1 month ago
philgyford : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - Neo-Amish Drop Outs - People who stopped using email etc.
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1 month ago
gleuschk : When Mom and Dad Share It All - Adventures in Equal Parenting - Lisa Belkin - NYTimes.com - takes a lot of communication
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2 month ago
gleuschk : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - he's talking to people like me (I hope -- he certainly isn't talking in a way that the plumber in his kitchen can understand him)
philgyford : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - Great measured rant about what Ivy League educated kids are missing out on. (via Kottke)
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3 month ago
deusx : Daily Kos: Tech illiterate - "How can a candidate who admits he is stuck in the 20th century lead a country in the 21st, when he lacks even the most basic understanding of how this brave new century operates? He doesn't know how people interact and communicate. He doesn't know h
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4 month ago
Linkorama : This timelapse video of man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours - The end of White's story is heartbreaking. On the plus side, the article also discusses a favorite social phenomenon of mine, how strangers space themselves in elevators.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : From Al Gore’s Chief Speechwriter: Simple Tips for a Damn Good Presentation
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5 month ago
nelson : Trader hand signals - Nice illustrated guide to floor trader hand signals
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6 month ago
Linkorama : E-mail inventor: I didn't foresee spam - "I suspect possibly we’ll see a morphing of e-mail and other, more instant methods," he says, "but there will always be a need for people to be able communicate asynchronously, that is, send messages that won’t be read or replied to imm
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9 month ago
adamrg : Low-tech Magazine: Email in the 18th century
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9 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids - Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: "More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life" interesting.. but not too surprising.
gleuschk : Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids - we should be so lucky
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Microsoft's D-Day for Cisco - On Tuesday Mr. Gates and his lieutenant Jeff Raikes will focus on marketing three software packages: Microsoft Communications Server 2007; a client software application dubbed Microsoft Office Communicator 2007; as well as a collaboration program, Microso
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11 month ago
Linkorama : E-Mail Is Easy to Write (and to Misread) - As Professor Shirky puts it, “social software” like e-mail “is not better than face-to-face contact; it’s only better than nothing.”
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13 month ago
deusx : What’s the Use in Twitter? Where is the Value? - "In the end, Twitter is just another tool. It’s value is in how you use it."
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15 month ago
Linkorama : Pownce - Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You'll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.
Greg Storey : Pownce is now open to everyone. - Not sure that anyone cares anymore.
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16 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Could Open Email Work for You? - Could Open Email Work for You?: "So much of working online involves deciding what's public and what's private." Indeed.
Linkorama : Could Open Email Work for You? - "JP has set up a stringent approach to filtering his email. He throws all email where he is CC'd directly into the trash. Basically, he only reads email directed to him, alone. Of course, for this to have any influence on people's behavior, he has to
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17 month ago
Linkorama : End-to-end principle and human society - PEOPLE ARE THE ENDS!
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18 month ago
deusx : Habitat Chronicles: The Untold History of Toontown's SpeedChat (or BlockChat<sup>tm</sup> from Disney finally arrives) - "I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny. "
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Linkorama : CommunicationProtocols - Wiki - easiest to incrementally collect state and state changes, in an open manner that others (the community) can help iterate. Organizational/capturing cognitive load is shifted more towards the writer than the reader, and thus is overall more community
factoryjoe : tantek / CommunicationProtocols - Tantek's rules of communication engagement. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: tantek, email, protocols
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18 month ago
philgyford : Disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy - Excellent stuff on following friends in Twitter, Flickr, etc. I must try and remember some of this for all those times I try and explain my online life to non-geek friends who look at me like I'm some weird stalking nerd. (via Yoz)
Rod Begbie : Ambient Intimacy - A good explanation of what's so lovely about Twitter, in a way I can explain to folks without sounding crazy. [via] #
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19 month ago
deusx : Strange Horizons Columns: The (Anti)Social “Casual†Gamer, or the Game Is Not the Thing, by E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman - "many people still prefer to feel that they're "doing" something when they're talking to other people, and perhaps most importantly, a friendly game of whatever provides an automatic topic of conversation"
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20 month ago
jkottke : Jargon watch (and T9onyms): "book" as a synonym for "cool" - Jargon watch: "book" as a synonym for "cool". Sample usage: "That YouTube video is so book." As books are decidedly uncool, you might wonder how this usage came about. Book is a T9onym of cool...both words require pressing 2665 on the keypad of a mobile p
Rod Begbie : bethemedia: Saussure, Predictive Text, Cycling Awake and the word 'Book' - On T9 misspellings of words becoming "slang". Zonino! [via] #
deusx : bethemedia: Saussure, Predictive Text, Cycling Awake and the word 'Book' - "With T9, things are now happening that are completely new to language - we are now beginning to associate some words with other words that have no logical ideological connection between them, and, one step further, we are now substituting words with
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20 month ago
joshua : A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
gleuschk : A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - nicely done
Richard Rutter : A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - Astonishing. ‘Argument slide’ anyone?.
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43folders : Poll: 'IM-ing' divides teens, adults - Yahoo! News - "About a fifth of teen IM users have used IM to ask for or accept a date. Almost that many, 16 percent, have used it to break up with someone."
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Linkorama : The Corporate Adoption of Social Media - “There’s no question – the early success of peer-driven, social-media programs will put pressure on businesses to both adapt and adopt. But, for some leaders, there’s another question: in a world where everyone participates, wha
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23 month ago
deusx : xkcd - Words that End in GRY - "I hope we've learned something today."
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