#culture

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/18/things-i-don...

By way of some slight recompense for the discussions of the last few days, I offer this commentary b...

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387

An absolutely superb essay on influence, creativity, and copyright. The absolute best writing I hav...

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/0...

I had been blaming the decade long rise of extremism and authoritarian clampdowns on some kind of po...

http://wegrowmedia.com/the-commodification-of-publ...

Dave pointed me at this, and yes, it is a fascinating light in which to consider the publishing and...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10957590

Something that's been at the back of my mind recently: good fictional role models for boys.

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

Yahoo was somewhere that, ten years ago, I would have love to have worked. I would have loved to ha...

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/bridging_the_chasm_b...

Some good stuff in here - a clear articulation of why the language of skepticism does not get throug...

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/07/10_reasons_to_stop...

If you still make a distinction between "in the real world" and "on the internet", then frankly, you...

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=dc...

Need to find the time to sit and read this. May need to C&P it into something instapaperable.

http://www.andrewblum.net/typepad/2007/10/local-ci...

Interesting piece about the mapping of digital community to real-world local-level community.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/st_20100...

I want to come back to this one, because it's germane to something I've been thinking a lot about re...

http://sivers.org/real

This should be stuck to the monitor of every internet connected computer in the world.

http://tigerbeatdown.com/?p=731#more-731

A response piece to Clay Shirky's article the other month about women not self-promoting, and the re...

http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/346555515/back-to-...

"what’s the next era that’ll capture people’s imaginations in that way, as a point of change, a shad...

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/01/a-rant-about-...

Clay Shirky opens up a serious can of worms, noting that women do not push themselves forward in the...