Belated Happy Birthday to Nikola Tesla
On Tesla’s birthday, Marsha and I were at a rousing Tesla Project art party featuring Arc Attack, a band that […]
Science
Community, Media
Public Access
Last night, the City of Austin’s Telecommunications Commission had a roundtable discussion – actually a series of panels – on
Consciousness, Organization, Politics, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning
Stewardship
I’ve been thinking a lot about stewardship as the requisite basis for action in an era of greed and confusion.
e-patients
Regina Holliday
Regina Holliday became a passionate, powerful e-patient advocate after frustrating encounters with the healthcare system as her husband, Fred, was
Aesthetic Bliss, Futures
Future of transportation, circa 1936 (Japan)
Amazing set of images: the 1936 Japanese vision for the future of transportation. [Link to all images at Pink Tentacle]
Social Media, Technology
Steve Ivy: The Voice in the Stream
My thinking’s focused on activity streams lately, thinking of them as lifestreams – increasingly people are putting their lives online
Cinema, Media
Happy Birthday, Ray Harryhausen
Heroic special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, whose influence nearly led me to a craft for which I probably would have
Consciousness
Gate, gate, paragate
What we think of as reality is just shadows of shadows, internal reconstructions of sense data fed imperfectly into electrochemical
Community, Networks, Organization, Social Media, Teaching and Learning, Technology
Digital Habitats/technology stewardship discussion
Nancy White, John D. Smith, and Etienne Wenger have written a thorough, clear and compelling overview of the emerging role
Business, Social Media
“This is why people are using social media tools, as a big gross band-aid!”
Are companies using social media to build relationships? Or as damage control because they don’t have a clue how to
Business, Community, Media, Social Media
The manifesto that made my day
Earlier today I listened to a Buddhist Geeks talk with Stephen Batchelor, who said he was pretty sure there is
Journalism, Media, Politics, Social Media
Arianna Huffington – interviewed by Evan Smith
Wrote this in May and saved it as a draft. Timing’s good for publication: I’ve been thinking a lot about
Media, Networks
Information spill?
We’ve all zeroed in on a set of established platforms for interaction, primarily Facebook and Twitter. Icons linking to Facebook
Productivity, Social Media, Technology
Blogchat and mutation
It’s hard to scale conversations beyond some manageable number of participants. Christopher Allen, in an excellent article on Dunbar’s number