Monthly Archives June 2006

Let’s nation-build Detroit

Juan Cole, one of the most-read bloggers in the country, writes analysis and critique of our adventures in Iraq.  He wrote a fantastic piece today about Democratic exit strategies, and got a little more heated than usual when it came time to discuss Karl Rove’s “plan” and wasting of $5 billion a week on the [...]

links for 2006-06-20

apophenia
(tags: internet social_software youth)

Grand Text Auto
(tags: games technology)

Participation Literacy at Participation Literacy
(tags: participation community literacy)

Proboscis | SoMa | projects | urban tapestries
(tags: maps community locative_media)

Web Users Open the Gates
A decade after major news providers such as The Washington Post began publishing on the Internet, they are finally beginning to ask the right questions about what [...]

One year ago

Actually, it was one year ago yesterday, I was married to Nicole, and two days later we were whisked away to Spain.  It seems like so much has happened since then, yet it flew by faster than you can say “mazel tov.”

Tags: marriage

links for 2006-06-19

EdBloggerNews
(tags: education social_software technology)

Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies :: Personal InfoCloud
(tags: folksonomy sharing tags)

del.icio.us direc.tor: Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker :: Johnvey
(tags: ajax tags folksonomy)

MySpace is MyMirror

Will Richardson wrote a good post today about the hysteria surrounding the use of MySpace for Bad Things.
First, he quoted Stephen Downes‘ idea that bad behavior by kids reflects the bad behavior of adults:
Is our best response, though, to kick the kids off MySpace? My first reaction seems to be that we are punishing the [...]

links for 2006-06-17

FrontPage
(tags: art locative_media social_software)

Locative
(tags: art media communication psychogeography)

Utah Enforces It
This makes no sense to me at all.
(tags: immigration language latinos spanish)

links for 2006-06-16

Pitchfork Feature: Interview: Destroyer
I always thought Destroyer’s melodies sounded Jewish. This confirms it.
(tags: music)

links for 2006-06-15

OpenNet Initiative :: Documenting Internet Content Filtering Worldwide
The ONI mission is to investigate and challenge state filtration and surveillance practices.
(tags: censorship technology human-rights)

Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch
(tags: PR media democracy politics)