest reading list is a seriously useful resource http://t.co/na9dRMj Google Maps Navigation (Beta) - via Matt Burns of TC *http://www.google.com/mobile/navigation/ TechCrunch Wikipedia Still $1M Short Of Fundraising Goal For 2010 (And Why I Donated) http://tcrn.ch/hrCGqK by @robinwauters taterunino Malware infected apps threatening Android devices http://yhoo.it/e2Dy3u Possibly with knives, harsh language and pointed fingers. davewiner The evanescence of Twitter debates. http://r2.ly/6gvt *"And the blog river itself is polished to such a high standard that casual, chatty posts don’t really belong. Without a local venue where writers and readers can engage readers in non-confrontational discussion, it all ends up as bitching on Twitter." Scobleizer Angel Investing: Who are the best angel investors in Silicon Valley and why? Answer: http://qr.ae/hNZe TechCrunch O Canada! World's Most Web Connected Land http://tcrn.ch/e1SJpS *Another interesting statistic, and one that strikes me as being rather anachronistic, is that Canadians spend an average of 42 hours per month on the internet. What exactly does “on the internet” mean in this case? I am on the internet upwards of 700 hours per month, depending on the number of days, since I have an always-connected smartphone. The internet is no longer accessed in terms of hours; we don’t log in and log out, or at least very few of us do any more. TechCrunch See What Went Popular And When With Rrrewind http://tcrn.ch/hvxu51 by @alexia hrheingold I've moved my syllabus in progress for mini-course here: http://bit.ly/ekVPYS TechCrunch MIT Researchers Build A "Hot Or Not" For Twitter http://tcrn.ch/hMc3Ga by @alexia TechCrunch Dear Manufacturers: You've Had A Rough Year, But Step It Up http://tcrn.ch/ff1fMs by @johnbiggs *Sure, times are tough and you have little grasp on what real humans want, and sometimes we don’t know what we want ourselves. davewiner Scripting News: Will my iPhone become old next week? http://r2.ly/6i5a *on Flickr: "That might actually be a good mission for Yahoo, with its public stock and huge flow -- to be an investment banker for proven, seasoned entrepreneurs." TechCrunch Three Words: Simple, Fun, Viral http://tcrn.ch/frWSDs by @robinwauters taterunino No more Plan-Bs http://bit.ly/f9EkUY #ipv6 #internet #ipaddressing TAG loic Best of 2010: 10 Apps for Writers http://bit.ly/elOiZK ==01 January 2011== John Carter McKnight United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins, No. 05-56274 (9th Cir. Mar. 17, 2008).... Comical Case Names - Lowering the Bar *http://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/lowering_the_bar/comical_case_names.html Wagner James Au The big challenge with Minecraft machinima: Sometimes the director of photography burns to death in the unquenchable fires of hell. New World Notes: New Minecraft Interstate: Nearly 9 Miles of Virtual Highway Caps a Year of Innovati *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/12/minecraft-interstate.html loic The value in jumping off the “social media train” http://bit.ly/fusMfQ loic iPhone 4 vs Nexus S: Which smartphone is right for you? http://bit.ly/fuJHPy taterunino Incidentally, wordpress users. Upgrade to 3.04 *now* if you haven't already. Most urgent. There's a live hack in the wild, and a nasty one. *http://jasoncosper.com/archives/wordpress-style-css-php-and-you/ hrheingold Rheingold U: Intro To Mind Amplifiers syllabus in progress http://bit.ly/dYD6zV Prok - self-diagnosed Aspergers *http://www.ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?id=1725 davewiner NPR Fesses Up to WikiLeaks’ Coverage Blunder, Now It’s Everyone Else’s Turn. http://r2.ly/6gq7 *http://www.npr.org/2010/12/28/132416904/how-many-documents-has-wikileaks-published TishShute quora discussion on SHARD, distributed triple-store built on top of Hadoop MapReduce http://b.qr.ae/gZHJdI #semweb #linkeddata #rdf davewiner Amazon Web Services, WikiLeaks and the Elephant in the Room. http://r2.ly/6gnj *I've focused on AWS in this article, but these concerns apply to any provider. davewiner I didn't have the patience to carefully explain why Floyd Abrams is ignorant beyond belief, but I'm glad Jack Shafer did. http://r2.ly/6gni davewiner Rex Hammock's predictions for the year 2011 (next week). http://r2.ly/6gne *Designers will discover the key to user-love is simple, minimalist, user interfaces mkapor In a pitch meeting with an entrepreneur who describes his team as "MBAs who code" davewiner UC Santa Cruz economist launches website to preserve data 'forever'. http://r2.ly/6gmd *UC Santa Cruz economist Kai Pommerenke this month launched a new digital repository, Chronicle of Life, that promises to preserve users' photos, video and text "forever." Customers pay a onetime fee for a space on the website, which Pommerenke built over three years to meet strict data-preservation standards set in place by the Library of Congress. [[Category:LinkLogs]]
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