Joho the BlogLet's just see what happensGoogle tips- July 7, 2008 PC Mag has a bunch of Google tips. Some are familiar, but some were new to me. E.g., I didn't know Google could give us transit directions.Tags: googlehttp://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/07/google-tips/ Rebooting Democracy- July 7, 2008 Personal Democracy Forum has put together an anthology of essays on "rebooting democracy" in the age of the Net. It's available in full on the Web (in tiny, gray type, as if they don't want you to read it), or as PDFs, or you can pay for a printed copy. ...http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/07/rebooting-democracy/ My Fair Election- July 6, 2008 Archon Fung, at Harvard's Kennedy School, is proposing that we crowd source the fairness of the upcoming presidential election at MyFairElection.com. You can watch a 7 minute video presentation or read a brief paper.Tags: archon_fung myfairelection elections politics democracy fraudhttp://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/06/my-fair-election/ RMack on the GV Summit- July 6, 2008 Great reflective post about the Global Voices Summit from Rebecca MacKinnon...Tags: berkman gv globalvoices rebecca_mackinnonhttp://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/06/rmack-on-the-gv-summit/ Short reality!- July 6, 2008 Bloomberg reports that Mattel's market cap, "helped by rising sales of Matchbox and Hot Wheels toy cars," is now larger than GM's. Tags: mattel gm toys cars business economicshttp://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/06/short-reality/ Bill Gates hidden talent- July 6, 2008 As Bill Gates moves on from Microsoft, let us not forget one of his lesser-sung skills: Tags: bill_gateshttp://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/06/bill-gates-hidden-talent/ Graffiti: The movie- July 5, 2008 I am a crotchety old man about graffiti. 99.9% of them and, as usual, all my statistics have been authenticated by having been made up impose an adolescent narcissism. But I also think: (a) I don't really understand the cultural positioning behind it, (b) some of it is ...http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/05/graffiti-the-movie/ Declaration of Independence- July 4, 2008 The Declaration is obviously a remarkable document, part philosophy, part legal document, part performative, part a moral accounting, part beautiful rhetoric. It's good reading, although I do tend to skip the long middle that lists the particular complaints and justifications. Here are some resources:TextWikipedia US Archives Facsimile With annotations of ...http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/04/declaration-of-independence/ Tim Bray on ISOs ladidah-ing OOXML challenges- July 3, 2008 Tim Bray blogs about the head of ISO pooh-poohing the concerns about the way that Microsoft's OOXML document format was strong-armed through his organization.Tags: standards odf ooxml tim_bray microsofthttp://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/03/tim-bray-on-isos-ladidah-ing-ooxml-challenges/ The fallacy of examples- July 3, 2008 Nicholas Kristof has a terrific column today about how the donation of a goat to a family in Uganda ultimately led to one of the children, Beatrice, earning a degree from Connecticut College, and beginning a path of service for her community. It's a wonderful story, the point of which ...http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/03/the-fallacy-of-examples/ |