We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
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Foundation Writing on the Internet - 0 views
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Gives an interesting view on social computing
Helium--An interesting idea. - 0 views
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I stumbled upon this website the other day. Its an article site with a bunch of hired authors. "Wait--hired authors!!" You say, in righteous defense of the open "wiki" model. But the cool thing about hired authors is that they are all viewing and rating each other's articles. Hence, "helium," the best articles rise to the top. I mean who decided that it was the best system to have bored 40 year olds living with their parents as the main source of information. (Let's be honest, those wikipedia articles didn't write themselves.) The good thing about a paid workforce is that there is a sense of pressure under writing the articles. Their business model is in and of itself an "invisible hand." Anyways, i thought it was a cool idea. Voila.
Writings on the Chicken vs Egg Problem - 0 views
open link in new tab html code - 1 views
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I enjoy writing parts of my blog using html code, and I have been frustrated with my own blog that my links do not open up new tabs/windows so I thought I'd so some research on the subject. Well, this is how!
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thanks for sharing! that annoys me too.
Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie - 0 views
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5 years after taking the job as Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie steps down and writes this blog post about the progress and needs of Microsoft in our evolving digital world.
Historypin | Home - 0 views
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Add your own photos to a map and write a story about it. Browse how others have added their photo content to a general map-history.
Being Connected... (article) by Ann Marquette on AuthorsDen - 0 views
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take the time to be connected to the peole that matter in your life - talk to them, write letters (or emails), pick up the phone, or go visit. The key ingredient is time.
Successfully Launched My writer Career… Thanks John - 1 views
I want to express my gratitude to John who helped me become the writer I want to be. Before meeting him, I thought that I was born to be a novel writer and I almost believed it after receiving 400 ...
Op-Ed Contributor - How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
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Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
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Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views
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Do you agree with this?
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This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
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The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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About Open Government | The White House - 0 views
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This is a good beginning to openness. But it still seems a little vague.
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The Administration is reducing the influence of special interests by writing new ethics rules that prevent lobbyists from coming to work in government or sitting on its advisory boards. The Administration is tracking how government uses the money with which the people have entrusted it with easy-to-understand websites like recovery.gov, USASpending.gov, and IT.usaspending.gov. The Administration is empowering the public – through greater openness and new technologies – to influence the decisions that affect their lives.
Movement of Video Game language into Popular Culture - 0 views
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This is an interesting phenomenon that I also chose to write about on my blog. There's still a lot that needs to be researched though.
Race to Nowhere | Changing lives one film at a time - 2 views
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I highly suggest watching this clip. It's food for thought if nothing else--what are the flaws of our educational system, what are the consequences of those flaws, and how can we fix it?
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Hey Kristen, this guy writes music for children and also political songs. This song he wrote is along those same lines. You might be interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dAujuqCo7s
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Burke's Writings and Speeches, Volume the Second, by Edm... - 0 views
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Irish born English conservative approves of the American Revolution
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The gutenberg project is an amazing source for online books and I just happened to find a compilation of Edmund Burke's works online.
The Real Difference between a Book Report and a Book Critique - 1 views
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Another article on the difference between a book report and a book critique
Learning in the Light of Faith - 0 views
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When I was just out of graduate school, I attended my first meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. A highlight was a special event arranged by the conference organizers: the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had been invited to speak to us.
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Hour after hour he wrote down the stories he found in books in the university library about people protesting the invention of things like machines to spin thread and to weave cloth, steam-powered trains, automobiles, airplanes, etc. All of these advances were perceived by the general public either to be physically dangerous or to be a threat to the livelihoods of workers in trades that were about to be destroyed by these advances.
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when he started to write science fiction, he remembered all of this work he had done. So while his fellow writers were all rhapsodizing about the thrill of rockets and space travel (long before such things were possible), he wrote a story about how the local populace showed up at the launch site with torches and pitchforks in opposition to space travel. Years later, when rockets and travel outside of the earth’s atmosphere became possible, there were protests, and many of Mr. Asimov’s colleagues were astounded that he had predicted so far in advance that this would occur.
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Great Devotional Talk by Ross Spencer. Includes a great reference to "Future Shock".
The Tocqueville Fraud - 1 views
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Oh snap. Apparently America is in love with Tocqueville's explanation and narrative found in Democracy in America; however, it turns out that many of the lines people quote aren't actually in the book (or any of his writings for that matter).
Tocqueville's Journey - 0 views
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Okay, so this is totally cool. C-SPAN is giving a tour of where Tocqueville himself went when he traveled across America writing his classic: Democracy in America. Sign me up!
Of Things That Matter Most - 0 views
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For example, it wasn’t long after astronauts and cosmonauts orbited the earth that they realized ballpoint pens would not work in space. And so some very smart people went to work solving the problem. It took thousands of hours and millions of dollars, but in the end, they developed a pen that could write anywhere, in any temperature, and on nearly any surface. But how did the astronauts and cosmonauts get along until the problem was solved? They simply used a pencil.
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Let us simplify our lives a little. Let us make the changes necessary to refocus our lives on the sublime beauty of the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship—the path that leads always toward a life of meaning, gladness, and peace.
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Maybe we don't need to drop everything and live in the woods. We need to take a look at life and prioritize. We can have a Walden-like experience by simplifying.