Month: July 2012
July 21, 2012
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Why Youth Has an Advantage in Innovation & Why You Want To Be a Learn-It-All «
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Overfocus on tech skills could exclude the best candidates for jobs – O’Reilly Radar
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And that reminds me of an old geek joke…
This.
> What’s wrong with top-posting?
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I read Twitter from bottom to top. Can’t imagine how reading it the other way could give a coherent view of things.
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July 20, 2012
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Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky
Dean Starkman has written a lengthy piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, assessing the writings of a group of us he calls the “Future of News” movement. That essay, Confidence Game , focusses principally on Jay Rosen and me, both of NYU’s Carter Institute , and Jeff Jarvis of CUNY , though…
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With shared data plans, AT&T and Verizon are robbing us blind yet again
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Will AT&T and Verizon’s shared data plans spur other carriers to adopt them?
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Why I Prefer the Featureless App
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Change is needed on the CIRA Board – Part II | Random Bytes
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BeatnikPad : Words
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July 19, 2012
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channel ORANGE
RT @zoeschafer channel orange.
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Will the Tea Get Cold? by Sam Tanenhaus | The New York Review of Books
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson The Tea Party: Three Principles by Elizabeth Price Foley Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution by Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin Charles Ommanney/Reportage by Getty Images A Romney…
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I think we may be getting close to the point where novelty is boring.
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“11 Raspberries that look like Mick Hucknall”
July 18, 2012
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“Breaking Bad street art in Canada – Boing Boing”:
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Depends where you followed them. MT @DoctorJones I just followed most of the Women’s olympic soccer team. I’m hoping that’s not creepy.
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JOHO – February 20, 2012
February 20, 2012 Contents : We all hate echo chambers in which a bunch of yahoos convince one another that they’re right. But, our fear of echo chambers can blind us to their important social role. Just take a look at Reddit.com… : The Semantic Web requires a lot of engineering. So along comes…
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A bug just flew in my eye.
Stupid bug.
Now you’re dead and I’m irritated.
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Here’s what I’m talking about if you don’t know…
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/lets-go-arctic-hoax-campaign
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The pranksters behind “Arctic Ready” have done the impossible. I feel sorry for and emphatic towards Shell Oil.
July 17, 2012
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I just wrote a sentence and rather than a period at the end I typed, “.com”.
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I know I should like Dirty Projectors, but I don’t.
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What Happens If Banks Help Their Customers Instead Of Trying To Trick Them? | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Josh Reich 02.21.12 10:00 AM There are 6,000 banks in America, but four national banks dominate. As a society we tend not to discuss financial matters, nor do we have a framework for rational comparison among different bank brands. So, we rely on things like headline interest rates when we choose…
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The Simplicity Thesis | Fast Company
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Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers – MarketBeat – WSJ
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July 16, 2012
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Another piece of good news today, I’ll be producing the sixth season of Community!
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Another piece of good news today, looks like I bought a Picasso at a yard sale for $2.
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Another piece of good news today, I’m representing the USA in the women’s Olympic decathlon.
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The new track by The XX is so good.