Entries from April 2011 ↓

• Localtunnel
• Girl Develop It! – Meet Us
• Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband Caps Begins Monday | Epicenter | Wired.com
• Court lifts ban on federal funding for stem cell research by: CNN’s Bill Mears
• Warning! | There might be a problem with the requested link
  RT @marytreseler Who will corner the market on mobile card readers? #PayPalX #square
• Why the Online Identity & Data Ownership Debate Matters « emergent by design
  RT @venessamiemis: Why the Online Identity & Data Ownership Debate Matters I agree. It does matter.
• Migrating OSX 10.5 Client to Mac OSX…: Apple Support Communities
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @jamesoreilly Good piece by David Brooks, "What Government Does" Agree. Lots of reality captured in this piece.
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @jamesoreilly Good piece by David Brooks, "What Government Does" Agree. Lots of reality captured in this piece.
• The Monkey Cage: How Wasteful is Spending on Homeland Security?
  RT @normative How Wasteful is Spending on Homeland Security? (Even if it wasn’t what Schneier calls "security theater")
• Layer 8: US goes after some game-changing energy projects
  Five DARPA-E funded energy initiatives
• Untitled (http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/11/17/hlsa1117.htm)
  Dancing, sleep, novelty, learning new skills among the recommendations for brain health.
• Log In – The New York Times
  Love to see Michael Porter speaking out on these issues: Pain at the Pump? Try a Charge on Carbon Emissions
• OSCON 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 25 – 29, 2011, Portland, OR
  RT @oscon Registration for OSCON 2011 is now open. See the full schedule of tutorials, sessions, speakers, and events
• Word Spy – zombie lie
  RT @wordspy: zombie lie n. A false statement that keeps getting repeated no matter how often it has been refuted.

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• Philly Mural Guide
  App by @atogle + @mertonium helps find street art in Philly; for Philly Tech week using the city’s open data catalog
• What Does It Mean to Be Human? | Brain Pickings
  RT @brainpicker: What does it mean to be human? 3 disciplines attempt to answer
• Donald Berwick: The Right Way to Reform Medicare – WSJ.com
  Donald Berwick has his head on straight: The right way to reform Medicare How do other fields improve results?
• Strobe Presents at Under the Radar
  Nice to see that @strobe (@OATV investment) won Best of Show at Under the Radar Cross-platform HTML5 apps FTW!
• Strap On 4 Homemade Rockets and Say Your Prayers | Autopia | Wired.com
  RT @jamesoreilly: This is a childhood fantasy of mine and @timoreilly & @seanjoreilly
• USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Press Release: The Book Is Not Dead > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  80% of Californians Have Read a Book for Fun in the Last Month; 18% own an #ebook reader Turns out CA is a "Read state"
• Bureaucracy
• Startup Weekend Education – San Fran
  Cool. A startup weekend focused on education:
• Wow-Keys Keyboard Turns iPhone Into Computer Touchpad [PICS]
• How SpaceX Plans To Take Over Where Shuttle Left Off [VIDEO]
  Thank god for entrepreneurs: How SpaceX Plans To Take Over Where Shuttle Left Off [VIDEO]
• Lessig: Copyright isn’t just hurting creativity: it’s killing science (video) | Motherboard
  Over-reaching copyright law isn’t just hurting creativity, it’s holding back science, says @lessig I agree.
• Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Leaving the U.S. – BusinessWeek
  Why immigrant entrepreneurs are going back to India and China
• Web 2.0 Expo New York Call for Participation: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2011 – Co-produced by O’Reilly Media & UBM TechWeb, October 10 – 13, 2011, New York, NY
  RT @brady: The CFP for the Web 2.0 Expo NYC (10/10-13) closes today. Get yer talks in! #w2e
• U.S. CIO Kundra Says Government Is Shutting 137 Data Centers – Bloomberg
  Nice to see Federal gov cutting IT costs under the watchful eye of Vivek Kundra
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Once Again Raises Alarm Bells on Global Warming | Jake Schmidt’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC
  RT @TomRaftery: RT @jschmidtnrdc: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Once Again Raises Alarm Bells on Global Warming
• B&N Responds To Microsoft’s Android Suit – Slashdot
  Barnes & Noble’s feisty response to Microsoft’s #Android lawsuit Nice to see them show such spunk.
• OpenDataPhilly.org Launches in Philadelphia | Code for America
  RT @codeforamerica OpenDataPhilly.org Launches in Philadelphia by @atogle #opengov #data

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• LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | Life of the Party
  RT @LAReviewofBooks: Montaigne, life of the party: Kathryn Schulz on Sarah Bakewell’s "How To Live": http://bit.ly/dKxwd0
• Cult Clothing Line Betabrand Pockets $1.3 Million From OATV
  RT @bryce: the cat’s out of the bag… RT @TechCrunch: Cult Clothing Line Betabrand Pockets $1.3 Million From OATV
• Makes 2 cups Ingredients: 2 tbsp extra virgin… | Underpaid Genius
• Translation of General Misogyny to Uncomfortable Truth, on FarukAt.eÅŸ
  @JohnONolan @MatthewDonnelly @Mike_FTW This one’s for you guys:
• Log In – The New York Times
  "people reta…more material…when they study it in a font that is not only unfamiliar but also hard to read."
• ImPatient For Change: Ontario government pushes hospital secrecy law
  Amazing how hospitals try to keep patients from learning about safety records. Hospital secrecy law in Canada #shame
• News Desk: Trump, Birtherism, and Race-Baiting : The New Yorker
• i’ve noticed..
  | How MealSnap Works
  How mealsnap app works (it’s powered by Mechanical Turk) via @josephflaherty
• Apps For The Army | Danger Room | Wired.com
  RT @istrategylabs: Apps For The Army | Wired.com < Transforming the Army’s tech. Brainchild of @timoreilly & …

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• Why Everyone Is Talking About Node
• holmes.css – CSS Markup Detective
• Hunch Blog | Blog Archive | Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch
• Meal Snap – Magical Meal Logging for iPhone.
  If it works, this app is amazing. Estimates calories based on pictures of your food.
• Amazon Media Room:
  News Release
  Amazon’s great quarter Q1 sales Sales up 38% to $9.86 Billion (though margins decline)
• PFTV-003 – Todd Park (HHS) and Tim O’Reilly at SXSW 2011 – PharmFresh.TV
  Talking about #healthcare, @todd_park calls me "a Ninja prince." He gives me too much credit. Todd is the man!
• Joining the MIT Media Lab – Joi Ito’s Web
  Congrats to @joi!
• The $17.1 Billion Problem: The Annual Cost Of Measurable Medical Errors
  Death from medical errors is about as common as death from car accidents. Cost is $17Billion via @fredtrotter in email
• Yahoo Weighs Spinning Out Hadoop Engineering Group for $1 Billion Opportunity – ReadWriteCloud
  RT @RWW: ReadWriteCloud: Yahoo Weighs Spinning Out Hadoop Engineering Group for $1 Billion Opportunity
• Modern Funnel Analytics Using the Mapper API – Google App Engine – Google Code
• SeeClickFix Releases Android 2.0 App – SeeClickFix
  New release of #android app from @seeclickfix
• Content-Based Mobile Edge Networking (CBMEN) – Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities
  Ross Stapledon-Gray in email: "New DARPA program. Content-Based Mobile Edge Networking (CBMEN)"
• In Boston, City Hall Pursues Innovation In-House | techPresident
  Inspiring profile of @nsjacob and Boston’s "Department of New Urban Mechanics" #innovation #cities #opengov

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• Hacker Typer
• Chocolate Brains Mini W Cherry
• RDTN.org: Radiation Detection Hardware Network in Japan by Marcelino Alvarez — Kickstarter
  Interesting: Safecast, a crowdsourced radiation detection network. Help fund it on kickstarter:
• (500) http://safecast.org,/
  Interesting: Safecast, a crowdsourced radiation detection network. Help fund it on kickstarter:
• Untitled (http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/46938-better-than-renting-out-a-windowless-room-the-blessed-distraction-of-technology.html)
  "Better Than Renting Out A Windowless Room." One writer’s Twitter origin tale. – via @c_defamiliaris
• Announcing Web 2 Summit 2011: The Data Frame – John Battelle’s Searchblog
  RT @johnbattelle Announcing Web 2 Summit 2011: The Data Frame –
• Algorithms in a Nutshell
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Algorithms in a Nutshell – Only $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDAGR
• Getting Started with Arduino Kit + Arduino Cookbook PDF
  RT @MakerShed Get a free Arduino Cookbook PDF with our Getting Started with Arduino Kit – today only. #MakeDotD

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• Zadie Smith’s rules for writers | Books | guardian.co.uk
• Log In – The New York Times
  Refreshing to see Reagan-era budget director Stockman call the Ryan plan a "toxic brew" Says Obama plan little better
• Survey indicates e-book boom in China
  #ebooks are booming in China
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @edyson Getting From the Internet What It Knows About You Good piece on why owning our data is good for everyone
• Melodramatic Bullshit
  Good commentary by @bfeld about "melodramatic bullshit" re Paul Allen/Bill Gates, Ev and Twitter

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• willclarke.net » Apple is not “recording your moves,” Urban Edition!
• willclarke.net » Apple is not “recording your moves”
• I foresee that nobody will do anything about this problem – Bad Science
• Slipping away from the Perl community – Perlbuzz
• Remarkable Results In Research On "Iceman" Wim Hof
• Kopernik |
• Design for the Other 90%: Design
• ufahari: stories of innovation
• The Times Record > Features > A stinging rebuke against missed bee havens
  Without bees, mankind would starve in 4 years. Yet we punish them with pesticides and single-crop farms.
• Cranking | 43 Folders
  Cranking
• John Muir, the Original Environmentalist – Readability
  6 essays by John Muir, rather of American environmentalism, from @TheAtlantic archives #longreads
• Professor Deeply Hurt by Student’s Evaluation | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
  haha an awesome piece on the onion … "Professor Deeply Hurt by Student’s Evaluation" /via @jason_a_w
• But what do they do with their legs? | sex education | Life and style | The Guardian
• Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
  Supply/demand… Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
• The Saddest Music in the World :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
  Guy Maddin’s ineffable "The Saddest Music in the World" is on Netflix Instant. My review:
• The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish…
  Absolutely astounding – the world’s largest jellyfish
• How Are Mac & PC People Different? [INFOGRAPHIC]
  Survey of Mac vs. PC people confirms every stereotype you can think of, and then some:
• Lessons from California: The perils of extreme democracy | The Economist
  RT @Brilliantcrank: California offers a warning to voters all over the world.
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
  If you have a cell phone to recycle, here’s a super easy way to donate it to battered women, just print this:
• Log In – The New York Times
  "We’ve moved from the lonely tinkerer to the social tinkerer who can share ideas." @dalepd in #make #makerfaire #diy

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• pesticides and child IQ
• Honest logos by @Viktor | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork
• 10 best tricks of fooling myself to work « Productivity « How to get organized, how to be productive, GTD, Swift To-Do List tips and tricks – Dextronet Blog
• Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Who Owns the World? | TomDispatch
• The Power of Platforms from Web 2.0 to Gov 2.0 | Esri Video
  RT @LindaHecht Interesting talk at #Esri #Devsummit by @timoreilly about #web20, #geoweb and the importance of data
• swombat.com on startups
  The Founder’s Library – great collection of articles for entrepreneurs via @edd
• Mr. Jassy, Tear Down This Wall! « Roman Stanek’s Push-Button Thinking
  Mr. Jassy, Tear Down This Wall! Open letter from @RomanStanek of @gooddata in response to the AWS outage
• Southwestern Water: Going, Going, Gone? – NYTimes.com
• Locavore :: Home
  In honor of Earth Day, @enjoy_locavore is making the Locavore phone app free today. Local food FTW!
• Meet Science: What is "peer review"? – Boing Boing
  Meet Science–a new series on @BoingBoing–kicks off with "What is peer review?" Thanks to @ivanoransky!

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• RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, unusable | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld
  Ouch. Devastating review of RIM PlayBook as "the homeless guy who plays air guitar in front of the mall." via @slashdot
• Learning Python, Fourth Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Python, 4th Edition – Only $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD4PY
• Librarians React to Amazon’s New Lending Library: More Questions Than Celebrations
• Android phones record user-locations according to research
• BBC News – Ozone hole has dried Australia, scientists find
• Preckwinkle, Fritchey Move to Open Up Cook County Data | Cook County Blog
  Politicians making Open Gov their platform: via @alissa007
• bit-rank and the Bitly Data Stack
  RT @bryce bit-rank and the Bitly Data Stack Yes, indeed, there’s more there than meets the eye…
• back of a webpage
• Hyperarchy: Open Decision-Making for Open Organizations | Code for America
  Hyperarchy: Open Decision-Making for Open Organizations: from dinner choices to democratic institutions
• Warning! | There might be a problem with the requested link
  RT @ginablaber: Live streaming Where 2.0 keynotes now: Ben Fry, etsy, DJ Patil/Color, Julia Grace/Almaden, Groupon etc …
• Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
  LOL. Onion: Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People via @danprimack via @sacca
• Cooking for Geeks
  – O’Reilly Media
  Oops. Seems to be my morning for botching link shortening. Here’s the @oreillymedia deal of the day link again
• news.me | THINK / Musings
  Oops. Broken link on post about news.me. This one should work
• (500) http://t.co/zO2KnB3
  Oops. Broken link on post about news.me. This one should work
• (404) http://oreil.ly/d
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Cooking for Geeks – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD4GK HLKR6
• (404) http://bit.ly/gzlMoII
  (I love news.me!) RT @Borthwick news.me launched. Finally. Some background on why and how we built it
• Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music, despite democratization – Little White Earbuds
  Absolutely fascinating teardown of the economics of the music scene from the perspective of an artist via @mikeloukides
• Metamarkets Blog » Blog Archive » Node.js and the Javascript Age
• Dana Blankenhorn: Unemployment and Mexicanization
  Good piece by @DanaBlankenhorn on why concentrating wealth at the top makes society as a whole poorer
• Books I own that were published by O’Reilly Media, Inc. on Twitpic
  RT @arh: Fifty-two reasons I’m thrilled to have @timoreilly as #stc11 keynote speaker.
• Cute tickled will make your brain explode – Video : theCHIVE
  Ever tickle a penguin? maybe u should.
• (500) http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2011/04/advice-for-a-young-entrepreneur/
  .@tonystubblebine’s Notes from his talk to an entrepreneurship class at Carnegie Mellon are fabulous. Must read.
• petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub
• Oscar nominee, another photographer killed in Libya – CNN.com
  RT @kwiens: RIP, Tim Hetherington. Your photos made the world better.
• Obama Visits Facebook, Holds Online Town Hall | Liz Gannes | NetworkEffect | AllThingsD
  Good way to catch up if you can’t watch live or missed the start RT @karaswisher: Liveblogging Obama at Facebook
• Twitpic – Share photos and videos on Twitter
  "I don’t think there’s a problem out there that we can’t solve if we work together" @BarackObama I agree
• Obama, Zuckerberg Hold Town Hall At Facebook HQ Today: Watch The Livestream Here
  RT @TechCrunch: Zuckerberg, Obama Answer Questions At Facebook HQ Today: You Can Watch The Livestream Here by @alexia
• Animated GIF QuickLook plugin | Download Animated GIF QuickLook plugin software for free at SourceForge.net
• Best Seller Differences (robinsloan.com)
  List updated each week with highlighted differences between #ebook and hardcover @nytimes bestseller lists

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• Video: Where 2.0 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, April 19 – 21, 2011, Santa Clara, CA
  .@scobleizer is doing a great job of interviewing @dens at #where20 live stream
• Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves – O’Reilly Radar
  RT @radar: A hidden file in iOS 4 is recording the location of devices. @petewarden and @aallan explain #where20
• Make: Online | Enter the MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest!
  RT @make Got bots with character? Enter the @MAKE robot contest and get your project published in Volume 27.
• Seth’s Blog: Economies of small
  RT @brainpicker: Seth Godin on "economies of small" as the new economies of scale
• lucas dixon : Scooping the Loop Snooper
  Awesome, the Halting Problem as a Dr. Seuss rhyme, THE LOOP SNOOPER:
• Coming Soon From the Air Force: Mind-Reading Drones | Danger Room | Wired.com
  RT @digiphile: ESPRIT d’aircorps RT @dangerroom Coming Soon from the Air Force: Mind-Reading Drones Happy Judgment Day.
• Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/pskomoroch/geo-analytics-tutorial)
  Posted slides from my Geo Analytics tutorial on Hadoop, Pig, Mechanical Turk: #where20 #in
• The Enterprise End-Run » wrkng
  If you want to reach the enterprise, see@nickgrossman’s The Enterprise End-Run @bryce just wrote something on this too
• Grey Hairs And Red Herrings: IBM mainframe skills resurgence is a triumph of Developer Relations – James Governor’s Monkchips
  RT @monkchips i think you might enjoy this alternative take on developer relations and skills shortages
• Git Cheatsheet
• Untitled (http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg)
  OK, @patcito. Not as similar, but good point about Apple copying Samsung, not the other way around
• Untitled (http://www.tmobileniles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/iphone4-vs-galaxy-s-head.jpg)
  @_ds Yes, you’re right, that is a clear rip off. If that’s what Apple is suing about, they need a better description
• ShortStack: The Top Twittering Cities & Counties | Code for America
  RT @codeforamerica List: The Top Twittering Cities & Counties #gov20 #social #opengov

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