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Howard Rheingold: Art of Thin Web Collection

GoogleWebSearchEducation 01 Beyond The First Five Links (Tasha Bergson-Michelson–January 12/13, 2011–1 hour 9 minutes) 02 Tools for Assessing Authority on the Web (Julian Prentice–March 15/16, 2011–50 minutes) 03 Introduction to Maps for Research (Trent Maverick–April 12/13, 2011–1 hour 7 minutes) 04 Writing Successful Queries with Predictive Searching (Tasha Bergson-Michelson–May 4, 2011–57 minutes) Gathering and Filtering …

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John Robb: State Failure, Deep Resistance, Open War

Anonymous declares war on Facebook. For those of you interested in how global guerrilla warfare theory is being applied in the wild, here’s a book for you:  Deep Green Resistance (by Derrick Jenson,  Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith). Here’s a little on their ecowarfare strategy from their website, and some more on how they use open source warfare and …

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Event + Webcast: 24 March, Gov Surveillance in a Digital World (7pm PST/10pm EST)

On the evening on March 24, 2011, EFF staff activists will discuss the state of government surveillance and privacy in the United States at “Government Surveillance in a Digital World,” an event hosted by San Francisco Intersection for the Arts, with a live video stream by BAMM.tv. One of the many topics to be discussed …

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Weblogsky Salutes David Brooks on “Social Animal”

David Brooks: “Social Animal” by jonl on February 17, 2011 David Brooks’ article “Social Animal,” in the New Yorker, piled on more insights about human essence and consciousness: “Our perceptions…are fantasies we construct that correlate with reality.” “I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The …

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