Social is a six letter word
RU Sirius reviews Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, which is […]
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Innovation
Chance favors the connected mind.
Steve Johnson in an animated conversation (literally) derived from the juices flowing through his book, Where Good Ideas Come From:
Aesthetic Bliss
Alien art
Wired features outsider art by Ken Grimes, a schizophrenic who creates “outsider art” including ufos and alien imagery. This reminds
Networks
A note about “network neutrality”
This is something I posted in the “state of the world” conversation with Bruce Sterling on the WELL… I give
Social Media
2010 Social Media Infographic
Mindjumpers created this graphic showing various social media happenings last year – interesting choices. You can go to their site
Futures, Global
“American soft power is vanishing”
Bruce Sterling and I are well into our annual State of the World conversation over on the WELL. Bruce, who’s
News, Politics, Technology
2010 Top Stories and Trends: The Eight-Ball List
I’m not much for categorical top ten lists, but my inner pundit won’t let the year end without some kind
Democracy, Politics
Sterling on Assange
Bruce Sterling’s analysis of Wikileaks is long, engaging, and depressing. The cables that Assange leaked have, to date, generally revealed
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So this is Christmas…
Empathy slaps me silly sometimes, and the “joy of Christmas” can be elusive when you see any fraction of the
Futures, Innovation, Knowledge, Teaching and Learning
Gary Chapman
Hearing via Twitter that my friend Gary Chapman of the LBJ School has died. News of his death was posted
Community, Politics
The kids are all right
Let the world go out, indeed. “Those are OUR streets, and we will always be there to demonstrate… people learned
Democracy, Futures, Media
Mark Pesce on Wikileaks: “Everything feels more authentic.”
Wikileaks is a big deal; Mark Pesce’s written the most insightful comment I’ve seen yet explaining just why. Read it
Democracy, Futures, Global, Government, Journalism
Personal Democracy Forum’s flash summit on Wikileaks
Video archive of Saturday’s Wikileaks discussion, which was quite compelling… quite a bit about the new world of journalism and
Journalism, Knowledge, Technology
Iraq 2006: a bag of words
How to make sense of Wikileaks data? One way is visual analysis, as we see here, via Jonathan Stray of