David Weinberger’s Web of Ideas series continues tonight with a talk about design with Paul Graham. I didn’t know much about Paul Graham before learning about this event, but apparently Paul has qutie a following in Cambridge. The room is full of people who know who he is. I’m here to learn.
reddit keeps coming up […]
Lisa Williams’ Berkman Luncheon Series talk today reminded me of the presentation she gave at blog group recently about a site she’s working on called Placeblogger. It’s a collection of blogs about places—like someone writing about a city, town, or neighborhood. She has some shots of it via Flickr, since the site is not live […]
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has some really cool upcoming events worth noting for those of you interested in journalism, citizen journalism, and such. This Tuesday, November 7, the Luncheon Series features Dan Gillmor and Lisa Williams.* Lisa is going to be talking more about her project involving blogs connected to geographic places. […]
The ResourceShelf has a bit on Congresspedia, a wiki with lots of information about Congress on it. I first learned about Congresspedia at Wikimania in August when I met someone from this project of the Center for Media and Democracy.
Jimmy Wales, famous for his work with Wikipedia, is rumored to be the Not my Job guest on today’s National Public Radio game show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! I noticed his photo on the show’s Web site. The show one of Boston’s NPR stations is airing has Dave Barry as the guest, instead. […]
I caught a bit on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday that dovetails on yesterday’s post about YouTube and copyright law. Laura Sydell explores how some amateur videos are making money on the Internet, including videos from EepyBird.com: Entertainment for the Curious Mind, popular for films showing how the candy Mentos can make Diet Coke […]
Back in June, TechSoup profiled seven blog platforms popular among non-profits.
Now, in honor of my penpal, it’s only fitting that I write about spam today. I initially didn’t connect writing about spam today with him, but, well, I put that on the, uh, menu after Kim sent me some links yesterday and the date just happens to line up right.
If you’re like me, the volume […]
Have you played with the search engine Ms. Dewey yet? There was a bit of a discussion about it her it her the search engine on Newslib, a discussion list for news librarians. Some librarians find her amusing, while others believe she’s insulting. Of course, there was also a bit about whether she represents the […]