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Posted: March 18th, 2008, 10:00pm PDT
- Twitter Etiquette | Global Geek News Blog
a list of rules for Twitter usage.
- Free file hosting, online storage space
- List of file systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Comparison of file sharing applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Links for Those Who Attended My Tampa Talk
reviews new types of just in time scholarship and public intellectuals such as Howard Rheingold and Douglas Rushkoff
- Why China Will Win The Web - Forbes.com
argues that businesses like Baidu and Alibaba foreshadow another generation of Chinese startups--those with their own highly competitive and homegrown ideas
- Energy leapfrogging in China and India
how realistic is leapfrogging alternative energy models for BRIC countries
- Biocurious: SciBarCamp report: Digital lab notebooks
"a gathering of scientists, artists, and technologists for a weekend of talks and discussions."
- The Four Tenets of the (Corporate) Community Manager
include community advocation, brand ambassadorship, online communication skills, and product requirements gathering and improvements.
- Property is theft! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Property is theft! (French: La propriété, c'est le vol!) is a slogan coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
- Stephen Page: The free-thinking reader is not dead, but found online | Comment is free | The Guardian
"As most book publishers bow to bestsellers and celebrity culture, serious literature can still thrive thanks to the internet"
- Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias - New York Times
A series of announcements from publishers across the globe in the last few weeks suggests that the long migration to the Internet has picked up pace
- Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008
The verdict on citizen media for now suggests limitations. And research shows blogs and public affairs Web sites attract a smaller audience than expected and are produced by people with even more elite backgrounds than journalists.
- Military Networks Increasingly Are Under Attack :: InfoWar Monitor :: Tracking Cyberpower
"...most efforts to breach the military's computer networks involve attempts to improperly "mine" classified data, a process he likened to Cold War-era espionage"
- Reznor: Radiohead offering was insincere, industry is inept
Nine Inch Nails was among the first major acts to completely break ties with its label, diving head first into the new realm of fan interactivity and digital distribution.
- Study: amount of digital info > global storage capacity
the volume of information about us generated automatically on a daily basis surpasses the total volume of digital information that we actively create about ourselves
- The Facebook Application Ecosystem | Research Reports | O'Reilly Radar
- The Abscondo Weblog: Creative Commons: the new Internet Folk Music movement
Creative Commons, brought to life with social sites like Jamendo (my favorite), iLike, Last.fm, and many others, make it possible for a new "Internet Folk Movement" to emerge.
- A realistic simulation of internet-scale events
Internet-scale security incidents are becoming increasingly common, and the researchers need tools to replicate and study them in a controlled setting. Current network simulators, mathematical event models and testbed emulation cannot faithfully replicate
- Hold the front page | Economist.com
interesting article from the Economist on how to Palo Alto researches managed to build a Digg simulator and tested how well different stories fare on novelty versus popularity. Very interesting insights into the editorial process!
- Oekonux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The originally German Oekonux (pronounced "urkonooks") project was founded to research the possibilities of free software to fundamentally change the current political and economic structures.
- John Naughton: How Flickr developed into a classic Web 2.0 success | Media | The Observer
- Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Mapping the Wind
exactly where, when, and how strong the the wind blows will help promote wind power, especially in developing parts of the world
- Ecology of practices and technology of belonging
Excellent essay by Stengers illustrating the resonance of political ecology with cosmopolitics
- Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online
Research into teaching online is still in its infancy. However, here are ten practices that contribute to an effective, efficient and satisfying teaching and learning experience for both faculty and students.
- Adam Arvidsson: Value in Ethical Economy. Part Two: The Valuation of Esteem " P2P Foundation
- Dwelling in Possibilities - ChronicleReview.com
great essay describing the contemporary student generation
- OpenMoko announces OpenMoko CAD files
you can make your own telephone 'physically', then dowload the open source sofware operating it
- Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » Open Bibliographic Data: The State of Play
Most libraries appear to implicitly or explicitly exert rights over their data with some libraries licensing access to their catalogue data for substantial sums of money.
- Let free music files ring - The Boston Globe
RECORD companies, seeking to bully people who share music, have demanded that colleges identify students who share