Why Twitters Oral Culture Irritates Bill Keller (and why this is an important issue) | technosociology

“this comparison… makes little sense unless you realize that Keller is actually trying to complain about the reemergence of oral psychodynamics in the public sphere”

NewsTrust on Fact-Checking and the Wisdom of Crowds – Walter Frick – Technology – The Atlantic

This is My Milwaukee

http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/waterstone.html#anchor17763616

Ellen Ripley Saved My Life | The Awl

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cryptocat

McSweeneys Internet Tendency: Monologue: Im Comic Sans, Asshole.

Fermented Soda Recipe: Blueberry Soda

Using a ginger bug, yum.

Strawberry-Lemonbalm Fermentation | the Urban Herb School

Peace and Love and Noticing the Details

Convergence | Beta

Alternative to centralized ssl certificate authorities.

The Only Chocolate Chip Cookie I Will Ever Need to Know How to Make For The Rest of My Life | For Me, For You

Pile Sorting Techniques for Ethnographers | anthrostrategist

i wonder if this would be interesting in a ux context.

Yahoo! Research Small World Experiment

BIG GHOST CHRONICLES: Ayo this P-Tone’s review for Watch The Throne namsayin…

Oh god, it is fake Ghostface Killah making homophobic comments in dialect, but also, so funny.

5 Reasons for Activists to Cover Their Faces at Protests

cooporn – Porn deals made by Internet-natives

at work, read later 😉

The quick website launch checklist – The Agiliq Newsletter

Introducing Social, a WordPress Plugin | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog

Broadcasts to social networks, then collects the various responses and republishes them as wordpress comments.

Unicode Character ‘PILE OF POO’ (U+1F4A9)

Many Bothans

“Smoking can reveal hidden laser traps.”

JOURNAL: Central Planning and The Fall of the US Empire – Global Guerrillas

“The answer is that an extreme concentration of wealth at the center of our market economy has led to a form of central planning. The concentration of wealth is now in so few hands and is so extreme in degree, that the combined liquid financial power of all of those not in this small group is inconsequential to determining the direction of the economy. As a result, we now have the equivalent of centralized planning in global marketplaces. A few thousand extremely wealthy people making decisions on the allocation of our collective wealth. The result was inevitable: gross misallocation across all facets of the private economy.”

Digital Ethnography Blog Archive 1991: Who we were and Who we need to be

Smooth move. “On August 6th, 1991, the Web debuted as a publicly accessible service on the Internet. Almost 20 years later to the day, Im sitting here reading five books released in the year before that momentous occasion… Even a cursory read quickly dispels certain myths about the effects of the Web.”

Mobile Apps | The Guardian Project