Category Archives: Communications, Connection, the Internet, the Web, and Media

“Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive” on Metafilter and Hacker News

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Karl

codacorolla, a librarian, posted his thoughts to a Metafilter conversation about Califaornia cuts to library funding and spurs a terrific thread at Hacker News. Read his entire comment and check out the conversation: “The digital divide isn’t just access, but … Continue reading →

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Classics: “The Twelve Networking Truths” and “Fallacies of Distributed Computing”

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Karl

Succinct and always worth a re-read: “RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths” and “Fallacies of Distributed Computing”.

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Jonathan Stray: “What should the digital public sphere do?”

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

A fantastic piece from Jonathan Stray on “algorithm designers to dedicated curators to, yes, traditional on-the-scene pro journalists, a great many people in different fields now have a part in shaping the digital public sphere”: “What should the digital public … Continue reading →

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Favorite blog of the moment: Letters of Note

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Karl

Every few days there is a post here that makes me take a moment and pause and it is so worth it: Letters of Note

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If you’re not going dark, help others get informed: Be a Better Activist Day is today

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Karl

Embedded in this post is a stream to an event, starting this morning at 10AM, on getting informed on how Congress works, organized by the author of “Information Diet”, Clay Johnson. There is a fantastic set of speakers that will … Continue reading →

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Daphne Koller of Stanford on Technology as “Passport to Personalized Education”

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Karl

NYTimes: “Death Knell for the Lecture: Technology as a Passport to Personalized Education”: …our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room … Continue reading →

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Community Computer Center Opens in Frankford

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Karl

The Frankford Gazette has a post on the new computer center that opened in one of my old neighborhoods, maybe I can stop by and help: “Community Computer Center Open in Frankford”: The majority of the residents of Frankford do … Continue reading →

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Alistar Croll: “much of human interaction has shifted from atoms to bits”

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Karl

Read his post on O’Reilly Radar: “The feedback economy”: In a society where every person, tethered to their smartphone, is both a sensor and an end node, we need better ways to observe and orient, whether we’re at home or … Continue reading →

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A parent who finds a way to build an App helping his Autistic son

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Karl

The Startup Toolkit profiles Aeir and profiles the person behind it, Joseph Hill. It is an inspiring story: “A man, a mop, a year, and an app – Joseph Hill on Aeir Talk”.

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How Firefly fans won a fight for free speech on a campus

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Karl

YouTube.com: “Don’t Mess with Firefly! How SciFi Fans Made a Campus Safe for Free Speech (feat. Neil Gaiman)”: (via Boing Boing)

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