#culture

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/...

Danah Boyd's repose to Shirky and Coates is excellent reading.

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre19...

A repeat of an old link, since it's been updated with year's list of depressing works that are earni...

http://berglondon.com/blog/2009/10/26/all-the-time...

General purpose clever bastard Jones is at it again. Chronos and Kairos, and the idea of time as a...

http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

Let us play a fun game, in the name of encouraging clear thinking, and making us all better and more...

http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?e...

Absolutely fascinating thinking. Cognitively speaking, there are only two scarce resources - bandwi...

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

Superb encapsulation of the impact of meetings on two differently scheduled kinds of staff. Should...

http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/michael-...

Never mind kicking myself - I am scourging myself with rusty barbed wire, and rubbing salt in the wo...

http://www.43folders.com/2009/04/10/free-me

Merlin Mann on content republication, and the right of the individual to control who gets to profit...

http://mike.teczno.com/notes/diverselessness.html

A companion to the other piece on monoculturalism, this dealing with internet communities and the or...

http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2009/03/onlin...

Why recommendation engines are creating even more of a mononculture than we had beore, even though e...

http://antimega.textdriven.com/antimega/2009/03/15...

Insight into why password security may be a flawed model for websites.

http://waxy.org/2009/02/john_hodgman_on_meh/

This is a perfect summary of that ghastly little word. Key phrase here "It's part of the toxic Inte...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/21...

A short history of one of the most recurrent and widely used design motifs of the last 50 years.

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/ami...

Absolutely fascinating article on the adoption of new technologies among Amish communities. It does...

http://www.anarchogeek.com/articles/2008/7/7/the-a...

Good metaphor. I get my geek news through blogs instead of community-type sites for this sort of rea...