January 2011
RT @cshirky: Alternet’s description of several mischaracterizations of Wikileaks common to mainstream reporting: http://bit.ly/hAkmSv
December 2010
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“The reality is that there is no real control of distribution of digital content,...”
– MediaFuturist: Is traditional content licensing fit for the digital age?
“There is some discussion in the tech blogs today about why iPad magazine sales...”
– Damn straight!
A VC: Mobile Economics Will Trend Toward Web Economics
The longer I spend writing something the shorter it gets.
customize your IKEA furniture | Mykea →
“Yes..and 2011 is also the year of desktop linux, and duke nukem forever.”
– 2011 is year of the Server-Side JavaScript : javascript
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Five Shocking Facts About What Drinking Does to... →
When it comes to health prescriptions, is there anything more controversial than alcohol consumption? It seems that every few months a new study hits the press, either praising the health…
“All media is social because human beings are social. The only difference is that...”
– Derek Powazek - All Media Is Social*
Whole Health Source: Diet-Heart Controlled Trials:... →
Interventions that replaced animal and trans fat with seed oils that were rich in LA but low in omega-3 caused a non-significant trend toward increased heart attacks (13% increase) and overall mortality.
Interventions that replaced animal and trans fat with a combination of LA and omega-3 fats significantly reduced heart attacks (by 22%). The numbers for total mortality followed a similar trend.
julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-%E2%80%9... →
cshirky: V/@EthanZ, a remarkable essay on Assange’s desire for Wikileaks to “impede production of future secrets”: http://bit.ly/g27rNk
“No hacker story is more common than this. The ingenuity poured into the...”
– The Blast Shack
Tour - WakeMate →
Christmas time http://instagr.am/p/k9HK/
The EPA approved a pesticide against advice of its... →
There’s a very long and detailed story up at Grist about evidence for apparent wrongdoing by the Environmental Protection Agency. Here’s the short version: Seven years ago, the EPA granted…
RT @JPBarlow: Collective consciousness is struggling to be born. It is no surprise that collective ignorance feels threatened.
Art museum bans pencils and sketchpads →
John William Waterhouse: Hylas and the Nymphs (1896). This painting is not in the special exhibition at the de Young. I just like it. Here’s your daily dose of confoundingly moronic logic:…
“AT THE END OF THE DAY
This pernicious weed of language takes six words to say...”
– Book of Tens: Jargoniest Jargon We’ve Heard All Year - Advertising Age - Special Report: The Book of Tens 2010
RT @vambenepe: Half of non-trivial news can be abstracted as: “Obvious Conflict of Interest, Ignored for Years, Causes Disaster.”
“Low real rates have propped up asset markets this year as investors have been...”
– Buttonwood: Getting real | The Economist
RT @mmaghsoodnia: good coverage of Bookrenter in TechCrunch http://tcrn.ch/dWj7Mp
Vice President of Bolivia hosting Bolivia-related... →
What is this I don’t even.
It looks like the office of the Vice President of Bolivia is hosting translated versions of Wikileaks-leaked cables that relate to affairs involving the South…
Report: Wikileaks cables show Texas company... →
In the Houston Press, an extensive blog post untangling an alarming story from the state department cables: “another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security…
RT @Caterina: “Networks do great harm by appearing enough like real communities to create expectations that they can manage human & soci …
I’ve said it before but, news (especially local) is the stupidest thing on TV.
“We have two political parties in name only — they both pursue the same...”
– Marco.org - The Big Economic Story, and Why Obama Isn’t Telling It