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Phnomenon locates Cambodian food, deliciously
The current stir on Wikipedia
While I surely enjoyed Stacy Schiff’s New Yorker article on Wikipedia, this summary of odd bits from JOHO is even more satisfying.
links for 2006-07-28
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“contains over 300 useful and powerful utilities to fill the gaps in Excel, and automate frequently used tasks”
links for 2006-07-27
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subcategorized roundup of her “essays that are most interesting to newcomers interested in social media”, a review form that I predict we’ll see more of. Bravo.
Dept of Something Happening, Mr. Jones
There’s stuff I admire but don’t aspire to do myself, and video blogging is in that realm. This morning my blogstream presents me with abundant evidence of yet another of those tectonic shifts in Web presentation that redefines the possibilities of the medium. The conjunction of these three seems to me like new territory, and I’m certainly gonna enjoy the ride:
links for 2006-07-26
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a hosted service to display Flickr photosets
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arrayed as a Periodic Table, by go-bad time
Cole and careers
There’s an interesting exchange on blogging and academic careers in the most recent issue of The Chronicle Review, centered on Yale’s non-hiring of Juan Cole, but provoking thought on Career in a more general sense. Juan Cole’s response is a good starting place, but the seven linked pieces (“Related materials”) are bones worth chewing upon.
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Christina Wodtke’s Elements of Style for Designers is a useful reminder of things one might choose to do, or not, drawn directly from Strunk and White’s ave atque vale list of admonishments. As I read through the list, I reflected wincingly that I regularly and wilfully violate most of those injunctions for habits that lead to Good Writing, as many antiprescritivist postings at Language Log suggest I may, if I like.
links for 2006-07-25
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“Rapid mashup development tool for Google and Yahoo maps”
Clarity from Doc Searls
he sez:
why trust building the “first mile” of the Net to people who never wanted it in the first place, who have always felt threatened by it, who can imagine their customers as nothing other than “consumers” of one-way “content”, and who want to create scarcities and insert billing valves everywhere they can? Because they’re the only ones in a position to do it? That’s not a good enough reason. It’s also not true.
The phone and cable companies will be the only ones in a position to do it if we let them lobby that privilege into law. That’s their real agenda, and that’s the important story here. And it’s a lot bigger than Net Neutrality.