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==12 June 2011==

John Carter McKnight
Hmm. “The shorthand of it is that women run for office to do something, and men run for office to be somebody”
*Why Women Don't Get Caught Up in Sex Scandals 
*http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/weekinreview/12women.htm

Wagner James Au
Imagine 1000s of avatars living all together in one region. Now imagine Intel made it possible.
*New World Notes: Intel Releasing Code for Putting 1000s of Avatars on a Single OpenSim Region This M 
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/06/intel-opensim-1000s-of-avatars.html

Jan Isakovic recommends a link.
SPIEGEL Interview with African Economics Expert: "For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"
*http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html

Les Paul guitar - permanent link
*http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html

Stock and flow
*http://snarkmarket.com/2010/4890

Howard Rheingold hrheingold
Glassbeadgame time in #mindamp alumni forums. We'll be doing this in live sessions too. 

Loic Le Meur loic
I'm in a James Bond movie! http://ping.fm/tBBIw 

Howard Rheingold hrheingold
Pew Internet Project's Lee Rainie on "Why new media are becoming your new neighborhood" http://bit.ly/jaygQk 

Tateru Nino taterunino
Well, then you're screwed http://j.mp/mJs05W 

Evgeny Morozov evgenymorozov
'Fixer' cleans Wikipedia entries for senior business figures http://flpbd.it/8Bys

==12 June 2011==
acarvin
NYTimes: U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors http://nyti.ms/jN5pGa 

Andy Carvin acarvin
Appears to be some damn fine detective work. RT @avinunu: New evidence about #Amina, the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax http://bit.ly/iWm85X

weddady weddady
RT @dailyworldwatch: New Guest Post by @monakareem : " Arab Spring : It is not Social Media; it is Cyber Activism! " http://wp.me/pSApd-dM 

Andy Carvin acarvin
Massive is an understatement. RT @ArabsUnite: Massive crowds in #Sanaa yesterday http://youtu.be/JOEH4edTZ1M #Yemen #YF

==10 June 2011==
acarvin
Love this. No confirmation necessary. RT @MMM: Woman records eHarmony video bio, breaks down crying. http://t.co/ClL8KVr 

Tateru Nino taterunino
VastPark launches OpenAvatar for virtual worlds and games http://j.mp/mGzisD #virtualworlds #vastpark 

Tim O'Reilly timoreilly
Daylife publishing suite sounds very useful. Was just wishing for something like it this morning! http://rww.to/j1GSab via @marcprecipice 

Tim O'Reilly timoreilly
RT @EllnMllr "Doing" my email is going much slower because I find what this shows so fascinating! http://bit.ly/jWa6Ud /Indeed! 

==09 June 2011==
Wagner James Au
Fascinating response to this post. When's this thing going to Just Work? Like, right out the box, without workarounds and tweaking and sacrificing goats and shit?
*New World Notes: How Second Life Makes It Hard to Write About Second Life 
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/06/second-life-lag-rez-fail.html

Facebook Party Gets Out Of Control After German Girl Forgets Privacy Setting 
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/05/facebook-party-out-of-control_n_871473.html

How To Disable Facebook's New Facial Recognition Feature 
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/disable-facebook-facial-recognition-photo-feature_n_873018.html

Zeinobia
A New Chronicle: The DSK Connection http://goo.gl/fb/brtzx 
*http://www.eutimes.net/2011/05/russia-says-imf-chief-jailed-for-discovering-all-us-gold-is-gone/

Open Sim Worlds on JoKaydia grid (via Maria Korlov)
*http://www.jokaydiagrid.com/2011/06/01/opensim-worlds-community-exhibition/

==08 June 2011==
dsearls
Spectacular eruption on the sun.http://bit.ly/isnJmc 

cshirky
Sonaar Luthra just named TED Fellow http://j.mp/l5j9b6 for work on cheap water quality testing http://j.mp/iT6QPf #iloveitp 

Loic Le Meur loic
Tip @Techmeme http://t.co/lOlzDZs 
*Leweb in London?

taterunino
Second Life mesh-upload to be separately controlled http://j.mp/kbq97q #secondlife #sl 

Tateru Nino taterunino
Behind the curtain: Talking with Rod Humble about usability http://j.mp/lEk3oj #secondlife #SL 

weddady weddady
As I was saying..RT @NABEELRAJAB: #Bahrain campaign to humiliate Shiites goes beyond politics: http://t.co/2YC9W6R 

Andy Carvin acarvin
Well this escalated faster than I expected. http://nyti.ms/k3nDPY #amina 

weddady weddady
I lost count "@jilliancyork: Oh oh wait - Facebook screwed up privacy again? I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you! http://t.co/7hiuQLD" 

==07 June 2011==
dsearls
"Freedombox is the software stack for routers that serve you.... Serve privacy to you and your friends." Eben Moglen at #pdf11 

20 things I learned about browsers
*http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/06/now-open-source-20-things-i-learned.html

==06 June 2011==
Présentation de Vastpark
*http://lacantine.org/events/presentation-de-vastpark-par-craig-pesti-cto

Green economy
*http://www.farmingfirst.org/green-economy/

J'ai testé le coworking
*http://www.maviepro.fr/magazine/vie-pro/jai-teste-le-coworking

Tim O'Reilly timoreilly
Eye-opening perspective on Google from one departing engineer http://bit.ly/jALpOg via @edd 
*Protocol Buffers, BigTable and MapReduce are ancient, creaking dinosaurs compared to MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. And new projects like GWT, Closure and MegaStore are sluggish, overengineered Leviathans compared to fast, elegant tools like jQuery and mongoDB. 

loic
Quantified Self Guide http://ping.fm/zxFKg

Loic Le Meur loic
Où va la "quantification de soi" ? http://ping.fm/IgCBx 

Scobleizer
Horrific new footage of the tornado that hit Joplin from a storm chaser. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdK6H9d6J0 Nature's power, wow. 

Loic Le Meur loic
What I'm working on at Google: Making the mobile web fast http://ping.fm/QRlti 

Chris Messina™ chrismessina
The Global Commission on Drug Policy asserts that our drug policy is ON DRUGS! http://wv.ly/kf7J2x /via @werner @VanessaAlvarez1 

Robert Scoble Scobleizer
Wow, what a list of early-stage startups who want angel funding. 101 Answers: http://qr.ae/dfsm cc: @aplusk 

loic
Rands In Repose: The Anatomy of a Notification http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/06/05/the_anatomy_of_a_notification.html 

Tim O'Reilly timoreilly
Lovely little video about @petermui's fixit clinics - helping kids and adults to learn by fixing their broken stuff http://bit.ly/lnwgCc 

Robert Scoble Scobleizer
This new iOS preview video is quite "magical:" http://t.co/dCtfljJ 

hrheingold
Infotention on @scoopit http://t.co/46aCqhV 

Gsquare86
NoIMF #IMF #NoAid #Egypt RT @toriaar: @Gsquare86 Read this article in Jadaliyya for excellent analysis of how it works http://bit.ly/kXO1RS 

Shadi Hamid shadihamid
Egypt and the Eastern European model, by James Traub: http://bit.ly/isPOBz

==04 June 2011==
Howard Rheingold hrheingold
RT @kegill: "evaluation, interpretation and synthesis are key competencies of the 21st century" http://is.gd/nbVwdK #mindamp #infotention 

TishShute
Hope @bbc follows up on other v. cool stuff @thingm @mikekuniavsky r doing: +1 for WineM RFID wine rack in @bbc story http://bbc.in/k4sbup 

Prokofy Neva Prokofy
Government Surplus http://bit.ly/kdHKer 
*http://govgrid.org/projectupdatejune2011

Tish Shute TishShute
If you aren't already convinced of the importance of @Singly & @LockerProject (u know I am!) read @packman's post http://bit.ly/matS1Z 

loic
The end of Windows http://t.co/FGJ6JPF 
*see how he does links

Robert Scoble Scobleizer
Quora: What are the must-have iPhone apps? Why? 41 Answers: http://qr.ae/TQ5Y Which ones should be added to this list? 

hrheingold
RT @slideshare: New #SlideShare blog post: Connecting w/ yr audience http://dld.bz/aca4B Shoutouts to @coachdieter @bdnt @menro @avantgame 

TishShute
OpenSource Micro-Factory "Imagine if u cld build cars, industrial robots.." I love this visionary work ,Factor E Farm http://bit.ly/mKvJpJ 

timoreilly
Misplaced priorities: MN school superintendent requests that school be turned into a prison for benefit of students http://bit.ly/mPDx71 

Chris Messina™ chrismessina
Hell ya I want to learn how to lucid dream! Don't you? Make it happen: http://kck.st/gL7UFZ 

chrismessina
You can now add the +1 button to your site! http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-button-for-websites-recommend-content.html 

hrheingold
Entrepreneurial learning in the networked age, 2008, @maxsenges @jseelybrown & me http://bit.ly/j5wB5c via @amichetti 
*pdf

taterunino
New content-type coming to Second Life in Q3 http://wp.me/pEMph-1ej #secondlife 

Shadi Hamid shadihamid
Christian VP of Brotherhood's new party explains why he supports the Islamic movement: http://bit.ly/mlT4oF #Egypt 

themoornextdoor
RT @tommymiles: Don't agree w/outing victims, but this @SlateAfrique sidebar (fr) is vg intro to Peul/Fula culture RT http://t.co/PqV2xeh 

==03 June 2011==
Robert Scoble Scobleizer
The more I thought about Google 2015 the more depressed I got http://tinyurl.com/4xxa5wr CC: @jason what will it look like? 

hrheingold
"The overwhelmingly direct cause of reciprocity is giving support in the first place." http://bit.ly/iyDska - PDF

Howard Rheingold hrheingold
Rereading "It's not who you know, it's how you know them: who exchanges what with whom" by @barrywellman et. al. (1)

Howard Rheingold hrheingold
It's about cultivating a culture of conversation http://bit.ly/18sagZ 

timoreilly
Love @mattcutts as "the Greenspan of Google." And love @dannysullivan's flowchart of his decision process http://selnd.com/lCOTAa via @jason 

Saleh speech
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_ywanGfn4

JustAmira
Syria: Opposition Drafts Declaration in Antalya http://t.co/DR2M1h1 via @globalvoices 

JustAmira
Global Voices: Egypt: More Information on Jailed Blogger Mikel Nabil Needed: Caledoniyya complains there isn't m... http://bit.ly/mu81pP 
*http://caledoniyya.com/2011/06/02/mikel-nabil-incarcerated-and-maltreated/

==01 June 2011==
Baki 7our 7our
«Bac+ 12 ? Et alors ? On s’en fout de leurs revendications, il est interdit d’occuper l’espace public !» http://ow.ly/58iOu #Algérie 

Amira Al Hussaini JustAmira
A big thank you to Amna Arfaj for this: just saw it: Khaleeji Women in the Blogosphere: http://bit.ly/itZjPU 

Andy Carvin acarvin
“With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call." -Youtube re: Al-Khatib video. http://bit.ly/kdUG5R #syria 

themoornextdoor
RT @tommymiles: Refugees in Agadez describe horror of crime, Libya gov, rebs, airstrikes; Fleeing migrants flood #Niger http://t.co/1mW7tRr 

Kal themoornextdoor
Neat article on Arab hip hop artists http://is.gd/mPG7JB 

themoornextdoor
Chimp Analytics RT @lisang: Lee Smith continues shock & awe w amazingly awful MidEast analysis. http://tinyurl.com/3ogu8ja 

7our
Depressing news this morning &gt; 'Mideast Uses Western Tools to Battle the Skype Rebellion' http://on.wsj.com/j68KUR 

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