Culture
- Bubkes.org: Waterside Commerce, Istanbul: Cotton Candy Vendor At Day’s End and Waterside Commerce, Istanbul: Flower Vendor with Coat to Match. (Which get my votes for a perfect posts.)
- Prose in prison. By Andrew Sullivan. Source: Letters from Incarcerated Writers, by Andrea Jones in The American Reader.
Perspectives
- Life on the Forked Road. By yours truly in Linux Journal. Subhead: We are analog and digital. One is old, the other new. Civilizing the latter will take some work. Also: When the customer gets the pricing gun, at ProjectVRM.
- Zipcar Founder: Entrepreneurs Have to Build a Collaborative Economy, or Else. By Katherine Clifford in Entrepreneur. It begins, Car-sharing entrepreneur Robin Chase, the woman behind both Zipcar and Buzzcar, is calling upon entrepreneurs to find ways for consumers, businesses and governments to share more. The stakes, she says, are high: our future on earth.
- EFF Files 22 Firsthand Accounts of How NSA Surveillance Chilled the Right to Association.
Fears & Fixes
- How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Stand? By Richard M. Stallman in Wired.
- The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO.gov) was down much of Thursday. For everybody, apparently.
- Power in the Age of the Feudal Internet. A bracing essay by Bruce Schneier.
- Apple: We don’t depend on collecting personal data. By Dave Neal in V3.co.uk.
Democracy
- NewGov.us. Might be your best leverage toward getting back the Republic we’ve Lost to the moneyed.
Developments
Media Matters
- A simple question for new FCC chair Tom Wheeler: which side are you on? Subhead: Tom Wheeler is the new head of the agency overseeing US ‘airwaves’. Will he be a reformer or another industry lackey? By Dan Gillmor in The Guardian.
- Liking The Jazz Groove. They have an app. They’re also in iTunes’ ever-deeper-buried directory of Internet Radio stations, under the Jazz heading.
- A tip: To get actual radio (the real kind) on iTunes 11.1.3 (the latest upgrade) you’ll have to go into preferences and put a checkmark next to Internet Radio (it’s defaulted off, to make it opt-in: a bit of passive-aggression by Apple), and then you’ll find it under Music, with the menu heading “Internet,” next to “Radio,” which is Apple’s new Pandora knockoff.
- RadioSearchEngine. New and cool. Try it out. It’s dad, Michael Robertson, explains it here.
- How Detroit Opened Our Eyes. By Eric Rhoads in Ink Tank.
- The rise of the reader: journalism in the age of the open web. Subhead: Katharine Viner, deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia, gave the AN Smith lecture in Melbourne on Wednesday night. Here’s her speech. In The Guardian.
- Remembering Kerbango. They were first, and failed to last, alas.
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