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725 posts on careers, communication, technology and civic life, since 2005.
In "In an age of atomization and social fragmentation it reinforces solipsism and places the individual and that dreaded value 'choice' at the heard of the experience…it encourages people to 'tune-out' while they're occupying social space with others, as if [they] were mere irritations; and it reduces the experience of music, which in my view…
The NYT Week in review ran an interesting article about data privacy today. I have been having ongoing conversatoins with colleagues about this kind of stuff, and was excited to see it so prominently featured in the Times. A few months ago at a conference=, Dan Robinson and I were talking and he asked "Imagine…
[via When Pigs Wi-Fi – New York Times ]: This kind of network is the wave of the future, and eastern Oregon shows that it's technically and financially feasible. New York and other leading cities should be embarrassed that Morrow and Umatilla Counties in eastern Oregon are far ahead of them in providing high-speed Internet…
[via Boycott Internet Explorer | RobsHouse.net ]: the only thing left to do to get Microsoft to wake up and start respecting its customers and the web developers who have to deal with the crap browser they produce is to boycott Internet Explorer +1 which as i learned today, means "Complete Agreement". So i am…
Daniel Shore pointed out on NPR this morning that all the articles on the front page of today's NYT aboce the fold are about Terrorism. As i have been consuming media over the last 2 weeks since the London Bombings, I have been thinking about terrorism and te violence in the world and what we…
[via Schundler%u2019s Software to Mobilize Other Candidates' Armies | Personal Democracy Forum ]: %u201CIf you%u2019re offering a service why would you limit your client base?%u201D he asks rhetorically, asserting, %u201CIt would be foolish to cut out clients solely because of their affiliation.%u201D Hmmmmm Brett, maybe you would limit yourself because you are an ideologically motivated…
This is an interesting article about using a mobile phone to store emergency contact information. By entering the acronym ICE – for In Case of Emergency – into the mobile’s phone book, users can log the name and number of someone who should be contacted in an emergency.
Last week I was demo-ing CiviCRM to someone. I searched on a fairly common name (it was the name of the person i was meeting with, and I had just entered their record) and among the records returned was one for an employee of a major proprietary web and communication services firm. My assumption was…
David Geilhufe writes on his Social Source Software blog: This emergent Social Source ecosystem has already begun rhythmic oscillation… PicNet and CivicActions are starting to use the technology for customers and are increasingly communicating with the partners with the strong links (CivicSpace Labs and Social Source Foundation). Over time, if enough actors join the system, […
I have just started reading Blink by Malcom Gladwell (first read about it on Ed Batista's blog and so far I am blown away. I love it. I may post some impressions about it. I also still have to post some impressions from Free Culture by Larry Lessig.