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__NOTOC__ ==17 May 2011== Gsquare86 Watching ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011 http://bit.ly/jKu3JH #Capitalism #Banks #USA acarvin Haaretz: Israel better prepare, for a Palestinian state is on the way http://bit.ly/ikSw2A Ghonim الحلم العربي 2011 http://bit.ly/lreszy #Egypt #Yemen #Tunisia #Syria #Libya #Morocco #Saudi #Bahrain #Algeria #Palestine #Iraq #UAE ...etc SultanAlQassemi New York Times: Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder http://nyti.ms/jv6f2x #UAE via @hakimabdi @washdcnews ==16 May 2011== JustAmira It's Boast-O-Clock: I have been named as one of 10 dynamic foreign policy tweeters: http://bit.ly/iozPAj via @amslaughter arabist The "Arab Tienanmen" caused sharp criticism in the European Parliament: EU divided after Arab spring. http://arb.st/k4FZ2u arabist New Left Review - Perry Anderson: On the Concatenation in the Arab World: http://arb.st/lJENkH arabist Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says - Galactic Empire Times: Fantastic. http://arb.st/mTDgfi ==14 May 2011== shadihamid Syria expert Josh Landis: 'Hard to see how the regime will be brought down short of economic collapse' http://bit.ly/mnqoAw acarvin suggestion from @arabisin: use http://checkfacebook.com to monitor FB stats from around the world. #cjarab #smwknd shadihamid Worth remembering that Fukuyama didn't necessarily think the 'end of history' was entirely a good thing: http://bit.ly/iwTPcS acarvin Watch: new video appearing to show opposition forces battling westward from Misurata towards Zliten. http://youtu.be/ivjZJA9WVzc #libya acarvin: Buttry's take on ASNE advice *http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/asne-offers-good-advice-on-social-media-but-too-much-fear-and-not-really-best-practices/ Zeinobia Here's your reading list, Mr. President | FP Passport http://t.co/UR7VXwA @Sandmonkey @Sarahcarr ==13 May 2011== ShababLibya A great resource for up to date information on #Libya. Daily updates, articles, relief organizations, and photos. http://newlibya.com/ ShababLibya Gaddafi Leaks via @monatov HILARIOUS http://goo.gl/rBIsv #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes weddady I feel that if Ibn Khaldoun was a mandatory reading in the US War College that would have saved lots of lives & money... *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun Egyptocracy Color-Changing Dots Earn Best #Illusion of the Year Award http://t.co/AMStNtM l Scientific American #science #visuals #biology #perception War Dog II *http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/12/war_dog_ii 7our article of "The National" on the forgotten victims RT @reemfab: No Arab Spring for #Algeria, only scars of the past.. http://ow.ly/4SME0 acarvin 20 mins or so til Mahmoud Jibril of the #Libya #NTC gives his talk. One of the leaders of the opposition. http://bit.ly/mju2uh *NTC website ==12 May 2011== hrheingold http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/05/11/rethinking-technological-literacy.aspx by @STurkle - why I started teaching *Turkle suggests “rethinking technological literacy” t NYT uses catshopped photo as "it really looked like" http://j.mp/nytcat ultra-orthodox censor women+cat longurl: http://ttk.me/t4Bi4 lessig Me on fight against muni broadband -- frm 2005: http://t.co/WrbXkEd & 2day: http://t.co/3P5tG9Q #rootstrikers chrismessina Collecting your personal data today is like starting to collect baseball cards In 1919. #justsaying #honuswagner #datacapital chrismessina Love love love this! http://statigr.am/chris And, I'm *shocked* that I've received 108,795 likes on my @instagram photos so far. Damn! loic *Thin-film flexible 'Paperphone' created* http://ping.fm/HtfWU timoreilly Awesome. A tweet team checks out the attribution of reported Descartes quote about city as inventory of the possible http://bit.ly/kE9xiR dsearls The future of @HBO, and #TV, is @HBOGO (subscription) and (eventually) à la carte. Progress report via @mcuban's http://bit.ly/lHMD7v dsearls Digging @ProgrammableWeb http://www.programmableweb.com Check it out. #api #mashup Scobleizer Who are the most followed users on Quora? http://t.co/PpjYN4Q via @mmastrac Hey, I LIKE this! ;-) timoreilly Worth reading: Censorship, Governments, and Flagellating Google http://bit.ly/kATUUg Scobleizer “@HopkinsonReport: Seth Godin: The lesson is, this changes everything. http://t.co/dOVyaga” Free book makes millions! Scobleizer Wow @jesse is reporting that Twitter and Facebook have removed RSS: http://t.co/J2Cfmx1 loic What are some startup ideas that persistently fail? http://ping.fm/nbGsL *Make Car repair "easy for non-mechanics" ... presumes people want to work on their own cars. They don't. timoreilly Descartes: a great city should be "an inventory of the possible" http://on.ft.com/lGANPM Insights/what makes a city great via @jamesoreilly chrismessina Love the idea of defining a practice around "Developer Experience"! http://j.mp/k1nubD /by @ade_oshineye #devxp loic deleted my personal wiki. Except for specific geek/developer work a personal wiki sounds like totally a thing of the past. themoornextdoor RT @abuaardvark: Jordan's political elite continues to resist reform, by Marwan Muasher http://is.gd/qv5KPc *description of the rentier system ==11 May 2011== weddady RT @Hisham_G: Morocco: Heading For A Make Or Break Moment - http://goo.gl/81ybs #Feb20 (Inchallah also available in Arabic and French) SultanAlQassemi My article in @Gulf_News: An Expanded GCC: Challenges & Opportunities http://bit.ly/mUOeIE #Jordan #Morocco David Orban via Jenny Zurawell - The times when EFIGS (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish) translation was enough for a message to travel globally are long gone. *Hexidecimally Lingual: Websites Must Speak 16 Languages to Go Global | Fast Company *http://www.fastcompany.com/1744798/hexidecimally-lingual-websites-must-speak-16-languages-to-go-global ==10 May 2011== Gsquare86 Photos i took of the most amazing post-revolution #Jan25 #Graffiti #Art in # Zamalek http://on.fb.me/jrrlEr ..Just beautiful :) acarvin A Revolution’s Namesake Is Contraband in China http://nyti.ms/iQJlUV Maybe should've kept my mouth shut on this Jasmine Revolution business. shadihamid Um, in case you were interested in descending into a parallel universe & reading a defense of 'the Idea of communism': http://bit.ly/iNQpwD shadihamid 'The one constant in revolutions is the primordial role played by the army': http://bit.ly/k9zRha *This Intifada will go down in history as a revolution if it gets either bread or freedom and as a great revolution if it gets both. acarvin RT @septimius_sever: #TRIPOLI forcefully quiet but won't be silenced, Tripoli map http://www.twitpic.com/4vvkpg/full by @k_thos #Libya John Carter McKnight Clearly we need wi-fi goggles and virtual keyboards. That'll fix everything! *Just How Dangerous Is Sitting All Day? *http://mashable.com/2011/05/09/sitting-down-infographic/ John Carter McKnight Fascinating look at changing values around privacy and identity. I've been sober since May 13, 1991 and am not currently identified with any recovery organization - but I don't display my AA membership among my Second Life groups, as I take that as a violation of the Traditions. We all negotiate values in our own ways... *http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/fashion/08anon.html Tim Kelly via @LPT... a fun little desktop app from Xerox http://bit.ly/jkHzuI - and it's free. #yam themoornextdoor Great points RT @will_mccants: New @jihadica Will McCants - "No New Bin Ladens" http://bit.ly/jJKQG0 Bad behavior link spam killer (complements Aksimet) *http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us ==09 May 2011== ArabRevolution RT @anon2060: Let's go Dark http://pastehtml.com/view/1e8t85a.html | #OpDarkNet #I2P PR arabist The unimportance of bin Laden | Tariq Ramadan: http://arb.st/lRHCr2 Ghonim Noam Chomsky's reaction to #OBL death: What if #Iraq commandos did the same to George Bush who killed more civilians? http://bit.ly/ldZYup SultanAlQassemi Just published - My article in @Gulf_News "Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf: An attempt to steal the show" http://bit.ly/jYFvCM #UAE arabist Attacks on Mar Mina Church in Imbaba, Giza | Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights: http://arb.st/lK2M85 ==08 May 2011== loic How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing. http://ping.fm/MwM61 loic Why Skype is Evil™ http://ping.fm/DJhn0 loic [must read] Getting Users For Your New Startup by @pud http://ping.fm/QpjxX Scobleizer Hah, @chrispirillo has a bunch of tips on Empire Avenue. I totally disagree with them, but here they are: http://t.co/DP40V2B loic Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet http://ping.fm/0Hgqy loic awesome video why @thedroidguy switched back to Seesmic Android (shortcuts!) http://ping.fm/GXctG hrheingold Importance of building social capital accidentally http://bit.ly/dqFPSd loic What to do when your site goes viral http://ping.fm/MyJAs loic How to make amazing presentations by @nancyduarte http://ping.fm/oa0Um timoreilly Good discussion of how embodied energy (energy of manufacturing) needs to be considered. Very high for hi-tech goods. http://bit.ly/mI7NXN hrheingold My video interview w/ @gsiemens about Massive Open Online Courses http://youtu.be/VMfipxhT_Co #MOOC timoreilly “dominance...is not sustainable” Fresh thinking on national security from special assts to Joint Chiefs http://nyti.ms/mcI2uD via @jstogdill Prokofy Missing Cat http://bit.ly/knI7KJ taterunino What happens to payment info after it has been compromised? http://j.mp/mitpLQ #security #scams loic just got the new Mifi 3G/4G on sprint, 4G speed not great at my office http://ping.fm/Nok5q *http://www.speedtest.net mkapor The canine angle on the Bin Laden commando raid http://t.co/9IMdget loic http://ping.fm/a2cyx *Microsoft attacks Google Apps "hidden costs" timoreilly Whoa! Robots evolve altruism, share "food" http://bit.ly/l2iQ3C via @slashdot timoreilly RT @codeforamerica Come to Apps for Good #SF this weekend and build something that matters http://c4a.me/l77Ylm #gov20 timoreilly Wallace beats Darwin: Steward Brand's summary of Tim Flannery's @longnow talk is worth reading http://bit.ly/iUDOu3 timoreilly Really good overview by @digiphile of govt online identity initiative: A Manhattan Project for online identity http://t.co/8KB91f6 timoreilly Here are the slides from my talk this morning at the Open Courseware Consortium http://slidesha.re/m69XNm #ocwcglobal (More at that hashtag) Scobleizer I just joined StartupLi.st. Looks like a cool resource for startups: http://t.co/ekJxaTY timoreilly RT @ullamaaria Best image tagging this week! RT @ecyrd: Obama's situation room with Thinglink annotations on @bmonline: http://is.gd/QSK6OQ Scobleizer Infoworld interview about Rackspace competing with Amazon in Cloud Hosting: http://t.co/K7EaAo3 loic honored! top 25 Leaders in European Technology - WSJ.com tip @techmeme http://ping.fm/WDJHQ hrheingold Dawn Foster's tutorials are the best way to learn Yahoo Pipes http://fastwonderblog.com/yahoo-pipes-and-rss-hacks/ @mindamp timoreilly Joyful sidewalks, joyful cities. Yarn-based street-art = awesome http://bit.ly/m63WbK via @monkchips Street art seems increasingly important Scobleizer I see lots of people talking about Rackspace moving Slicehost customers to Rackspace Cloud. We're here to help, twitter@rackspace.com dsearls Craig Burton's #VRM #ListenLog tutorials for #IIW: http://www.craigburton.com/?p=3173 Food for workshop sessions. Good stuff. dsearls Digging @SelectOut SelectOut.org http://bit.ly/kyYUri Hey, Calvin, come to #IIW. http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Right time/place. hrheingold Futureful: a "personal discovery app adapts to yr behavior & helps discover things meaningful to you." http://futureful.com/ #mindamp Scobleizer Mashable has a social network now. I'm on it: http://t.co/tLIPUul Smart! arabist New on Arabist: New books on Egypt: Alaa Al Aswany and David Sims http://arb.st/lC2kGn acarvin And the other 58% don't admit it. RT @Pew_Internet: 42% of all Americans turn to Wikipedia for information online. http://pewrsr.ch/jUivyb Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Imbaba on Fire http://goo.gl/fb/CoTPW weddady Watch how ppl will get hung up on this being said by Elliot Abrams rather than what he ACTUALLY says RT @Moawen: http://on.cfr.org/lmtee9 *"Sadly for Bahrain, the only lesson such conduct can teach is that there will be no justice and no democracy until the royal family is gone." ShababLibya Foreign Policy: The Worst Places to Be a Mother, happy mothers day http://goo.gl/HaWvC #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes weddady Egypt: how WESTERN companies help the government spy on activists http://is.gd/MQ5jGZ #GammaGroup time for accountability. JustAmira Seven rules to deal with cyber bullies: http://www.urban75.org/info/bullying.html arabist EGYPT: After Mubarak, the Military Fist - IPS ipsnews.net: On military trials. http://arb.st/iUxAdd Gsquare86 RT @jadaliyya: Post-Islamist Revolutions by Bayat http://fam.ag/jO1JJU ==07 May 2011== Kelly - 13 scientific puzzles *http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things Gwyneth Llewelyn Roddy talks to us again *Some Early Improvements to Usability - Second Life *http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Some-Early-Improvements-to-Usability/ba-p/856677 Mitch Wagner My latest on The CMO Site *Marketing Lessons From the Osama Bin Laden Execution *http://www.thecmosite.com/author.asp?section_id=1137&doc_id=206337& Gwyneth - FB sucks *http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2011/05/06/facebook-really-sucks-p/ acarvin RT @ioerror: I can confirm that the core routers in Syria are doing some nasty stuff - they are blocking normal Tor at the moment. acarvin EFF: A Syrian Man-In-The-Middle Attack against Facebook http://bit.ly/lp3Pcl acarvin That is just awesome. RT @blakehounshell: Why do I feel like @slate is subtly mocking us? http://slate.me/kZ5wdb acarvin War Dog http://bit.ly/kcvyYb 8:21 PM May 5th via TweetDeck acarvin Intense interest surrounds dog who may have participated in bin Laden raid http://yhoo.it/mgP7wE ==06 May 2011== shadihamid For argument on why Bin Laden killing is legal, see @mattyglesias's post on the issue: http://bit.ly/lBS1KF #OBL Gsquare86 I am actually going to embrace @gsquared86 , he or she is very funny, but i still believe he or she has way too much free time..get a life! *http://twitter.com/gsquared86 themoornextdoor RT @RachelStrohm: Al Jazeera has a good overview of where anti-government protests are happening in Africa: http://is.gd/7qjckf arabist Mud & dirt cakes for Mubarak on his birthday: http://arb.st/jtbHOE shadihamid Wow, Sohaib Athar went from 750 followers to 104,397 in 3 days. Impressive: http://bit.ly/kF1jry European mobile apps startup competition starts today *http://frenchweb.fr/ouverture-aujourdhui-de-la-startup-2-0-competition-2011 ==05 May 2011== Ghonim Nice! I dedicated Kate Perry song: Hot n Cold to Ali Saleh of #Yemen. Now the official video is out: http://bit.ly/mgsTf4 (via @ichamza) ArabRevolution Are you using Tor? Confirm that you are by going here https://check.torproject.org/ shadihamid Who’s Who in #Syria's Opposition - by @davidkenner: http://bit.ly/k12Qag arabist US Centcom targets online violent propaganda: Jillian York on US online psy-ops that will feed the conspiracies. http://arb.st/j6vkFS ==03 May 2011== John Carter McKnight Fascinating, cool as hell, and somewhat problematic in a democracy - but that's modern warfare in a nutshell. *The Secret Team That Killed Osama bin Laden - Marc Ambinder - International - The Atlantic *http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/the-secret-team-that-killed-osama-bin-laden/238163/ John Carter McKnight Why Glitch is awesome - despite the scripting gibberish. *http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2011/05/glitch.html Michael Hickins Interesting stuff, no? Anyone have any reaction? *http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-heres-why-our-cloud-crashed-2011-4 themoornextdoor RT @OldAlgiers: L’Algérie n’est pas en retard d’une révolution, elle est en avance d’un échec | Abed Charef | http://ow.ly/4LPjl acarvin Oh, speaking of getting rickrolled: http://bit.ly/kPzSt1 Gsquare86 Try #Bahrain Royal family for war crimes http://bit.ly/l3JPkd ==02 May 2011== timoreilly Profile of CANVAS - the Serbian organization that trains student activists in non-violent revolution http://bit.ly/iysDmc timoreilly Good post by @EthanZ on overcoming political polarization through proper framing, not through facts http://bit.ly/kPVFAk timoreilly RT @petermeyers Nifty: use iPhone app Magicplan to take pix of your home & it whips up a floorplan: http://bit.ly/knPp8N Prokofy Against Furry Socialism http://bit.ly/jh97xA *interesting stuff on SL group mechanics TishShute RT @sixwing & @Jeremie: Got the new Locker Project blog up and going with a great post by Rand: http://t.co/Di4l97G taterunino A priceless (and useful) discussion of preference-based voting systems and the UK referendum http://j.mp/k8F4S8 *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiHuiDD_oTk JustAmira I've quoted you in my story, check it out: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/05/02/pakistan-live-tweeting-osama-bin-lad *the helicopter incident shadihamid Obama is, apparently, a 'consequentialist.' Sadly, I suspect this is precisely the sort of thing u shouldn't be at a time like this shadihamid Oops. Obama told us he was a 'realist' in '06: 'This kind of realism has been missing...' http://nyr.kr/mAKG5y ==01 May 2011== David Orban likes a link. - No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto *http://tauday.com Wagner James Au via Olivia Ma - Wow, did President Obama release his long form birth certificate just days before the Correspondents' Dinner FOR THE COMIC MATERIAL? Watching this makes me think so. The White House surely knew Trump was coming to the event as an invitee of the Post, too, and would have to sit there beneath his lacquered hair and simmer through this whole thing. WELL PLAYED BRUDDAH BARRY. *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mzJhvC-8E&feature=share Blanka Eckstein via Debra F. Cole - Tell Facebook: Don't Censor Political Speech *http://act.demandprogress.org/act/facebook_political/?source=fb Ghonim *http://bit.ly/ksd2r5 #Egypt #Jan25 Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Mabrook Wael Ghonim http://goo.gl/fb/HB8mm JustAmira I have this many stories waiting to be written: http://yfrog.com/gyjvup I'd actually get somewhere if I start writing and stop complaining *she uses Tweetdeck acarvin Cameraman translated: "The world needs to see what happened in Daraa! Shoot me! Shoot me!" Incredible. http://bit.ly/kZh9vx Gsquare86 yalla ba2a RT @alaa: ? @3arabawy: Isn't it time to release the Mahalla 2008 prisoners? http://bit.ly/gdLPNl #May1 #egyworkers #photography acarvin Incredible. What is he yelling at the cops? RT @Papakila: Seen this? http://youtu.be/rilCSshK5Vo Talk about in the line of fire. #syria shadihamid Numbers of those killed in #Egypt revolution - at least 846 - are much higher than most ppl thought: http://bit.ly/mnCSc8 SultanAlQassemi DPA: 100 Jordan intellectuals blast "brutal" oppression of Syrian protesters http://bit.ly/jyoFpf More than 400 people killed #BasharReforms [[Category:LinkLogs]]
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