February 2011
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January 2011
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WatchMatt Haughey (Metafilter founder) at Gel 2010
As the founder of Metafilter.com, Matt Haughey has created one of the most successful and vibrant online communities in the world. At Gel 2010 he describes some of the lessons he’s learned along the way.
from kthread:
Watch for:
the black market of MeFi,
the fact that 12k of 50k members (site is open, but to comment you have to be a member)...
“Does digital communications really make spontaneous organization and...”
– from Talking Points Memo: Counter-Twitter Operations
Also this passage was rather good as well:
The other issue is this. As we’ve seen in more circumscribed ways in the United States, the freedom of communication and coordination that the Internet makes possible is matched by the degree of...
Longue durée - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The longue durée, the “long term”, is an expression used by the French Annales School of historical writing to designate their approach to the study of history, which gives priority to long-term historical structures over events— what François Simiand called histoire événementielle, “eventual history”— the short term time-scale that is the domain of the chronicler and...
High School Teacher Uses Know Your Meme as Basis... →
Mr Eure’s Media Studies class had a midterm last week where students had to emulate and assess popular internet phenomena as understood through episodes of Know Your Meme.
For real.
Your midterm will begin in class on Tuesday, January 18, when you will review the requirements and have the opportunity to ask questions about each section.
[…]
Part I: Memetic Emulation
Emulate two...
Whatever You Do, Don't Buy an Airline Ticket On →
Two weeks ago, a Chicago-Atlanta round-trip ticket for April travel dates cost $209 on Tuesday and Wednesday on American and Delta, but then $301 for the next four days. When Tuesday rolled around last week, the fare dropped to $219 at both airlines for the April 8-15 itinerary. By Friday it was up to $307 at both American and Delta. Come Tuesday this week, the fare was down to $229.
Kindle users form e-book “Lending Club” on... →
“Just days after Amazon launched the ability to “lend” Kindle e-books to other users, the first “Kindle Lending Club” is already developing a strong userbase of people looking to swap e-books with others”
I like where this is heading. The Kindle has always been a “useful” device but I always wondered if it would ever enable actual community. I can’t wait to see how this...
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Watchni9e: Freedom, Art & Viral Media…. in 40 mins
Evan’s brilliant Freedom, Art & Viral Media presentation at Learning Without Frontiers. It truly is worth 40 minutes of your time. On his challenge to students of his ‘Urban Hacking 101’ Class:
“Start looking at the city in a different way… looking at the city like hackers: looking for systems that repeat,...
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Watch24 Hour Nazi Party People - The Daily Show Takedown of Fox News Nazi Hypocrisy - 01/24/11
Highlarious.
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Ruin value - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Ruin value (German: Ruinenwert) is the concept that a building be designed such that if it eventually collapsed, it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would last far longer without any maintenance at all. The idea was pioneered by German architect Albert Speer while planning for the 1936 Summer Olympics and published as “The Theory of Ruin Value” (Die...
Fernand Braudel on the trans-Mediterranean Trade... →
In Turkey in the sixteenth century [snow] was not merely the privilege of the rich; in Constantinople, but elsewhere as well, Tripoli in Syria, for instance, travelers’ remarked on merchants selling snow water, pieces of ice, and water-ices which could be bought for a few small coins.’ Pierre Belon relates that snow from Bursa used to arrive at Istanbul in whole boatloads. The snow...
dogs sledding
via wuj818
“Hip-hop is still the same, it’s just that they show one side, that’s all. It...”
– Quasimoto (via heezdopethiop)
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WatchPatrick’s Brief Appearance in This Faux News Report on Trolling
I love Fox News, even the local affiliates. I can feel my brain wanting to rot just listening to this.
via Trolls Taking Their Toll Online | FOX 11 News
The Importance of Vacation | Wired Science |... →
Too often, we fail to consider the ways in which our surroundings constrain our creativity. When we are always “close” to the problems of work, when we never silence our phones or stop responding to e-mail, we get trapped into certain mental habits. We assume that there is no other way to think about things, that this is how it must always be done. It’s not until we’re napping by the pool with a...
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