1 month ago
Linkorama : Great To See You. Just Not Around Here - If I’m frank, one of the enjoyable aspects of that small bar around the corner is that I’m not going to bump into you.
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2 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.com: "Revolutions and State Collapse" - I love this Listmania list, especially the first part of it with comments. Saw it ages ago but didn't save it at the time.
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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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4 month ago
Linkorama : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's speech at Web2expo
Andy Baio : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - transcript of Clay Shirky's excellent keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo; watch it instead [via]
philgyford : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - Clay on the answer to "where do they [gamers, Wikipedias, bloggers, etc.] find the time?" By watching less TV. Great stuff.
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7 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Is the Tipping Point Toast? - Is the Tipping Point Toast?: maybe influentials aren't after all?
WillPate : The tipping point theory gets more complicated
Linkorama : Is the Tipping Point Toast? - Yet, if you believe Watts, all that money and effort is being wasted. Because according to him, Influentials have no such effect. Indeed, they have no special role in trends at all.
philgyford : Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting - Much-linked-to article saying that Influentials aren't as influential as 'The Tipping Point' would have us believe."When you test the way marketers say the world works, it falls apart."
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11 month ago
deusx : CRACKED.com - What is the Monkeysphere? - "It's just the one single reason society doesn't work."
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adamrg : Graham Nash - "Chicago" - Was watching "The 60s" in class today, and this song really caught me.
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WillPate : What's a teenager? - "Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume, and most of their problems stem from restrictions placed on them."
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15 month ago
nelson : earnest vs. cool - A fantastic essay on the emptiness of hip
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16 month ago
WillPate : World population now more urban than rural - Today is a milestone
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16 month ago
Linkorama : The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth - The principal asset a young tech entrepreneur has is that they don’t know a lot of things.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Blogging gone bad, if not evil - Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations)
Simon Willison : Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations) - Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” (why I cancelled my ETech presentations). Truly sickening behaviour.
kellan : Kathy Sierra: Death threats against bloggers are NOT protected speech - Kathy Sierra: Death threats against bloggers are NOT protected speech. Deeply disturbing, and upsetting. (And some part of me is selfish enough to be sad that I won’t be seeing her this week, as she is a consistently wonderful speaker) #
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18 month ago
WillPate : Foundphotos - Photograhps found by searching P2P networks for common digital camera file names. An amazing peek into people's lives.
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19 month ago
Linkorama : What Would Jesus Wiki? - Conservapedia "is a gold mine of unintentional hilarity," wrote Mark Frauenfelder on Boing Boing last Monday.
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Linkorama : The movie magic is gone - If stars' lives are superseding movie narratives, audiences are superseding the stars. Who needs Brad Pitt if you can be your own hero on a video game, make your own video on YouTube or feature yourself on Facebook?
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19 month ago
WillPate : World flags as visualizations of country statistics
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23 month ago
jkottke : Remember, responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms - Remember, responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms.
plasticbag : Responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms - It's the right thing to do. Apparently.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Among the audience - “What an ignoramus!†says Jerry Michalski, with some exasperation.. “Look around and there's tons of great stuff from rank amateurs,†he says. “Diller is assuming that there's a finite amount of talent and that he can corner
Jeremy Zawodny : Among the audience - Among the audience: a "new media" survey story published in the Economist, in which several Yahoos are quoted
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30 month ago
Linkorama : super publics - danah is really talking about constituencies when you have easy group forming
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Acceleration of Tranquility - You must fit this revolution to the needs and limitations of man, with his delicacy, dignity, and mortality always in mind. Having accelerated tranquility, you must now find a way to slow it down.
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32 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : why not to buy diamonds
jimray : Ten reasons why you should never accept a diamond ring - I fucking hate DeBeers
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33 month ago
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - DAVID LYKKEN - Laws requiring parental licensure - "I believe that, during my grandchildren's lifetimes, the U.S. Supreme Court will find a way to approve laws requiring parental licensure."
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33 month ago
Linkorama : It's Good To Have Friends - Civil is being connected to civil society
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