Space cruise
NASA’s taken a tiny section of space telescope Hubble’s view of the universe, a section where TEN THOUSAND galaxies are […]
Space
Participatory Medicine, Politics
Tapscott: the healthcare reform battle
Don Tapscott explains why healthcare reform is going to be hard, a huge battle, and we shouldn’t be surprised to
Politics
Shabbir on Healthcare Reform
My friend Shabbir Safdar has posted an articulate response to some of the myths about healthcare reform here. …the rising
Politics
Bureaucrats
After experiencing politics in action via the crowd at Lloyd Doggett’s town hall meeting on health reform yesterday, and considering
Community, Consciousness, Economy, Events
Happiness Is Mobile Loaves and Fishes
Mark Horvath (aka @hardlynormal), who is an advocate for the diverse and generally invisible homeless population, is in Austin hanging
Consciousness, Media
Barker’s aliens
Schwa instigator Bill Barker has turned up, having responded to Mark Frauenfelder’s “where are you, Bill?” post at bOING bOING.
Politics, Science
Politics and Climate Change
I like to think climate change is settled – we have scientific consensus, we know it’s happening, we generally understand
Cinema
The Hurt Locker
When “The Hurt Locker” screened at SXSW, I thought it was one of the better films I’d seen in years,
Business, Futures, Technology
Free as in beer
In the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell runs a sanity test on Chris Anderson’s book Free: The Future of a Radical
News
#IranElection Supertracker
Robin Sloan’s created a useful filter of #IranElection info… “superfiltered …for the easily overwhelmed” (or already quite overwhelmed). Via Jeff
Business, Design, Technology
Open Architecture Products
Andrew Lippman on “open architecture products,” and viewing customers as partners who will contribute to the evolution and design of
e-patients, Participatory Medicine
Kevin Kelly on Participatory Medicine
I’m part of the Society for Participatory Medicine, and we’ll soon be publishing the Journal of Participatory Medicine. (We already
Community, Technology
Crowdsourcery in Austin
Several local web thinkers met recently with the IT staff from the City of Austin to discuss a best approach
Uncategorized
Remembering Bazooka
My good friend and cyberarts ally Bob Anderson, aka Bazooka, died May 31. I just learned of his death today