The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Jesse Eisenberg (Actor), Andrew Garfield (Actor), David Fincher (Director) Review by Jon Lebkowsky The David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin film collaboration called “The Social Network” is not about technology, though there are scenes that suggest how code is produced through focused work (which actually looks boring when you’re watching it “IRL” (in real life), without Fincher’s hyperactive …
Events this week – NPOCamp and Austin News Hackathon Cross-posted from http://effaustin.org. Two great events coming up this weekend in Austin, sponsored by EFF-Austin. Friday, join us at NPO Camp – a Barcamp for Nonprofits and Techs. We had one of these several months ago, and it was a real blast! The idea here is …
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Self-Diagnosis and Participatory Medicine by jonl on October 11, 2010 The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published an interesting piece on Self Diagnosis, subtitled A Discursive Systematic Review of the Medical Literature. It’s a complex subject – as patients become more informed and empowered, they are more liable to want to have a role in …
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Where ideas come from Wired News hosts a conversation between Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson, who’ve written similar books… Steven – Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation; and Kevin – What Technology Wants. Steven “finds that great creative milieus, whether MIT or Los Alamos, New York City or the World Wide …
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All government is local 2.0: manor.govfresh Manor, a small town in Texas a few miles from Austin, has become an unlikely star player in the new world of “Government 2.0.” This week Manor and GovFresh, an organization that provides news and information about technology innovation in government, joined forces to host a conference on “big …
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Self organizing solar panels by jonl on September 18, 2010“Scientists at MIT have discovered molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a pattern that can turn light into electricity — essentially a self-creating solar panel. In a petri dish.” [Link] I was wondering if this discovery has a practical application. A commenter has the same question, …
Jay Rosen has a terrific post about the state of media. Jay analyzes the scene: … the filmmakers are showing us what the mass audience was: a particular way of arranging and connecting people in space. Viewers are connected “up” to the big spectacle, but they are disconnected from one another. Or to use the …
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