March 2009
128 posts
Digital Conservation: Where Does My Facebook Data... →
It's Time to Start a Digital Conservation... →
“I have a growing concern that much our always-connected culture has become so...”
– Paul Isakson
The beast that will not die: New claims that cold... →
SendMeHome is a free tool that lets you assign a... →
Spime watch!
“I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer … it seems to me to be an Old...”
– Joseph Campbell, trailblazing comparative mythologist, b. 1904 (Thanks to Technology Liberation Front)
“So-called experts turn out to be, in many situations, a stunningly poor source...”
– Nicholas Kristof, Learning How to Think (New York Times op-ed, 03/26/2009)
Don't pretend we didn't see this coming for a... →
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau (Journal, 19 August 1851)
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to...”
– Buckminster Fuller
“Small companies with low overhead, reliable owners, a small number of committed...”
– Peter Bregman
Is Boxed Water Better Than Bottled Water? →
“The twittering that happened during the Mumbai attacks was phenomenal for two...”
– Munna on the Run
“So here’s the really interesting question: Compared to the people in 1900, we...”
– Next Big Future
“As they did Ozymandias, the dunes will reclaim the soaring folly of Dubai. This...”
– Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
Ask a Flowchart: Which Blowhard Am I? →
Academic Earth: Thousands of video lectures from... →
Parag Khanna: Embrace the Post-American Age →
Shackleton Reports South Pole Feat →
Wednesday, March 24, 1909
Still up, taking some time to recommend some great...
It breaks all the rules, but in a good way! →
Bree Apperley’s portfolio site is a lot of fun.
Looking Forward: How Will Lives Change? →
Joel Kotkin, who studies metropolitan development and urban planning, talks with Madeleine Brand about how people might be arranging their lives in the coming five years. And author Jamais Cascio talks with Alex Cohen about where technology might take us.