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Lawrence Lessig on the Kozinski scandal
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Here are the facts as I’ve been able to tell: For at least a month, a disgruntled litigant, angry at Judge Kozinski (and the Ninth Circuit) has been talking to the media to try to smear Kozinski. Kozinski had sent a link to a file (unrelated to the stuff being reported about) that was stored […]
Rose Colored News returns
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Rose Colored news returns to regular operations
Crime prevention organization making a difference in Chicago
Man grows new finger thanks to ground-up pig bladder
Argentina Decriminalizes Drug Consumption
Alaska: Appeals Court Cracks Down on Coercive Searches
Low cost, small scale wind turbines to power off-grid villages
Gel-like Material Shows Promise As Oral Insulin Pill For Diabetes
Bakeries urge customers to plant wheat […]
Four other Big Brothers
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Four other Big Brothers:
(I started this back when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo!, but I’ve only just not gotten a chance to finish up).
We all know about the potential “Big Brother”hood of Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!. Here are four other organizations with massive databases or the potential to collect extensive personal data.
Amazon, the other data […]
GoDaddy silences police watchdog site
Friday, March 14th, 2008
A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.
Visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, “Oops!!!”, which urged […]
First shot fired in Google-Wikipedia, Secrecy-Transparency war
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Wikia Search launched today. So far it’s nothing much, but the plan is to grow the product over the coming years. Jimmy Wales said in a comment on TechCrunch:
When I launched Wikipedia, I wrote at the top of the first page “Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaâ€. On that day, anyone reviewing it would have laughed. What’s […]
Best stuff I read this week
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Since I tend to post a flood of links both here and at Technoccult, some of wich I haven’t even read, I thought it might be useful both for readers and for myself to offer a list of the very best things I read each week.
Brother Theodore is Dead, a Brother Theodore obituary by Nick […]
Klintron for Hire
Monday, August 20th, 2007
I’m currently available for the following:
Articles:
Web 2.0
Technology
Culture
Politics
Occult
Marketing Communications:
Press releases
Copy writing
Web sites
Blog templates
Newsletters
Brochures
Etc.
Speaking:
Web 2.0
Blogging for businesses
New media
Magick 101
Organizing for alternative communities
E-mail klint at klintron dot com
Five reasons I prefer Yahoo! Mail to Gmail
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
1. I’ve been using Yahoo! a lot longer and don’t want to change my e-mail address. The reason I signed up for Yahoo! Mail in the first place was that I was tired of changing my e-mail address and just wanted one address that I could rely on forever (and Yahoo! was better than Hotmail). […]
Myspace - the next Prodigy?
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Abe says, in reference to this:
It’s funny to read the tech types on this stuff cause they just don’t get culture. Sure the Facebook app platform is light years ahead of what MySpace is doing, but it doesn’t exactly help you promote your band or your photo studio or your art does it? I’m actually […]
News Virus 2008
Monday, April 16th, 2007
The esteemed Nicholas J. Pell has launched a blog covering the 2008 election from his non-Euclidean political perspective:
Giuliani was on the offensive, repeating what will likely be his mantra for the upcoming election, that social issues don’t matter. The Big G still leads in key states in all early polling, and I still maintain that […]
Death threats, misogyny, and Kos embarrassing himself
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Remember the story about the blogger who received misogynistic death threats a couple weeks ago? Kos has chimed in with a post I hope he finds utterly embarrassing. He says “Most of the time, said ‘death threats’ don’t even exist — evidenced by the fact that the crying bloggers and journalists always fail […]
Blogging where speech isn’t free
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Ethan Zuckerman:
My friend Jon Lebkowsky put together a really excellent group for our panel at SXSW. The panel focused on the challenges of blogging in countries where there’s no reasonable expectation of freedom of speech. On stage, we had Shava Nerad from Tor, Rob Faris from the Open Net Initiative, Shahed Amanullah of altmuslim.com, and […]
Reconstruction 6.4: Theories/Practices of Blogging
Friday, November 24th, 2006
The new issue of Reconstruction is on blogging. I’m featured in the “Why Blog” section along with bloggers from all over the world, from Montana to Iran. Douglas Rushkoff, Mickey Z, and Rebecca Blood are some of the bigger names featured.
Reconstruction 6.4: Theories/Practices of Blogging.
Why blog?
Friday, October 20th, 2006
When I first started this blog, I wrote a post called “What is This Journal For?”” I tossed around a few ideas - mainly the “outboard brain” idea from Cory Doctorow, which remains the operative metaphor for this blog. But I never really found a satisfactory answer, and concluded: “I’m still not sure what this journal […]
Attensa previews versions 1.5, announces partnership with Six Apart
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Attensa (my employers) are previewing Attensa for Outlook 1.5 at Syndicate today (see the announcement here). I’ve been testing 1.5 and I have to say, it’s really cool. The AttentionStream™ technology is still young, so don’t expect miracles, but I’m already finding it useful. In the mean time, there’s 1.2 which we’ve […]
Are blogs less reliable than standard news media? Maybe not.
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
From John Shirley’s blog… I’m quoting the whole thing because he doesn’t have permalinks:
A guest blog by JB
One interesting thing I just realized is that the traditional press claims that *they* expertly edit and winnow the news for us, and that blogs don’t provide that service, so they are full of noise, you can’t […]
Adam’s take on “micropatronage”
Monday, April 10th, 2006
Adam compares Jason Kottke’s micropatronage scheme with Josh Ellis’s:
In the year of his micropatronage experiment, Jason Kottke offered content that appeared little different than what he had been offering for nothing, expanding on it greatly neither in subject nor depth.
[…]
Furthermore, especially given the five-figure amount at stake, any description of the experiment’s results that did […]
Community page ranking system
Friday, August 5th, 2005
Mary Hodder on BlogHer. A few words about BlogHer, and this interesting bit:
After 45 minutes of intense anger and frustration from many audience speakers in the room toward Technorati link counts and top 100, I suggested we create a community based algorithm, based on more complex social relationships than links. It’s something I’ve been […]
Abe calls ‘bull shit’ on the long tail
Friday, August 5th, 2005
Insightful piece by Abe on the “long tail”:
There is a huge philosophical issue at stake for those who are best termed the technorati, the boosters of high tech and networks roughly clustered around Anderson’s Wired Magazine. In this circle an awful lot of hope and thought has been invested in the idea that the internet […]