Difference between revisions of "LinkLog 2011-02"
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| + | Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick | ||
| + | Beth Noveck Bails from the White House http://bit.ly/eSiT9a | ||
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| + | La Cantine Silicon Sentier - | ||
| + | Le 17 Février à 13h00, Réunion de la communauté Yacs | ||
| + | *http://www.yacs.fr/article-7498-premiere-yacserie-les-17-et-18-fevrier-2011-a-la-cantine | ||
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| + | Jonathan Vos Post to Rheingold - | ||
| + | Big step towards a quadrillion nanorobots cataloguing every grain of sand, every blade of grass, and finding every lost buried object and misplaced set of car keys. As I explained in front of a large Silicon Valley audience for the 30th annive...rsary of Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart's "Woodstock of Computer Demos." | ||
| + | *http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html | ||
| + | *He agreed, and said: "I call that The Big Whoooossshhh!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart | ||
| + | I was citing extrapolations from my 1980 paper "Quintillabit: parameters of a hyperlarge database" | ||
| + | *http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1286905 | ||
| + | Is the PDF of my paper still there? | ||
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| + | O'Reilly - wordspy "googleganger" | ||
| + | *http://www.wordspy.com/words/Googleganger.asp | ||
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| + | Morozov (via Catherine) The age of the WikiLeaks-style vigilante geek is over | ||
| + | *http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/07/age-wikileaks-style-vigilante-geek-over | ||
| + | *In this respect, WikiLeaks (at least in its current incarnation) embodies an ideology that can only be called anti-web 2.0: they value professionals over | ||
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| + | amateurs and explicitly reject the "anyone can edit" ethos of Wikipedia, believing that waiting for this mystical "anyone" is like waiting for Godot. | ||
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| + | Wagner James Au | ||
| + | The great thing about SL is you meet an insanely diverse amount of people in there. Which is how I got this first-hand report from the streets of Cairo from | ||
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| + | an Egyptian artist into Nubian hiphop steampunk in Second Life. | ||
| + | *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/02/egyptian-steampunk-on-anti-mubarak-uprising.html | ||
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| + | Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick | ||
| + | My critique of Tor & arrogant hacker culture surrounding it, as making activists vulnerable still very much holds up http://bit.ly/fYxzeh | ||
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| + | Wagner James Au | ||
| + | Painful contrast: While NYT's Frank Rich denigrates social media's role in the Egyptian uprising (with some fairly obvious logic gaps), an actual NYT | ||
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| + | reporter details social media's influence in it. | ||
| + | *http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06face.html?_r=1 | ||
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| + | SK Roberts - good Drupal book | ||
| + | *http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596515804/nomadicrese0c-20 | ||
chrismessina | chrismessina | ||
