Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Jon Lebkowsky Digital culture maven, cyberpunk, dharma punk, cyberactivist. ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://weblogsky.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://weblogsky.com/blog/) - [2001 Blues](https://weblogsky.com/2026/05/06/2001-blues/) - Originally published at rewired.com It's a hassle to edge past 50 and realize that the dreams pumped into your head by "the dreamer fthp" (see Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, where SF authors form a kind of dreamer caste as seen by elephant-beaked aliens) prove bogus... specifically dreams of space travel, alien contact, - [Pondering](https://weblogsky.com/2026/04/29/pondering/) - Pondering questions of self, meditation, and truth. - [The Future of Affinity: Living Networks with Social Software](https://weblogsky.com/2004/11/29/the-future-of-affinity-living-networks-with-social-software/) - "The Future of Affinity: Living Networks with Social Software" was a presentation delivered by Jon Lebkowsky to the CenTex Chapter of the World Future Society in November 2004. Thanks for inviting me. This is a huge subject, and I've tried to prepare an overview with some history, a sense of what's happening now, and thoughts - [Way Down Yonder](https://weblogsky.com/2026/04/09/way-down-yonder/) - New Orleans is one of the most culturally and racially mixed cities in the South, with a majority Black population, a growing Hispanic community, and deep historical roots in African, French, Spanish, and Caribbean cultures — all of which continue to shape its food, music, architecture, and identity. We’ve been on vacation this week, and - [Virtual Trees](https://weblogsky.com/2026/04/28/virtual-trees/) - Carplay's cartoonish virtual trees on a map, while suggesting that trees exist in the environment, doesn't conform to the shape or placement of actual trees. - [Consciousness in a Box](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/20/consciousness-in-a-box/) - Stumbled onto this piece I wrote in 1994 for FringeWare Review, triggered by a meeting with Hans Moravec, as I recall. Robotics has two sides -- real-world practical application and development, and scifi mythopoetic phantasy construction -- and like most real/surreal dichotomies of the Information Age, these two sides are blurred and indistinct within human - [Robots](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/02/robots/) - My favorite-so-far Bruce Sterling post in the State of the World conversation: "Following on from John Payne's comments in , are the robots coming for our jobs? Is a certain amount of unemployment going to end up as part of the system and, if so, what happens next?" *It's so interesting to see this perennial - [Being Green in 2001](https://weblogsky.com/2019/08/17/being-green-in-2001/) - Originally published in the last issue of Whole Earth Magazine (aka Whole Earth Review), Spring 2003 History In the sixties and early seventies my g-g-generation caught fire with concern for the environment; we added it to our charm bracelet of concerns which included world hunger, the Vietnam war (and, for that matter, all goddam wars), - [ACTLab 2019: Making Community Real](https://weblogsky.com/2019/07/16/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 to participate meaningfully online – truly social spaces like the WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), supporting sustained interaction over time. This was an important aspect of community: a consistent set of members building history together, - [Surf's Up!](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/20/surfs-up/) - Here's another older piece, my zany editorrant incroducing from Fringe Ware Review #5, the "Stay Awake" issue. This issue of Fringe Ware Review was originally called the 'alien invasion' issue; our original intention was to create a sometimes serious, sometimes parodic hash of Bill Barker's schwa, UFO theory, and cultivated paranoia for the 90s. However - [InfoReal](https://weblogsky.com/2018/11/02/inforeal/) - I wrote this in the late 1990s for a book called CyberRevolution, edited by Yoshihiro Kaneda - this was translated into Japanese by Gohsuke Takama, and was published only in Japan. Yoshihiro also interviewed me via email. It's time to wake up and do some critical thinking about the information highway, which we know will - [The Abolition of War, suggested by Krzysztof Wodiczko](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/28/the-abolition-of-war-suggested-by-krzysztof-wodiczko/) - We recently watched all episodes of HBO's intense, realistic miniseries about the brutal and devastating war in The Pacific; it was a jaw-dropping experience - watching human beings blow each other apart, a real nightmare of violence. I was realizing how transformative that experience would be - you can't go home again after that kind - [Technopolitics](https://weblogsky.com/2018/07/22/technopolitics/) - Originally published in 21C, 1997 The global Internet's awash with email lists, chats, and online conferences for discussion of governance and what goes with it: the politics of issues and of personalities, trad partisan thrashes, visionary thrusts (e.g. Barlow's Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace), theoretical rants and practical spins. But is this all just talk - [On the Radar, 2018](https://weblogsky.com/2018/01/05/on-the-radar-2018/) - I created the list below for the State of the World 2018 conversation (which is something I do every year with Bruce Sterling). 2017 was a nervous year of overwrought blustery political cultures, a year of normalized psychosis amplified by media distortion, a year in which we all learned to live in the upside-down, losing - [IndieWebCamp Austin - December 9-10, 2017 - Austin, Texas](https://weblogsky.com/2017/12/04/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 an IndieWeb meetup in Austin, and my company, Polycot Associates is an IndieWebCamp sponsor. The ability to share and acknowledge content has always existed, and a decade ago it was common for users to create - [Fiction that Bleeds Truth: Lenny Bruce](https://weblogsky.com/2017/12/03/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 Mrs. Maisel's decision to do standup comedy: "Do you love it?" she asks him, and he shrugs. The first episode in the series shows how the best standup depends on authenticity, and maybe on love. - [Bukowski](https://weblogsky.com/2014/08/16/bukowski/) - Saw this at bOING bOING (via Cory Doctorow) and ported it over here: In comments on the video at Youtube, someone posted this Bukowski quote: "I think my writing is really pretty fucking powerful stuff but I think after I’m dead and safe, they’re going to trot me out, I’m going to really be discovered - [Five questions you should ask about marketing, PR, and social media](https://weblogsky.com/2010/08/31/five-questions-you-should-ask-about-marketing-pr-and-social-media/) - Big flash recently, as someone said "social media is not the same as social media marketing." Of course, that's true. In fact, social media is one of those complex phenomena about which our thinking is often insufficiently complex - we think of it as one thing because there's this one label, but infact the term - [SOPA, PIPA, and the Web Strike: What's It All About?](https://weblogsky.com/2012/01/17/sopa-pipa-and-the-web-strike-whats-it-all-about/) - Originally published at Texas Enterprise A web strike has been called, and many web pages will go black, in response to two proposed bills — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate. From a high level, these bills may seem reasonable enough. Their stated - [Was the development of the Internet a wrong turn?](https://weblogsky.com/2015/08/06/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 for a blog revival.] I argued in the early 90s that the Internet would connect creatives on the fringes and fringe communities would form and have more impact on social and political cultures. What I - [Trends 2015](https://weblogsky.com/2015/01/25/trends/) - Here's a list of trends I see going into 2015, created for this year's "State of the World" conversation. Privatization of outer space: A number of companies are developing spaceware, and there’s one nonprofit that’s formed to colonize Mars by 2023 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One). Is the investment entirely speculative, or do we have clear business models driving - [Civil asset forfeiture, yikes!](https://weblogsky.com/2015/01/01/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 asset forfeiture, where American citizens can have their property (cash, cars, homes) confiscated by police, even though they haven't been charged with a crime. Now John Oliver on HBO takes on civil forfeiture: The Institute - [Hottest June Ever!](https://weblogsky.com/2014/07/22/hottest-june-ever/) - "June was the 352nd consecutive month in a row with temperatures that were above the global average," per Climate Central. Why? "The lengthy stretch of hot months is being driven primarily by the rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Human activities are responsible for much of that rise and with recent carbon dioxide milestones - [Getty images embeddable](https://weblogsky.com/2014/03/06/getty-images-embeddable/) - This is pretty great: Getty Images are now free to embed. This is a test embed (recent image from the Ukraine). - [Amazing Video: Felix Baumgartner's Free Fall from Space](https://weblogsky.com/2014/01/31/amazing-video-felix-baumgartners-free-fall-from-space/) - Via GoPro (this is the sort of thing GoPro was made for!). "Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are." - [2013 Top Ten (Social/Political/Technical) Culture Blasts](https://weblogsky.com/2014/01/01/2013-top-ten-socialpoliticaltechnical-culture-blasts/) - These are things I thought were important in 2013. NSA Leaks and surveillance society I always figured the NSA was watching, but it was still a shock to find how extensive surveillance had become - and it was disturbing to see clearly how surveillance of this kind was somebody's job, something they would inscribe in - [State of the World 2014](https://weblogsky.com/2014/01/07/state-of-the-world-2014/) - Bruce Sterling and I are into our annual "state of the world" mischief. [Link] Google was going wild in early 2013, they were like android demigods. Now Google is, all of a sudden, presto, Russia. Google is a surveillance secret-police empire with spy binoculars on their faces. Sergey Brin's pet Moonshots are just a lame - [What the Internet Is](https://weblogsky.com/2013/09/30/what-the-internet-is/) - This works as a manifesto. I didn't write it — it's by the brilliant technologist David P. Reed. Occasionally, people ask my perspective on the Internet, since I often object to confusing it with things like the telephone or Cable TV. Recently I composed a response that captures my perspective, as one of the participants - [Yochai Benkler runs it down: the NSA, our rights, America in decline](https://weblogsky.com/2013/09/13/yochai-benkler-runs-it-down-the-nsa-our-rights-america-in-decline/) - Yochai Benkler shines a summary light on NSA revelations. I personally don't think the problem is the NSA but the context in which the NSA is operating - a context in which American values are in transition - I would say decline - as a concept of governance founded on democratic and scientific traditions is - [New method for harvesting energy from light](https://weblogsky.com/2013/09/12/new-method-for-harvesting-energy-from-light/) - "Harvesting energy from light" has an exotic sci-fi vibe - it's about better methods for extracting solar energy to generate electricity, and improved fiber optic technology for communications - applications we're familiar with — this isn't the Bellero Shield. The new work centers on plasmonic nanostructures, specifically, materials fabricated from gold particles and light-sensitive molecules - [Elevated Transmissions 2](https://weblogsky.com/2013/08/02/2105/) - Elevated Transmissions, Volume 2 via San Francisco producer Al Lover & The Reverberation Appreciation Society. A psychedelic mixtape that'll clean your socks and float your boat. More info and download here. [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/102569690" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] - [Is God Really Dead?](https://weblogsky.com/2013/04/25/2020/) - [Goat at Psych Fest](https://weblogsky.com/2013/05/10/i-was-front-and-center-for-this-amazing/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zaaA0nd9DI I was front and center for this amazing performance at Austin Psych Fest. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [Jodorowsky](https://weblogsky.com/2013/05/20/welcome-back-alejandro-jodorowsky/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Za7PlknnTw Welcome back, Alejandro Jodorowsky! (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [Guy Debord Action Figure](https://weblogsky.com/2013/05/20/brucesterling-new-aesthetic-verso-books/) - brucesterling: new-aesthetic: “Verso Books have offered Rhizome readers in the UK a chance to win a 3D printed Guy Debord action figure.” (via Front Page)”>Rhizome | Guy Debord Limited Edition Action Figure Giveaway) *I’m holding out for the Makie. - [Social Toasters](https://weblogsky.com/2013/05/26/iftf-has-a-vision-social-networks-for-toasters/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGgkksaLXbM IFTF has a vision, social networks for toasters worldwide. Love the visuals. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [Stay Awake!](https://weblogsky.com/2013/05/28/stay-awake/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvujoz0B9Oo (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [Goat Live](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/16/the-amazing-goat-live-2013-full-show-at/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ys9Qps5a40 The amazing Goat - Live - 2013 Full Show at Glastonbury. (Via pantos27) (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [Fireworks](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/20/fireworks/) - Fireworks - [Grad Students](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/24/its-the-darkest-of-ironies-that-at-precisely-the/) - Its the darkest of ironies that at precisely the historical moment that the human race need as many people as possible to parse complex problems –climate change, energy crises, lock-jawed governing bodies, and brand new forms of systemic poverty– being a grad student has become something akin to a feudal apprenticeship. You are at a - [Three Laws of Augmented Reality Design](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/24/1-augmentation-must-emerge-from-the-real-world/) - 1. Augmentation must emerge from the real world and/or relate to it 2. Augmentation must not distract from reality, but make you more aware of it 3. Augmented interaction must deliver a superior experience to alternatives, or better yet – there’s no alternative. Three Laws of Augmented Reality Design, http://gamesalfresco.com/, Ori Inbar - [Hal Lasko](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/24/hal-lasko-a-legally-blind-97-year-old-is-using/) - http://vimeo.com/70748579 “Hal Lasko, a legally blind 97-year-old, is using Microsoft Paint from Windows 95 to create art." (Source: http://vimeo.com/) - [Gmail Ads](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/25/googles-insertion-of-unsolicited-ads-directly/) - "Google’s insertion of unsolicited ads directly into inboxes is made possible, paradoxically, by its success in otherwise eliminating them. Google has essentially conquered spam, which was once predicted to be the death of e-mail: less than one per cent of all spam in Gmail reaches an inbox. It could not stuff its own ads in - [Glitches](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/25/glitch-moment-ums-from-tech-accident-to-artistic/) - Glitch Moment/ums - From tech accident to artistic expression: http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2013/07/glitch-momentums.php#.UfF-0mSsbzQ - [What Made Milwaukee Famous](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/25/blast-from-the-past-my-father-was-a-schlitz/) - Blast from the past! (My father was a Schlitz distributor when it was el numero uno…) - [Gareth Branwyn: Borg Like Me](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/26/my-cyborg-pal-gareth-branwyn-is-raising-money-via/) - My cyborg pal Gareth Branwyn is raising money via Kickstarter to publish “Borg Like Me," a collection of his writings. No more worthwhile cause. Put your money where your mouse is! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1141078539/borg-like-me-the-writings-of-gareth-branwyn - [Bozo and his Rocket Ship](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/28/inspiration-for-the-five-year-old-jonl/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIpvYSW21tc Inspiration for the five-year-old @jonl. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [Rabih Abou Khalil via Benoit Felten](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/28/from-benoit-felten-a-pretty-great-harp-player/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkhe6pzJlU8 From Benoit Felten (a pretty great harp player, himself): benoitfelten: I bought an old Rabih abou-Khalil album recently so I’m in that oriental jazz mood. This is a video I hadn’t seen so far, with the magical Howard Levy. Exotic, energetic jazz.(Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [Jupiter Layer Cake (Yum)](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/30/jupiter-layer-cake-via-cory-at-boing-boing/) - Jupiter layer cake via Cory at boing boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/07/29/jupiter-layer-cake.html#more-246280. More cake at http://cakecrumbs.me/2013/07/24/jupiter-structural-layer-cake/ - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/17/stumbled-onto-this-great-psychedelic-mind/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogDwk_q6wKg Stumbled onto this great psychedelic ("mind manifesting" - or sound manifesting) track…(Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/17/http-boingboing-net-2013-01-17-velvet-underground/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfCQWnN-4xo http://boingboing.net/2013/01/17/velvet-underground-nico-lost.html "Heroin," from a rare acetate of the Velvet Underground’s first album.(Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/19/the-gourds-my-name-is-jorge/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2-xZ707uxM The Gourds: My Name is Jorge(Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/17/rage-against-the-machine-via-chris-goggans-on/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOE9fE72QLg Rage Against the Machine via Chris Goggans on Facebook… hadn’t thought about these guys in a while.(Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/20/ny-in-new-orleans/) - NY in New Orleans - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/20/ny-in-new-orleans-2/) - NY in New Orleans - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/22/jamais-cascio-at-inkwell-jamais-cascio-futurist/) - Jamais Cascio at Inkwell Jamais Cascio Futurist Jamais Cascio is holding forth about scenarios, foresight, and climate change View Postshared via WordPress.com - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/22/jamais-cascio-at-inkwell-jamais-cascio-futurist-2/) - Jamais Cascio at Inkwell Jamais Cascio Futurist Jamais Cascio is holding forth about scenarios, foresight, and climate change View Postshared via WordPress.com - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/02/19/shiny-urban-nyc-the-light-does-it-all/) - Shiny urban NYC. The light does it all. - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/05/artist-activist-patrick-lichty-and-i-have-a/) - Artist/activist Patrick Lichty and I have a session at SXSW Interactive called “Art,… http://wp.me/s1AK1I-1930View Post - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/13/yours-truly-at-sxsw-interactive/) - Yours truly at SXSW Interactive. - [](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/14/cern-finds-god-particle-reported-in-telegraph/) - CERN finds God (Particle) Reported in Telegraph UK: “’The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent…View Post - [Lessig Blog, v2: On the emptiness in the concept of "neutrality"](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/30/lessig-blog-v2-on-the-emptiness-in-the-concept-of/) - Lessig Blog, v2: On the emptiness in the concept of "neutrality"Lessig comments on the MIT report re. its treatment of Aaron Swartz: lessig: But that defense is absurd: If MIT knows that a human is being prosecuted on the basis of a false interpretation of MIT’s rules, what possible difference does it make whether that - [Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/30/consider-the-lobster-2000s-archive-gourmet-com/) - Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.comDFW on edible aquatic cockroaches (er, lobsters). Lobsters do not, on the other hand, appear to have the equipment for making or absorbing natural opioids like endorphins and enkephalins, which are what more advanced nervous systems use to try to handle intense pain. From this fact, though, one could - [First Democracy](https://weblogsky.com/2013/07/20/first-democracy/) - I responded to Paul Schumann’s post about the book _First Democracy_: http://t.co/7yabtAbnPZ @innovant2003— Jon Lebkowsky (@jonl) July 20, 2013 Here’s what I posted: “Paul, I appreciated this summary of Woodruff’s book, which I hope to read. I’ve often argued that we shouldn’t use the word “democracy" because it is so poorly understood in this era - [Hiatus](https://weblogsky.com/2013/04/18/hiatus/) - The Weblogsky blog is won't be updated for a few weeks. I have a Tumblr where I'll add shorter posts from time to time. I do expect to be posting here again at some point, and I'll make noise about it when that happens. - [Brave new world](https://weblogsky.com/2013/04/20/brave-new-world/) - Take this with a grain of salt, I heard it on MSNBC just after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured. There was a gunfight in a neighborhood, and obviously everyone in the neighborhood was tense and attentive. At some point after a volley of shots, the police *posted* (I suppose they had a Twitter account?) that the - [Roger Ebert and "Democracy in the Dark"](https://weblogsky.com/2013/04/05/roger-ebert-and-democracy-in-the-dark-2/) - My first impression of Roger Ebert, many years ago when he was doing the Siskel/Ebert weekly dustup, was that he was a smart guy whose intelligence was undermined by platform – the half hour run-through of the week’s films was always rushed, his written…View Post - [Roger Ebert and "Democracy in the Dark"](https://weblogsky.com/2013/04/05/roger-ebert-and-democracy-in-the-dark/) - My first impression of Roger Ebert, many years ago when he was doing the Siskel/Ebert weekly dustup, was that he was a smart guy whose intelligence was undermined by platform - the half hour run-through of the week's films was always rushed, his written work was better. Little did I know how amazing and strong - [Google Glass via Inhabitat](https://weblogsky.com/2013/04/03/google-glass-via-inhabitat/) - Google Glass via InhabitatThis could be the wave of the future, but I think these glasses could prove to be a pain, readily discarded. - [Gonzo art from Japan - souzo](https://weblogsky.com/2013/04/03/gonzo-art-from-japan-souzo-2/) - Via Londonist: “The Japanese word ‘Souzou’ has two meanings depending on the way in which it is written. Written one way, it means creation and written the other way, it means imagination.” Art for art’s sake… View Post - [Gonzo art from Japan - souzo](https://weblogsky.com/2013/04/03/gonzo-art-from-japan-souzo/) - Via Londonist: "The Japanese word ‘Souzou’ has two meanings depending on the way in which it is written. Written one way, it means creation and written the other way, it means imagination." Art for art's sake... - [CERN finds God (Particle)](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/14/cern-finds-god-particle/) - Reported in Telegraph UK: “'The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is.' said CMS spokesperson Joe Incandela." "... extensive testing - [The Internet inherits war](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/13/the-internet-inherits-war-2/) - Bruce Schneier at Technology Review: Arms races are fueled by two things: ignorance and fear. We don’t know the capabilities of the other side, and we fear that they are more capable than we are. So we spend more, just in case. The other side, of course,…View Post - [The Internet inherits war](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/13/the-internet-inherits-war/) - Bruce Schneier at Technology Review:Arms races are fueled by two things: ignorance and fear. We don’t know the capabilities of the other side, and we fear that they are more capable than we are. So we spend more, just in case. The other side, of course, does the same. That spending will result in more - [Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2013](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/13/bruce-sterling-at-sxsw-2013-2/) - [View the story “Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2013" on Storify]View Post - [Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2013](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/13/bruce-sterling-at-sxsw-2013/) - [View the story "Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2013" on Storify] - [At SXSW Interactive: Art, Activism, and Augmented Reality](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/05/art-activism-ar/) - Artist/activist Patrick Lichty and I have a session at SXSW Interactive called "Art, Activism, and Augmented Reality." Here's the blurb from the SXSWi schedule:One of the latest genres in New Media art is that of Augmented Reality, or the overlay of digital content onto physical reality through the use of smart phones and computer vision. - [Amanda Palmer is the new economy](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/02/amanda-palmer-is-the-new-economy-2/) - Amanda Palmer on no-fixed-price, “how do we LET people pay [for music].” “I don’t see it as risk, I see it as trust.”View Post - [Amanda Palmer is the new economy](https://weblogsky.com/2013/03/02/amanda-palmer-is-the-new-economy/) - Amanda Palmer on no-fixed-price, "how do we LET people pay [for music]." "I don't see it as risk, I see it as trust." - [Oreo Separator](https://weblogsky.com/2013/02/28/oreo-separator/) - Something useful, for a change... - [Oreo Separator](https://weblogsky.com/2013/02/28/oreo-separator-2/) - Something useful, for a change… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pii4G8FkCA4&w=640&h=390]View Post - [Testing Live Blog](https://weblogsky.com/2013/02/15/testing-live-blog/) - Add some introductory material here, let the know that you’re live blogging and to open the full page version of the blog and reload if they want to follow.View Post - [Testing Live Blog](https://weblogsky.com/2013/02/15/testing-live-blog/) - Add some introductory material here, let the know that you’re live blogging and to open the full page version of the blog and reload if they want to follow.View Post - [Testing live blog](https://weblogsky.com/2013/02/15/testing-live-blog-2/) - Giving it a test.View Post - [Testing live blog](https://weblogsky.com/2013/02/15/testing-live-blog-3/) - Giving it a test.View Post - [Jamais Cascio at Inkwell](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/21/jamais-cascio-at-inkwell/) - Futurist Jamais Cascio is holding forth about scenarios, foresight, and climate change at Inkwell on the WELL. If you have comments or questions for the conversation, send to inkwell at well.com. So here's one of the nasty, generally unstated truths about climate disruption: by and large, the rich countries (the primary historical source of greenhouse - [Grave Digger Blues](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/13/grave-digger-blues/) - Jesse Sublett is a rock and roll veteran as well as a novelist, i.e. a multimediast, and he's blowing into full-bore convergent mode by creating an ebook rich with images, a book that can be performed, a book with its own theme song: http://youtu.be/UXjGbTADJzw (Note the spook that whisks by at the end). I really - [Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-1986-2013/) - Update: Statement from Aaron's family: Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing. Aaron’s insatiable curiosity, creativity, and brilliance; his reflexive empathy and capacity for selfless, boundless love; his refusal to accept - [Epidemic](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/11/epidemic/) - My barista, while clovering a cup of Komodo, said he doesn't want to get a flu vaccination because he thinks it'll make him sick. I resisted getting the shot myself - I appear to be allergic to the preservative thimerosal (aka mercurochrome), but found a preservative-free option, so I went for it. Seeing the chart - [State of the World 2013: read the conversation](https://weblogsky.com/2013/01/11/state-of-the-world-2013-read-the-conversation/) - Bruce Sterling and I (with substantial contributions from others) conversed online for two weeks about the state of the world, as we do every year; that talk ended yesterday, but is archive for your perusal: State of the World 2013 Here's my concluding post, in response to a post by Gail Williams on war as - [State of the World 2013](https://weblogsky.com/2012/12/31/state-of-the-world-2013/) - Bruce Sterling and I are holding forth on the State of the World in our annual conversation on the WELL, with several other contributors joining in. Bruce:Speaking of art, the past, and its lessons for the future: In my neighborhood in Turin, there's a bronze statue to a statesman called "Massimo d'Azeglio." Massimo happened to - [He bought his guns on the Internet](https://weblogsky.com/2012/12/18/he-bought-his-guns-on-the-internet/) - In casual conversations, we often hear someone say "I read blah blah on the Internet," and if you ask for a specific source, you'll often get "I don't remember where." So it could have been the New York Times, or it could have been an inexpert blog post: a comment qualified in that way has - [John Shirley: "empathy may be a precious commodity in the future"](https://weblogsky.com/2012/12/15/1856/) - In the wake of the Connecticut shootings, John Shirley posted on Facebook this excerpt from a text he wrote as the basis for a TedX talk: "People who are quadriplegic have stated that they feel less emotion than they did, when they could still feel their entire bodies. The projection of the self into electronics - [Just another post about a tragedy](https://weblogsky.com/2012/12/15/just-another-post-about-a-tragedy/) - [Don't waste your time reading my hasty post before you read Ethan Zuckerman's take: "Mourn, and take action on guns."] Another senseless American tragedy with much chaotic wailing in social media, including my own. More traditional media, as ever, is ready and willing to tell us what we are thinking, if not what we should - [Landfill Harmonics: rethinking/reusing what we're throwing away...](https://weblogsky.com/2012/12/09/landfill-harmonics-rethinking-what-were-throwing-away/) - Transforming garbage into good-quality musical instruments - forget flying cars, this is the more relevant future. Thanks to Joseph Rowe for sending this my way. Joseph says of this sort of good news: "... most media (big or small), if they report it at all, class it condescendingly as 'entertainment' or 'human interest. When will - [Christopher Alexander and "A Pattern Language"](https://weblogsky.com/2012/12/06/christopher-alexander-and-a-pattern-language/) - Great post about Christopher Alexander's work and influence via The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, originally published at the Metropolis website, which followed up with posts on "The Sustainable Technology of Christopher Alexander" and "The Living Technology of Chrisopher Alexander." The authors emphasize Alexander's emphasis on patterns, context and a whole-systems vision. He was writing - [Spaun is not "consciousness in a box"](https://weblogsky.com/2012/12/04/spaun-is-not-consciousness-in-a-box/) - The hype about the "neuron brain model" Spaun made me think of my skeptical FringeWare Review piece about storing or replicating human consciousness, "Consciousness in a Box." Sci-fi culture has set the assumption that construction of an "artificial brain" is not only possible, but inevitable, but I've argued that it's unlikely, if not impossible to - [Community: listening and leading](https://weblogsky.com/2012/12/01/community-listening-and-leading/) - For the last two decades I've been preaching about the limits of "community management" - no one can "own" a community or tribe; top-down approaches fail. You can lead, you can facilitate, but you can't dictate - you have to listen to the community, and be sensitive to community input. At larger scale, this is - [Mindjack](https://weblogsky.com/2012/11/27/mindjack/) - Pete Rothman's published a post at h+ on Donald Melanson's brilliant neophiliac website Mindjack. I was on Mindjack's board at one time, and contributed a few pieces to the site, including "Nodal Politics," a chapter from my unpublished book Virtual Bonfire. In that particular piece, I was considering the potential for the Internet to serve - ["We're headed for a disaster of biblical proportions!"](https://weblogsky.com/2012/11/27/were-headed-for-a-disaster-of-biblical-proportions/) - Jeremy Grantham has been doing the math, and is convinced that world resources are way insufficient to support the current population.Grantham believes that the planet can only sustainably support about 1.5 billion humans, versus the 7 billion on Earth right now (heading to 10-12 billion). For all of history except the last 200 years, the - [Innovation is Madness](https://weblogsky.com/2012/11/22/1820/) - Genius architect Pliny Fisk of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems is featured in a GE Focus Forward short film contest semifinalist, "Innovation is Madness." "This whole idea that I am a mad scientist essentially comes from the fact that I have created a situation where madness can happen safely..." Innovation Is Madness | - [To blog, or not to blog...](https://weblogsky.com/2012/11/10/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/) - I'm posting this here because someone saw my post about it on Twitter, and wondered why there wasn't more about it here on the blog. So I thought I was ready to stop blogging at Weblogsky. I mentioned it on Google+, and that was cross-posted on Twitter. I had some discussion about it on both - [Murmuration](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/31/murmuration/) - Amazing video of starling swarms. Murmuration from Islands & Rivers on Vimeo. - [Thirteen homicidal, macabre ghostly tinglers and William Castle](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/30/thirteen-homicidal-macabre-ghostly-tinglers-and-william-castle/) - We just watched the excellent documentary "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story" on TCM, and it inspired a cascade of memories of my preteen fascination with horror and sci-fi films and fiction. I was an avid reader of Famous Monsters of Filmland and member of the National William Castle Fan Club, where I was invited - [Sandy Frankenstorm video](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/28/sandy-frankenstorm-video/) - Animation compiled from NASA satellite images shows evolution and movement of the massive Hurricane Sandy: Check stats and images at Weather Underground. Also at Weather Underground, a post by Dr. Jeff Masters emphasizing the storm's dangerous potential:This afternoon's 3:30 pm EDT H*Wind analysis from NOAA's Hurricane Research Division put the destructive potential of Sandy's winds - [Dawkins on fundamentalism](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/26/dawkins-on-fundamentalism/) - Dr. Richard Dawkins challenges global religious superstition and anti-science fundamentalism. In this video from Slashdot, he makes a point similar to one I was proposing in Google+ recently: "Freedom of speech is something that Islamic theocracies simply do not understand. They don't get it. They're so used to living in a theocracy, that they presume - [Google's insanely great data kingdom](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/17/googles-insanely-great-data-kingdom/) - Steven Levy wrote the book on Google (In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives); now Google's let him into its formerly top secret data center in Lenoir, North Carolina. The massive data infrastructure is a wonder to behold. [Link]This is what makes Google Google: its physical network, its thousands of fiber - [Thinking about education](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/08/thinking-about-education/) - Jamais Cascio ponders education, saying first that we need more Sids than Andys, a Toy Story reference. Sid was, according to the Wikipedia article, "hyperactive" and "disturbed." Jamais quotes another perspective. "A Sid-based education would encourage children to invent and explore, to chart their own paths, to defy conventions, to explore dead ends as well - [Little Nemo in GoogleLand](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/15/little-nemo-in-googleland/) - In 1998 I wrote a piece about Winsor McCay's surreal comic, Little Nemo's Adventures in Slumberland, for the webzine version of bOING bOING. I'm a huge Little Nemo fan. The strip first appeared on October 15, 1905... in honor of Nemo's "birthday," Google has launched a "Little Nemo in GoogleLand" banner that expands into a - [Wells and Welles](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/09/wells-and-welles/) - Ran across this interesting conversation, Orson Welles jamming with H.G. Wells in San Antonio, Texas, of all places. Welles attributed his success to Wells' "War of the Worlds," his Halloween 1938 radio version having brought him fame/notoriety. He says in the conversation that "Citizen Kane" was possible only because of the radio broadcast, which was - [Debate and contention](https://weblogsky.com/2012/10/08/1779/) - I watched this bit of theatre yesterday... David Brinkley would never have had the Carvile-Matalins back for a second appearance, yet they keep popping up on the George Stephanopoulos version of This Week. In the latest episode, Mary Matalin called Paul Krugman a liar for his comments on the Romney/Ryan out on their Vouchercare plan, - [Spain erupts](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/25/spain-erupts/) - Protestors clash with police - what are they protesting? Austerity. - [Bruce Schneier: Liars and Outliers](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/04/bruce-schneier-liars-and-outliers/) - Check out our conversation on the WELL with security expert Bruce Schneier, who among other things is responsible for the Crypto-gram Newsletter. In this conversation, he's discussing his book Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive. Because I've been thinking a lot lately about the value and erosion of trust, this - [Trust, reputation, collaborative consumption and service networking](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/25/trust-reputation-collaborative-consumption-and-service-networking/) - This TED talk by Rachel Botsman describes the online evolution of trust and reputation that's feeding into new ways of doing business, "collaborative consumption" (AirBNB) and "service networking" (TaskRabbit). More people doing business directly with other people via virtual mediation. Via this trend, people are learning to be more trusting, and with more trust there's - [Cliff Figallo on the acquisition of the WELL](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/25/cliff-figallo-on-the-acquisition-of-the-well/) - I recently posted about the acquisition of the seminal online community, the WELL, by some of its members. At Social Media Today, my friend and former WELL director Cliff Figallo has an informative and insightful post that gives some context. "The people who log in and participate can be numbered in the hundreds," he says, - [Mondo 2000 in the Late 20th Century Cyberculture](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/24/mondo-2000-in-the-late-20th-century-cyberculture/) - Former Mondo 2000 editor RU Sirius has been working many moons on a history of the magazine and its predecessors (High Frontiers, Reality Hackers). I was privileged to help a bit with infrastructure for gathering stories as well as contributions on the Texas and WELL perspectives on Mondo. RU's published the preface at Acceler8tor...Called MONDO - [The little engine that could, space age version](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/24/the-little-engine-that-could-space-age-version/) - This is cool - a little engine with attitude has a near-space experience. Watch the facial expressions (I hear they were added after the fact, but you gotta wonder...) - [Bad pharma](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/24/bad-pharma/) - According to Cory Doctorow at bOING bOING, physicians often prescribe drugs that are ineffective or harmful because pharmaceutical companies provide misleading data, according to an article by Ben Goldacre in the Guardian, "The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal." Goldacre is the author of the forthcoming book Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors - [Should Apple use Google Maps?](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/23/should-apple-use-google-maps/) - Word on the street is that the new iOS6 maps app is a mess, but Philip Elmer-DeWitt argues in Fortune that launching its own maps system was something Apple should have done long ago. However that argument focuses more on what's good for Apple than what's good for the consumer. He says "the company found - [The WELL owns The WELL](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/21/the-well-owns-the-well/) - I came to the Internet via the The WELL, an online community that started as a bulletin board system in 1985. I read about The WELL in the Whole Earth publications: CoEvolution Quarterly/Whole Earth Review. An avid follower of Whole Earth in its various published forms, I was eager to get closer to the community - [David Weinberger: Too Big to Know](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/16/david-weinberger-too-big-to-know/) - I'm leading a discussion on the WELL with David Weinberger, inspired by his latest book, Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. David's been writing about the transformation of knowledge in the Internet era, in the - [Listening to blogs](https://weblogsky.com/2012/09/10/listening-to-blogs/) - Kurzweil posts about a system developed for "mining the blogosphere," i.e. BlogSum, a sophisticated listening natural language processing system for evaluating and indexing blog content developed at Concordia University. "The system is capable of gauging things like consumer preferences and voter intentions by sorting through websites, examining real-life self-expression and conversation, and producing summaries that - [Howard Rheingold on the state of the WELL](https://weblogsky.com/2012/07/10/howard-rheingold-on-the-state-of-the-well/) - Howard Rheingold's written a good short piece for the Atlantic explaining why the WELL is historically important, and how the WELL exemplified online community (and was probably the first). He also mentions the WELL's importance in influencing the evolution of the World wide Web of today, something I suggested in an earlier post. Here's Howard - [Doc Searls discussion: The Intention Economy](https://weblogsky.com/2012/08/19/doc-searls-discussion-the-intention-economy/) - I'm leading a discussion on the WELL with Doc Searls about his new book, The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, which explores new thinking about the power relationship between customers/consumers and vendors. Doc has been rethinking those relationships through Project VRM (via his fellowship at the Berkman Center at Harvard), which has recently led - [You are not safe online!](https://weblogsky.com/2012/08/22/you-are-not-safe-online/) - Compliance and Safety, a company that makes safety training videos, has a good infographic that resonates with parts of the Doc Searls discussion: who controls your data? How safe are you online? Excerpt below, full graphic at the Compliance and Safety website. - [Mars is boring](https://weblogsky.com/2012/08/10/mars-is-boring/) - Don't get me wrong, I'm totally jazzed about interplanetary exploration, have been for decades. But could we have picked a less boring planet than Mars? Would you visit a resort on Tatooine? (Mars makes Tatooine seem lush.) Maybe Curiosity will find the secret cave that leads to the underground complex of Martian cities, but 'til - [Seuss-vertising](https://weblogsky.com/2012/08/09/seuss-vertising/) - Theodore Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, created illustrations for ads before he illustrated children's books. Fast Company has a slideshow featuring a sampling of his ad work. Seuss became the father of the modern day children’s stories not solely through his inventive lexicon molded into clever syntax and anapestic meter, but also through vivid imaginary - [Bucky Day](https://weblogsky.com/2012/07/12/bucky-day/) - Pesco posted a reminder at bOING bOING that today's Buckminster Fuller's birthday - worthy of celebration and remembrance! - [Martians flee after seven minutes of terror!](https://weblogsky.com/2012/08/06/martians-flee-after-seven-minutes-of-terror/) - Your humble blogger burned the literal midnight oil to watch Curiosity's landing on the surface of Mars, which actually meant watching the NASA team as the landing progressed, via NASA TV. No real evidence of the "terror" on their faces, they actually seemed confident and professional. - [How cool to have a gigabit Internet? Not so much.](https://weblogsky.com/2012/07/26/1679/) - Is it really cool to have gigabit network connectivity? Or is it more like it would've been to be one of the first thirty offices with a fax machine? Google plans to launch its fiber to the home network in Kansas City on Thursday with the goal of seeing what people there can do with - [Spectacular time lapse from the International Space Station](https://weblogsky.com/2012/07/22/spectacular-time-lapse-from-the-international-space-station/) - Knate Myers has created a time-lapse from cleaned-up video shot from the International Space Station. I'd love to see the IMAX version! Via The Verge. - [Transformation of (or by) comic culture](https://weblogsky.com/2012/07/16/transformation-of-or-by-comic-culture/) - Mainstream superheroes with decades of history (Superman, Batman, SpiderMan, the various Avengers) are flying off comic book pages onto the big screen, in an increasing number of blockbuster comic-films enabled by advances in CGI. Interesting to consider how the concept of the superhero has seeped more deeply into our culture as a result of this - [Higgs Culture](https://weblogsky.com/2012/07/06/higgs-culture/) - Whether it was the Higgs Boson, or just a reference to the actual particle, the CERN discovery is already generating cultural waves and memes. - [Prometheus!](https://weblogsky.com/2012/06/08/prometheus/) - Cosmic Wonder 101. - [Visual Tributes to Ray Bradbury](https://weblogsky.com/2012/06/06/visual-tributes-to-ray-bradbury-2/) - His name became a household word across the globe. - ["Shame" and transformation](https://weblogsky.com/2012/06/07/shame-and-transformation/) - Just saw the grim but enlightening film "Shame," wherein Michael Fassbender plays Brandon, a bland, disarmingly handsome thirtysomething obsessed with pornography and vicarious sex. The film lit up a few insights inspired by Buddhist and 4th Way practices; I saw Brandon's sex addiction as an extreme form of attachment in the Buddhist sense, or what - [SpaceX: a new era, a few years late?](https://weblogsky.com/2012/05/22/spacex-a-new-era-a-few-years-late/) - The launch of the SpaceX Dragon is a major step toward the privatization of space travel, which according to Messrs. Clarke and Kubrick should've been handled by 2001: Too bad PanAm isn't around for this. I wonder if this is really the beginning of a new era? Can we afford space travel in the 21st - [Are computers intelligent?](https://weblogsky.com/2012/06/26/are-computers-intelligent/) - At Reality Augmented Blog, I recently posted a Storify of my live tweets from Bruce Sterling's talk at the Turing Centenary Symposium at the University of Texas. Bruce talked about Turing's investigation into "whether or not it is possible for machinery to show intelligent behaviour" and the Turing test, which is supposed to determine how - [The WELL has been an important driver for evolving Internet culture](https://weblogsky.com/2012/07/05/the-well-has-been-an-important-driver-for-evolving-internet-culture/) - At bOING bOING, Cory Doctorow explains what's happening with the WELL. I commented there, reposted here:My view is that you can't overstate the significance of the WELL and its parent, Point Foundation/Whole Earth. Early bloggers (like those at boing boing and yours truly) were influenced by the structure of reviews in the Whole Earth publications, - [Mark Dery dances the apocalypso](https://weblogsky.com/2012/05/14/mark-dery-dances-the-apocalypso/) - I'm leading a two-week asynchronous discussion with erudite author and culture critic Mark Dery, whose provocative essay collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts has been turning my head on its axle. At the moment, we're discussing apocalypse:I *do* think we live in times of chaos and complexity, when society is "far from equilibrium," as - [Yosemite Range of Light](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/29/yosemite-range-of-light/) - Spectacular time-lapse of Yosemite by Shawn Reeder, via Laughing Squid... - [How many NeoNazi Black Panthers does it take to screw in an image orthicon tube?](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/26/how-many-neonazi-black-panthers-does-it-take-to-screw-in-an-image-orthicon-tube/) - This video by Alexandra Pelosi illustrates the problematic state of news today: media depictions of Sanford, Florida following the Trayvon Martin killing are wildly inaccurate. No wonder Americans are going crazy... http://youtu.be/mgre4ROq1Wo - [Data-driven journalism: approaches to interactive storytelling (at #ISOJ)](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/25/data-driven-journalism-approaches-to-interactive-storytelling-at-isoj/) - The session that impressed me most at last week's International Symposium on Online Journalism was this one, led by Aron Pilhofer of the New York Times. Major innovations are possible in data journalism;the key is getting or creating the requisite databases. The journalism is in extracting meaning. - [Richard Gingras at the International Symposium on Online Journalism](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/21/richard-gingras-at-the-international-symposium-on-online-journalism/) - The leader of Google News gave an insightful talk about the current state of online journalism. (Pardon my typos.) - [Slow jammin' the news: let's be cool about student loan rates](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/25/slow-jammin-the-news-lets-be-cool-about-student-loan-rates/) - http://youtu.be/vAFQIciWsF4 - [International Symposium on Online Journalism: New approaches in engaging with the news community](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/21/international-symposium-on-online-journalism-new-approaches-in-engaging-with-the-news-community/) - ISOJ Program Angela Lee: Audience preference and editorial judgment: a study of time-lagged influence in online news To what extent are audiences influencing editors and journalists, and vice versa? Editorial judgement measured based on placement on paper; audience preference measured by clicks, looking at a 3-hour interval. Audience preference influences editorial decisions three hours later - [Live blogging #ISOJ](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/21/live-blogging-isoj/) - I was actively live tweeting the International Sympsium on Online Journalism when I hit Twitter's limit of 1000 posts within 24 hours. (I'm finding it a little hard to believe I posted that much, but that's what Twitter's algorithm is saying, I suppose).I'll do some live blogging here instead, offering this brief post by way - [Infinite spectrum vs scarcity hype](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/19/infinite-spectrum-vs-scarcity-hype/) - David Isenberg explains that spectrum for various forms of wireless transmission and communication is treated as scarce, similar to real estate, because a scarcity model works for "cellcos" (cellular communication companies, former telcos) In fact, spectrum is infinite. [Link] The core of the story is whether or not spectrum is a rival good. A rival - [TechSoup's Live Greentech Discussion](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/18/techsoups-live-greentech-discussion/) - Yesterday (4/17/2012) I was part of a nonprofit Green Tech seminar hosted by TechSoup, with Evonne Heyning moderating. Also presenting: Jamie Henn from 350.org, Kevin Danaher and Zoey Krol from the San Francisco Department of Environment. See http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/b/tsblog/archive - [Technology Use Among Youth (Pew Internet)](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/18/technology-use-among-youth-pew-internet/) - The Pew Internet and American Life project's Amanda Lenhart presented at the Annenberg Public Policty Center on Internet use among the young. No huge surprises here - access is often mobile, and texting is a big part of the online experience for young people. "In her talk, Amanda focused on bringing together data that highlights - [Earthrise](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/15/earthrise/) - http://youtu.be/H1KWtG66lEQ - [Culturematic](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/15/culturematic/) - Readers of this blog will be aware of my fascination with the concept and churn of culture. I've just run across mention of a new book called Culturematic by anthropologist Grant McCracken. McCracken will be the guest tomorrow on the Yi-Tan weekly call. From Amazon's book description:A Culturematic is a little machine for making culture. - [Reclaim your mind](https://weblogsky.com/2012/04/14/reclaim-your-mind/) - http://youtu.be/-eu9GfHCpVo - [The Art of Conversation](https://weblogsky.com/2012/03/21/the-art-of-conversation/) - John McDermott at Financial Times writes "How to have a conversation": What makes a good conversationalist has changed little over the years. The basics remain the same as when Cicero became the first scholar to write down some rules, which were summarised in 2006 by The Economist: “Speak clearly; speak easily but not too much, - [Jon L. on SXSW](https://weblogsky.com/2012/03/20/jon-l-on-sxsw/) - I'm talking about SXSW 2012 (as well as bits about the history and relevance of the event) on the WELL. [Link] SXSW started in 1987 as a quirky event inspired by New York City's New Music Seminar and festival, but I didn't get involved until 1994, when the event added Multimedia to the mix. I've - [Bruce Sterling at SXSW Interactive 2012](https://weblogsky.com/2012/03/14/bruce-sterling-at-sxsw-interactive-2012/) - After introducing Bruce I dove into Twitter and live tweeted his talk. People told me afterward that they thought it was too cheerful - see what you think from these short bursts (I was typing faster than I could think.) Comments encouraged. - [SXSW 3/13/2012](https://weblogsky.com/2012/03/13/sxsw-3132012/) - I've been running around SXSW having meetings, taking notes, taking photos. Might take some time to summarize. Haven't had time to sit still, attend to sessions, blog and tweet, and that seems to be true of various Old Hands who are here to meet specific conversations, have particular conversations, slicing the conference according to need - [Augmented cyborgs at SXSW](https://weblogsky.com/2012/03/08/1463/) - Another SXSW coming up; it'll be good to see old friends and make new connections. The Austin Chronicle asked me to write something for their SXSW Interactive issue; that led to an interesing interview with cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, a longer version of which I might post here later. When "bOING bOING" was a magazine, - [How to Build a Better Block](https://weblogsky.com/2012/03/01/how-to-build-a-better-block/) - Fabulous talk by Jason Roberts of "The Better Block: A Living Charrette", presented at TedX Austin. You should watch this... twice. These guys don't wait around to make the world better. http://youtu.be/Iciuh5pbnsI (Incidentally, if you want to know more about the charette concept, the book below is a good reference.) - [Bruce Sterling talk at ATX Hackerspace](https://weblogsky.com/2012/03/01/bruce-sterling-talk-at-atx-hackerspace/) - I shot this video of Bruce at an EFF-Austin-sponsored event February 25 at ATX Hackespace. We were rallying the troops. "You will not have the Internet that you had 20 years ago, that's not possible. But you don't have to roll over at the site of bluster from the Internet's increasingly desperate enemies..." http://youtu.be/lJg7y2pcQsg - [Code Across America ATX: A Civic Innovation Hackathon](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/26/1450/) - Google-funded Code for America was in Austin Saturday for a codeathon using data accessible via the city's data portal. I dropped by the geek chic coworking facility Conjunctured, where the codeathon was happening, and hung out long enough to get a sense of the projects the ~40 coders were tackling. Those included a Bike Accident - [Resilient Communities](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/25/resilient-communities/) - Follow John Robb and pay close attention to what he has to say, because he has his finger on the pulse. He's currently promoting the concept of resilient communities, defined here: A resilient community is the path to a safe, prosperous, and vibrant future for us, our kids, and our neighbors — despite an increasingly - [Third Option](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/24/third-option/) - At Pecha Kucha Austin last night, spent some time talking to John Kunz of Waterloo Records, an old friend from the days when I spent a lot of time haunting his store, buying piles of records, CDs and cassettes. We discussed the difficulties of operating an independent record store in a digital world. He told - ["Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (AC Clarke)](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/23/any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic-ac-clarke/) - My pal David Pescovitz at the Institute for the Future blogged recently about the IFTF "Multiverse of Exploration Map," an overview of the six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea the Future, Strange Matter, and Engineered Evolution. "Those stories are - [Stonehenge, music and magic](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/18/stonehenge-music-and-magic-2/) - A scientist says that Stonehenge was inspired by "auditory illusions," according to a story in Guardian UK. Independent researcher Steve Waller says "the layout of the stones corresponded to the regular spacing of loud and quiet sounds created by acoustic interference when two instruments played the same note continuously.""If these people in the past were - [U.S. Army guide to Pinterest](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/08/u-s-army-guide-to-pinterest/) - Pinterest is the rave du jour for Inernet mavens. You know it's mainstreamed when the U.S. Army produces a guide: Social Media Roundup - Introduction to Pinterest View more presentations from U.S. Army - [Bruce Springsteen is angry](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/18/bruce-springsteen-is-angry/) - Guardian UK has a review of Bruce Springsteen's new album, "Wrecking Ball," described as "as angry a cry from the belly of a wounded America as has been heard since the dustbowl and Woody Guthrie, a thundering blow of New Jersey pig iron down on the heads of Wall Street and all who have sold - [Howard Rheingold: Net Smart](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/03/1392/) - In 2009, Howard Rheingold created an excellent mini-course in network literacy, a substantial resource for those who want to learn more about the Internet. Here's the introductory video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6UKWozzVRM&feature=player_embedded Howard's written a book on network and digital literacy called Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. - [$9 billion citizen journalism hit](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/06/9-billion-citizen-journalism-hit/) - At CNN's iReport.com, a "citizen journalist" calling himself "Johntw" posted a report that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the ER following a heart attack. Word spread to and beyond Digg, across Twitter. Apple stock dropped quickly, a $9 billion loss based on the rumor. Though iReport posts aren't vetted, the CNN association probably lent - [Iron Sky](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/08/iron-sky/) - Looking forward to this zany bit of participatory cinema, with lunar ufo Nazis attacking earth: - [AR glasses coming from Google](https://weblogsky.com/2012/02/07/ar-glasses-coming-from-google/) - Google glasses (or maybe we should all 'em Google Goggles) will be an interesting AR advance, more science friction happening now, if they do happen. Preview (aka rumor) at 9to5Google.These glasses, we heard, have a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality apps. It will also take pictures. The spied - [Moon](https://weblogsky.com/2012/01/30/moon/) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/weblogsky/6697040371/ A moonlit night near Inks lake. (And a test of Flickr image embedding...) - [Sputnik!](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/04/sputnik/) - Happy Birthday to Sputnik 1, launched 51 years ago today. Those of us who lived and breathed comics and science fiction saw an inevitable first step toward space exploration, and we picked up on the omigod vibe that the Russians beat us to it. Of course we didn't see the whole picture, which you can - [One Web Day in Austin](https://weblogsky.com/2008/09/21/one-web-day-in-austin/) - Working with the phenomenal Maggie Duval, Cafe Caffeine, and Austin Jelly instigator Dusty Reagan, we've put together Austin's own One Web Day celebration - Monday, September 22 at Cafe Caffeine. We'll have speakers all day, from 10:30am to 8:15pm, during a special One Web Day Jelly. Sign up at Eventbrite or just show up! More - [Bots can shape social interaction](https://weblogsky.com/2012/01/24/bots-can-shape-social-interaction/) - Scientists experimenting with Twitter bots found that the bots could "shape" activity on Twitter to some extent. They're continuing their studies to get a better understanding of what they're seeing. [Link] The origin of the study was explained by Tim Hwang, one of the authors of a research paper describing the socialbot experiments. "A lot - [PIPA and SOPA explained](https://weblogsky.com/2012/01/20/pipa-and-sopa-explained/) - Clay Shirky has the best overview I've seen/heard/read of PIPA and SOPA and the context from whence they emerged: Bottom line: the legilsation's about wanting us to be passive consumers, not producing and not sharing. - [JOHO: Messages from the Dark](https://weblogsky.com/2012/01/19/joho-messages-from-the-dark/) - At "JOHO the Blog," David Weinberger has a simple and very cool summary of the meaning of yesterday's SOPA-induced blackout. "This is our Internet. We built it. We built it for us, not for you. We get to turn off the lights, not you." Yes, indeed. It took a long time for the the Internet - ["Quantifed Self" Art](https://weblogsky.com/2012/01/15/quanitifed-self-art/) - As a follower of the "Quantified Self" work catalyzed by Kevin Kelly et al, I was eager to see Laurie Frick's exhibit "Quantify Me" at "women and Their Work" - Marsha and I hung out there last night exploring the aesthetic representation of Frick's mind. Using her background in engineering and technology she explores self-tracking - [State of the World 2012](https://weblogsky.com/2012/01/05/state-of-the-world-2012/) - Bruce Sterling and I are holding forth in our annual State of the World conversation on the WELL. Here's the short url for access: http://bit.ly/yNcL9L If you have questions or comments for us, and you're not a member of the WELL, just send them to inkwell at well.com. It's a pretty juicy year for this - [Gothic High Tech](https://weblogsky.com/2011/12/31/gothic-high-tech/) - New short story collection from Bruce Sterling. "He’s the legendary Cyberpunk Guru. He roams our postmodern planet, from the polychrome tinsel of Los Angeles to the chicken-fried cyberculture of Austin… From the heretical Communist slums of gritty Belgrade to the Gothic industrial castles of artsy Torino… always whipping that slider-bar between the unthinkable and the - [Internet Code Ring! (Interview with Phil Zimmermann, circa 1993)](https://weblogsky.com/2011/12/30/internet-code-ring-interview-with-phil-zimmermann-circa-1993/) - Discovered that this interview is no longer findable online, so I'm republishing it here. A version of this was published in bOING bOING (the 'zine) in 1993 or 1994. We were sitting in a circle on the floor at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, March '93 in San Francisco, St. Jude and I with - [Multiverses, dark matter, infinity: Occupy Reality](https://weblogsky.com/2011/12/21/multiverses-dark-matter-infinity-occupy-reality/) - The idea that there's a set of consistent first principles behind the existence and operations of the universe is undermined by evidence of a multiverse - many universes with potentially different properties - and the existence of "dark matter." In this universe and on this planet, we've had just the right conditions for life - - [Adriana Lukas: how to avoid hierarchies](https://weblogsky.com/2011/12/20/adriana-lukas-how-to-avoid-hierarchies/) - Adriana discusses her thinking about heterarchy, including initial thoughts about five laws of heterarchy. "Hierarchies seem to be like oxygen: they're all around us, pervasive, visible only to those who study them. Hierarchies are the most efficient system for management and distribution of scarce resources... given that the physical world is defined by scarcity of - [Light in slowmo](https://weblogsky.com/2011/12/15/light-in-slow-mo/) - Extreme slow motion video of a pulse of laser light passing through a Coke bottle."We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize propagation of light at an effective rate of one trillion frames per second. Direct recording of light at such a frame rate with sufficient brightness is nearly impossible. We use - [Holy orbit](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/24/holy-orbit/) - Aleksandra Mir collage via The Daily Beast. Blake Gopnik says "...when you think about it, a satellite and Jesus really do fit together in interesting ways. The cosmos has always had some place in our religious thought – we think of God as superlunary." - [Detail Moon](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/24/detail-moon/) - NASA's created a topographic view of the moon. Sez Mark Robinson, Principal Investigator of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) from Arizona State University in Tempe. “We can now determine slopes of all major geologic terrains on the moon at 100 meter scale. Determine how the crust has deformed, better understand impact crater mechanics, investigate - [Taking leave of our consensus](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/03/taking-leave-of-our-consensus/) - Tree Bressen, guest-posting at Dave Pollard's "How to Save the World" blog, has a helpful summary of consensus process mistakes and barriers, and how to avoid them. This is a followup to Pollard's earlier post, "When Consensus Doesn't Work." In my experience, a good first step is to admin that consensus is hard, in fact - [What you really need to know about the state of the world](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/31/what-you-really-need-to-know-about-the-state-of-the-world/) - Tying a few things together here, starting with the mysterious 8-foot Lego Man that "washed up" on a Florida beach. The front of his "shirt" says "No real than you are," and the reverse side has the name "Ego Leonard." Ego has a website based in the Netherlands, but nobody knows how he got to - [EFF-Austin revives meeting series](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/17/eff-austin-revives-meeting-series/) - EFF-Austin has been quietly working along presenting occasional events (like the recent Texas Government 2.0 Camp), operating its email list, and publishing occasional blog posts, but we've had a growing sense of a need to ramp up our activities. We can see major threats to the distributed, decentralized Internet and the expectation of a "freedom - [Events this week - NPOCamp and Austin News Hackathon](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/13/npocamp-hackathon/) - Cross-posted from http://effaustin.org. Two great events coming up this weekend in Austin, sponsored by EFF-Austin. Friday, join us at NPO Camp - a Barcamp for Nonprofits and Techs. We had one of these several months ago, and it was a real blast! The idea here is to bring the nonprofit and technology communities together for - [One continuous mistake: single-minded effort](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/19/one-continuous-mistake-single-minded-effort/) - This came in via Tricycle Magazine's "Daily Dharma" today:Several years ago, a sociologist studied students in a neurosurgery program to see what qualities separated those who succeeded from those who failed. He found ultimately that two questions in his interviews pointed to the crucial difference. He would ask the students, “Do you ever make mistakes? - [Look like a winner](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/21/look-like-a-winner/) - Yesterday I had the privilege to attend an informative talk about effective communication by my friend and colleague Kevin Leahy, aka Knowledge Advocate. One point among many in Kevin's talk: the content of a communication doesn't matter as much as we think it does. Kevin, an attorney, said that post-trial conversations with jurors finds that - [Steve Ivy: The Voice in the Stream](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/01/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 through various social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Also via blogs or similar structures for holding longer form content. I found this post by Steve Ivy. He's talking specifically about the third person perspective - [Digital Habitats/technology stewardship discussion](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/24/digital-habitatstechnology-stewardship-discussion/) - Nancy White, John D. Smith, and Etienne Wenger have written a thorough, clear and compelling overview of the emerging role of technology stewardship for communities of practice (CoPs). They're leaders in thinking about CoPs, they're smart, and they're great communicators. Their book is Digital Habitats; stewarding technology for communities, and it's a must-read if you're - [Community vs Crowdsourcing](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/23/community-vs-crowdsourcing/) - My report on the SXSW session The Era of Crowdsourcing: General Principles, featuring Scott Belsky of Behance and Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Digg. This session talked about sourcing intelligence from communities vs crowds. The crowd/community or audience/community distinction is something I've thought and talked about quite a bit. In the world of "social media," I don't - [This is a busy week](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/07/this-is-a-busy-week/) - I've been interacting with this year's SXSW schedule, noticing how much programming there is, and how many speakers I don't know, which is actually pretty great. In the world of social media, we've learned how many more great voices there are in the world than we can ever hope to track, so many more of - [TEDx Austin notes](https://weblogsky.com/2010/02/21/tedx-austin-notes/) - Here are some notes from my TEDx Austin experience yesterday at the Austin City Limits studios on the campus of the University of Texas, hanging out with 300 or so people, listening to a series of very interesting talks. This was an independently organized TED event, limited by TED policy to 300 people. Licensee Nancy - [The impact of "social" on organizations](https://weblogsky.com/2010/02/08/the-impact-of-social-on-organizations/) - Austin's Dachis Group talks about social business design, defined as "the intentional creation of dynamic and socially calibrated systems, process, and culture. The goal: improving value exchange among constituents." I find the Dachis overview (pdf) interesting, if a bit scattered. David Armistead and I at Social Web Strategies had been having conceptually similar conversations for - [Jon L.'s iPhone in the NY Times](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/31/jon-l-s-iphone-in-the-ny-times/) - I've been interviewed by the New York Times before, but usually for the technology section. Who'da thunk I would turn up in "Fashion and Style"? Katie Hafner included me in a piece called "When Phones are Just Too Smart." She originally asked how I find iPhone apps, and I realized I have no one method - [Social software, social media... what's happening](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/23/social-software-social-media-whats-happening/) - Three years ago I started thinking about how I might do consulting around my knowledge of online communities and collaboration, social networks, and general web strategy. I started meeting with David Swedlow, then Bill Anderson and Honoria Starbuck joined us. We were thinking how organizations could work through their social networks to build collaborative efforts. - [David Levine](https://weblogsky.com/2009/12/30/david-levine/) - I literally grew up with David Levine's caricatures; it never occurred to me that he was flesh and blood and would die someday. That day has come, and and like many, I'm mourning his death, who produced who knows how many hundreds of caricatures for The New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. - [Finding the forks in the road](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/29/finding-the-forks-in-the-road/) - Joel Makower considers four studies that explore the impact on business of climate change and related issues - the need for water management, and uncertainty about energy sources. Says Joel, "our world these days seems to be a succession of forks in the road, points at which decisions need to be made about which pathway - [Jeanne-Claude](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/20/jeanne-claude/) - Farewell to Jeanne-Claude, who with her husband and collaborator Christo produced high-concept major-scale aesthetic works in public places. [Link to the artists' web site] [The Umbrellas] [The Gates] - [Slow news is good news](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/09/slow-news-is-good-news/) - We've talked about slow (vs fast) food, and earlier today I heard about the new slow money movement. Now I'm hearing the best case for friction yet - slow news, which is about reporting the news after you've checked it out, not before. Internet immediacy was a rush for the longest time, and journalists have - [The Filminator](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/25/the-filminator/) - James Cameron's massive ego is probably what it takes to pull off a Terminator 2/3, Titanic, or Avatar - his latest, a creative, massively expensive 3D CGI experiment that could be a nuclear boxoffice bomb (what they said about Titanic, though). Cameron has succeeded over and over because he sinks his teeth into a project - [The Devils of Mars](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/22/the-devils-of-mars/) - Earth observers used to think that Mars had canals, but this is even better: weirdly interesting darker trails in the Martian sandscape, created not by bug-eyed Martians on four-wheelers, but my dust devils up to 8 kilometers high. High res image and more information here. - [Adoption Rocks!](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/) - Next month, for International Adoption Month, The Long Center for the Performing Arts has a benefit concert and celebration called Adoption Rocks! It's a benefit for The Gladney Center, a Texas organization that's been providing adoption services for over 100 years. Facilitating adoption is a great global community service - this particular event was inspired - [Tapscott: the healthcare reform battle](https://weblogsky.com/2009/08/12/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 see the shouting and worse. But we might still see a real change, because citizens can organize like never before. [Link]There is no possible compromise on health care and the myth of Obama as a - [Happiness Is Mobile Loaves and Fishes](https://weblogsky.com/2009/07/27/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 out with our friends at Mobile Loaves and Fishes, just in time for this week's social-mediated screenings of Andrew Shapter's film "Happiness Is" on Thursday, preceded by a Tweetup (info blogged here by the MLF - [#IranElection Supertracker](https://weblogsky.com/2009/06/21/iranelection-supertracker/) - Robin Sloan's created a useful filter of #IranElection info... "superfiltered ...for the easily overwhelmed" (or already quite overwhelmed). Via Jeff Jarvis. [Link] - [Memorial Day 2009](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/25/memorial-day-2009/) - "Happy Memorial Day" is a trending topic on Twitter, and I've seen several tweets this morning remembering or acknowledging war veterans as individuals or as a whole. I'm not sure that "happy" is the right adjective for a day acknowledging the tragic deaths of so many. I spent my early years assuming I would join - [The Evolving Brain](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/14/the-evolving-brain/) - The human brain is always evolving, and that evolution is accelerating. Consider "superplasticity," described as "the ability of each mind to plug into the minds and experiences of countless others through culture or technology." The next stage of brainpower enhancement could be technological - through genetic engineering or brain prostheses. Because the gene variants pivotal - [I'm not so sure about the good-bad thing...](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/10/im-not-so-sure-about-the-good-bad-thing/) - Sex, beer, wine, pot... and maggots! Top 10 bad things that are gooood for you. (Via Lane Becker!)They're creepy, slimy and altogether ooky, but maggots can save your life. These squirmy larvae are science's newest wonder-cure and were approved in 2003 as the Food & Drug Administration's only live medical device. Placed on serious wounds, - [Personal health records: the data's not in (really)](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/09/personal-health-records-the-datas-not-in-really/) - A PHR (Personal Health Records) system like Google Health supposedly "puts you in charge of your health information," but where do you start? ePatient Dave e-patients.net, decided to take the plunge and move his considerable (after bouts with cancer) health data to Google's system. His hospital was already supporting easy upload of patient records to - [That buzzing sound...](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/08/that-buzzing-sound/) - Geographers are researching buzz, according to this New York Times article (thanks to the phenomenal Oliver Markley for the pointer). They're creating a study and an exhibit, both called “The Geography of Buzz,” and in the process finding that buzz is hard to define explicitly. "Rather, like pornography, you know it when you see it." - [The quintessential geek couple, completely and inalterably married-for-life](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/04/the-quintessential-geek-couple-completely-and-inalterably-married-for-life/) - Our friends and sometimes houseguests, Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic, are facing an immigration hassle. Says Bruce, "We have no joint bank account, no insurance accounts and no joint children. The authorities therefore suspect that our marriage is a phony 'Green Card marriage,' and they would like to have Jasmina deported from the USA." Note - [Water Spirits](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/04/water-spirits/) - This caught my eye, and I was wishing I could drop everything and head for the National Museum of African Art. It’s as rousing as a drum roll, as piquant as a samba, as sexy as Césaria Évora’s voice. It’s about glitter and tears, bawdy jokes and baskets of flowers, miracles and mysteries, money in - [World Science Fiction](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/29/world-science-fiction/) - Via Bruce Sterling: there's a world science fiction blog on LiveJournal, associated with an anthology of world SF soon to be published. - [Just busy](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/09/just-busy/) - Been working on a number of projects, especially getting Social Web Strategies launched and working on the Plutopia-produced EFF-Austin party, possibly the biggest party at SXSW this year. Also revived EFF-Austin, ramped up Austin350.org, created a new Bootstrap subgroup focused on community... I've been pretty busy. This is by way of apology for starving the - [Transhuman Responses](https://weblogsky.com/2009/02/06/transhuman-responses/) - Natasha Vita-More has guest edited the Metanexus Institute's "GlobalSpiral." She's created a response to a "Special Issue on Transhumanism." In her intro, she saysThere are numerous forbearers of theories on human evolution and traces can be found in a plethora of sources, all suggesting that the biological human is not the final stage of evolution - [Obama's cloud](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/21/obamas-cloud/) - Read Write Web compares word clouds of Obama's inaugural speech to those by Bush, Clinton, Reagan, and Lincoln. Interesting comparison. (RWW's other inauguration day posts were underwhelming. You don't really have to post about the inauguration if you don't have something new and useful to add to the general noise.) We set up an ad - [Resources for hacking consciousness](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/15/resources-for-hacking-consciousness/) - Clifford Pickover posted at Twitter the url for a very rich web site rich with resources for exploring consciousness... audio and video from Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, Tim Leary, Huston Smith, Robert Anton Wilson, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex Grey, our pal Mark Pesce, et al. Quote from RAW:Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit - [Blogging at Change.org](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/11/blogging-at-changeorg/) - I'm guest blogging at Change.org's "Stop Global Warming" blog this week. Check out my posts "Bandwidth for Climate Change" and "Politics of Green Innovation." - [Hossein Derakshan arrested?](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/18/hossein-derakshan-arrested/) - According to Global Voices Advocacy, the active and highly visible Iranian blogger Hossein Derakshan (aka Hoder) has been arrested in Tehran and "is being investigated on suspicion of espionage for the state of Israel." No posts on Hoder's blog since October. Hoder's been active in shining a light on other similar arrests. GV notes that - [Video as a condiment](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/04/video-as-a-condiment/) - A citizen activist asked my opinion of adopting an online televsion platform for activist work. Example: CitizenSolutions.tv, "communicating what works for America." My response: if you're asking me if I think a citizen's group should adopt a web version of one-to-many broadcast technology and support efforts to turn the web into television, I have to - [Blimps along the Bay](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/26/blimps-along-the-bay/) - I'm a zeppelin fan, always wanted to ride one. Looks like the day may come: passenger zeppelins are the wave of the present, popping up in the San Francisco skies. The SF zeppelin tours are pricy ($495/hr), but imagine skies filled with zeppelins a few years out. After all, they're supposed to be more energy - [Social media for breakfast](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/08/social-media-for-breakfast/) - Cross-posted from Social Web Strategies: Peter Kim, who describes himself as a traditional marketing professional, gave an interesting talk at this morning's Social Media Breakfast. He says at his site that he's working on an enterprise social technology company, along with Kate Niederhoffer, who was also at the SMB, and my pal Doug Rushkoff, who's - [Bacevich: let's get our affairs in order](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/04/bacevich-lets-get-our-affairs-in-order/) - Maybe I'm a conservative, after all, because I was listening to Andrew Bacevich earlier today and nodding. Bacevich is a real conservative, not a neocon, and I'm thinking he's got the right message ... I was pretty excited by all he had to say:The U.S. has become in empire of consumption, not production.We assume that - [The "Internet of Things" gets real](https://weblogsky.com/2011/12/18/the-internet-of-things-gets-real/) - The Internet of Things, predicted by Bruce Sterling around 2006, is happening. Steve Lohr in the NY Times explores the mainstreaming of the idea: "... the protean Internet technologies of computing and communications are rapidly spreading beyond the lucrative consumer bailiwick. Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new - [2010 Top Stories and Trends: The Eight-Ball List](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/31/2010-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 of list - in this case stories/trends that stood out for me over the last year. I don't have a top ten, only eight - the eight ball list. (Here's a bit about my year, - [On blogging](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/25/on-blogging/) - ActionCamp San Antonio invited me to give this talk about blogging October 28: - [The truth about OWS](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/26/the-truth-about-ows/) - Naomi Wolf in The Guardian: we hear that Occupy Wall Street has no clear message, but is it precisely because the dis-organization has a clear message, set of goals, and growing force that we're seeing efforts to shut the 24/7 demonstrations down? The mainstream media was declaring continually "OWS has no message". Frustrated, I simply - [Voyager changed our understanding of the solar system](https://weblogsky.com/2011/12/01/voyager-changed-our-understanding-of-the-solar-system/) - The Voyager program's data transmissions, including images of the most distant planets in the solar system and data about galaxies beyond, offer "an unprecedented view of our own galaxy." [Link] - [Pete Cochrane on singularity and evolution](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/25/pete-cochrane-on-singularity-and-evolution/) - Pete Cochrane at TedX Brussels, speaking on the requirements for intelligence, entropy, singularity, the Internet and evolution. "Are we going to be smart enough to recognize new intelligences and new life forms when they spontaneously erupt on the Internet?" - [U.S. journalist Mona Eltahawy detained, beaten, sexually assaulted in Egypt](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/24/u-s-journalist-mona-eltahawy-detained-beaten-sexually-assaulted-in-egypt/) - The whole story is at boingboing.net This is the quote I wanted to blog: "The whole time I was thinking about article I would write. Just you fuckers wait." - [My tweets from the Day 1 of DrupalCamp Austin 2011](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/20/my-tweets-from-the-day-1-of-drupalcamp-austin-2011/) - View the story "DrupalCamp Austin, Day 1" on Storify] - [DrupalCamp Austin 2011, Day 2](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/21/drupalcamp-austin-2011-day-2/) - View the story "DrupalCamp Austin 2011, Day 2" on Storify] - [Thinking about memory, association, and identification](https://weblogsky.com/2011/11/18/thinking-about-memory-association-and-identification/) - A lesson in memory. I showed up ten minutes early for a meeting this morning at Sweetish Hill, paid for coffee, took a cup and filled it half caf, half decaf, found a table for two and hung my sturdy black leather jacket on the back of my chair. My Nikon was in the left - [Apple's convergent television: "I finally cracked it!"](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/24/apples-convergent-television-i-finally-cracked-it/) - We've been hearing for two decades now about television/computer/Internet convergence. Televisions sets today are advanced digital products, and we connect computers and specialized set-top boxes to 'em, but they're still primarily display devices. In his biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson writes that Jobs "“very much wanted to do for television sets what he had - [Call me Trim Tab](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/24/call-me-trim-tab/) - We're packing for a move, and when you move it shakes out all the dust and skittering spiders in your head, and thoughts ordered and disordered collide and melt into each other. There's an insecurity you feel when all your physical analogs are packed in boxes ready for the movers. I took a break today - [Contact Summit: "It's time to take back the net"](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/22/contact-summit-its-time-to-take-back-the-net/) - This week, on October 20, a diverse assortment of forward-thinking, Internet-savvy, solutions-oriented people gathered in New York City for Contact Summit, a project-focused event organized by Doug Rushkoff and Venessa Miemis. I was originally planning to attend, and was plugged into the small team of organizers. I couldn't make the event, but have been available - [Hypocrisy](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/18/hypocrisy/) - [Go deeper](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/18/go-deeper/) - A couple of @jonl tweets re #OWS: [blackbirdpie id="125761219188621312"] [blackbirdpie id="125951840578846723"] Revolutions won at a superficial level take us into similar power games because we haven't addressed fundamental issues that are deeply embedded in our thinking. "A man will renounce any pleasures you like but will not give up his suffering." "Without self knowledge, without - [Forward thinking about the competitive workplace](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/14/forward-thinking-about-the-competitive-workplace/) - Earlier this week I attended a breakfast panel sponsored by Gensler (http://www.gensler.com), an architecture, design, planning and consultation firm that focuses (among other things) on effective workplace environments, consulting for companies like Google, HP, Yahoo and Facebook. The title of the panel was "Designing your workplace for a competitive edge." Here's my set of notes - [What #OccupyWallStreet is about](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/10/what-occupywallstreet-is-about-some-thoughts/) - #OccupyWallStreet is just the sort of movement I've been expecting. It's a true grassroots movement catalyzed and sustained by social media (which is probably crucial, as I explained in an earlier post). While there is an overriding agenda about economic justice, OWS represents a diversity of interests and concerns. It's a working class phenomenon, but - [Occupy ABC's This Week](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/09/occupy-abcs-this-week/) - Update: link to a transcript of La Greca on This Week at DailyKos DailyKos blogger Jesse LaGreca was eloquent and focused on ABC's This Week this morning. I want to post the conversation about #OccupyWallStreet featuring Jesse, and come back a little later with my own thoughts. To the question, "What is your plan? Are - [RIP Insanely Great Steve Jobs](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/06/rip-insanely-great-steve-jobs/) - When Steve Jobs left Apple recently, what seemed like premature obituaries started appearing, so he had the unusual opportunity to see the kind of appreciation usually published postmortem. It's too bad he's not around to see the best tribute, boingboing's retro Apple interface redesign (above). The phrase often associated with Apple and Jobs was "insanely - [Alex Steffen at SXSW Eco: Carbon Zero](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/04/alex-steffen-at-sxsw-eco-carbon-zero/) - [View the story "Alex Steffen at SXSW Eco: Carbon Zero" on Storify] - [Neal Stephenson on Innovation Starvation](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/03/neal-stephenson-on-innovation-starvation/) - "The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rules. It’s the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments. Too bad we’ve forgotten how to do it." [Link] - [#Occupy clustering and coping](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/03/occupy-clusting-and-coping/) - Micah Sifry writes that "Rapid growth is going to stress the #OWS [Occupy Wall Street] movement," and he talks about similar stresses on the Students for a Democratic Society in the 60s. He notes that core bonds of trust weren't sustained as the movement grew. He says "social media may save #OWS from that fate, - [Roger Ebert: "a first-rate second-rate memoirist"](https://weblogsky.com/2011/10/01/roger-ebert-a-first-rate-second-rate-memoirist/) - Maureen Dowd writes about Roger Ebert's memoir, and about the disfiguring surgical failures that have rendered him unable to speak, eat, or drink - the lower half of his face is pretty much gone. Despite this, Ebert is "effervescent" but overly detailed in accounts of his early life. However he has great stories to tell, - [Worldchanging Interview with Jean Russell on Thrivability (2009)](https://weblogsky.com/2011/09/22/worldchanging-interview-with-jean-russell-on-thrivabiliity-2009/) - In September 2009, Worldchanging published my interview with thrivability consultant Jean Russell. I'm republishing the interview here in its entirety. Jean and I have had many conversations since, and I'm persistently intrigued by her well-grounded positive vision of a world in which we humans not only survive sustainably, but thrive. (Last February, Jean arranged for - [Gamification of HIV Research](https://weblogsky.com/2011/09/20/gamification-of-hiv-research/) - Online gamers playing a game called Foldit "cracked a key protein structure problem that has had scientists scratching their heads for years...in three weeks." Foldit invites players to predict protein structures. The game was developed by researchers at the University of Washington, as a deliberate way to get gamers to compete by solving scientific problems. - [Netflix fixes the wrong problem](https://weblogsky.com/2011/09/19/netflix-fixes-the-wrong-problem/) - Word on the street is that Netflix subscribers are fleeing because of recent rate increases; the company hopes to fix this by splitting its streaming service from the DVD service and making both relatively inexpensive. The streaming service will still be Netfix, and the DVD service will be called Qwickster. You can keep both services - [Fires, storms, and the crisis of authority](https://weblogsky.com/2011/09/08/fires-storms-and-the-crisis-of-authority/) - Of course we've been tracking the fires in the Austin area, especially the massive complex fire in Bastrop, and I've been thinking how to make sense of the disaster. Marsha and I drove toward Bastrop, Texas Monday to get a better look, not expecting to get very close (we didn't want to be in the - [True cyborgs: "disabled patients mind-meld with robots"](https://weblogsky.com/2011/09/07/true-cyborgs-disabled-patients-mind-meld-with-robots/) - Disabled patients are learning to use robot extensions directed by brain activity, currently in a limited way - but tests are promising. One hope is that "locked-in" patients, those unable to communicate with the outside world, can use robots to communicate and interact. Researchers set up a modified Robotino robot with an interface that translates - [Tracks on the Moon](https://weblogsky.com/2011/09/06/tracks-on-the-moon/) - Nasa's lunar reconnaissance orbiter caught a nice shot of the Apollo landing site, including tracks left by astronauts in 1969-72. The moon's such a bleak landscape, odd that it so captured our imagination back then. Article in the GuardianUK. Then again, there's Gurdjieff's view: "Everything living on the Earth, people, animals, plants, is food for - [How should the Internet be governed?](https://weblogsky.com/2011/09/06/how-should-the-internet-be-governed/) - This piece hints at the politicization of the Internet and the complexity of its future. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the closest thing we have to "Internet governance." It's the organization that coordinates the standards and processes associated with Internet addresses - the assigned names and numbers referenced in the - [The U.S. Navy has a clue about Google+](https://weblogsky.com/2011/08/19/the-u-s-navy-has-a-clue-about-google/) - Google+ is my social tool of choice these days, feeling more functional and valuable than Facebook, Twitter, et al. This is especially true for me because I've adopted so many parts of Google's web ecosystem. Via a link posted by David Armano of Edelman, I've just found the most clueful Google+ overview I've seen - - [1 Semester Startup](https://weblogsky.com/2011/08/19/1-semester-startup/) - In the first decade of the 2000s, I was fired up about the potential for an energized entrepreneurial scene to emerge in Austin, which was famously on the map as a city for new business, but didn't really have the kind of creative entrepreneurial scene you see in, for instance, Silicon Valley and the Bay - [Bruce Sterling: Augmented Reality and "Dead Drops"](https://weblogsky.com/2011/08/19/bruce-sterling-augmented-reality-and-dead-drops/) - Bruce Sterling's been "Visionary in Residence" again this summer at the Pasadena Art Center, where he's been in cyborg mode, focusing on augmented reality, or reality augmented and mediated by computer-generated sensory input. Bruce has developed an application that runs on the Layar platform, called Dead Drops, inspired by the work of German media artist - [Notes on the financial crisis](https://weblogsky.com/2011/08/13/notes-on-the-financial-crisis/) - John Robb connects the fall of the US Empire, like the fall of the Soviet empire, to central planning, but of a different kind: The parallels between the rapid growth of US government bureaucracy and the Soviet bureaucracy is straight forward. As more and more of US economy was controlled by a narrow group of - [Thinking about the future of online marketing](https://weblogsky.com/2011/08/01/thinking-about-the-future-of-online-marketing/) - Notice a lot of ads and marketing activity in your virtual 'hood? Other forms of media are moving online, so the Internet is inherently where you go to get attention for whatever it is you're selling - widgets, written content, audio and video, political or economic movements. Our former research and development platform, which became - [The case against Aaron Swartz](https://weblogsky.com/2011/07/25/the-case-against-aaron-swartz/) - Max Kennerly has posted the best legal overview I've seen of the Aaron Swartz indictment. He analyzes whether there's actually a case to be made, and finds many weaknesses in the indictment, concluding that "the whole case looks like the iPhone prototype saga again: a civil claim that some overly aggressive prosecutor is trying to - [Future of the Internet talk tonight](https://weblogsky.com/2011/07/19/future-of-the-internet-talk-tonight/) - Tonight I'll be giving my "future of the Internet" talk at Bootstrap Interactive. I'll cover a bit of history and evolution of the Internet and 'net applications, talk about what's been changing, related effects, and network trends. We'll talk about the kinds of applications that are emerging, and utopian and dystopian scenarios for the future. - [Post-Internet Google+ Beta Madness](https://weblogsky.com/2011/07/12/post-internet-google-beta-madness/) - I've been researching, thinking about, and presenting on the future of the Internet, and this week I'm preparing to propose a SXSW panel and getting ready for a presentation next week at Bootstrap Interactive in Austin. At the moment I'm thinking we're in a "post-Internet" era. The collaborative, peer to peer network of networks has - [Uncle Vanya vs Transformers near the 4th of July](https://weblogsky.com/2011/07/06/uncle-vanya-vs-transformers-near-the-4th-of-july/) - It's a weird culture that mashes Chekhov into the same week with Optimus Prime, but we followed an experience of Uncle Vanya (with terrific performances by Rob Matney and Liz Fisher, and staging that puts you right there on the farm) with a 3D romp through the Transformers universe, and somehow I'm trying to connect - [More on bandwidth: light and darkness](https://weblogsky.com/2011/06/26/more-on-bandwidth-light-and-darkness/) - My friend Robert Steele emailed me in response to my last post, saying there's more to consider, and I agree. He mentions Open Spectrum. I'm feeling cynical. Here's how I responded: I'm aware of open spectrum... I'm in other conversations with various wonks & engineers who're discussing bandwidth, spectrum, etc. Of course we could have - [Increase bandwidth exponentially](https://weblogsky.com/2011/06/25/increase-bandwidth-exponentially/) - Internet prime mover Vint Cerf echoes what I've been hearing from other architects of the TCP/IP network: we should focus on building much fatter pipes, and get away from the enforced/legacy scarcity and build gigabit broadband networks. Nothing here about the cost of providing gigabit access, nothing here about the fact that much of the - [Technology: tipping the balance](https://weblogsky.com/2011/06/24/technology-tipping-the-balance/) - Roger Cohen in the New York Times:Something immense is happening as the world transitions to a hyperconnected state where, for many, the distinction between the real and virtual worlds has ceased to exist. All the trailing paraphernalia of states and borders and government-to-government palavers, not to mention privacy laws, look so 20th century. The more - [The Tree of Life](https://weblogsky.com/2011/06/22/the-tree-of-life/) - The Tree of Life may be the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (or not); in his film called "The Tree of Life," Terence Malick plays with the universals - grace and nature parallel good and evil. Nature is will, ego; grace is nurturing. The film's narrative plays out in Waco, Texas and - [Collaboration, cooperation, democracy](https://weblogsky.com/2011/06/17/collaboration-cooperation-democracy/) - Everybody's head is a strange universe filled with echos of voices they've heard over and over again. Against this, we try to manifest our intentions, to persuade with more voice, more conversation. Sometimes we get through, but even when we get through, we're often filtered, just as we're filtering. Is it any wonder that it's - [Doc Searls on user-driven democracy](https://weblogsky.com/2011/06/08/doc-searls-on-user-driven-democracy/) - Speaking at the 2011 Personal Democracy Forum, Doc talks about how power relationships work in markets vs how they should and could work. Markets are conversations, and they should be symmetrical conversations. Note his bit about how the language of marketing parallels the language of slavery. Watch live streaming video from pdf2011 at livestream.com - [Busted for dancing at Jefferson Memorial](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/30/busted-for-dancing-at-jefferson-memorial/) - This is a hell of a thing to see on Memorial Day. This would be a real nightmare for some soldier sitting in a soggy trench under fire, fighting for freedom of speech and assembly. - [Gil Scot Heron, 1949-2011: "The revolution will be live."](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/28/gsh/) - In my years of drinking beer and talking trash with the late Bill Morton, he seldom wrote letters to me though I wrote many to him. The one letter I did receive was a handwritten transcription of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scot Heron, who got the the revolution isn't in the - [Ratko Mladic's arrest ](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/27/ratko-mladics-arrest/) - Jasmina Tesanovic posts about the arrest of Ratko Mladic here. As a further financial twist, the state still owes the general his regular pension, which he never received (as a fugitive). Handsome lump-sums have paid by and to the other citizens of the state — mainly, blood money for his victims. And what about the - [Emerging thoughts](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/18/emerging-thoughts/) - I've been in conversation with a diverse group of people who are interested creating a next version of the Internet that's more peer to peer, more open source/open architecture, less vulnerable to government or corporate restriction. Some aspects of the various threads of conversation are idealistic - not wholly unrealistic, but so far a bit - [bin Laden and the horserace](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/16/bin-laden-and-the-horserace/) - Osama bin Laden's death is a complex event with many implications and potential repercussions, yet it's been trivialized by media analysis (professional and social) that avoids going deep and focuses only on its meaning in the context of the 2012 campaign, or as Adam Hochberg notes, "just another lap in the political horserace." Another Hochberg - [Amazon's broken user experience](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/16/amazons-broken-user-experience/) - Doc Searls has posted a slideshow explaining how Amazon's user experience is broken, in the context of a discussion about vendor relationship management (VRM), which is about evolving a world where customers have at least symmetry in the power relationship of customer and vendor. The slides are old (January 2010) and things might have changed, - [Filter bubbles](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/05/filter-bubbles/) - This talk by Eli Pariser reminds me of discussions with David Weinberger about online echo chambers. I recall that this came up as social technology became part of the political process in ~2004. I've been concerned that the polarization we're seeing in the U.S. and elsewhere is exacerbated if not caused by our tendency to - [Technology, politics, and balance](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/04/technology-politics-and-balance/) - When Mitch Ratcliffe and I published Extreme Democracy in 2005, the question came up whether the discussion of politics and social technology was technoutopian. Without getting into the specifics of the book (which included diverse articles, some more positive than others about the potential role of what we now call social media in our political - [Open Source Politics and Religion](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/03/open-source-politics-and-religion/) - I just sent the following to an email list I'm on, and thought it would be worth sharing here: I've been involved with R.U. Sirius in instigating an International Open Source Party (version 2.0 - we tried it before but it didn't quite launch). He wrote about it here: http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/02/24/open-source-party-2-0-liberty-democracy-transparency/ This article includes the principles - [Jasmina Tesanovic: Big Day for Italy](https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/02/jasmina-tesanovic-big-day-for-italy/) - Read Jasmina'"Big Day for Italy": Living in Torino, Jasmina is not far from the beatification ceremonies for Pope John Paul II - a Serbian journalist writing about the Italian response to a Polish pope, now sainted, just a couple of days after the UK pompfest royal wedding. A global culture celebrates traditions that won't quite - [More fun with the DMCA](https://weblogsky.com/2011/04/29/more-fun-with-the-dmca/) - Facebook took down Ars Technica's page on the site because of allegedly infringing content. Read about it here. The page is back after much wrangling. The problem for Ars Technica (and potentially for anyone else against whom there's an infringement complaint) was that Facebook didn't tell them what content was allegedly infringing or offer them - [Time and the brain](https://weblogsky.com/2011/04/19/time-and-the-brain/) - Burkhard Bilger in The New Yorker profiles David Eagleman, a brilliant researcher who's studying the brain, consciousness, and the perception of time. At a personal level I've spent a lot of time in recent years studying and trying to comprehend my own degrees and levels of consciousness and perception. We think of our "conscious experience" - [Connectivism](https://weblogsky.com/2011/04/19/connectivism/) - Have you ever thought about how completely irrelevant structured learning is? Indeed. "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot unlearn and relearn." - Alvin Toffler. The video below advocates a change in how we learn - network-centric, personal, based on your context, not - [Transitional Internet](https://weblogsky.com/2011/04/13/1008/) - I continue to be focused on the future of the Internet and aware of divergent paths. In the later 2000s, following a period of digital and media convergence and given broad adoption of evolving high speed (broadband) network connectivity, the Internet has become an environment for mixed media and marketing. The Internet is increasingly centralized - [Pay me!](https://weblogsky.com/2011/04/12/pay-me/) - My old friend and former colleague Mike Monteiro says it right... (This is great advice for designers and developers; totally resonates with me based on my many experiences and mistakes along the way.) 2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco/CreativeMornings on Vimeo. - [The future of global online journalism](https://weblogsky.com/2011/04/03/the-future-of-global-online-journalism/) - (Update: Alfred Hermida blogs Vivian Schiller's 7 reasons to be cheerful about journalism at Reportr.net.) The evolution of networked global communication infrastructures is disrupting and changing delivery of news and the way journalists work. While some publishers have been wringing hands and tearing hair over the collapse of the business model for news publishing, others - [Autonomous Smartbird](https://weblogsky.com/2011/03/30/autonomous-smartbird/) - Festo has created this amazing robotic SmartBird.Unlike many of Festo's flying robots, SmartBird doesn't appear to rely on lifting gas at all. It weighs less than half a kilo, and is capable of autonomous take-off, flight, and landing using just its two meter-long wings. SmartBird is modeled very closely on the herring gull, and controls - [Infinite Games](https://weblogsky.com/2011/03/29/infinite-games/) - Via Flemming Funch, a review of "Finite and Infinite Games - A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility" by James P. Carse: "A finite game is a game that has fixed rules and boundaries, that is played for the purpose of winning and thereby ending the game....An infinite game has no fixed rules or - [Supermoon](https://weblogsky.com/2011/03/19/supermoon/) - Tonight we'll have a super perigee moon, "a full moon of rare size and beauty." "The best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon. That is when illusion mixes with reality to produce a truly stunning view. For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, low-hanging Moons look unnaturally large - [SXSW 2011](https://weblogsky.com/2011/03/18/sxsw-2011/) - Intense week at SXSW, starting with the Ed Ward/Jon Lebkowsky breakfast Saturday morning, followed by a Project VRM workshop organized with Doc Searls that afternoon, and much running around Austin that night. Sunday, a core conversation I attended discussed iPad apps for journalism, a good lead-in to the panel I moderated Monday about news apps - [Bruce Sterling's talk via live tweet](https://weblogsky.com/2011/03/16/bruce-sterlings-talk-via-live-tweet/) - I live-tweeted Bruce Sterling's talk at SXSW Interactive. Here are the tweets... in reverse chronological order, so read 'em backwards. "Women of Italy, cast away all the cowards from your embraces." SXSW looks like a new world because it's got women in it. Closing with a Garibaldi quote. "I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, - [4chan and anonymity](https://weblogsky.com/2011/03/03/4chan-and-anonymity/) - Marc Savlov interviewed me for this article in the Austin Chronicle, generally about anonymity on the Internet and specifically about 4chan. I hope I made the point that anonymity is a wicked problem (what is identity, anyway?), and that it's sometimes a solution (as in police states, viva Tor). Coincidentally I had interviewed the phenomenal - [The Future of the Internet](https://weblogsky.com/2011/02/24/the-future-of-the-internet/) - Slides for the version of this talk that I presented last night (2/23/2011) to the Central Texas IEEE Consultants' Network. I presented earlier versions to the World Future Society and at Link Coworking. The Future of the InternetView more presentations from Jon Lebkowsky. - [David Brooks: "Social Animal"](https://weblogsky.com/2011/02/17/david-brooks-social-animal/) - David Brooks' article "Social Animal," in the New Yorker, piled on more insights about human essence and consciousness: "Our perceptions...are fantasies we construct that correlate with reality." "I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we - [SXSW 2010 Images](https://weblogsky.com/2011/02/12/sxsw-2010-images/) - SXSW 2011 is coming up; here I'm sharing some photos from SXSW 2010 as a test of FlickrSlidr, an online app that creates embed code for any Flickr url. Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. - [The Future of Journalism: a conversation](https://weblogsky.com/2011/02/07/the-future-of-journalism-a-conversation/) - With colleagues Pete Lewis, Tony Deifell, Kevin Anderson, Andrew Haeg, and Scott Rosenberg, I'm in a two week conversation about the future of journalism on the WELL. The WELL is the seminal online community; this conversation is in the Inkwell forums, where Bruce Sterling and I have our annual state of the world conversation. Inkwell - [Plutopia Sampler](https://weblogsky.com/2011/02/04/plutopia-sampler/) - Plutopia Productions, the company I've built with Derek Woodgate, Maggie Duval, and Bon Davis, is having a "sampler" event tomorrow night, February 5, at The Beauty Bar in Austin. By sampler, we mean that we're including artists that will be part of our larger show on March 14... this is a preview. Lineup for the - [Routing around suppression](https://weblogsky.com/2011/01/30/routing-around-suppression/) - The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. - John Gilmore, 1993 I thought about John's quote yesterday when I heard about attempts to block access to the Internet in Egypt. It ain't working, per a couple of links Robert Steele sent me. From The Atlantic's website:And now many Egyptians are finding ways - [Egypt's fired up](https://weblogsky.com/2011/01/29/egypts-fired-up/) - Coincidentally while I've been at the TXGov20Camp that I've worked on (via EFF-Austin, along with the LBJ School), what looks like a democratic rebellion's caught fire in Egypt; there's people in the streets calling for the resignation of the 30-year president, Hosni Mobarak. The government tried to squash communications by shutting down Internet access, because - [Social is a six letter word](https://weblogsky.com/2011/01/26/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 one wave of a supposed "tide of cyber-skepticism [sweeping] the US." I haven't read Turkle's book. but RU's review suggests an exploration of the disconnect between expectations of "social" media - that it will make - [Chance favors the connected mind.](https://weblogsky.com/2011/01/14/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: The Natural History of Innovation. Ideas grow from slow hunches in collision with each other, and depend on great nurturing ground: coffee houses, salons, etc. I love his conclusion: "Chance favors the connected mind." - [Alien art](https://weblogsky.com/2011/01/11/alien-art/) - Wired features outsider art by Ken Grimes, a schizophrenic who creates "outsider art" including ufos and alien imagery. This reminds me of Bill Barker's "Schwa" imagery, which was part of the FringeWare scene in the 1990s. What's that buzzing sound? - [A note about "network neutrality"](https://weblogsky.com/2011/01/10/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 talks on the history and future of media, and on the history, evolution, and history of the Internet. I gave the talk this week to a small group gathered for lunch in a coworking space - [2010 Social Media Infographic](https://weblogsky.com/2011/01/10/2010-social-media-infographic/) - Mindjumpers created this graphic showing various social media happenings last year - interesting choices. You can go to their site to let 'em know what they left out. - ["American soft power is vanishing"](https://weblogsky.com/2011/01/06/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 traveled the world all his life and has been in unique situations (like his travels through Russia and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain), truly thinks globally, whereas I'm virtually global (via - [Doug Rushkoff: Program or be Programmed](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/22/doug-rushkoff-program-or-be-programmed/) - At dinner the night before he spoke at SXSW Interactive, Doug Rushkoff told me that he had been working a new book idea, but had decided not to write the book. Instead, he was going to present it in his talk and let others run with it however they might. Actually writing the book was - [Sterling on Assange](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/27/sterling-on-assange/) - Bruce Sterling's analysis of Wikileaks is long, engaging, and depressing. The cables that Assange leaked have, to date, generally revealed rather eloquent, linguistically gifted American functionaries with a keen sensitivity to the feelings of aliens. So it’s no wonder they were of dwindling relevance and their political masters paid no attention to their counsels. You - [Gary Chapman](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/15/gary-chapman/) - Hearing via Twitter that my friend Gary Chapman of the LBJ School has died. News of his death was posted by Isadora Vail of the Austin American Statesman. No details yet. I had just emailed Gary today asking for his support in putting together an Austin Wikileaks Summit. [Update: Statesman article by Vail reporting that - [So this is Christmas...](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/24/so-this-is-christmas/) - Empathy slaps me silly sometimes, and the "joy of Christmas" can be elusive when you see any fraction of the real pain and suffering in the world. In Buddhism, "suffering" is a technical term that has meanings so deep that words don't suffice, but the fact is that many people are disrupted and disappointed in - [The kids are all right](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/13/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 a lot... we are no longer that post ideological generation, we are no longer that generation that doesn't care... we are now the generation that will stand with everyone who's fighting back..." They're mad as - [Mark Pesce on Wikileaks: "Everything feels more authentic."](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/13/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 here.Everything is different now. Everything feels more authentic. We can choose to embrace this authenticity, and use it to construct a new system of relations, one which does not rely on secrets and lies. A - [Personal Democracy Forum's flash summit on Wikileaks](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/12/personal-democracy-forums-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 Wikileaks' place in it. These are truly chaotic and "interesting" times. Watch live streaming video from pdfleaks at livestream.com - [Iraq 2006: a bag of words](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/12/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 Associated Press: Click the image for the high res version. Stray and Julian Burgess created a visualization using data from December 2006 Iraq Significant Action (SIGACT) reports from Wikileaks. That was the bloodiest month of - [Doings](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/11/890/) - Irons in the fire: Plutopia Productions projects are on fire... including the Plutopia 2011 event during SXSW and the Plutopia News Network that Scoop Sweeney and I will be launching within the next month. Scoop and I are also producing events on the side, like last Friday's "From Jerusalem to Cordoba" performance by Catherine Braslavsky - [Photophilia](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/01/photophilia/) - View a triking set of photos from the National Geographic Photo Contest. Galleries here. These photos reminded me that the world is so much larger than my Twitter account... - [From Jerusalem to Cordoba: music as common ground](https://weblogsky.com/2010/12/01/from-jerusalem-to-cordoba-music-as-common-ground/) - It's crazy time in the world at large, a time of social, political, and economic chaos and a questioning of fundamental assumptions we've made about how the world works and doesn't work. You can blame the "interesting" difficulties we're in on shortsighted politicians, greedy bankers and corporations, god-mad religious fundamentalists, exploding and fragmenting communications... and - [Taking a Wikileak](https://weblogsky.com/2010/11/30/taking-a-wikileak/) - In my obligatory post about Wikileaks as the story du jour, I point to the great set of questions Dan Gillmor has posted in his column at Salon. These are especially lucid. I like especially Dan's point about the character of the communications that were leaked, that many of the messages are gossip. Journalists are - [Berners-Lee: Long Live the Web](https://weblogsky.com/2010/11/21/berners-lee-long-live-the-web/) - I've found myself giving cautionary talks on the future of the Internet, or possible futures, plural - the real danger that the Internet and the World Wide Web that operates on it will become less open, perhaps become fragmented, balkanized into closed networks that no longer cooperate, filled with walled gardens with various filters and - [Are there "master keys" to the Internet?](https://weblogsky.com/2010/11/19/are-there-master-keys-to-the-internet/) - Interesting article in the New York Times - "How China meddled with the Internet," based on a report to Congress by the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The Times article talks about an incident where IDC China Telecommunication broadcast inaccurate Web traffic routes for about 18 minutes back in April. According to the - [HelpAttack!](https://weblogsky.com/2010/11/16/helpattack/) - My friend Sarah Vela launched a new company called Help Attack! in August, and it's proving to be a cool way for nonprofits to raise money, and a clever way for donors to commit money by pledging to give some amount of money for every tweet they post in a month. Sez Sarah, Sez Sarah, - [Ultramodern, stylin' airports of the 60s](https://weblogsky.com/2010/11/12/ultramodern-stylin-airports-of-the-60s/) - Feeling nostalgia for 60s airport culture, not that I spent a lot of time in airports back then (I was a mere tad). But we saw the images reflected in popular culture. The Dapper Dude has posted a few — the futuristic airports of the past, when flying was a Big Deal, something you dressed - [Tim Wu and the future of the Internet](https://weblogsky.com/2010/11/14/tim-wu-and-the-future-of-the-internet/) - Tim Wu explains the rise and fall of information monopolies in a conversation with New York Times blogger Nick Bilton. Author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books), Wu is known for the concept of "net neutrality." He's been thinking about this stuff for several years, and has as - [From Jerusalem to Cordoba](https://weblogsky.com/2010/11/11/from-jerusalem-to-cordoba/) - Here's a press release for a performance I'm co-producing with Scoop Sweeney: AUSTIN - Catherine Braslavsky and Joseph Rowe will bring their musical performance, "From Jerusalem to Cordoba," from Paris to Austin on December 3, 7pm at St. David's Episcopal Church, Bethell Hall, 301 E. 8th St., Austin, 78701-3280. The performance is a celebration of - [Advocating for the Open Internet](https://weblogsky.com/2010/11/05/advocating-for-the-open-internet/) - "Net neutrality" and "freedom to connect" might be loaded or vague terminologies; the label "Open Internet" is clearer, more effective, no way misleading. A group of Internet experts and pioneers submitted a paper to the FCC that defines the Open Internet and explains how it differs from networks that are dedicated to specialized services, and - [Data, Markets, and Power](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/31/data-markets-and-power/) - There's an election Tuesday, and you're probably going to vote - whether your vote is meaningful or not. Some call voting a "ritual," which is not at all to say that it's not meaningful - rituals do have meaning. But the word is that it's a symbolic rather than functional, practical event. The actual eddies - [Steven Berlin Johnson: good ideas](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/25/steven-berlin-johnson-good-ideas/) - On October 20, I caught Steven Johnson's talk at Book People in Austin. I've known Steven since the 90s - we met when he was operating Feed Magazine, one of the early web content sites. After Feed, Steven created a second content site, actually more of a web forum, called Plastic.com. Starting with Interface Culture, - [Flip it!](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/25/flip-it/) - Daniel Pink has a smart article on flip thinking, a trend in innovation. It's a matter of rethinking sequence logic: for instance, a math instructor finds that it makes more sense to work on problems in class, and follow with the lecture (uploaded to YouTube, where students watch as homework). You experience the tension of - [Science, lies, evidence, knowledge](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/21/science-lies-evidence-knowledge/) - In so many fields, owing to the Internet-driven democratization of knowledge, we learn that that the power associated with hoarded knowledge has been abused, and the position of leadership - the priesthood - associated with the acquisition of knowledge has been leveraged to manipulate and deceive. "Everything you know is wrong!" David Freedman has a - [Central Texas World Future Society: Future of the Internet](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/20/central-texas-world-future-society-future-of-the-internet/) - Slides for a presentation to the Central Texas World Future Society on the future of the Internet, looking at network and application scenarios. - [The Social Network](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/17/the-social-network/) - The David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin film collaboration called "The Social Network" is not about technology, though there are scenes that suggest how code is produced through focused work (which actually looks boring when you're watching it "IRL" (in real life), without Fincher's hyperactive perspective - but is so engaging you can lose yourself totally in the - [Self-Diagnosis and Participatory Medicine](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/11/self-diagnosis-and-participatory-medicine/) - The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published an interesting piece on Self Diagnosis, subtitled A Discursive Systematic Review of the Medical Literature. It's a complex subject - as patients become more informed and empowered, they are more liable to want to have a role in diagnosis, and more apt to question a doctor's perception or - [Knight News Challenge](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/08/knight-news-challenge/) - The Knight News Challenge will launch October 25, just days after our Austin News Hackathon. According the the press release, the challenge "for the first time will feature experimental categories: Mobile, Authenticity, Sustainability and Community." Knight adopted these categories "to harness and accelerate the entrepreneurial energy we are seeing in the field." - [Where ideas come from](https://weblogsky.com/2010/10/04/where-ideas-come-from/) - Wired News hosts a conversation between Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson, who've written similar books... Steven - Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation; and Kevin - What Technology Wants. Steven "finds that great creative milieus, whether MIT or Los Alamos, New York City or the World Wide Web, are like coral - [Free Hoder: facing death for the crime of thinking and speaking](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/21/free-hoder-facing-death-for-the-crime-of-thinking-and-speaking/) - Hossein Derakhshan, aka Hoder, is evidently facing the death penalty in Iran - for blogging (or, in their words, “collaborating with enemy states, creating propaganda against the Islamic regime, insulting religious sanctity, and creating propaganda for anti-revolutionary groups.") This is nuts, and we should all be blogging in support of Hoder's release. More information at - [All government is local 2.0: manor.govfresh](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/22/all-government-is-local-2-0-manor-govfresh/) - Manor, a small town in Texas a few miles from Austin, has become an unlikely star player in the new world of "Government 2.0." This week Manor and GovFresh, an organization that provides news and information about technology innovation in government, joined forces to host a conference on "big ideas for local America." The conference - [Self organizing solar panels](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/18/self-organizing-solar-panels/) - "Scientists at MIT have discovered molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a pattern that can turn light into electricity — essentially a self-creating solar panel. In a petri dish." [Link] I was wondering if this discovery has a practical application. A commenter has the same question, someone else answers:The implication of the addition of an - [Journal of Participatory Medicine - new version](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/16/journal-of-participatory-medicine-new-version/) - As a cofounder of the Society of Participatory Medicine, I'm psyched to see new work appearing in our journal. Here's a press release with more info: The Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM), the online peer-reviewed, open access publication of the Society for Participatory Medicine, has released new content for its 2010 volume. The journal's mission - [Get out the level-headed vote](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/16/get-out-the-level-headed-vote/) - "... for voters of all stripes, Tuesday’s primaries should illuminate the growling face of a new fringe in American politics — and provide the incentive for level-headed voters to become enthusiastic about the midterm election." [Link]We always said that the Internet would bring more voices into the political conversation, that we would be "more democratic," - [Pushing Back](https://weblogsky.com/2008/09/26/pushing-back/) - Tom Brown shot videos of concerned Austin citizens protesting the potential bank bailout in downtown Austin. Ironically I saw 'em on my way to the Tech Crunch party ("like it's 1997!") We're clearly on a rough road. Here's one of the vids: - [People-Powered Media [un]Workshop](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/06/people-powered-media-unworkshop/) - Find me at the People-Powered Media [un]Workshop this weekend, described as "an 'unconference' style event created to explore how community media can be used as a tool for information, organization, and action." Gary Chapman will keynote in the afternoon, otherwise the discussions will emerge, unconference style. Register now if you haven't already. - [Harvey Kurtzman](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/19/harvey-kurtzman/) - I didn't realize former suckster Joey Anuff was comicologist 'til I saw yesterday's boing boing post about Joey's Harvey Kurtzman collection. This warmed my heart and set a little fire in my eyeballs... I was a Harvey Kurtzman fan from the age of 7 or 8, when my brother wandered in with a ten cent - [Credit where credit is due](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/10/credit-where-credit-is-due/) - James Suroweicki explains the logic that drives credit card companies to strangle consumers....credit-card companies have created a strange business, in which there’s a fine line between good and bad customers. Their best customers aren’t those who dutifully pay off their balance every month; instead, they’re the ones who charge a lot and pay only a - [Bands, Burgers, and Beer](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/13/bands-burgers-and-beer/) - Tantalizing free music minifest jamming during SXSW, at the great Fran's Hamburgers, 1822 S. Congress, March 19, 3pm-6pm... assembled by my friend Joe Rae Di Menno of Hard Pressed Publicity, sponsored by Santa Fe Brewing. Give your ears a break from the Fender Strats and your bellies a reprieve from the all-you-can-stomach chili con queso - [NY Times: Twitter is haunted](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/27/ny-times-twitter-is-haunted/) - The New York Times just discovered that there are ghost tweeters on Twitter. That was common knowledge in the Twitterverse, of course; part of the fun is figuring out whether a celebrity persona on the system is a spoof, a ghost, or the real thing. Spoofs already made news via Shaquille O'Neals decision to tweet - [Memories are made of this](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/07/memories-are-made-of-this/) - Researchers are learning how memory works, via PKMzeta molecules that facilitate "speed dialing" among brain cells, "like a group of people joined in common witness of some striking event." Call on one and word quickly goes out to the larger network of cells, each apparently adding some detail, sight, sound, smell. The brain appears to - [Mindcasting](https://weblogsky.com/2009/06/02/mindcasting/) - Jay Rosen made a rich Tumblr post about mindcasting and Twitter. Mindcasting is Jay's term for his posting style - where his goal is to have a high signal to noise ratio... and he's a very active conversation engine. This post has notes on the form... e.g. The act of building an editorial presence in - [The Hurt Locker](https://weblogsky.com/2009/07/10/the-hurt-lcoker/) - When "The Hurt Locker" screened at SXSW, I thought it was one of the better films I'd seen in years, and Jeremy Renner established himself as a world-class - not just actior but presence. While Katherine Bigelow has always been a sklled action director, she's never quite had story and actors equal to her ability. - [Bureaucrats](https://weblogsky.com/2009/08/09/bureaucrats/) - After experiencing politics in action via the crowd at Lloyd Doggett's town hall meeting on health reform yesterday, and considering the opposition to health care reform, I tweeted "It always surprises me that some sheep would rather be guarded by a wolf than a bureaucrat." That tweet was ported to Facebook, where there were several - [Shabbir on Healthcare Reform](https://weblogsky.com/2009/08/09/shabbir-on-healthcare-reform/) - My friend Shabbir Safdar has posted an articulate response to some of the myths about healthcare reform here....the rising cost of healthcare is driving people to lose their coverage because costs of employer funded healthcare are rising faster than we can keep up. When I co-founded my web agency in 1997, we offered healthcare and - [Thames Town](https://weblogsky.com/2009/09/26/thames-town/) - Thames Town is part of Songjiang New City, in Shanghai, China. Modeled on traditional urbanism, it's "only one enormous block of an entire new city of enormous developments, most in the Chinese style of giant aligned slabs..." [Link] View Larger Map - [Joyce’s Ulysses](https://weblogsky.com/2009/09/27/joyces-ulysses/) - I not only read, but studied at length, James Joyce's Ulysses, academically a "serious novel" though Joyce said, in 1922, "...the pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book—or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one - [Next week: Digital Fusion Fest](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/03/next-week-digital-fusion-fest/) - Here's a flyer for next week's Digital Fusion Fest: - [Freddy Kreuger is a wimp…](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/30/freddy-kreuger-is-a-wimp/) - The real monsters are right here... - [The human space imperative](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/04/the-human-space-imperative/) - We have a strong, if mythic, assumption that humans will move into space and, eventually, hop through wormholes from galaxy to galaxy. That whole notion may evaporate if we dismantle the space station and end the practice of sending humans into space. MIT Technology Review discusses "The Future of Human Spaceflight":Over the years, NASA and - [It’s (Never) Too Late](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/01/its-never-too-late/) - I presented this at "Life, Extraordinary: An Evening of Autobiographical Monologues," which was produced as part of a powerful writing and creativity class taught by my friend and fellow traveler, Maggie Duval. This is dedicated to the memory of the late, great George Hasty. My friend George, an old Buddha, died recently. The cancer that - [Palindrome that says it all](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/02/palindrome-that-says-it-all/) - [Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed Preview](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/13/rushkoff-program-or-be-programmed/) - I have notes on Doug Rushkoff's SXSW talk, which I found compelling and will post about at length when there's more time. Here's a video slice of the talk that I found on YouTube: - [SXSW energy](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/15/sxsw-energy/) - The energy at SXSW is powerful and chaotic, make that chaordic (chaotically orderly). As ever, I have too much going on, missing a lot of talks I want to see but picking up random bits via Twitter, blogs, etc. Discussed with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky this morning the impact of drive-by information giving/taking - - [TEDxUT Notes](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/02/tedxut-notes/) - Today at TEDxUT, I was live tweeting all day until I maxed out my update quota. This was my second TED-inspired event, really like the format, though I'd also like to do something a little more ... experiential. The venue (UT's AT&T Center) was great, and the talks were diverse and compelling. Since tweeting was - [Future Social: my talk at Ignite Austin](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/17/future-social-my-talk-at-ignite-austin/) - Video of my talk at Ignite Austin. - [Project VRM and e-patients](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/02/project-vrm-and-e-patients/) - I've been talking to the Project VRM group about healthcare applications of vendor relationship management, also related to the work of the Society for Participatory Medicine and the e-Patients Working Group that preceded it (of which I've been a founding member). Doc Searls and I were talking about this again last week at Fiber Fete; - [“Managing relationships, not each other”](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/26/managing-relationships-not-each-other/) - I've become a fan, adherent, and hopefully participant in Project VRM - Vendor Relationship Management - a practical extension of the Cluetrain Manifesto coordinated by Doc Searls as fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. I have a lot more to say about Project VRM in future posts - essentially it's about establishing (restoring?) a symmetrical relationship - [The Internet is not (just) a marketing platform](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/01/the-internet-is-not-just-a-marketing-platform/) - Increasingly I'm finding that, as a consultant about effective Internet communication, I have to talk about marketing, how to market to, for, and with communities and social networks. Marketing is, always has been, an important part of the media mix, and it's important to understand how the transformation and evolution of media - the emerging - [Blogchat and mutation](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/07/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 and other potential limits of social scale, argues that the optimimum limit is around 5-9 participants, possibly as many as 12. In last night's #blogchat on Twitter, I saw an example of attempted conversation beyond - [Arianna Huffington – interviewed by Evan Smith](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/12/arianna-huffington-interviewed-by-evan-smith-2/) - Wrote this in May and saved it as a draft. Timing's good for publication: I've been thinking a lot about the Huffington Post as a model for network journalism that combines the work of professionals with contributions from a broader set of bloggers. In this interview, Huffington showed that she was savvy about the contemporary - [Future of transportation, circa 1936 (Japan)](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/01/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] - [Taking back the narrative](https://weblogsky.com/2010/08/04/taking-back-the-narrative/) - I've tried for years now to catalyze greater participation in the conversations that drive governance, not necessarily advocating pure democracy but nudging the body politic in that direction. And I don't think it's completely wrong-headed to go there. As we've evolved a new form of media that's bottom up, low barrier to entry and participation, - [Plutopia 2011: The Future of Play](https://weblogsky.com/2010/08/18/plutopia-2011-the-future-of-play/) - Here's what's coming March 14, 2011 during SXSW Interactive, via my colleagues and I at Plutopia Productions: Plutopia 2011: The Future of Play Overview from Maggie Duval on Vimeo. - [How was the Picture Quality of “The George Burns & Gracie Allen Collection”?](https://weblogsky.com/2010/08/29/how-was-the-picture-quality-of-the-george-burns-gracie-allen-collection/) - Got an email from Netflix asking how George and Gracie looked. I responded that the quality was acceptable, but that's only part of the story. It was actually phenomenal, if you consider that I was streaming it over my iPhone with Netflix's new streaming app. I'd say that digital convergence has arrived... I was sitting - [21st century data convergence: surf or swim](https://weblogsky.com/2010/08/30/21st-century-data-convergence-surf-or-swim/) - A Times UK piece, 10 ways data is changing how we live, says that "the availability of new sets of data" is changing the way we live. Five years ago at IC2 Institute in Austin, we were talking about digital convergence, and those talks spun off an organization called the Digital Convergence Initiative, the idea - [Friday on ChannelAustin: Social Media for Nonprofits](https://weblogsky.com/2010/02/22/friday-on-channelaustin-social-media-for-nonprofits/) - Coming this Friday, February 26: Social Media for Nonprofits, a one hour live special broadcast, 7pm – 8pm on Austin's TimeWarner & Grande Channel 10 and streaming on channelAustin.org. We have a great lineup, should be a lot of fun. I'll be moderating a conversation with other local social media experts. Our mission is to - [Link Coworking](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/13/link-coworking/) - Last Thursday, the day after Austin was swept by a tropical Texas frog-strangler, I met with Liz Elam and toured her new coworking facility, called Link Coworking. It's on Anderson Lane, across the street from old Northcross Mall and near the Village Cinema ( 2700 W. Anderson Lane, Ste. 205 ). Liz's facility will have - [Jay Rosen on the state and future of journalism](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/13/jay-rosen-on-the-state-and-future-of-journalism/) - Jay Rosen has a terrific post about the state of media, beginning with this clip from the film "Network": Pretty timely, eh? Jay analyzes the scene: ... the filmmakers are showing us what the mass audience was: a particular way of arranging and connecting people in space. Viewers are connected “up” to the big spectacle, - [Blogging's not dead](https://weblogsky.com/2010/09/05/bloggings-not-dead/) - Social media-savvy medical advocate Regina Holliday pointed out a clueful post at Health is Social, a blog "about integrating social and digital media into healthcare." The post's subject is "Healthcare Blogging: Wide Open Opportunities," but the post itself is not just abou9t healthcare blogging. It's a more general explanation why blogging is NOT dead, contrary - [Vote for the future of journalism!](https://weblogsky.com/2010/08/14/vote-for-the-future-of-journalism/) - I'm part of an informal group of journalists who are focusing on the future of that profession, and more generally on the future of news discovery and delivery. We proposed a coordinated set of SXSW Interactive sessions on journalism via the panel picker, and we're soliciting votes from any and all of you who are - [Rescue](https://weblogsky.com/2010/08/23/rescue/) - "Life is as ephemeral as dew." I think that's from Rashomon. The black kitten we found two weeks ago, aka Midnight, died this morning. We thought we were nursing him back to health, but the vet said he probably never had a chance. She said his mother might have abandoned him as the runt of - [Pay attention](https://weblogsky.com/2010/08/11/pay-attention/) - I ran across A.O. Scott's video review of Errol Morris's "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control," a documentary that weaves together interviews with four men who have an "endless, absorbing facination with what they do." It's clear that the four - a lion trainer, a topiary sculptor, a mole rat specialist, and a robot scientist - [Knowledge Advocate rules](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/26/knowledge-advocate-rules/) - The very smart Kevin Leahy is has a blog, as Knowledge Advocate, that you should follow. In a recent post, he talks about the "no more than 7 things at once rule." He reminds me of this whenever we meet, because I tend to throw more information at people than they can process - many - [Clay Shirky at Google](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/20/clay-shirky-at-google/) - Talking about concepts and stories from Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Talking about using the cognitive surplus to leverage digital opportunity and human generosity, producing productive and amazing things. "The key thing here is not so much about the technology itself, but the culture that forms around it." - [Belated Happy Birthday to Nikola Tesla](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/15/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 incorporates Tesla coils as part of the performance. Which is, naturally, electrifying! Here's some video I shot: - [A difference image](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/17/a-difference-image/) - Ann Corwin created this terrific painting of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and posted it at her site, Existence is Wonderful. She's using a color palette that fits the tones in her living room - I think it's an effective interpretation. More on Babbage and his machine here: - [Public Access](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/15/public-access/) - Last night, the City of Austin's Telecommunications Commission had a roundtable discussion - actually a series of panels - on the state and future of public access television and community media. I led a session on innovation, including as panelists by close friend Rich Vazquez, web developer for Community Impact newspaper; Ronny Mack, IT Project - [The manifesto that made my day](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/22/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 no god... but then Chris Carfi sent a link to an email list we're on that aligned so completely with where my life has been going that I thumbed my nose at Batchelor. There clearly - [Stewardship](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/09/stewardship/) - I've been thinking a lot about stewardship as the requisite basis for action in an era of greed and confusion. Stewardship can be defined several ways, but the general sense I get is that it means taking responsibility for something that you don't "own." Ownership also needs definition for the sake of clarity, and as - [Regina Holliday](https://weblogsky.com/2010/07/02/regina-holliday/) - Regina Holliday became a passionate, powerful e-patient advocate after frustrating encounters with the healthcare system as her husband, Fred, was dying. Her mural "73 Cents" is a visual depiction of the experience. [Link to Regina Holliday's Medical Advocacy Blog] We're all patients at some point, and so many of our encounters with healthcare systems are - [Happy Birthday, Ray Harryhausen](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/29/happy-birthday-ray-harryhausen/) - Heroic special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, whose influence nearly led me to a craft for which I probably would have had no patience, is 90 years old. Harryhausen's films opened my head and rocked my world. Thanks to Harry Knowles for the birthday candle and pointer to the video below, a compendium of Harryhausen's stop-motion - [Gate, gate, paragate](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/28/669/) - What we think of as reality is just shadows of shadows, internal reconstructions of sense data fed imperfectly into electrochemical processors within the brain and imperfectly rendered - "imperfectly" depending on your sense of perfection, of course. The point is more that it's a rendering, and the rendering is no the thing rendered. And all - ["This is why people are using social media tools, as a big gross band-aid!"](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/24/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 be real with their customers? (Tara Hunt understands 21st century marketing challenges. In that, she's rare.) - [Information spill?](https://weblogsky.com/2010/06/09/information-spill/) - We've all zeroed in on a set of established platforms for interaction, primarily Facebook and Twitter. Icons linking to Facebook and Twitter pages are standard on many web sites now - suggesting a consensus about where people are hanging out. Many experience the Internet through one or both of these platforms, and a few scattered - [UTeach](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/26/uteach/) - I spent today at the 2010 UTeach Conference here in Austin. UTeach is an acclaimed teacher prep program at the University of Texas. Attendees were mostly K-12 teachers and university professors from across the U.S. I heard about UTeach's STEM focus (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), New Technology High Schools in Napa and Manor, project-based - [David Armano's social business manifesto](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/25/david-armanos-social-business-manifesto/) - I just met Chris Carfi via Project VRM, and this week learned that he's joining Edelman. David Armano, now with Edelman, blogged about this, and included his social business variation of the Carfi's customer manifesto:We will no longer view you as "consumers". Instead, you are co-creators, participants, and advocates. We will actively listen, and participate - [Cory Doctorow in Austin](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/21/cory-doctorow-in-austin/) - Cory Doctorow was in Austin yesterday on a book tour for his new young adult novel, For the Win. Cory says he likes writing young adult fiction because it's for people who use it, not just for entertainment, but to figure out the world. Cory introduced me to another science fiction writer, Steven Brust, now - [Unanswered questions about e-patients](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/15/unanswered-questions-about-e-patients/) - Susannah Fox has posted two sets of questions about e-patients, sent by Liav Hertsman and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University, that call for further research. First set: 1. How would you describe the typical online active e-patient in terms of demographics? 2. In which stages of the diseases do e-patients usually need medical information - [Good medicine](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/08/good-medicine/) - Just three years ago, my friend Dave deBronkart's life changed with a routine x-ray that showed a troubling shadow on his lung, which turned out to be the result of a metastaszied stage IV, grade 4 renal cell carcinoma. Prognosis for long-term survival was dismal, statistically: median projected survival time was 24 months. Dave, an - [iPad for Breakfast](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/26/ipad-for-breakfast/) - This morning (April 26, 2010), as part of the Social Media Breakfast series organized by Bryan Person and Maura Thomas, I led a discussion about the iPad. I don't actually have an iPad myself, but I was eager to hear what the diverse SMB crowd would have to say about the impact and future of - [Redefining journalism: the International Symposium on Online Journalism](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/27/redefining-journalism-the-international-symposium-on-online-journalism/) - Journalists have been curious, and often anxious, about prospects for the future of news in an era of user generated content, fragmented abundant media, and cheap or free web-based advertising platforms. Nobody doubts the importance of in-depth news reporting, but the business model's unclear. Many publications are moving online, which may reduce some physical costs - [Arianna Huffington - interviewed by Evan Smith](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/04/arianna-huffington-interviewed-by-evan-smith/) - May 4, 2010 - As part of the Texas Monthly Talks series, Evan Smith interviewed Arianna Huffington, in town to speak at a benefit for the Texas Freedom Network. Huffington's flight arrived late, so the talk was abbreviated. Much of the discussion was about the current state of journalism and Huffington Post's (HuffPo's) success as - [Abundance, the 'net, and the open mind](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/09/abundance-the-net-and-the-open-mind/) - I recently attended (and blogged and tweeted) Fiber Fete in Lafayette, Louisiana. One highlight of the Fete was David Weinberger's talk, which closed out a day of presentations and panels about the evolution and implications of high-bandwidth networks. David had been asked to talk about "what we could do if we had ubiquitous, high speed, - [Media wants to be public](https://weblogsky.com/2010/05/15/media-wants-to-be-public/) - I just posted the following on Facebook, in a comment to Gary Chapman, who's been discussing Facebook privacy... I've always assumed there's low expectation of privacy on systems like Facebook. While Facebook can do better if they're clueful, really care, and realize how privacy issues can bite them in the ass - I think there's - [Fiber Fete: Google's fiber testbed](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/21/fiber-fete-googles-fiber-testbed/) - Minnie Ingersoll of Google at Fiber Fete talking about what Google is doing with it's fiber testbed project. What they want to do: 1) next generation applications. 2) Experiment with new and innovative ways to build out fiber networks 3) Work with "open access" networks Not becoming a national ISP or cable tv provider. Google - [Fiber Fete: Smart Grid - The Killer App](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/21/fiber-fete-smart-grid-the-killer-app/) - Speaker: Ron Holcomb CTC "Smart Grid" implies today's electric grid is dumb, which is pretty much the case. Energy leaves generation plant, goes into the "ether," knowledge comes back only in the form of a meter reading. Wasteful but reliable system. Smart Grid is really simpler than it sounds. We have command and control systems. - [Fiber Fete: Telemedicine notes](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/21/fiber-fete-telemedicine-notes/) - Speaker: Lawrence Keyes, CEO, MicrodesignContinuing from Twitter tweets...Talking about the DocBox, a set-top box for telemedicine. Currently seeing senior Tai Chi class taught over the DocBox, which is connected via DLS or cable of at least 384Kbs up and down. Sound is transmitted through the television set; DocBox has a built in microphone (controlled for - [A thought about evolving social environments](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/19/a-thought-about-evolving-social-environments/) - I've been a member of the seminal online community, the WELL, for around two decades. I've been active on Facebook since it opened to non-students. Originally Facebook wasn't conversational. Other former WELL members and I discussed how Facebook Groups didn't seem to take off as conversational environments in quite the same way as the WELL's - [Keep it simple](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/18/keep-it-simple/) - Just learned via Twitter from someone who reads my blog that text instances of the Sociable social bookmarking links were piled up at the end of each of my posts as displayed in Google Reader. That's nust not very poetic. Does anybody ever actually click through one of those bookmarking icons or links? I'm not - [A couple of insights](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/18/a-couple-of-insights/) - The sort of things you just have to write down somewhere, like on your blog... Got these via K. Marcus Hartsfield on Facebook... "Directly it is said that not a single thing exists, and yet we see in the entire universe nothing has ever been hidden." (Dharma Hall Discourse #53 from the Eihei Koroku (Dogen's - [Times are changing: foraging, simplicity, Shirky-smart, etc.](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/10/times-are-changing-foraging-simplicity-shirky-smart-etc/) - Two of the best ideas I heard this week were curated or catalyzed by Clay Shirky. One is the mathematical concept of the Lévy flight, which I already wrote about in my last post. The other is in a link e-Patient Dave sent me. I ran across it again in a discussion of models for - [Foraging and surfing](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/08/foraging-and-surfing/) - I've often said that we don't know enough about how peope behave online - e.g. how they read blogs or other web sites. Do we visit the same sites over and over again? Or do we surf, following links we stumble across as we wander, and now with pervasive social media, those that are posted - [Monster Scroll](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/08/monster-scroll/) - At Pink Tentacle, view all the weirdly fascinating images on the Kaikidan Ekotoba monster scroll, "a mysterious handscroll that profiles 33 legendary monsters and human oddities, mostly from the Kyushu region of Japan (with several from overseas)." Example below: a Russian hitodama, or fiery apparition composed of spirits of the recently departed. - [Snow Canon](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/08/snow-canon/) - A bit of expanded video... - [Happy Birthday to the WELL](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/07/happy-birthday-to-the-well/) - The seminal online community, Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, better known as the WELL, is celebrating its 25th birthday. Here's the birthday message I posted there:Happy Birthday, WELL.I can't imagine what my life would have been had I not found my way here. The WELL connected me as a writer, thinker, and doer, brought be to - [Social media obit](https://weblogsky.com/2010/04/06/social-media-obit/) - David Armano at Edelman has created a particularly clueful slide deck about social strategy - "social media is dead, long live common sense." Amen to that... Social Media Is Dead: Long Live Common Sense. View more presentations from David Armano. - [Reworking meetings?](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/31/reworking-meetings/) - I downloaded a sample of the new Jason Fried/David Heinemeier Hansson book, Rework, which will doubtless find its way onto my reading pile - seems like good pithy bits of advice we can all use. However I zeroed in on the "meetings are toxic" section, and tweeted something about how that view suggests someone who - [Social](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/31/social/) - Interesting post about social media by Dave Levy at Edelman Digital. Levy says I believe that the baseline of users sees “social media” and gets distracted by the social part. That conclusion translates into treating these types of publishing in interpersonal ways, thinking that what we create is a one-to-one or one-to-small-group manner. What is - [Following up on my email democracy rant](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/31/following-up-on-my-email-democracy-rant/) - Quick followup to my "standing in line for democracy" post: I had complained to Steven Clift of e-democracy.org about the message restrictions on the United States Issues Forum. He followed up with a couple of thoughtful emails. "The goal," he says, "is to produce a more thoughtful, civil exchange." He acknowledges that it's an experiment - [Put "social" before "media"](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/30/put-social-before-media/) - Todd Defren, guest-blogging on David Armano's blog, saysWhen every single person with an Internet connection is empowered to publish content that can be promoted, shared, and indexed forever, it changes the game from “merchandizing” to “people pleasing.” It was always supposed to be that way, of course, but the myriad layers that existed between the - [Standing in line for democracy](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/30/standing-in-line-for-democracy/) - This is odd - e-democracy.org's 125-member United States issues forum, is described as "a civil, more deliberative discussion of national public policy issues and politics in the United States among people with diverse political perspectives." I joined, and was having an interesting and potentially productive discussion with an intelligent, seemingly reasonable Tea Party conservative. However - [SXSW 2010 Notes: Universities in the Era of Free](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/27/sxsw-2010-notes-universities-in-the-era-of-free/) - Universities in the "Free" Era - SXSW 2010 Presentation View more presentations from Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies, Miami University. I think what's happening with universities today reflects what's happening in other fields - journalism, other forms of publishing including the music industry, energy, manufacturing, retail, the old doctom era, etc. Things are just - [Social semantics](https://weblogsky.com/2010/03/08/social-semantics/) - Much semantic confusion around the new world of ubiquitous omindirectional communication, especially in the business/marketing world where it's critical to understand how to capture attention and make effective, productive connections. I happened onto a post by Venessa Miemis that explores confusion about reputation (or whuffie) vs social capital. Parenthetical: Flashing back to a meeting David - [Information/culture wars](https://weblogsky.com/2010/02/13/informationculture-wars/) - In creating with a history of the "climate fight," Dr. Spencer Weart has created a history with interesting points about the democratization of knowledge. [Link] He talks about a decline in the prestige of all authorities, expansion of the scientific community with greater interdisciplinarity, and a decline of science journalism.These trends had been exacerbated since - [Realtors are thinking about social media](https://weblogsky.com/2010/02/12/realtors-are-thinking-about-social-media/) - I gave a social media talk to some realtors yesterday. They were attentive, energetic, and really seemed to get what I was telling them, which (briefly, but of course it's more complicated) was to focus on relationship-building narrative. As I told Jay Drayer on Facebook, best question I had was from a woman who worked - [Obligatory comment about Google Buzzzzz](https://weblogsky.com/2010/02/11/obligatory-comment-about-google-buzzzzz/) - I feel obligated to post about Google Buzz, as a social technology evangelist and follower of all things Google. It's another way to post drive-by messages in random activity streams, conveniently integrated with Gmail. If you don't use Gmail, and especially if you're already feeling deluged, this probably isn't for you. I don't think it's - [Rethink "marketing"](https://weblogsky.com/2010/02/07/rethink-marketing/) - Dave Peck's written a blog post where he says his clients are questioning whether they want to use Twitter as part of a social media mix. The arguments he quotes suggest that his clients have an experience similar to the experience we have when we go to a "networking event," and find that everybody in - [Algae Biofuels Summit](https://weblogsky.com/2009/02/07/algae-biofules-summit/) - Here's a conference for "communities in the algae biofuels value chain," including "power plant operators, industrial carbon generators, algae technology developers, algae equipment suppliers, algae project developers, biofuels refiners, financiers, carbon market players, oil companies, airlines, aircraft and engine manufacturers."...the goal of the Summit is to provide a forum where the algae community can discuss - [Personal Kanban 101](https://weblogsky.com/2010/02/01/personal-kanban-101/) - I heard Jim Benson talk about Personal Kanban on the Yi-Tan conference call, and thought it was a cool idea, but didn't really get into it - "I already have todo lists, etc., and I'm getting things done, do I need this?" But my load keeps increasing, it's harder to sort out, and the todo - [Definition of social media](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/29/definition-of-social-media/) - Working hard today on a February social media workshop, I realized I didn't see a social media definition that I particularly liked, so I wrote my own: Social Media is a fundamental transformation in the way(s) people find and use information and content, from hard news to light entertainment. It's an evolution from broadcast delivery - [Samadhi, intention, direction](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/27/samadhi-intention-direction/) - Notes I made a couple of weeks ago while listening to Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain:, talking about samadhi (concentration). This advice resonates well with my own practice, wanted to make note of it here for reference (mine and yours).Set an intention – which sets the mind to a particular direction. Relax, settle down. - [Linchpins and hierarchies](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/26/linchpins-and-hierarchies/) - Seth Godin has a new book, Linchpin, and it looks like another good one. I haven't read it, but I'm noting this quote, found in Amazon's product description:The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and - [Haiti: Person Finder](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/18/haiti-person-finder/) - The "Katrina People Finder" technology has been updated by Ka-Ping Yee at Google, and placed online. It's embedded at the State Department's web site. Not sure why they changed it to "Person Finder," but it's simple, easy to use, and has two components: a search, if you're looking for someone who's lost, and a way - [Social networks, social markets](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/04/social-networks-social-markets/) - Interesting data (for November 2009) from marketingcharts.com: In "social media" consulting, there's a tendency to want to standardize on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (not on this list), and possibly YouTube if you have an ability and/or desire to incorporate video as part of your presence. Why Twitter? Given its relatively low adoption, especially compared to Facebook, - [State of the World](https://weblogsky.com/2010/01/03/state-of-the-world/) - Time for the 11th annual Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky State of the World conversation on the WELL. This year we have a lot to talk about, the world's off-center and wobbly. We're off to a good start...Basically we've got an emergent, market-driven global financial system that was all about a faith-based market fundamentalism. It was deprived - [John Mackey](https://weblogsky.com/2009/12/30/john-mackey/) - The New Yorker has a good article about John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market. I worked for WFM around the turn of the century, hired as "Internet Guy" (one of my titles, along with Online Community Director and, at the end, Director of Technology for WholePeople.com). It was an important transition for me - - [Penguins, climate change, politics - short post (really)](https://weblogsky.com/2009/12/26/penguins-climate-change-politics-short-post-really/) - Fen Montaigne has written a piece about penguins and climate change for the New Yorker. The magazine's web site features a disturbing slide show about how the penguins are threatened by habitat change due to warming sufficient to melt arctic ice. Montaigne suggests habitat change will likely be global, affecting humans as well as penguins.I've - [Conversation Prism](https://weblogsky.com/2009/12/26/conversation-prism/) - This isn't anything new, but I've been appreciating Brian Solis' Conversation Prism, and wanted to make sure I'd noted it here. "Making connections at the human level with the intent to listen before action is the only true and rewarding source of mutually beneficial engagement." - [Roadrunner](https://weblogsky.com/2009/12/22/roadrunner/) - This is what you want to find under your Christmas tree - the hypercool Roadrunner trike, "designed to ride on the tarmac [and] that can carry up to 25kg of load." It's pedal-powered with a secondary electric motor rear wheel. [Link] - [The antithesis of holiday cheer: "Collapse"](https://weblogsky.com/2009/12/20/the-antithesis-of-holiday-cheer-collapse/) - "It's not that Bernie Madoff was a pyramid scheme... the whole economy is a pyramid scheme!" - [Another shaggy apocalypse story](https://weblogsky.com/2009/12/21/another-shaggy-apocalypse-story/) - I should say more about the "Collapse" preview I just posted - don't want to mislead. For every pile of ashes there's a great squawking phoenix, after all. In fact I can't say that we're not screwed - god knows what unforeseen dangers are lurking in our little corner of the universe. The sun could - [The Technium](https://weblogsky.com/2009/12/02/the-technium/) - Kevin Kelly on The Technium. "We cannot live without technology." - [Water and waste](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/23/water-and-waste/) - If you're tired of worrying about climate change or the economy, you can start worrying about water pollution: an article in the New York Times says raw sewage is leaking into waterways. I know that I take water for granted, and I suspect you do, too. There's always been plenty, and it's been so cheap - [Thanksgiving dinner's travels](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/20/thanksgiving-dinners-travels/) - Ben Paynter at Fast Company has a post on the hidden costs of Thanksgiving - many of you travel, and so do your groceries.Studies show that most groceries travel about 1,500 miles from the farm to store shelves. The same distance covered by your average car (one that gets about 30 miles per gallon) pumps - [1992 Bruce Sterling Interview](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/19/1992-bruce-sterling-interview/) - I ran across a few old files today. Here's an intrerview I did with Bruce Sterling in 1992. (Originally appeared in bOING-bOING #9) Bruce Sterling's unparalleled reputation as a writer of bleeding edge science fiction and as a spokesman for the cyberpunk literary flare is well known, but recently he's been wearing a new hat, - [Another case where size doesn't matter](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/18/another-case-where-size-doesnt-matter/) - I've often wondered whether insects are more intelligent than we think. A Science Daily article suggests that "tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead." The article goes on to say that brain size is not predictive of intelligent behavior, that "bigger animals - [Austin Non Profit Camp](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/09/austin-non-profit-camp/) - Here's the elevator speech: Austin Non Profit Camp is a free, facilitated and participant driven conference that will be the place in Austin for non profits (and social entrepreneurs) to learn and troubleshoot their technology problems in a supportive, collaborative setting. Here's where you sign up: http://npocamp.eventbrite.com/ You'll want to attend if you're a technology - [Mac Tonnies](https://weblogsky.com/2009/11/08/mac-tonnies-2/) - Mac Tonnies would definitely have been part of FringeWare. Check out his bio (though I would disagree with the second sentence).Consciousness is a potential technology; we are exquisite machines, nothing less than sentient patterns. As such, there's no convincing technical reason we can't eventually upload ourselves into matrices of our design and choosing. It's likely - [Coal and ozone nonattainment in Austin](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/28/coal-and-ozone-nonattainment-in-austin/) - Ozone nonattainment's impact: Chris Searles has an enightening post at Burnt Orange Report about the "Quit Coal by 2014" scenario for Austin. He quotes Travis County Commissioner Karen Hubner, who "recently mapped out ozone nonattainment's economic impacts to Austinites, saying: 'The implications are huge and will cost taxpayers a lot of money. [Link]"First, going into - [Stars](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/25/stars/) - A bit of free form writing from a Saturday workshop... Stars, achingly beautiful stars over Arizona as we clean the plugs so the car will fire synchronously down the road. We're on the road from Scottsdale to Flagstaff, having spent the day watching stars projected Cinerama dream of the ultimate, Kubrick's 200, inspiration for curious - [Politics and Climate Change](https://weblogsky.com/2009/07/20/politics-and-climate-change/) - I like to think climate change is settled - we have scientific consensus, we know it's happening, we generally understand the human actions that have accelerated climate change since the dawn of the industrial era. Many of us are feeling energy about reducing our carbon footprint and our overall planetary impact and concern that it's - [Synthetic biology](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/22/synthetic-biology/) - Synthetic biology is riff on nano/bio tech - according to Rudy Rucker, "it’s about building slippery wetware entities that might live in the real world." Rucker has a rich post about the field, and its promises ("we ought to be able to design some kind of microorganism that eats inexpensive crud and generates energy in - [Do Re Mi](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/13/do-re-mi/) - Let's dance.... - [Moving the furniture](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/06/moving-the-furniture/) - Augmented reality room design! (Thanks to Bruce Sterling for the pointer). - [Heads](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/06/heads/) - In a conversation with a longtime friend, I just sent an email message that was fairly clear on some points I've been thinking about, so I'm reposting part of it here, ending with an unusual reference. I'm currently into Buddhist practice and a related qigongish practice, and while many people who aren't into those things - [And now for something completely Python](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/04/and-now-for-something-completely-python/) - The Monty Python crew was as wild and chaotic as the show would make it seem; it's a miracle that the show ever pulled together and existed for any length of time. The (five of six) surviving members will have a reunion on October 15 at the Ziegfield Theatre in New York. [Link] There was, - [A.I.G.: great story, wish it was fiction](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/04/aig-great-story-wish-it-was-fiction/) - Michael Lewis does a great job telling the story of A.I.G. and how it failed, bringing down the global economy. It's fascinating, especially how much the tumble evidently depended on the failings of one guy, Joe Cassano.The people still left inside A.I.G. F.P. like to list just how many things had to go wrong for - [Ginsberg: "everybody's got a bodhisattva tendency"](https://weblogsky.com/2009/10/01/ginsberg-everybodys-got-a-bodhisattva-tendency/) - Around 1969 I sent a short poem and a letter to Allen Ginsberg but saw my letter as neurotic "peter pan yak," as he called it, or adolescent rambling. At the bottom of the card he sent me, he suggested that I should take up dyhana meditation, which I did, and for the last 40 - [Data glitches: how to get right with your customer](https://weblogsky.com/2009/09/26/how-to-get-right-with-your-customer/) - My friend and colleague e-Patient Dave deBronkart explains how misinformation from a customer service agent for Verizon led to a massive international data charge on his mobile phone bill. Verizon was stellar in their handling of the problem. Key point: they didn't try to make him wrong or make it his problem. I won't try - [Safety first](https://weblogsky.com/2009/09/15/safety-first/) - (Wrote most of this on the road earlier this week...) Had an unintentional overnight stay in Providence RI September 11, following a talk with some friends about the future of the Internet, and because the Internet has become essential infrastructure for the ecology of business, the future of enterprise and economy as well. I woke - [More on Multitasking](https://weblogsky.com/2009/09/12/more-on-multitasking/) - Gary Chapman Facebook'd me a link to a New York Times article on the multitasking study I wrote about. Ruth Pennebaker writesTo the rest of the world, though, the people who trudge through life excited and unnerved by an occasional cellphone call while walking or watching the sun set (isn’t that multitasking?), the study’s findings - [Change your partners, Skype to my Lou](https://weblogsky.com/2009/09/07/change-your-partners-skype-to-my-lou/) - Silver Lake Partners bought a majority interest in the VOIP technology company Skype from Ebay. Phil Wolff shows how ownership is divided (via Om Malik), and in a separate post discusses the implications of the sale. More about Silver Lake Partners at Wikipedia. - [Stop multitasking](https://weblogsky.com/2009/09/06/stop-multitasking/) - Stanford has released results of a study suggesting that "the minds of multitaskers are not working as well as they could." This isn't news to me... I've been conducting my own self-study and repair for many months now.For years, as I evolved as a supposed multitasker extraordinaire, facilitated by Internet technology, I was persistently balancing - [Talking about the old daze](https://weblogsky.com/2009/09/05/talking-about-the-old-daze/) - Joe Matheny invited me to have a conversation with him on his Internet radio show at Alterati, The GSpot. We talked a lot about web and cyberculture history. If you're interested in the genesis of the social web and Internet culture, it's worth a listen. [Link] - [Doug Rushkoff on Life, Inc.](https://weblogsky.com/2009/08/17/doug-rushkoff-on-life-inc/) - For the last week and a half, I've been leading a discussion with Doug Rushkoff about his new book, Life, Inc. You can find us on the WELL. Doug's analysis of the coevolution of the corporation and contemporary cultures and economies is important to consider; it points to the need for a new sustainability economy.Of - [Space cruise](https://weblogsky.com/2009/08/12/space-cruise/) - NASA's taken a tiny section of space telescope Hubble's view of the universe, a section where TEN THOUSAND galaxies are visible, and created a 3D space cruise. More information here. Otherwise, wow... take the cruise... - [Barker's aliens](https://weblogsky.com/2009/07/21/barkers-aliens/) - Schwa instigator Bill Barker has turned up, having responded to Mark Frauenfelder's "where are you, Bill?" post at bOING bOING. Gareth Branwyn spoke with him - Bill's doing well, and planning a new project. What was Schwa? From the Wikipedia article:Schwa is the underground conceptual artwork of Bill Barker (born 1957). Barker draws deceptively simple - [Free as in beer](https://weblogsky.com/2009/07/07/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 Price.There are four strands of argument here: a technological claim (digital infrastructure is effectively Free), a psychological claim (consumers love Free), a procedural claim (Free means never having to make a judgment), and a commercial - [Open Architecture Products](https://weblogsky.com/2009/06/21/open-architecture-products/) - Andrew Lippman on "open architecture products," and viewing customers as partners who will contribute to the evolution and design of the products they buy and use.The stability that we associated with products is gone. And so if you try to base your business on a product that you think will last a long time, then - [Kevin Kelly on Participatory Medicine](https://weblogsky.com/2009/06/11/kk-on-the-journal-of-participatory-medicine/) - I'm part of the Society for Participatory Medicine, and we'll soon be publishing the Journal of Participatory Medicine. (We already have a very active blog at e-patients.net.) Kevin Kelly posted a nice summary of our intentions at The Quantified Self:The newest channel in this effort is the launch of a peer-reviewed science journal dedicated to - [Crowdsourcery in Austin](https://weblogsky.com/2009/06/11/remembering-bazooka-2/) - Several local web thinkers met recently with the IT staff from the City of Austin to discuss a best approach for redeveloping the city's web site. The Austin Chronicle has a good article about the project focusing especially on my pal whurley and his efforts to help crowdsource a more innovative approach. To kick-start the - [Technoutopia socialism](https://weblogsky.com/2009/06/08/technoutopia-socialism/) - Kevin Kelly talks about "social media" and social-ism, saying "the frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of [the s-word]." This is a new brand of socialism that "operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now." Instead of gathering - [Remembering Bazooka](https://weblogsky.com/2009/06/11/remembering-bazooka/) - My good friend and cyberarts ally Bob Anderson, aka Bazooka, died May 31. I just learned of his death today via the Austin Chronicle. Found another obit in the Austin American-Statesman. I interviewed Bazooka for an article on Howard Rheingold's Electric Minds site in 1997. Here's the interview: JL: Why art? BA: I figured out - [Serious reading, hard ideas, saving the book](https://weblogsky.com/2009/06/10/serious-reading-hard-ideas-saving-the-book/) - An argument in favor of preserving the book as a vehicle for knowledge transfer and a platform for hard ideas and serious reading. (This is useful to consider, but I wonder if the book is anywhere near obsolete?)... university presses specialize in publishing books containing hard ideas. Hard ideas — whether cliometrics, hermeneutics, deconstruction, or - [White Light](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/29/white-light/) - On the WELL, Richie Unterberger is talking about his new book about the Velvet Underground, called White Light/White Heat after the VU album. An interesting note from the interview: Richie says he thinks the song "White Light/White Heat" was inspired by Alice Bailey's occult book, A Treatise on White Magic. From the interview:It advises control - [Mitch Kapor leads OneWebDay](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/27/mitch-kapor-leads-onewebday/) - EFF founder Mitch Kapor is the new board chair for OneWebDay, the global event founded in 2006 by Susan Crawford. As an Austin organizer for OneWebDay, and having worked in the past with Mitch via EFF-Austin, I'm psyched to hear this news, and the news that OneWebDay's been awarded a Ford Foundation Grant. Susan, who - [Happiness with sauce](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/26/happiness-with-sauce/) - I went with Dave Evans to Woolridge Park in downtown Austin today, where Mobile Loaves and Fishes and Stubbs Bar-B-Q joined forces to feed fine Texas BBQ to 200 people. Alan Graham of MLF introduced me to Andrew Shapter, director of the documentary "Happiness Is" (trailer below). I can safely say happiness was Stubb's BBQ - [Open Government on the Internet](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/17/open-government-on-the-internet/) - Friday's "Open Government on the Internet" conference at the LBJ Library opened with Bill Bradley, who discussed his (and President Obama's) profound interest inmaking government more accessible. The conference explored various aspects of government openness and transparency, but at the core of the conversation is an intention - affirmed by Federal CIO Vivek Kundra - - [Our pretense of control](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/15/our-pretense-of-control/) - Sanjay Khanna reporting on The New Yorker's "Next 100 Days" policy summit: [Link]...it seems our human nature leads us to insist on turning towards increasingly discrete, expert-dependent disciplines to save us from ourselves. Which is why this could be a good time, as [Malcolm] Gladwell smartly hinted, to question our pretense of control. After all, - [Panic in the Tweets](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/14/panic-in-the-tweets/) - A Guatemalan Twitter user has been arrested for "inciting a panic" with his tweets. Great reporting from Xeni at boingboing: "Twitter user "Jeanfer" was arrested for suggesting in a tweet that people who had money deposited in Banrural should remove those funds, and by doing so, break the control that corrupt entities have over the - [Live Art Blogging at SXSW 2009](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/13/live-art-blogging-at-sxsw-2009/) - Fabulous artist Honoria's watercolors from SXSW Interactive, the world's most elegant and colorful live-blogging: SXSW Interactive 2009 Life Art Blogging by Honoria Starbuck View more presentations from Honoria Starbuck. - [Mega-Regions, nouveau rail, and connection](https://weblogsky.com/2009/05/07/mega-regions-nouveau-rail-and-connection/) - Richard Florida on Mega-Regions and High Speed Rail: "...fordism has come smack up against its limits. It's cheaper to produce many industrial goods off-shore, and the geography of post-war suburbia has been stretched to its breaking point. It may well be impossible for sustained recovery to come from breathing life back into the banks, auto - [More on personal health records](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/13/more-on-personal-health-records/) - My friend and colleague Dave deBronkart, aka "e-patient Dave," was interviewed by the Boston Globe about his experience setting up personal health records at Google Health, which I blogged about last week. The gist is that Dave is an early adopter using a very new kind of system. Most hospitals don't even have sophisticated digital - [Notes on Emergent Democracy and Leadership](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/30/notes-on-emergent-democracy-and-leadership/) - I made these notes a few days ago while researching our Monday Emergent Leadership presentation. Thought it worth posting here for reference: Joi Ito conducted a "happening" to discuss the concept of "emergent democracy" in 2004. This was a conference call plus chat room (for visual feedback) plus wiki (for gathering notes) plus QuickTopic (for - [Heckle and Jeckle](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/11/heckle-and-jeckle/) - Magpie is troubling: "Allow us to embed our customers' messages (aka spam?) in your Twitter timeline and earn money. Crass and inauthentic. Hoping anyone who signed up to have their Twitter feed hijacked by advertisers/spammers is thinking twice - Magpie will only work with adoption. I learned about this "service" from a post at ReadWriteWeb: - [National Broadband Plan (hooray)](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/08/national-broadband-plan-hooray/) - Finally, historically, the FCC is working on a national broadband plan. "Why: President Obama considers broadband to be basic infrastructure, like electricity and water, and wants the FCC to do what it can to help drive adoption rates across the USA." This is what the Freedom to Connect crowd (including yours truly) and the community - [Fixing the car while it's moving](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/07/fixing-the-car-while-its-moving/) - James Suroweicki talks about the Obama Administration's tough balancing act when it comes to bank regulation. It has to fix the current crisis on the one hand, and it also want's to prevent another, similar crisis later (acknowledging this is the third in three decades). Do critics get the full complexity of the problem? - [Humans and tools](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/06/humans-and-tools/) - From Kevin Kelly: an overview of human history and some thoughts about the relevance of language as the original social media.Language accelerates learning and creation by permitting communication and coordination. A new idea can be spread quickly by having someone explain it and communicate it to others before they have to discover it themselves. But - [Britannica's overhaul](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/06/britannicas-overhaul/) - Encyclopedia Britannica's having an overhaul, and crowdsourcing part of it with contributions from paid subscribers. But Britannica's President insists they're not following the Wikipedia model. [Link]''I don't believe it's accurate to say that Britannica and Wikipedia are becoming more similar," he said. While Wikipedia is written and edited by amateurs who often work anonymously, Britannica - [Into the image of sunset](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/06/into-the-image-of-sunset/) - Here's a slide show from The Museum of Mondern Art's exhibit, "Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West." Read about it here. It divides up into landscapes and images of people, with subdivisions devoted to different types of images. One group of landscapes focuses on awesome natural beauty while another documents the havoc - [Confessions of an Ozzy clone](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/06/confessions-of-an-ozzy-clone/) - My dangerously whacky friend Don Wrege was often mistaken for Ozzy Osbourne, and he found that resemblance marketable when Ozzy's celebrity was boosted by MTV's reality series, "The Osbournes." Don's written a book about his Ozzy-clone experiences, called My Year as Ozzy, published by Mediawhore Press (natch) and available via Amazon. He gets five stars, - [Amsterdam Meets Chicago](https://weblogsky.com/2009/04/03/amsterdam-meets-chicago/) - The Ab Baahrs trio will be in Austin next Friday. [Link] (Thanks to Pedro Moreno for the pointer!) A highly distinctive voice from the fertile Dutch jazz scene, Ab Baars brings an idiosyncratic creativity into combination with skill and knowledge of his music’s roots. Though his music has been described as “joyfully obstinate”, it has - [Purpose of America](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/21/purpose-of-america/) - Roy Spence and Haley Rushing say, at Huffington Post, It's Time to Renew the Purpose of America. This resonates well with me - I've been doing a lot of work defining and organizing around purposeful thinking and setting goals lately. The clarity in that kind of work is powerful. America's clear purpose was already articulated, - [BarCamp Austin 2009](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/15/barcamp-austin-2009/) - From its first year, I was committed in principle to BarCamp Austin but couldn't quite seem to get away from SXSW Interactive long enough to make the scene. This year I made 100% commitment to go. Steve Golab of FG Squared wanted me to join him in a talk about Austin's potential as a hub - [Find me (and my crazy hair!) at SXSWi](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/12/find-me-and-my-crazy-hair-at-sxswi/) - If you wonder what I'll be doing at SXSW Interactive... - [A law of evolving patterns in living systems](https://weblogsky.com/2009/03/10/a-law-of-evolving-patterns-in-living-systems/) - Constructal law can predict patterns in living sysems. [Link]“Our finding that animal locomotion adheres to constructal law tells us that – even though you couldn’t predict exactly what animals would look like if you started evolution over on earth, or it happened on another planet – with a given gravity and density of their tissues, - [Darwin and Buddhism](https://weblogsky.com/2009/02/16/darwin-and-buddhism/) - Psychologist Paul Ekman believes that Charles Darwin may have been inspired by Tibetan Buddhism. Says Ekman, The Buddhist view, like Darwin, said that the seed of compassion is in mothering, global compassion: focus on others as mother. When I see you suffer it makes me suffer, and that motivates me to reduce your suffering so - [Big Mind and Evolution](https://weblogsky.com/2009/02/07/big-mind-and-evolution/) - Foremost integral thinker Ken Wilber discusses the Bodhisattva vow (to liberate all sentient beings) and it's relationship to Big Mind, or revelation of true self. What evolutionary awareness does is reveal a second dimension of the Enlightenment process that must now be a part of how a bodhisattva functions in the world, because although pure - [Participatory Medicine](https://weblogsky.com/2009/02/06/participatory-medicine/) - In a retreat today and tomorrow with founders of a participatory medicine movement at Cook's Branch near Houston. In participatory medicine, the patient comes first, and is part of a team that also includes patient groups and communities, healthcare providers, and clinical researchers (paraphrasing the Wikipedia article, which has much more on the subject):Participatory medicine - ["All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper..."](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/19/all-we-say-to-america-is-be-true-to-what-you-said-on-paper/) - "I have been to the mountaintop. I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life, longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will, and he's allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I've looked over, and I have seen - [Free Paper](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/17/free-paper/) - We dropped by Flatbed Press last night for Annette Lawrence's "Free Paper" exhibition, hosted by Austin Green Art. It was an activist exhibit - Randy Jewart was strongly encouraging, if not requiring, people to sign the ForestEthics Do Not Mail petition. They want to create something similar to the "Do Not Call" registry, which lets - [Ana Sisnett](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/16/ana-sisnett/) - I met Ana Sisnett just after she arrived in Austin in 1983. She was very smart and very kind, and we immediately became friends. We crossed paths over the years, and in the 2000s when she became executive director of Austin Free-net, I joined the Board of Directors and, for a time, I was President - [Cory Doctorow's best practices](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/10/cory-doctorows-best-practices/) - Cory Doctorow once told me he had a pile of book contracts and writing projects in queue, and I asked him how he managed to produce so much (and blog at boingboing, too) - at the time he was also employed as online activist for th Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was just disciplined - an - [Whole Earth redux](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/10/whole-earth-redux/) - I'm psyched to see that some, if not all, of the Whole Earth Catalog's archives have been published. Whole Earth inspired me throughout my adult life, and led me online via The WELL - I bought my first computer and modem because I found out Stewart Brand and the whole earthers were online. I wanted - [Truth to Power](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/07/truth-to-power/) - Rebecca MacKinnon tweeted a pointer to Ai Weiwei's Truth to Power, a Chinese blog. This links to an interview posted in Chinese and English.Simon Kirby: Your criticisms of the Olympic Games are not reported in the official media, but your blog remains online. What is the purpose of your blog? Ai Weiwei: I do my - [A pretty unlikely early adopter](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/07/a-pretty-unlikely-early-adopter/) - Clay Shirky just got some interesting ink (to use a trad media term) in the Guardian UK, which compares him visually to Michael Stipe of REM and quotes him re old media: "2009 is going to be a bloodbath," albeit one that "may produce greater industry clarity." [Read it here.]The steady loss of advertising revenue, - [National Geographic: Best News Photos 2008](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/04/national-geographic-best-news-photos-2008/) - Though I've avoided year-end best-of lists – there's just too many channels, and I'm trying to move on from 2008 – I did appreciate National Geographic's Editor's Picks for 2008. NGeo also has a most viewed list, and top ten space photos. Here's a Martian landslide: - [Grouply isn't cool](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/) - [Someone complained that a link to this post was "dead." I had unpublished it because, after some conversation with the folks at Grouply, I decided I was a bit harsh. I left the system and I wouldn't recommend it, but they do seem be resolving some of the issues, and I have to take responsibility - [Bruce Sterling State of the World 2009](https://weblogsky.com/2009/01/02/bruce-sterling-state-of-the-world-2009/) - The annual State of the World conversation with Bruce Sterling, led by yours truly, is under way. You have to be a member of the WELL to post directly, but nonmembers can send comments and questions to inkwell /at/ well.com. Link - [Ed Ward leaves Berlin](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/31/ed-ward-leaves-berlin/) - My pal and rock journalist extraordinaire, Ed Ward, is leaving Berlin and putting his Berlinbites blog to rest. He's setting up in Montpellier, France, and will have a new blog soon. Ed's been planning this move for several years. Why is he moving?Ultimately, the city and I just didn't get along. I became unhappy with - [Big Dog](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/30/big-dog/) - A strange, remarkably agile robot from Boston Dynamics (discovered via Toe Stubber). - [Art and social media](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/29/art-and-social-media/) - I really like Amrita Chandra's guest post at Chris Brogan's blog – "What Artists Can Teach Everyone About Social Media." The art world has always been social and has always had the "consumer is producer" aspect, acknowledged or not. Here's the best advice:Live an interesting life. What I love most about art is how it - [Wild Will](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/29/wild-will/) - Will Elder more or less invented Mad Magazine and modern graphical satire. His art had a "breathtaking immaturity." [Link]Elder was a master of an art beloved by kids and despised by their parents for its almost-criminal juvenility. Along with his childhood lunchroom buddy Harvey Kurtzman, the founding editor of Mad, Elder was a primary creator - [Mac Tonnies](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/29/mac-tonnies/) - An interview with Mac Tonnies, who has the Posthuman Blues, is a good overview of transhumanist thinking.I would argue that we're all "inferior" in the sense that we're ill-adapted to essentially any lifestyle other than the one in which we happened to evolve. (Ask an astronaut.) I don't think any transhumanist thinkers want to create - [Jay Rosen: Getting a clue about bloggers and ethics](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/22/jay-rosen-getting-a-clue-about-bloggers-and-ethics/) - Jay Rosen understands better than anybody the distinctions between traditional media and social media, and he's written a great post about it, called "If Bloggers Had No Ethics Blogging Would Have Failed, But it Didn't. So Let's Get a Clue." He writes about trust, quoting Dave Winer, who says "a blog is not defined by - [So long to Efjay the Ackermonster](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/11/so-long-to-efjay-the-ackermonster/) - Forrest J. Ackerman was the world's foremost science fiction fan, as well as former editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland - I was a subscriber and avid reader from the first issue in 1958, and learned quite a bit about behind the scenes fantasy filmmaking. Forry inspired me to read and write science fiction and - [Shopocalypse now: be mindful](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/07/shopocalypse-now-be-mindful/) - Gary Gach considers how Buddha would approach consumer Christmas: "We should be trying to base contentment on being, rather than having. Then the question of buying that fourth shirt or that new gizmo on display might be dwarfed by the prospect of creating more space in one’s life by donating your extra stuff. When tempted - [What are we missing?](https://weblogsky.com/2008/12/07/what-are-we-missing/) - Social media people still haven't shaken broadcast thinking. So many still think there's a relationship between attention and credibility. If I write a bestseller, I'll be smarter than I was before I wrote the book, and a guy who writes a very smart book that doesn't quite take off can't be as smart as I - [The alarms were working, but nobody was hearing](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/29/the-alarms-were-working-but-nobody-was-hearing/) - I was surprised that anyone else was surprised at the economic meltdown, because I thought I'd been hearing for many, many months that the fan was spinning hard and the shit was in the air, hurtling fanward. It seemed that that the alarms were firing full blast, but everybody was listening to very loud, very - [More on Mumbai/Twitter](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/28/more-on-mumbaitwitter/) - I posted earlier about Mumbai/social media. Svetlana Gladkova says more about Twitter as a source of news and conversation about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Svetlana references an excellent piece by Mathew Ingram, who addresses the question whether Twitter can be trusted as a news source since "messages posted to Twitter aren’t verified in any - [Mumbai via social media](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/28/mumbai-via-social-media/) - Though I spent Thanksgiving on a plane of existence where the concept of "news" just didn't make sense, I did occasionally check in with my own slice of Twitter, and saw an interesting mashup of I'm-too-stuffed-to-live posts and ongoing Mumbai coverage and commentary. The same loose coalition that supported online repsonses to the Southeast Asian - [NYT 2009](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/27/nyt-2009/) - July 4th, 2009 edition of The New York Times. It's good to have goals. - [Famous Monster Mash](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/25/famous-monster-mash/) - Found this on Youtube, dedicated to Forrest J. Ackerman and Jim Warren, editor and publisher of the original Famous Monsters of Filmland, a magazine that set fire to my imagination when I was a mere tad. If you like monsters, you'll love this... - [Little Shoot](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/24/little-shoot/) - Adam Fisk's P2P system, Little Shoot, has gone public. I've been using the private beta version for a few months. Searches turn up lighting fast downloads of documents and media. Most of the files I've accessed have been Youtube videos, but you can also use Little Shoot to turn up images, audio, docs, and apps. - [Thoughts about perception and communication](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/20/thoughts-about-perception-and-communication/) - Carnegie Mellon scientists are studying how the brain makes sense of natural scenes using a computational model of visual processing. "The model employs an algorithm that analyzes the myriad patterns that compose natural scenes and statistically characterizes those patterns to determine which patterns are most likely associated with each other."The bark of a tree, for - [End of the Viridian era](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/19/end-of-the-viridian-era/) - Added Bruce Sterling's "Last Viridian Note" to the Viridian Design web site and to Worldchanging. It's kind of like simple living/voluntary simplicity, but that's not what he's thinking:Do not "economize." Please. That is not the point. The economy is clearly insane. Even its champions are terrified by it now. It's melting the North Pole. So - [Gary Chapman at Texas Community Media Unworkshop: Obama's Open Government Initiatives](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/11/gary-chapman-at-texas-community-media-unworkshop-obamas-open-government-initiatives/) - At the Texas Community Media Unworkshop last Saturday, I posted several notes to Twitter from a talk by Gary Chapman of the 21st Century Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. By popular demand, here's those notes, with some additional material... Kevin Martin from FCC was at UT [last] week. He said Democratic members - [SocialMinder Alpha: threat, or menace?](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/08/socialminder-alpha-threat-or-menace/) - I received an email from a trusted friend offering a free invitation to the “closed” alpha test of a application called SocialMinder that's supposed to map emails to my Linkedin network and provide some analysis and intelligence. I signed up,then let my friend know I'd done so. He immediately responded that SocialMinder had spammed his - [Obama on Technology and Innovation](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/05/obama-on-technology-and-innovation/) - [Attention, multitasking, and persistent panic](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/03/attention-multitasking-and-persistent-panic/) - I used to tell people that "I'm a multitasking fool," and in recent years, I've seen greater emphasis on "fool" – yes, I was good at balancing many tasks, I could keep a lot of balls in the air without dropping them. As I matured, I realized that depth has more value than breadth, and - [Hope Art](https://weblogsky.com/2008/11/02/hope-art/) - Found a page filled with parodies of the Shepard Fairey "Hope" Obama poster.The strong, simple poster hit the nerve of many graphic designers. Fairey, who had been accused of copying style and content of communist propaganda posters, found himself suddenly imitated with numerous versions of his original design. Tutorials and plugins began to appear - [The loophole in the second law of thermodynamics](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/29/the-loophole-in-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/) - A Scientific American article asks, regarding the second law of thermodynamics: "if the world is steadily becoming more disordered, how do you explain the self-organization that often occurs in nature?" [Link]At root, the trouble is that classical thermodynamics assumes systems are in equilibrium, a placid condition seldom truly achieved in the real world.A new approach - [Brain imaging](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/27/brain-imaging/) - Does the brain look like a koosh ball? Indeed so, when seen via diffusion spectrum imaging, which "analyzes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data in new ways, letting scientists map the nerve fibers that carry information between cells."Neural fibers in the brain are too tiny to image directly, so scientists map them by measuring the diffusion - [Intellectual honesty](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/26/intellectual-honesty/) - Handy guide to "the 10 signs of intellectual honesty" by Mike Gene, author of The Design Matrix: A Consilience of Clues. Here's one to think about next time you tune into Rush Limbaugh:8. When addressing an argument, do not misrepresent it. A common tactic of the intellectually dishonest is to portray their opponent’s argument in - [White spaces](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/26/white-spaces/) - David Isenberg blogs about white space, a telecom term for unused frequencies in the radio waves portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, here specifically referring to using available digital television spectrum. Google and the New America Foundation had a meeting on white spaces or pervasive connectivity, "open airwaves, open networks." David says this "seems an over-reach - [H+ - a new transhumanist webzine](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/20/h-a-new-transhumanist-webzine/) - RU Sirius is editing a new Mondo 2000-ish transhumanist webzine calledH+. Download the pdf. From RU's intro: The glory of transhumanism is that it's not just a movement of immortalists, or singularitarians, or advocates of digital democratization, or experimenters in self-enhancing technologies. Transhumanism reminds us that all -- or at least many -- of these - [The Working Poor](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/15/the-working-poor/) - According to seattlepi.com, the working poor missed the benefits of the economic boom, but they definitely won't miss the effects of the bust. The article references a report by The Working Poor Families Project, called "Still Working Hard, Still Falling Short." [Link to pdf] From the seattlepi.com article:Nationally, 28 percent of families were deemed working - [Blog Action Day: Poverty](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-poverty/) - A little-known fact about me: just out of college and eager to save the world, I worked with poverty programs for quite a few years, in fact (long story) that's how I became a technology professional. The same idealism drove my later focus on the social web and online community. When I saw that this - [Zack Exley on "The New Organizers"](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/10/zack-exley-on-the-new-organizers/) - Zack Exley, who rejected a proposed plan a meeting to discuss a proposed plan for community-centric organizing offered to the Kerry campaign in 2004, writes at the Huffington Post about the Obama campaign's success in incorporating the "netroots."The "New Organizers" have succeeded in building what many netroots-oriented campaigners have been dreaming about for a decade. - [DemComm](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/10/demcomm/) - In my last post, I mentioned that I was one of a group of online community professionals who were attempting to help the Kerry campaign in 2004. Sanford Dickert, who brought us together, has posted his own account.The team began to work on the plan - and, through the hard work of the people on - [Thinking about poverty](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/07/thinking-about-poverty/) - At today's Social Media Club, Bob Carlton and Mike Chapman filled me in on Bob's plan for Blog Action Day. Bob wants to mobilize local bloggers to fill the 24-hour action day with posts that "capture the face of poverty in Austin today, focusing on the personal story behind the facts of living in poverty."A - ["Twelve Tribes" study: religion and politics](https://weblogsky.com/2008/10/02/twelve-tribes-study-religion-and-politics/) - A bit of political anthropology via Beliefnet's Steve Waldman and the University of Akron's John Green at beliefnet: an analysis of "Twelve Tribes" and their positions on presidential candidates. 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I posited in my own - [One Web Day Austin streaming](https://weblogsky.com/2008/09/22/one-web-day-austin-streaming/) - One Web Day Austin has been one great presentation and conversation after another. I just tracked down the ustream channel. Stream videos at Ustream - [Making it - our DIY future](https://weblogsky.com/2008/09/21/making-it-our-diy-future/) - I'm not exactly a maker - I don't spend a lot of time building or deconstructing devices or hacking what I've bought. I'm not a regular reader of Make Magazine, though it's edited by my friend and former bOING bOING colleague Mark Frauenfelder, and I've always appreciated his world view... Mark's a mashup of wide-eyed - [Not said in jest](https://weblogsky.com/2008/09/21/not-said-in-jest/) - That's a photo of David Foster Wallace shot by Steve Rhodes. I can't find the review of Infinite Jest that I wrote for Wired Magazine's web site Hotwired, and I haven't read Wallace (or much fiction, other than my unfinished but in-progress marathon read of Pynchon's Against the Day, but I'm affected by his suicide, - [The Whole Earth Catalog remembered](https://weblogsky.com/2008/09/21/the-whole-earth-catalog-remembered/) - Plenty Magazine has a remembrance of the Whole Earth Catalog with comments by several who were involved or influenced. Whole Earth certainly influenced my evolution, in fact determined my career path. The Plenty intro is inaccurate in that it mentions only on the Catalog's "four year run," but if Whole Earth had gone away after ## Pages - [@jonl](https://weblogsky.com/) - Jon Lebkowsky is cofounder and cohost of the Plutopia News Network. He is a prominent figure in the realms of digital culture, activism, and technology. - [New Orleans 2026](https://weblogsky.com/new-orleans-2026/) - [State of the World](https://weblogsky.com/state-of-the-world/) - (Above is a screenshot of "A Viridian Future" on the WELL.) Every year, Bruce Sterling and I have a two-week conversation about the state of the world, hosted by the seminal online community, The WELL. Bruce Sterling: A Viridian Future Bruce Sterling 2001: The State of the Future State of the World 2002 State of - [Opt-out preferences](https://weblogsky.com/opt-out-preferences/) - [Friends](https://weblogsky.com/friends/) - Hi Friend!Do you know any of my friends? Maybe you want to become friends with them as well? I have connected with my friends using WordPress and the Friends plugin. This means I can share private posts with just my friends while keeping my data under control. If you also have a WordPress site with - [/now](https://weblogsky.com/now/) - This is my /now page, a description of what I'm currently doing with myself. I'm in transition (which I'll explain below), and I expect additions and changes as my interests evolve. Transition: I'm in the process of retiring from my day job of the last 25 years or so, managing web development projects, most recently - [RSVP for August 3 Austin Future Salon](https://weblogsky.com/rsvp-for-august-3-austin-future-salon/) - [Contact](https://weblogsky.com/contact/) - Drop me a line; suggest ideas for blog posts — I work at Polycot Associates, an Internet consulting and web development co-operative. 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