Political and economic turmoil driving info-obsession
Ok. But, are we just passive? Has there been an uptick in activism as well? Link: Too Much News? – NYTimes.com And the news is not just consequential, but...
Category: The Narrative
The ‘Quiet’ post
Every so often a site has the ‘oh, sorry for being so quiet’ post. This is sort-of one of them. Stream of bookmark consciousness I used to have the ...
Live via Mobile is the new Live
How Long Is Now?Originally uploaded by Jofus | JoeTheDough When I was a kid, it was a thrill to watch sports live. Up in one corner, there’d bit a big fla...
Not only are they doing a good job, but it’s scaringly real
A while back I found out via the Twitter site that the Mars Phoenix Lander had a Twitter channel. I don’t know, but maybe at the time it didn’t seem...
Rough analysis of start-dates for and topical categories of the world’s 50 most powerful blogs (BONUS: indie-journalists)
I found the article in my ‘to read’ pile the other day. The Guardian, back in March, wrote an article listing the 50 most influential blogs in the w...
Billion-dollar life sciences bill passes Massachusetts Senate
Does Massachusetts need a stimulus in biotech? I don’t think so. It’s doing pretty well. This bill sounds like a bone thrown to biotech biz leaders ...
Alex bopped me with a baton – lifestreams, semantics, and tapping the next person
Henriette Weber Kristiansen and Duarte Velez Grilo have a little show called Geek Army Knife. I see it as a wander through the collective mind, talking to inter...
Does Anyone Use Phone Booths Anymore?
A long forgotten phoneboothOriginally uploaded by schickr PhoneBoy asks this question (link below). Indeed, I think the folks who have been ramping down their p...
What’s it with movie super-heroes sulking on building ledges?
Heh. I’ve noticed recurring imagery of super-heroes crouched on a building rooftop, on the ledge, usually in the rain, usually moping. It is also usually ...
Awesome Clay Shirky interview (with a side-comment that cuts too close)
Glenn Fleishman did a great interview (back in March) of Clay Shirky on the topics in Clay’s new book ‘Here Comes Everybody’. Clay, as always,...