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  • After-Christmas Free Tab Sale

    I just ran across a pile of tabs from November. (Different browser, different pile, both thanks to OneTab.) Here they are:  FlightAware MiseryMap  AWC – ADDS Turbulence  A Call to Israeli Engineers! Adtech Is Not For You. | Aleph  Newsies, techies and that troublesome term "product." (with tweets) · jayrosen_nyu · Storify  Cars – Products: Who… Continue reading

  • Giant Christmas Eve Used Tab Closing Sale

    Here ya go, all free. (If I had time to turn the URLs into text, I would, but I don’t. Merry Christmas, ya’ll.) Above-and-Beyond Responses: Part 1 | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (has some thoughts by yours truly)  Above-and-Beyond Responses: Part 2 | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (has more… Continue reading

  • Latest Linkpile

    I thought today I wouldn’t let the list of open tabs get too long, since I spent most of the time working on stuff that’s not especially webfull. But here we are. A Call to Israeli Engineers! Adtech Is Not For You. | Aleph While this resonates with me (as somebody who dislikes being on… Continue reading

  • Huge Black Friday Tab Sale

    I’ll compress, copy edit and annotate after I drive to Los Angeles today. Meanwhile, dig. With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility    Dave: How to rebuild journalism Understanding New Power Spotify in 2013: revenues of €746.9m and a €93.1m operating loss    Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 64, Kurt Vonnegut Radio World… Continue reading

  • A Reading List

    I thought I’d assemble a reading list of blog posts and other stuff I’ve written or said recently, for Andreas Weigend‘s Social Data Revolution class at the UC Berkeley School of Information, in which I participated a few days ago. So here goes. All this is stuff published roughly since The Intention Economy came out: From this blog — Time for… Continue reading

  • Annotated Tab Pile

     Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data? | Talk Video | TED.com. Good talk.  What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set? – NYTimes.com. At one level, yeah. But age also kills 100% of its victims. Believe me: I’ve been studying this for many decades.  Why women leave tech: It’s the… Continue reading

  • Tab Sale. Pay with attention. Save your cash.

    I was going to sort these into an outline; but I don’t have the time or the energy. I had some reason for keeping all of them open for awhile, though. So here ya go:::  Irving Wladawsky-Berger: How Is Our Digital Revolution Doing? Deepthink from Irving. More here…  Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The Evolution of the Internet of… Continue reading

  • Closed Tab Clearance Sale

    Music & broadcasting  Copyright land grab by The Turtles threatens digital music, will not help young musicians — Tech News and Analysis  What to Do About Pre-’72s? | Future of Music Coalition  A Seismic Ruling On Pre-1972 Sound Recordings and State Copyright Law–Flo & Eddie v. Sirius XM Radio (Guest Blog Post)  Viacom threatens to… Continue reading

  • Cavalcade of Tabs

    Playing with One-Tab, which works on Chrome and Firefox. Sorting them into just two sets, which may overlap: The World  ISIS Crisis – NYTimes.com   ISIL and western media: Accidental allies? – Opinion – Al Jazeera English  Inside the Islamic State | Open Source with Christopher Lydon   Fraternitas mercatorum  Technology Liberation Front — Keeping politicians’ hands… Continue reading

  • #10books that changed my life

    There’s a challenge going around Facebook: to name ten books that have changed your life. So I’ve thought about my own, and kept a running list here in draft form. Now that it’s close enough to publish, methinks, here they are, in no order, and not limited to ten (or to Facebook) — War and… Continue reading

  • Link pile

    Closing some tabs here…. Tech Libby Clark in Linux.com: Cars should be open source hardware Darren Etherington in Techcrunch: Estimote Wants To Pioneer ‘Nearables’ With New Stickers Beacon Hardware Barry Levine in VB: Uber opens up its API – and creates a new platform Privacy and all that Tim Walsh of SAP in LinkedIn: Big Data —… Continue reading

  • Cavalcade of tabs

    IIW. Coming up. Be there. Make it yours. Just discovered a cache of unmoderated comments going back a month or more. Just approved all of them. They are here, here and here. The myth of interference is a great 2003 piece in Salon by David Weinberger, starring David Reed, more relevant than ever. The good doctor… Continue reading

  • Today’s tabs

    Market intelligence that flows both ways. It’s about the real Internet of Things. Not the Compuserve+Prodigy+AOL variety in development today. Unless we build on open source and standards, the IoT won’t be near as big as Business Insider says it will be. What I’ll be doing this coming Wednesday. Marketing in the age of VRM… Continue reading

  • Earth to Mozilla: Come back home

    In her blog post explaining the Brendan Eich resignation, Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, writes, “We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to ourselves.” In Mozilla is Human, Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Foundation, adds, “What we also need to do is start a process… Continue reading

  • Weekend linkings

    Infrastructure Robert McMillan in Wired: How Heartbleed Broke the Internet — And Why It Can Happen Again Dan Kaminsky: Be still my breaking heart (also on Heartbleed) Connectivity Infrastructure (a piece I wrote for Linux Journal in 2002) Opening Minds to the Spheres Among Us (this month’s column for Linux Journal) Returning to Ground from… Continue reading

  • My Top Ten Talk Radio Hosts of All Time

    Here is my short list: Larry Josephson Howard Stern Bob Grant Bob & Ray Barry Gray Bob Fass Steve Post Rush Limbaugh Alex Bennett Allan Handelman And here are my qualifications: a) the performer has to do (or have done) a show that runs daily (or close),  b) the listener has to sense that they… Continue reading

  • Closing tabs

    Mobile (especially Auto) Phil Windley: Auto Industry is Ground Zero in Technology Disruption 10-4 Good Buddy! Vehicle to Vehicle Communication Vehicles That Get Better Over Time Education Ayesha Adamo in Alternet: The School of Belle Knox — The Duke Porn Star on One Way to Pay for Outrageous College Costs Clay Shirky: The End of… Continue reading

  • Weekend Linkings

    Photography Stephen Lewis in Bubkes: A Tale of Urban Expansion: Late-19th-Century “Çarʂı” Row Houses, Functional Integration, Street-Life, and Class Mobility. ” The downtown end of Pirotska eventually was lined with European-style apartment houses.  At the Üç Bunar end of Pirotska an older form of architecture still dominates: Two-to-three-story row-houses built in çarʂı (Turkish for ‘arcade’ and… Continue reading

  • Linkies

    Funny: Reverse vigilantism sweeps London, violent crime plummets Media company lays off dozens of unskilled bloggers Audio +/vs. Video Is this thing on? Why audio never goes viral. By Stan Alcorn in Digg. Pandora faces FCC setback in bid for South Dakota FM radio station. By Jeff John Roberts in Gigaom. Radio’s answer to Spotify? Less… Continue reading

  • Weekend linkings

    Photography Stephen Lewis in Bubkes.org: The Mosque of Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa, Istanbul: The Creation of Space, Floor-Level Views, and Architecture Through a Normal Focal-Length Lens. He begins, Sometimes, I try to picture the growth of cities and the evolution of architectural styles as short stop-motion films or animations that capture at high-speed centuries of morphological change as… Continue reading