I was so busy publicizing Clay Shirky’s talk elsewhere, I forgot to mention here that he spoke tonight at Harvard Law School. My apologies.
A few points:
Group-forming improves sharing, conversation, collaboration, and collective action.
There’s an idea that people who use the same sites might have things in common besides using those sites. Getting them to talk […]
Tonight (2/27), Boston University’s Free Culture hosts Pandora founder Tim Westergren at 7 p. Pandora is a nifty music Web site that customizes what its users listen to based on their likes. Quite a few folks I know use it regularly and have elbowed me about using it.
The details:
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - […]
On today’s Oprah, Henry Winkler, famous for his role as Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on the US sitcom Happy Days, mentioned a huge jump in library cards when he mentioned something about people getting them for free from their local public library. I wonder how many people registered for one after hearing him say it again […]
Hey v, I’m sure by now you’ve read The Boston Globe’s cover business article yesterday about digitizing children’s books at the Boston Public Library. I couldn’t help thinking about you while I learned about the efforts to digitize rare, old, and fragile children’s books from the collection in order to share them online via the […]
Garrett let me know about a manual for editing Wikipedia from O’Reilly. Since the title indicates it’s the missing manual, does that mean when you purchase it, it magically disappears?
RTFM. (WOTTA?) (Mom, the “f” is for “fine.”)
During the height of winter holiday season*, someone sent me a link to this amusing gapingvoid comic with the text I don’t need religion; I’ve got a blog.
Thanks, GE!
*Yeah, that’s how far behind in e-mail I am right now …
With the recent news showing declines in people reading books, someone in the book group I’m in shared this almost unbelievable story about a man reading an entire book. I thought some of you might enjoy it, though I’m sure by now it’s circulated through all the relevant discussion lists.
(Mind you, the source is known […]
There’s a NewBCamp 2008 being held at Johnson & Wales University in Providence on Saturday, February 23 from 9 am to 4 pm.
“What is NewBCamp? It’s a one day conference to introduce people from all professions and walks of life to emerging technologies, as well as provide primers for how to get started in those […]
Tuesday, February 12, was Safer Internet Day, which provides opportunities to talk to people, especially children and inexperienced Web users, about safety on the Internet.
Although one of my coworkers was kind enough to tell me about it on Tuesday, I only had to the chance to write about it on one blog then.
The Boston Globe recently printed 84,000 people ordered XOs from One Laptop Per Child’s. While many people are enjoying their new XOs, focus has shifted to a few thousand people who received e-mails indicating their orders might be fulfilled after 45-60 days. For some people, that’s too long to wait and they’ve canceled their orders. […]