Here’s a list of interesting items that crossed my radar in the last week. I don’t have much to add to what’s said below, this is more a manner of keeping track of my interests at this point in time.
The future of humanity
- Bruce Sterling dialoging at the WELL
- Joe Bageant laying into American complacency. More from an anti-consumerist point of view.
- James Howard Kuntsler laying into American energy complacency
Some thoughts on interesting technology
- a review of Macintosh software development
- Robert Cringely predicts 2007
- Mozilla heading toward an information broker instead of a browser
- Setting up OpenID with your blog
- an introduction to microformats
Creating a new educational/learning world.
- Bill Tozier points toward something as yet undefined, but very interesting
- Dave Pollard translates the long tail into the center and the edge
- Jakob Nielsen reminds us how difficult it is to get people to participate online, or elsewhere
Christopher Sessums on skills for participation
Rhetorics of the internet age
Clancy Ratliff on John Logie’s book about peer-to-peer rhetoric, the actual book
Mrke Bernstein on hypetext literature, an area that I’d like to investigate in more depth.
The copyright regime takes some hits
Creativity
A Typology of Cognitive Pleasures via Ming the Mechanic
Philosophy of Information and Technology
Ted Byfield gives a brief history of information
Personal Productivity and other improvements
Gurteen knowledge log on networking
Science, mostly astronomy
3d mapping of dark matter, the bad astronomy blog reports in more detail on the same study
