This Matt Jones talk at TechnoArk introduces the idea of Mujicomp, the widespread use of simple, interactive, and social gadgets. It’s a speculation about where the future of hand-held devices might be heading. Jones offers some examples of items that are almost there, but doesn’t really offer a good idea of what the object might [...]
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For those of you unfamiliar with Chatroulette (possibly NSFW) here’s Kottke’s perfect summation: “I spent about 30 minutes on Friday night on Chatroulette (very NSFW). You push the start button and you’re instantly in a video chat with some random person. During my session, the average “chat” lasted about 5 seconds and I observed several people [...] Over at Shareable Rachel Botsman interviews Casey Fenton, founder of CouchSurfing. Rachel Botsman: One of the themes I explore in my forthcoming book is how collaborative communities quickly form “trust between strangers.” How did you create trust from the outset within the CouchSurfing community? Casey Fenton: Right from the beginning, we wanted people who had never [...] Here’s a terrific post by Kari Chapin, author of The Handmade Marketplace. It’s a post about creating a community for small-business crafts people. “I really believe that building community around yourself and your business can be a big part of whether or not you are successful. Connecting with other like-minded artistic people, joining a local craft [...] This month’s WIRED has an interesting article about Local Motors, an open source car design start-up. Local Motors takes the knowledge and history of kit cars and applies open source design techniques, and Web 2.0 networking to create small batch designs for car aficionados. At $50,000 a pop, this isn’t something everyone is going to want [...] The following is post 45 of 152 (so far) in Bruce Sterling’s State of the World 2010, an annual conversation over at the WELL between Sterling and the WELL netizens. The discussion ranges far and wide, and brief essays like the following on the networked future of healthcare pop up regularly. I put the passage [...] Clever parody of Paranormal Activity in support of readthebill.org. From the Sunlight Foundation: “Congress should change its rules to require that non-emergency legislation and conference reports be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before debate begins.” Downsize DC also has a recommended Read the Bills Act. This is the first time I’ve seen Downsize DC. They promote [...] Lots of good stuff about networked culture at Working Wikily. “Network tools and approaches are creating new opportunities for powerful social impact. Social innovators are pioneering the art of working wikily, embracing openness, transparency, and decentralization.” Dan Gillmor has some tips for improving news orgs. “A core mission of our work would be to help people in the community become informed users of media, not passive consumers — to understand why and how they can do this. We would work with schools and other institutions that recognize the necessity of critical thinking.” I really like the Fast Flip design, but it’s not as malleable as I’d like to see. I want to add feeds, and create tabs and rows. I don’t like that it embeds full articles. I thought placing your frame around a whole page went out of style 15 years ago. Maybe that’s to control for [...]
ReadWriteWeb's Top 5 Web Trends in 2009 “Last week we ran a series of posts outlining the 5 biggest Internet trends of this year: Structured Data, Real-Time Web, Personalization, Mobile Web / Augmented Reality, Internet of Things. Effectively this was ReadWriteWeb’s State of the Web 2009.” The Mainframe points to this story about Clear Channel-sponsored wi-fi enabled bus shelters. “The scenario would work something like this: as you approach the transit shelter which has been branded with the sponsor’s logo, your cell phone or internet enabled device will pick up free service from the wireless box inside the shelter. When you open [...] School is just around the corner, and just because you won’t be attending university doesn’t mean you can’t sit in on some lectures. Academic Earth collects individual lectures, and the lectures from entire courses, and puts them up on the web. Here, for example, are four lectures on copyright law. “This course is an introduction to copyright [...] The Department of Defense is the latest federal government web site to get a 21st-century make-over. You can be-fan the DoD on FaceBook, follow it on Twitter, watch its YouTubes, look at its Flickr, or read the blog. Interesting article about augmented altruism. “Augmented reality is the hottest emerging trend in technology these days. You may remember an early scene from the movie FIGHT CLUB where Ed Norton’s character is walking through his apartment and price tags pop up denoting how much everything costs. Well imagine if that could happened every-time you held up [...] Kendrick Meek’s campaign for Florida’s open Senate seat expects to tap into the grassroots strength of Web 2.0 and social media. Meek begins testing the waters by sitting down with self-proclaimed troublemaker Peter Schorsch of St. Petersblog 2.0. “Both Meek and Cruz reiterated the campaign’s commitment to new media, not just paying lip service, but [...] LegiStorm has a great new feature that allows for easy earmark searching. “We currently have earmark data for fiscal year 2008. By viewing earmark spending data in a variety of ways, you can learn details about the locations receiving funds for special projects and which legislators are securing those funds. “Our earmarks data comes from the Taxpayers [...] Want to help make the federal government more transparent? You can volunteer over at Transparency Corps. For example, you can sign up for an account, download some .pdfs of earmark requests, and then copy and paste “the most interesting pieces” into a form. There are huge numbers of requests, and spreading the work out among [...] A lot of great talks at OSCON ‘09, like this one by Gunnar Hellekson of Red Hat Government. Hellekson was there promoting Open Source for America. If you are interested in Web 2.0 stuff, let me recommend this post over at net critique by Geert Lovink. The Digital Given–10 Web 2.0 Theses by Ippolita, Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter. “Most Web 2.0 are echo chambers of the same old opinions and cultural patterns. As we can all witness, they are not exactly [...] Gubernatorial candidates Alex Sink and Bill McCollum are both on Twitter. They also have Facebook pages. Bill. Alex. The next iteration of Gmail will combine Google Chat, Gmail, Google Docs, and the rest of the Google online suite of apps into one multi-capable tool named Google Wave. It’s sort of a wiki-esque re-imagination of email that includes a lot of AJAX functionality and API extensibility. The following demo is sort of long, but [...] Here’s a list of government gadgets available for your blog or webpage. “These government gadgets (or widgets) are online applications built by one website that can be displayed on another website. You can embed these gadgets in personalized home pages, blogs, and other sites. Once you’ve added the widget, there’s no technical maintenance—the original source of [...] Wired has a great story about using networks and Web 2.0 apps to make buying from local markets easier. “Now, a [San Francisco] Bay Area startup has launched a service to make it easier and cheaper for restaurants to buy food from small, local farms. With a suite of mobile apps for use in restaurants and [...] Data.gov launched yesterday. “The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.” The Sunlight Foundation is holding an Apps for America 2 challenge for the best application using data from Data.gov. The rules are here. Facebook has a death policy. “Now, once Facebook finds out that a user has died, that person’s profile is automatically memorialized. What this means is that for thirty days, sensitive information (status updates and contact information, for example) is taken off the page, the profile can only be looked at by friends (the friend list is [...] Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen twitters. Terrific British documentary about the meaning and importance of Web 2.0. Examples used are Mumsnet, Couchsurfing, crowdsourcing decisions for selecting a soccer team, 2.0 methods applied to banking and microlending, and slicethepie (music industry 2.0). The last part addresses how online social networks are affecting concepts of governing. Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo. Clocking in [...] |
  
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Comment/Link Problem – UPDATED
If you come to a story from an RSS feed, or if you click on a post title to comment, the cursor will no longer recognize links in the post or allow copying of text within the post.
The nice folks at IntenseDebate (the commenting plugin I use) are looking into this glitch.
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