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“Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.”
I went on an interesting journey online last night that led me to the source of the above phrase, a poem on mortality, entropy, memory… and databases. Yes, you read that right. I read Tor.com’s wonderful blog almost once a … Continue reading
TOC 2012 Keynote To Watch: “Is SEO Killing America?”
TOC 2012: Clay Johnson, “Is SEO Killing America?”: Related: Metafilter thread. The Information Diet
Steve Klabnik: Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
Steve Klabnik outlines some best practices in API design in “Nobody Understands REST or HTTP”, some of which I admit I need to follow more consistently. As he states in the end: Seriously, most of the problems that you’re solving … Continue reading
A New ‘Virtual Natural Resource’ – Open Data
Michael Hausenblas has an interesting way to think about Open Data in “Open Data – a virtual natural resource”.
Some Thought Provokers For The Weekend
Boing Boing: “The Web Kids Manifesto” NYTimes: “There’s More to Nothing Than We Knew” NPR.org: “Our Media, Ourselves: Are We Headed For A Matrix?”
“Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive” on Metafilter and Hacker News
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
Classics: “The Twelve Networking Truths” and “Fallacies of Distributed Computing”
Succinct and always worth a re-read: “RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths” and “Fallacies of Distributed Computing”.
Jonathan Stray: “What should the digital public sphere do?”
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
Favorite blog of the moment: Letters of Note
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
If you’re not going dark, help others get informed: Be a Better Activist Day is today
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