Being Green in 2001
Originally published in the last issue of Whole Earth Magazine (aka Whole Earth Review), Spring 2003 History In the sixties […]
Climate Change, Environment/Climate
ACTLab 2019: Making Community Real
A talk presented by Jon Lebkowsky and Kevin Welch at ACTLab 2019. Online communities preceded social media as a way
InfoReal
I wrote this in the late 1990s for a book called CyberRevolution, edited by Yoshihiro Kaneda – this was translated
Technopolitics
Originally published in 21C, 1997 The global Internet’s awash with email lists, chats, and online conferences for discussion of governance
On the Radar, 2018
I created the list below for the State of the World 2018 conversation (which is something I do every year
IndieWebCamp Austin – December 9-10, 2017 – Austin, Texas
This is my RSVP for IndieWebCamp Austin, and I hope you’ll join me there! I’ve been an active proponent of
Uncategorized
Fiction that Bleeds Truth: Lenny Bruce
We were watching the excellent new Amazon series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which featured Lenny Bruce as a catalyst for
Culture, Future of the Internet
Was the development of the Internet a wrong turn?
[I posted this on Facebook, seems it struck a nerve based on the likes and responses. Reposting here, perhaps time
Futures
Trends 2015
Here’s a list of trends I see going into 2015, created for this year’s “State of the World” conversation. Privatization
Government, News
Civil asset forfeiture, yikes!
In 2013, The New Yorker published a revealing, troubling piece called “Taken,” an in-depth investigation into the practice of civil
Aesthetic Bliss
Bukowski
Saw this at bOING bOING (via Cory Doctorow) and ported it over here: In comments on the video at Youtube,
Climate Change, Global
Hottest June Ever!
“June was the 352nd consecutive month in a row with temperatures that were above the global average,” per Climate Central.
Copright, Copyleft, IP
Getty images embeddable
This is pretty great: Getty Images are now free to embed. This is a test embed (recent image from the
Innovation, Space
Amazing Video: Felix Baumgartner’s Free Fall from Space
Via GoPro (this is the sort of thing GoPro was made for!). “Sometimes you have to go up really high