If anyone’s interested, here are my notes from TWTRCON DC 09. I make no guarantees on their quality or thoroughness – I’m not particularly good at keeping meeting minutes, so I apologize in advance for their incoherence. But they’re there if you weren’t able to attend and want to check them out.
This photo helps anchor Tristes Tropiques in reality for me. Hard to believe he’s nearing his 101st birthday. Thanks @kerim for this. This beast of an intellectual is one of the few scholars who are responsible for blowing my mind all over the place with their theories of humanity. I still use his ideas on [...]
Some fantastic strangeness that made my day more interesting… Toynbee Tiles. In 1992, a chap in Philadelphia by the name of Bill O’Neill starting noticing strange tiles randomly embedded in local roads. They were generally about the size of a license plate, and each had some variation of the same strange message: “TOYNBEE IDEA IN [...]
From a new Ad Age white paper, with projections on the 2010 Census: “The concept of an ‘average American’ is gone, probably forever,” demographics expert Peter Francese writes in 2010 America, a new Ad Age white paper. “The average American has been replaced by a complex, multidimensional society that defies simplistic labeling.” The message to [...]
Listening to Radio Moscow – Frustrating Sound: http://bit.ly/25O9i #fb # Augmented reality FTW! (again.) Augmented Wikipedia Reality Has Arrived on the iPhone http://bit.ly/MLvZt #fb # Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://bit.ly/4fFz98 #fb # wish I could easily hide columns on @tweetdeck # Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200 http://bit.ly/wzJYS # How to [...]
G20 2009 Police Attack Students at University of Pittsburgh http://bit.ly/1wktFL # RT @intrepidteacher: Some Work By Banksy The You May Not Have Seen Before http://bit.ly/21B2hp # The Latest Insanity, Ctd. – White privilege http://bit.ly/hzJh7 (via @dailydish) #fb # Glenn Beck refuses to define "white culture" (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/IzTDu # Police Crackdown on G20 Protests: Democracy Now! [...]
Yup, they’re developing a telepathy chip all right http://bit.ly/1ZbRfZ (via @techcrunch) # "If there’s one thing we learn from the technology industry, it’s that every big winner has been a platform company" http://bit.ly/YEfm1 # RT @Eclectopedic: RT @vasusrini RT @SandyGautam Cognitive Biases that Increase with Education http://ff.im/-7L0te || Excellent post! # Samsung creates digital ad [...]
