Here's a list of interesting items that crossed my radar in the last week. I don't have much to add to what's said below, this is more a manner of keeping track of my interests at this point in time.
The future of humanity
- Bruce Sterling dialoging at the WELL
- Joe Bageant laying into American complacency. More from an anti-consumerist point of view.
- James Howard Kuntsler laying into American energy complacency
Some thoughts on interesting technology
- a review of Macintosh software development
- Robert Cringely predicts 2007
- Mozilla heading toward an information broker instead of a browser
- Setting up OpenID with your blog
- an introduction to microformats
Creating a new educational/learning world.
- Bill Tozier points toward something as yet undefined, but very interesting
- Dave Pollard translates the long tail into the center and the edge
- Jakob Nielsen reminds us how difficult it is to get people to participate online, or elsewhere
- Christopher Sessums on skills for participation
Rhetorics of the internet age
- Clancy Ratliff on John Logie's book about peer-to-peer rhetoric, the actual book
- Mrke Bernstein on hypetext literature, an area that I'd like to investigate in more depth.
- Reports on a survey of teens about online privacy
- The copyright regime takes some hits
Creativity
Philosophy of Information and Technology
Personal Productivity and other improvements
Science, mostly astronomy