Saturday, March 03, 2007

SXSW

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So I'll be going to SXSW Interactive next week rather than CCCC/ATTW the week after. As much as I'll miss the CCCC/ATTW experience, ...

Institutional Review Boards in the Times

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Davida Charney pointed out this article on IRBs in the New York Times . The thesis: IRBs are prone to "mission creep" that progres...
Friday, March 02, 2007

"This is the modern-day equivalent of hippies freaking out the squares."

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Via BoingBoing, this analysis of the recent vandalism of John Edwards' SecondLife headquarters sounded exactly like hippies freaking o...

Irony

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I had not realized that Hillary Rodham was president of Wellesley College's Young Republicans in 1965. I'm also amused by the fact ...

Prioritizing email through virtual currency

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Thank World of Warcraft for this idea on how to prioritize email: Known as Attent, Seriosity's system is essentially a new currency--ca...

Mobile phones are mass media

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Via SmartMobs, an argument that mobile phones constitute a mass media shift. Communities Dominate Brands: Mobile the 7th Mass Media is to in...

Data storing in bacteria

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Slashdot points to a Computerworld article: "Computerworld has a story about a new technology developed by Keio University researchers...

Nagless email reminders

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Following up on my discussion the other day of how to remind people you've done your part: The art of the nagless email reminder - ...

Texas among global economy leaders

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... if "leader" means "near the bottom of the top third." Texas ranks 14th among U.S. states in terms of effectiveness...

Are you in SecondLife?

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If so, Peter Merholtz wants to talk to you. peterme.com :: Research and Design in Second Life technorati tags: secondlife , research Bl...

Carbon offsets as rhetorical practice

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Everyone's piling on Al Gore for this business of carbon offsets. Now the Economist describes -- and derides -- the practice of carbon o...

One-off whiteboards

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In the vein of Doodle , the whiteboard app Skrbl allows one-off writeboards that don't require a login. Think of it as a scrap of paper...

Starting meetings on time

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Scott Berkun has some solid principles for avoiding interminable, unfocused meetings. Berkun blog » Blog Archive » How to start meetings...

Ning review on Lifehacker

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Gina Trapani likes it: but I only got my hands dirty with Ning 2.0 today, and it's dang impressive. In under 2 minutes I had a dynamic,...

Desktop apps, web apps

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Lots of talk about desktop apps, web apps, and the thin line between them on the interface level. FranticIndustries has a longish post about...
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"You okay?" "No."

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Via BoingBoing, the Daily Mail has incredible first-person footage of a skydiver whose parachute failed to open . He survives. The camera ke...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The CIO is struggling for relevance in the university environment

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This post suggests that students are less reliant on university services; they are happy with a "dumb pipe" to Web 2.0 services. S...

GlobalIncidentsMap - analyzing suspicious incidents with mashups from publicly available information

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The other day I mentioned Lewis Shepherd's work with the Defense Intelligence Agency, which involves RSS feeds, wikis -- and mashups. Wi...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Reminding people of what you've done

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On her blog, Clancy asks: On another note, I just want to express how frustrating and irritating it is when I send stuff to people a couple...

Drupal gets nonprofit backing

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Good news for them and everyone who uses them . Slashdot | Drupal Gets Non-Profit Backing technorati tags: drupal Blogged with Flock