Entries from June 2011 ↓

• The State and Future of Spatial Search « JTeam Blog / JTeam: Enterprise Java, Open Source, software solutions, Amsterdam
  solr/lucene and spatial search
• U.S. Hopes "Internet in a Suitcase" Will Offset Internet Censorship
• LiveLeak.com – Nothing Hitchens Does Is Ever Boring
• 5 Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferriss | Penelope Trunk
• Ankur Blogoyal | Node.js is backwards
  Node.js is Backwards…
• Michael Wolff on David Ogilvy: The First (and Last) Adman | Adweek
  Lovely piece about master ad man David Ogilvy, on the occasion of what would have been his 100th birthday
• How the net traps us all in our own little bubbles | Technology | The Observer
• protolol
  “the worst thing about Tor jokes is that no one gets where you’re coming from” More #protolol jokes at .
• Conan: “Transfer MBAs To White Collar Prison” | Poets and Quants
  LOL. RT @JohnAByrne Conan O’Brien: "MBA students should be immediately transferred to white collar prisons."

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• France To Launch a National Patent Troll – Slashdot
  Imagine the disaster if other countries follow suit: France To Launch a National Patent Troll Private trolls bad enough
• 49 Law.Gov CAP : Center for American Progress : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
  @cayblood I never testified on open law before Congress. You’re probably thinking about this event at CAP: #gov20
• Welcome to Pyongyang on the Behance Network
• olduse.net: a real-time historical exhibit
  so cool
• HTML5 Geolocation
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Geolocation – Only $6.49 w/code DDGEC
• 10 City Finalists for CfA 2012 | Code for America
  Code for America 2012 city finalists announced Some really interesting projects proposed by the cities
• Twitter Engineering: The Engineering Behind Twitter’s New Search Experience
• What to Say to Someone Who’s Sick – This Life – NYTimes.com
• Shady Characters » The Ampersand, part 1 of 2
  The ampersand’s is a true underdog story: (@H_FJ)
• Microsoft’s Bill Gates: A rare and remarkable interview with the world’s second richest man | Mail Online
  Gates still won’t let his kids use iPad/iPhone/iPad/etc. -
• Untitled (http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/06/xlarge_larry-moss-spinosaurus.jpg)
  Best balloon animal ever: (@reddit)

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• Being Ernest: John Walsh unravels the mystery behind Hemingway’s suicide – Profiles, People – The Independent
• Help Us Investigate the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records – NYTimes.com
  .@nytimes is looking for help crowdsourcing analysis of the Palin email trove via @slashdot
• 1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
  RT @paulbettendorf: 1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
• Why Women Don’t Get Caught Up in Sex Scandals – NYTimes.com
• Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women – Harvard Business Review
• Log In – The New York Times
  Why Women Don’t Get Caught Up in Sex Scandals -
• The Music Runs Through Our Veins

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• curried potato salad
• Sandwich recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | Life and style | The Guardian
• Blunt Warning From Gates Reveals NATO Strains – NYTimes.com
• BEST of BTS – Imgur
  behind the scenes photos
• Untitled (http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/the-hq-dar-23.jpg)
  Oh this is brilliant! RT@EmmaK67: AMAZING picture. AMAZING
• pickled garlic
• You’re either repetitive, bored, or urgent
  .@brady just reminded me about Google’s great taxonomy of mobile apps: bored now, urgent now, repetitive now
• Phone Number As Relic: "Nothing But Laziness And Hostility To Consumers" : Planet Money : NPR
  RT @normative: Phone Number As Relic: "Nothing But Laziness And Hostility To Consumers"
• The six states that could decide the presidency and the Senate – The Fix – The Washington Post
  RT @sanuzis: Does Your State Matter? The six states that could decide the presidency and the Senate
• #HealthApps insightful @TimOReilly hits the spot,again.This time on Privacy and how it relates to the Rainbow button initiative. #hcdc – More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous
  RT @ekivemark #HealthApps insightful @TimOReilly hits the spot,again. Privacy and how it relates to the Rainbow button
• Follower Wonk: comparison of Twitterers timoreilly
  I had no idea I was followed by 29 people with more than 1 million twitter followers. Thanks @followerwonk
• Digital Publishing in the Developing World | Publishing Perspectives
  Digital Publishing in the Developing World. Don’t think of them as followers, think of them as leaders… #ebooks
• Crivella West – Public Access
  Fantastic. Palin emails already online and searchable from MSNBC via @JeffKaplan88 #opengov
• (404) http://www.greenplum.com/community/data-scientist-summit-2011
  Videos posted from @greenplum’s Data Scientist Summit Some good stuff here.

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• Wired Californian forests to guide response to climate – environment – 09 June 2011 – New Scientist
• Website Planning Guide – Smashing Magazine
• SMALL POTATOES:Lucky Mountain – The Rumpus.net
  making art
• Our Investment in Bloom Studios
  RT @bryce: Our Investment in @databloom / visualization as UI impt concept. BTW, Bloom is hiring.
• Solar Cheaper than Coal in 3-5 Years? GE and First Solar Think So | Unbridled Speculation by Ramez Naam
  RT @ramez: Solar Cheaper than Coal in 3-5 Years? GE and First Solar Think So:
• Facebook’s face recognition strategy may be just the ticket – O’Reilly Radar
  My position on face recognition at Facebook seems to be contrary to the general hysteria
• Capitalism, reconstructed | Corporate Knights
  RT @umairh: "Capitalism Reconstructed"–my new article in @corporateknight (with plenty of "how"
• Carl Zimmer: Viral Time – The Long Now
  RT @longnow: What’s time to a virus? Audio and Stewart Brand’s summary are up from @carlzimmer’s SALT Viral Time -
• Simon Mainwaring: 10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism
  We First is how @simonmainwarin describes his vision fof hoe capitalism needs to change
• Next Jump Introduces OO.com: Local Deals Powered By LivingSocial, Plus Points
  RT @SteveCase: Next Jump Introduces OO.com: Local Deals Powered By LivingSocial, Plus Points
• NASA –
  U.S. Fire and Smoke Images
  RT @NASA: You can find the full gallery of Arizona wildfire images captured by multiple NASA satellites here:
• Untitled (http://www.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20Burning%20Man%20at%20Google%20NMS.pdf)
  RT @noamsc: Today’s Doodle reminds me of my favorite theory of why Google is awesome: Burning Man. H/t Fred Turner.
• Oil production and consumption: Running dry | The Economist
  In 2010 global oil consumption exceeded production by over 5m barrels per day for the first year ever.
• How to stay cool for next to nothing | Grist
  I don’t use a/c. Seriously. This is how I do it:
• Untitled (http://twitgoo.com/2bxpjl)
  RT @health2con: @MayaFoodOasis, prev #health2dev codeathon winner onstage at HDI! #healthapps
• Eliza – Data-driven healthcare communication solutions
  RT @theIOM: On stage: Lucas Marrow from ElizaLive – Uses speech recognition to interact with patients about #health # …
• TIME FOR PEOPLE TO EAT CROW: The New York Times’ Paywall Is Working!
  Looks like the @nytimes paywall is working
• Google Acquires PostRank, An Analytics Service For The Social Web
  Google Acquires PostRank, An Analytics Service For The Social Web #kdnuggets
• YouTube
  – ‪bike lanes‬‏
  Casey Neistat gets a ticket for not riding his bike in a bike lane. Result=pure genius:

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• Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Wendy Lea, Get Satisfaction – CIO Central – CIO Network – Forbes
  .@getsatisfaction: CEO @WendySLea in Forbes: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Biz Social media impacting business
• Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In On M51 Supernova – Slashdot
  Twitter helps alert astronomers to a supernova Nice!
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Frightening. The Empty Ocean We do tend to think resources are bottomless till they run out. See
• The Empty Ocean
  Frightening. The Empty Ocean We do tend to think resources are bottomless till they run out. See
• Martin Seligman and positive psychology – The Boston Globe
  Formulaic, but I love the bit at the end about being drawn into the future instead of pushed by the past #psychology
• Lady Gaga’s Guilt-Free Gospel – Spencer Kornhaber – Entertainment – The Atlantic
  Atlantic piece about @ladygaga’s take on religion via @jamesoreilly Trying to figure what this means culturally
• 10 physical gestures that have been patented
  More patent stupidity. Patented gestures, meh! via @slashdot
• Russian President: Time To Reform Copyright – Slashdot
  Meanwhile Russian president Medvedev also calls for copyright reform!
• The Rapture of Demand — Caring for Orphan Works Left Behind « The Scholarly Kitchen
  Slightly tongue-in-cheek but thoughtful piece about orphan works and the need to change copyright to solve the problem
• Meet The Man Behind Twitter’s HUGE Integration With Apple
  Nice post about @raffi: Meet The Man Behind Twitter’s HUGE Integration With Apple
• GM chief pushes for higher gas taxes | SmartPlanet
  A new kind of corporate social responsibility: RT @andlessness GM’s chief is pushing for higher gas taxes
• theargumentativetheoryofreasoning – hugomercier
  RT @drgrist: Background reading on confirmation bias & how to overcome it: The argumentative theory of reasoning
• Real-Time Media Management Comes to Daylife’s Publishing Suite
  Daylife publishing suite sounds very useful. Was just wishing for something like it this morning! via @marcprecipice

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• Free tips, tools and expert advice to save energy, save money and make your home more green. | WattzOn
  PBS series "Earth, The Operator’s Manual" selected @wattzon to support viewers in creating a personalized energy plan
• Code for America Summer Open House – Eventbrite
  RT @codeforamerica: Last call! Our open house is tonight! #sf #gov20 #party
• Tinkering with technology education – O’Reilly Radar
  The maker movement’s many entry points create a welcoming environment for tech education via @dalepd
• Hacking Education: A Contest for Developers and Data Crunchers
  Proud that @OReillyMedia is sponsoring the @donorschoose Hacking Education competition, and many authors are judges

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• Life in the Crosshairs
  Wise post for startups by @bryce: Life in the Crosshairs: "there are worse places to be" $AAPL
• How RunKeeper Could Become the Facebook of Fitness | Playbook
  How @RunKeeper Could Become the Facebook of Fitness The sensor web I predicted in is coming to pass
• paidContent – Mobile
  How Apple’s in-app subscription percentage is driving publishers to HTML5: the FT’s story
• O’Reilly Media – Save 50% on Select JavaScript Titles
  RT @OReillyMedia Save 50% on #JavaScript ebooks & videos. Over 20 titles. One week only
• Specific absorption rate – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  FCC-mandated SAR limit for cellphone radiation is 1.6 W/kg. Find SAR value for your phone
• What’s your cell phone’s maximum radiation level? Interactive database – Computerworld
  FCC-mandated SAR limit for cellphone radiation is 1.6 W/kg. Find SAR value for your phone
• The Cities Most Prepared For Climate Change | Fast Company
  The cities most prepared for climate change, per @fastcompany In SF, looks like we have to plan to be Seattle
• Registration: OSCON 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 25 – 29, 2011, Portland, OR
  RT @oscon: Last chance! Early registration prices for #oscon #osconj and #oscond end TODAY at midnight PT
• The Big Web Show #50: Jen Robbins – 5by5
  .@jenville on @zeldman’s Big Web Show Lots of @oreillymedia history, plus shift from web to mobile, per @simonstl
• Career Watch: IT employment tops 4M – Computerworld
  Good news/bad news: US IT employment passes 4 mm for the first time since 2008, but not expected to stay via @kjones44
• (500) http://twitp
  RT @sciam: MT @gmusser: Isn’t it cool to think that this truck parked [in Manhattan] points at spaceship 22,000 miles away? …

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• App Inventor
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: App Inventor – Only $15.99 w/code DDVEN #Android
• Rethrick Construction
  Eye-opening perspective on Google from one departing engineer via @edd
• Schedule: Keynote sessions: OSCON 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 25 – 29, 2011, Portland, OR
  Speaking of @OSCON in July! 20% discount code: OS11COM awesome lineup:
• Hamlet and the region of death – The Boston Globe
  Fascinating: What Franco Moretti found by turning Hamlet into data Maciej Ceglowski presented similar at #OSCON yrs ago
• YouTube
  – ‪Fixit Clinic‬‏
  Lovely little video about @petermui’s fixit clinics – helping kids and adults to learn by fixing their broken stuff

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• The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable | Threat Level | Wired.com
  RT @GreatDismal This is a trip.
  [I agree. And we know a trip when we see one.]
• Calling All Health Innovators: June 9th Health Data-Palooza Live
  RT @todd_park Watch the Health Data-Palooza Live on June 9 w HHS Sec Sebelius @timoreilly Aneesh Chopra & 40+ companies
• Top 10 Tweets from #D9 ~ via Julie Schoenfeld @schoenfeldj – storify.com
  Top 10 Tweets from#D9 by @schoenfeldj: featuring @allthingsd,@timoreilly, @zaibatsu, @karaswisher @bill_gross @pkafka

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