March 31, 2006

March 30, 2006

Digg vs. Reddit

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Base of the Pyramid Protocol, saw Stuart Hart on of the drivers of this thing speak today. He clearly wicked smart and seemed genuine, but every time he talked about the people on the base of the pyramid I couldn't help mentally interjecting the word "exploit" right before the phrase... "Inclusive capitalism" what do you make of that?

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March 28, 2006

March 27, 2006

March 25, 2006

nate_harrison_amen.mov (video/quicktime Object) - A documentary, short for a doc, long for a web video, on the seminal Amen Break. Great topic, great break, but was having it narrated by an Apple computer with the voice set to "NPR" the best choice?

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March 24, 2006

March 23, 2006

Weber’s Polar Night » Tiny devices; virtual mirror selves; a rain of RFID a trifecta of news from that unevenly distributed future of today.

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information aesthetics - internet backbone map, this one is super details and labeled.

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March 22, 2006

MoMB

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March 21, 2006

poxod: tools for sketching

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March 20, 2006

Whiskey Bar: Trusting the Marketplace

Billmon is back and as nastily on point as ever. But really all he needed was to quote the WSJ: "Treasury Secretary John Snow said the widening gap between high-paid and low-paid Americans reflects a labor market efficiently rewarding more productive people"

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The Dashboard Spy

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March 17, 2006

Web 2.0 company list

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March 16, 2006

Siqueiros Image Bank "An image bank for everyday revolutionary life"

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March 15, 2006

The Logos of Web 2.0

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25 Things I Hate About Google

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25 Things I Love About Google

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March 14, 2006

Searchscapes

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fryer_levitt_ecls_babies.pdf (application/pdf Object)

"On tests of intelligence, Blacks systematically score worse than Whites, whereas Asians
frequently outperform Whites. Some have argued that genetic differences across races
account for the gap. Using a newly available nationally representative data set that
includes a test of mental function for children aged eight to twelve months, we find only
minor racial differences in test outcomes (0.06 standard deviation units in the raw data)
between Blacks and Whites that disappear with the inclusion of a limited set of controls.
The only statistically significant racial difference is that Asian children score slightly
worse than those of other races. To the extent that there are any genetically-driven racial
differences in intelligence, these gaps must either emerge after the age of one, or operate
along dimensions not captured by this early test of mental cognition."

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March 13, 2006

Attack of the Eurogoogle | Economist.com subscriber only unfortunately, had to go to Lexis/Nexis to actually read it. choice quote:

"Even so, the most striking difference between Quaero and Google is not technological, but ideological. Quaero is a classic example of European state-funded industrial policy, while Google is the very embodiment of American free-market techno-capitalism."

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Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community, out of print but online.

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Christ, apparently my elementary school has turned into a racial war zone. You don't even have to read between the lines to tell there is some crazy shit going on. And no, there was no gifted and talented program nor racial warfare when I was there...

Posted by William Blaze at 06:33 AM | Comments (0)

March 12, 2006

BLDGBLOG: Thousand Mile Colosseum "it is not the roadways but their surveillance that never ends."

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March 11, 2006

Newsvine - science

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March 10, 2006

March 09, 2006

Moderation Strategies Wiki

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FORTUNE: Secrets of greatness: How I work - Mar. 7, 2006 (much of interesting interviews on working styles)

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March 07, 2006

Geeking with Greg: In a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power (or another step towards Google data domination).

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March 06, 2006

Wired 14.03: The Chaos of Joshua Davis It's tempting to say Wired is just absurdly late to the game on this one, but instead I'll just hope that they're just ahead on the curve on his return to relevance, cause I'd love to see him make something as good as his old work again.

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March 05, 2006

Index of /RSG/FORK

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Transmaterial

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March 04, 2006

Latest 40 Live Journal Images

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YouTube - Ask Me, Don't Tell Me (SF street gangs in the early 60's)

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aNYthing glob

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March 01, 2006