Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
Via Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow’s newest novel (‘Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town‘, May 1 2005) and next work (“Themepunks”) is hinted at in News from The Agony Column, Whuffie gets mentioned in Utne Mag : The Karma Economy, Continue reading Urban Magic and Accelerando
Hopeless optimist that I am, here’s a revision of my original post ( much improved?) and a summary of the (on topic) discussion. Lots of discussion going on about ‘folksonomies’ – bottom-up taxonomies that people create on their own – Continue reading Folksonomies on Slashdot: revised, restated and summarized
Welcome Slashdoters! To those complaining about the grammar and such: Please read it slowly.. Yes, I should have broken up that big compound sentence (It would never have never gotten past my yak comber). In my defense see use of Continue reading Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr on Slashdot
Waxy.org link to Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata which examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services – Del.icio.us and Flickr – designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots Continue reading More on Folksonomies
J.D. Lasica in New Media Musings: Podcasting as an educational tool notices a small paragraphs shout out by Thomas Hawk: If every college lecture in the world were opened up for podcasting imagine the wealth of information at our fingertips. Continue reading Podcasting as an educational tool and The Napsterization of education
Via BBC here’s a choice few: Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges. The word “electricity” was first used in English in about 1600 by Elizabeth I’s physician. The full names of Scooby Doo’s Mystery Inc Continue reading 100 things we didn’t know this time last year