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Posted By:  RaquelEvita
Posted On:  Jul 26, 2008

  This Muslim knows how to have fun & great minds to watch out for

We all have our vices, whether we like to ‘fess up to them or not. Mine are slightly embarassing. But I’m willing to own up to them: * Independent bookstores: the one in my neighborhood has the most incredible Middle Eastern politics, current affairs and history sections...... [view]

Posted By:  teddyb109
Posted On:  Jun 26, 2008

  Change Congress

Gas is over $4 a gallon, the planet's getting warmer, we're fighting a war in Iraq, we live in the era of "No Child Left Behind," and we leave children behind. The old trope is that "people get the government they deserve." We don't. According to Larry Lessig , the founder of Change Congress...... [view]

Posted By:  teddyb109
Posted On:  Apr 20, 2008

  Here Comes Everybody (I'm here too!)

Clay Shirky's latest book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations , discusses how light-weight web-based technologies like blogging, twittering and photo sharing sites like Flickr result in real world actions.  Shirky talked about the book at the Markle...... [view]

Posted By:  teddyb109
Posted On:  Apr 27, 2008

  The Five Phases of Facebook

I'm getting sick of Facebook.  Between their choice of Billy Joel's " We didn't start the fire ,"  for the melody, and replacing it with "we're getting sick of facebook," LLP81's video critique is one of the funniest things I've seen online in a while. ...... [view]

Posted By:  teddyb109
Posted On:  Apr 20, 2008

  Here Comes Everybody (I'm here too!)

Clay Shirky's latest book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations , discusses how light-weight web-based technologies like blogging, twittering and photo sharing sites like Flickr result in real world actions.  Shirky talked about the book at the...... [view]

Posted By:  teddyb109
Posted On:  Mar 15, 2006

  Continuous Partial Attention? Hey you, listen!!!

I was blown away by the ideas in Linda Stone's talk at O'Reilly's e-tech conference , summarized on Radar .  In a nutshell, she talks about the limits of "continuous partial attention" and urges that we use employ "quality of life" as the benchmark for adopting new...... [view]

Posted By:  teddyb109
Posted On:  Dec 22, 2007

  A Blogging Manifesto

Why bother keeping a blog? Everyone's doing it , but I struggle with this humble blog--whether or not to post, what to post, analyzing my analytics, and questioning the worthiness of the endeavor. Why bother with posting your thoughts and reflections in public? Given all of the other things...... [view]

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