Archives
- 2008.08.05: Twitter, Peripheral Perception, and Empathy
- 2008.08.04: September Project in Minnesota??
- 2008.08.04: An Intergenerational Shakespeare
- 2008.07.31: What are we responsible for?
- 2008.07.26: Sense of Authority
- 2008.07.25: Social Media Breakfast in Minneapolis
- 2008.07.25: Harry Boyte - Reinspiring Citizenship
- 2008.07.21: It's a sham
- 2008.07.14: What worked well at Public Radio Camp?
- 2008.07.12: Citizen Media Camp
- 2008.07.02: Past and the Future of the Commons - Notes 2
- 2008.06.30: Idiom of the Hero by Wallace Stevens
- 2008.06.27: Affordable Housing and Complexity
- 2008.06.25: Past and Future of the Commons - Notes 1
- 2008.06.25: What does LinkedIn think of Open CourseWare?
- 2008.06.18: Push 2008 - the Conference that Tried Hard
- 2008.06.09: Elsewhere - a media idea
- 2008.06.09: Media Cliches - a letter to NPR Day to Day
- 2008.06.08: National Conference on Media Reform, Final Report
- 2008.06.08: Coverage of NCMR2008
- 2008.06.07: National Conference on Media Reform - Day 1, Part 1
- 2008.06.06: National Conference on Media Reform - Day 1
- 2008.06.04: Reality Television is Like Affective Crack
- 2008.05.13: Nominatr: a web idea
- 2008.05.11: MinneBar 2008
- 2008.05.01: Speed by Carl Sandburg, a poem
- 2008.04.30: Crisis in the Humanities, Mary Poovey Edition
- 2008.04.29: Turning YA
- 2008.04.29: The Enemy Within Argument
- 2008.04.24: A Privacy Experiment
- 2008.04.23: Information Privacy and Organizations
- 2008.04.13: Rethinking the University, Day 2, Final Part
- 2008.04.12: Rethinking the University, Day 2, Part 1
- 2008.04.12: Rethinking the University, Day 1, Part 2
- 2008.04.11: Rethinking the University, Day 1, Part 1
- 2008.04.06: Current Thoughts for April 6
- 2008.03.14: These Horses Must Be Dead by Now
- 2008.03.07: It's 2008, so what are you doing now?
- 2007.03.23: Dissecting the Core Curriculum
- 2007.03.15: Happy Pi Day +1
- 2007.01.26: Solving the Millionaire Problem, or Seeing into Networks
- 2007.01.23: Causation, Social Construction, and Relativism
- 2007.01.18: Top Books and Top Movies
- 2007.01.12: Scott Page on Diversity
- 2007.01.08: Tracking some interests
- 2007.01.07: Puzzles and Mysteries, or How We Think
- 2006.12.31: A Farewell to 2006
- 2006.12.05: Some More Cool Lists
- 2006.11.30: November Readback and Update
- 2006.11.22: Is there a difference between information ethics and media ethics?
- 2006.11.17: A List Will Make it So
- 2006.11.10: Teaching and Emotion
- 2006.11.09: My Current Information Practice: Social Bookmarking
- 2006.11.04: Arguments by Nostalgia
- 2006.10.31: October Readback and Update
- 2006.10.30: Condemned From Its Own Mouth
- 2006.10.19: Fall Blues and Disparate Interests
- 2006.10.07: Past Extinctions and Global Impacts
- 2006.10.03: Genius, Psychology, and Environment
- 2006.10.03: Ways of Telling a History
- 2006.09.30: September Readback and Update
- 2006.09.24: Technological Determinism and the Power of CEOs
- 2006.09.16: Barter and the Exchange of Knowledge on the Web
- 2006.09.15: Identity - it's in the air
- 2006.09.14: Jon Udell on Apprenticeship and Barter in the New Economy
- 2006.09.11: Theodore Porter on Victorian Scientists
- 2006.09.09: Eric Rabkin on Science Fiction and Perceptions of Nanotechnology
- 2006.09.06: Philosophy of Information - Questions and Notes
- 2006.09.05: Back to School Days
- 2006.09.02: Half-MSI
- 2006.08.31: August Readback and Update
- 2006.08.29: A is for August and Allergies
- 2006.08.25: A Couple of Questions about Wikipedia
- 2006.08.23: An Academic Utopia
- 2006.08.22: Librarian as Bartender
- 2006.08.21: Autocratic Personality and Other Odds
- 2006.08.17: Sometimes It's Better to Laugh
- 2006.08.15: Anchors for the Learning Community
- 2006.08.14: A Pocketful of -archies
- 2006.08.12: The Evolution of Groups
- 2006.08.10: On the Unimaginable
- 2006.08.09: The Density of the Other
- 2006.08.08: Existential Threats and Silly Ideas about Genre SF
- 2006.08.07: Reflecting
- 2006.08.06: Terrifying Beauty
- 2006.08.05: Pondering
- 2006.08.03: The Cool Down
- 2006.08.02: Visualizing Income Distributions
- 2006.08.01: Cosmos and Carl Sagan's Legacy
- 2006.07.31: July Readback and Update
- 2006.07.30: Lords of War
- 2006.07.29: Technology, Theory, and Education - Interpolations on a Review by Geert Lovink
- 2006.07.28: Richard Florida and the Cato Unbound Series
- 2006.07.27: Time Travel in Art
- 2006.07.26: Feeling Miscellaneous
- 2006.07.25: Bifurcations and Other Thoughts
- 2006.07.24: Mid Summer Ennui
- 2006.07.23: Some New Thoughts for Education
- 2006.07.22: The Middle East, Empire, Etc.
- 2006.07.21: Education Won't Save Us
- 2006.07.20: People and the Masses - or is tech really a savior
- 2006.07.19: Rhetorics of Choice and Rhetorics of Freedom
- 2006.07.18: Three Films the Curse
- 2006.07.17: So Sick it Makes You Laugh - Follies in Political Rhetoric
- 2006.07.16: Emergency Response and Hastily Formed Networks
- 2006.07.15: Retrieving Information from My Own Internet Tracks
- 2006.07.14: Teaching and Copying Across the Net
- 2006.07.13: Gross Comedy and the Origin of Slapstick
- 2006.07.12: The 'Externality Machine'
- 2006.07.11: Link Dump
- 2006.07.10: Religion and the Workplace
- 2006.07.09: Skull Flushing
- 2006.07.08: Art and Teaching
- 2006.07.07: Managing My Information World
- 2006.07.06: Nostalgia via YouTube and Some Problems of Distributed Problem Solving
- 2006.07.05: Let Me Off the Planet
- 2006.07.04: On Independence
- 2006.07.03: On Neophilia
- 2006.07.02: Emusic Rocks! - a long tail success
- 2006.07.01: Coase's Penguin and Crowdsourcing
- 2006.06.30: June 2006 Readback and Update
- 2006.06.29: The 'More Education' Blinder
- 2006.06.28: Weather Watching
- 2006.06.27: Vestigial Design and the Everyday Sound Environment
- 2006.06.26: The Inspirations of Film
- 2006.06.25: Habits and Writing
- 2006.06.24: Being a Student - Living on the Edge of Evaluation
- 2006.06.23: Socializing Online and Elsewhere
- 2006.06.22: On Learning Communities
- 2006.06.21: Recent Reading on Knowledge Mangement
- 2006.06.20: A Small Bit of Optimism Picks a Fight
- 2006.06.19: Finding the Roots of Violence
- 2006.06.18: A Disturbing Lack of Physicality
- 2006.06.17: Summer 2006 Curiosities
- 2006.06.16: On the Qualities of Fiction
- 2006.06.15: Looking to the Future via Reality Television
- 2006.05.27: Wiscon - Friday Part 2
- 2006.05.26: At Wiscon Day One - Friday
- 2006.05.26: The Sheer Radicalism of Democracy
- 2006.05.22: Some Bits of Faith, But More Bits of Doubt
- 2006.05.16: Blue Pills, Red Pills, Rabbitholes..
- 2006.05.10: Praise for Listmixer
- 2006.05.08: Starting the Summer Internship
- 2006.05.04: Jessica Litman and Law School Publishing
- 2006.04.02: Sylvia Nasar on Fame, Depression, and John Nash
- 2006.03.30: Steven Bankes on Bridging the Gap from Complex Models to Policy Analysis
- 2006.02.11: Boundary Objects and an Interesting Talk
- 2006.01.26: A rough stab at an "interest web"
- 2006.01.26: Neil Johnson at Complex Systems Seminar
- 2006.01.20: Accelerando by Stross
- 2006.01.12: Small Things Loosely Connected - an SI Event
- 2006.01.12: Joanne Yates and some History of Technology
- 2006.01.11: A Shoutout to my Homie?
- 2006.01.11: What Have You Done?!
- 2005.08.26: An Interruption, a Farewell
- 2005.08.06: Delusions of Ash: Reflections on Hiroshima
- 2005.07.16: 60 Years Pasts, The Nuclear Age Begins
- 2005.04.15: In Praise of Taxes
- 2004.07.17: First Insight, Blogging, and the R-mode
- 2004.07.01: Favorite Mozilla Firefox Extensions
- 2004.05.15: Sterling Speaks to Minneapolitans
- 2004.05.12: My Soundtrack of Despair and Decadence
- 2004.04.08: Vacuum and Recover
- 2004.02.25: Learning to Write with James Macdonald
- 2004.02.25: Perl Module for RSS Aggregating
- 2004.02.24: Online Learning Book Published
- 2004.02.24: Real Life Tech Support
- 2004.02.24: New Fiction Magazine and the Plight of Publishing
- 2004.02.22: Thin Crescent Moons and Amateur Astronomers
- 2004.02.21: Dampening the Echo
- 2004.02.21: Piracy and the Democratization of Creativity
- 2004.02.12: Grid Computing for the Masses and Interesting Music
- 2004.02.10: Trying to Explain Great Teachers
- 2004.02.06: Is it Possible to Change a Person's Mind?
- 2004.01.31: Reminiscing Around the Thermomter
- 2004.01.22: Stephen Downes Gazes into the Internet Crystal Ball
- 2004.01.22: Passion:Power::Media:Reality
- 2004.01.21: Iowa 2004: Where Next?
- 2003.12.31: Blogging Hiatus
- 2003.10.29: Morton Feldman Appreciation at ArtsJournal
- 2003.10.23: Why do we laugh?
- 2003.10.20: Questioning the Brights and other Atheist Shibboleths
- 2003.10.19: Combating Comment Spam for Movable Type
- 2003.10.18: Against Acadmeic Prestige
- 2003.10.18: Fears of Empire and Decadence
- 2003.10.17: Text Mining
- 2003.10.16: On Google AdSense and Weblogs
- 2003.10.16: Musings on Web Moderation
- 2003.10.16: Collecting Timelines at Blackbelt Jones
- 2003.10.16: Political Column Watch
- 2003.10.15: Discovering New Social Networks and the Threats of Intellectual Property
- 2003.10.15: A minor tiff reveals a vital point: or the internet does it strange work again
- 2003.10.14: Watching the Temperature Rise
- 2003.10.13: Taking the Long View
- 2003.10.13: Biotechnology, Access and Choice
- 2003.10.13: Cool Archive of Wired Illustrations
- 2003.10.13: YAML and the Art of Unix Programming
- 2003.10.09: Reacting to the California Recall
- 2003.09.30: Emacs and XML
- 2003.09.26: Juxtaposition: Searls and Spears
- 2003.09.25: Notes
- 2003.09.12: Revenge and Forgetting
- 2003.09.11: Prime Obsession and the Strangeness of the Author
- 2003.09.10: Jujusoft e-book library and reader
- 2003.09.06: American Rhetoric
- 2003.09.06: Your Weekly Juxtaposition: Fallows and Beale
- 2003.09.05: Design Style Change
- 2003.09.05: Open Source and Anarchism
- 2003.09.05: Language, and the Limits of the Web and Thought
- 2003.09.04: Mapping the Technology Debate
- 2003.08.11: extropian and interactive math
- 2003.07.29: Experimenting with New Blog Tools - Zempt
- 2003.07.29: New Science, Technology, and Society Blogs, with some further connections
- 2003.07.25: AnarchistU: Toronto free school
- 2003.07.18: Using MovableType for Content Management
- 2003.07.17: XML Content Management Instructions
- 2003.07.16: Top Philosophy Journals
- 2003.07.16: Of Interest
- 2003.07.16: Computer Auditing and Security
- 2003.07.16: Studying Citations
- 2003.07.08: Open Access to Science
- 2003.07.07: A.S. Byatt on Harry Potter
- 2003.07.02: Who controls the children?
- 2003.07.01: Two Intersting Researchers
- 2003.07.01: An Ontology Building Tool
- 2003.06.27: XML Editors
- 2003.06.27: Content Management Systems: Open Source
- 2003.06.20: The Aging of Star Trek?
- 2003.06.17: The Left and the Young
- 2003.06.12: Bill Moyers Speaks to Progessives
- 2003.06.12: Fanaticism and Ambition
- 2003.06.11: Thomas Friedman's 4 Reasons for the Iraqi War
- 2003.06.10: Godwin's Law and Argument Style
- 2003.06.10: On the Inability to Admit Mistakes
- 2003.06.10: Ivins, Franken, and O'Reilly Shakedown
- 2003.05.12: Quick Links
- 2003.05.09: Idea Generators
- 2003.05.09: Behavioral Econ and Neuroethics
- 2003.05.09: Artificial Life and Evolution
- 2003.05.07: Link Collecting: Media, Science, War
- 2003.05.06: Rosalind Franklin and the Winds of Scientific Reputation
- 2003.04.29: On Spam and the "Simple" Computer
- 2003.04.25: Weblogs, Self, and the Web
- 2003.04.22: Iraqi Patchwork
- 2003.04.22: Turning Away from Television Media
- 2003.04.18: Turning the Bell Curve Upside Down
- 2003.04.09: Writing the World
- 2003.04.08: Education, Science, and Freedom
- 2003.03.27: Religion, Politics, and Subtlety
- 2003.03.25: Tivo Made Me Love Barbara Stanwyck
- 2003.03.24: Dawkins on the War and Evil
- 2003.03.24: Genes and Atheism
- 2003.03.13: More Theorizing About Security and the New World Order
- 2003.02.28: The Meaning of Power
- 2003.02.26: In Praise of the Dark - Into the Morn
- 2003.02.26: Late Night Insomniac (Work) Thoughts
- 2003.02.25: Learning About Optics
- 2003.02.24: Experiments in Linux
- 2003.02.18: Studying Emotions in History
- 2003.02.16: Information Age Intelligence
- 2003.02.16: On Nerds
- 2003.02.15: We need to see the power law over time
- 2003.02.15: On Tied Knowledge in Academia and Business
- 2003.02.15: Taming the Internet via the Desktop
- 2003.02.15: On Business Processes and Scripting Languages
- 2003.02.14: Graphing Tools
- 2003.02.14: The internet and the shuttle
- 2003.02.13: Fear and Fatalism
- 2003.02.06: Assessing risks
- 2003.02.05: Tomorrow Now - Bruce Sterling is Right
- 2003.02.05: On computer security
- 2003.02.05: Metaphors on the Public Domain
- 2003.02.04: Metrics for Knowledge Management
- 2003.02.04: Visualizing Social Interaction
- 2003.02.04: Pinker Prioritizes Pedagogy
- 2003.02.04: PowerPoint Corrupts Minds
- 2003.01.03: Gabe Chouinard looks at the future of Science fiction and Fantasy
- 2003.01.03: Neal Gabler on Media Bias
- 2002.12.18: more misc links
- 2002.12.11: Links
- 2002.12.11: Age and Creativity
- 2002.12.10: Creativity in Software
- 2002.12.09: Criticizing the Public Intellectuals
- 2002.12.09: Empirical Evidence Sharing Information increases Creativity
- 2002.12.06: Software to Tame the Internet
- 2002.12.06: Groups for Innovation
- 2002.12.06: Beyond Selfishness
- 2002.12.06: Recent Gleanings
- 2002.12.04: Reading Across the Spectrum
- 2002.12.03: Criticizing Religion from the Left
- 2002.11.22: Metaphors for Business
- 2002.11.21: Grammars of Nihilism
- 2002.11.21: The Professional-Amateur Axis in Art and Creativity
- 2002.11.20: Postmodern Bilge
- 2002.11.20: Enigma: a movie recommendation
- 2002.11.19: Assorted Links - IP, Religion, and foreign policy
- 2002.11.19: The Bush-Eminem Connection
- 2002.11.18: Mixing Motivations for Creativity
- 2002.11.15: Motivation and Measurement for Creativity
- 2002.11.12: Moon Hoax Spoof
- 2002.11.11: FCC prepares to change rules on media
- 2002.11.11: Why I'm not a Libertarian
- 2002.11.10: Jared Diamond on Innovation
- 2002.11.10: More on the Muggles and Chris Mooney
- 2002.11.09: Politics and Consumer Motivations
- 2002.11.08: What is Objectivity?
- 2002.11.08: Network Organizing Principles
- 2002.11.08: Whither Criticism?
- 2002.11.05: Physics and a Reverse Sokal Hoax
- 2002.10.29: Speaking up for the Muggles
- 2002.10.29: Weeding Books from the Library
- 2002.10.29: Harold Bloom on Genius
- 2002.10.29: Surprise - Criminal Profilers Got It Wrong?
- 2002.10.29: Consciousness and the Novel
- 2002.10.28: A Recent History of the End of Privacy
- 2002.10.28: Computers -> Decentralization
- 2002.10.25: On the Future of Poetry and the NEA
- 2002.10.25: Popping Myths - the "Nobel" Prize in Economics
- 2002.10.25: An Introverts Dream to Join the Borg
- 2002.10.16: I feel like the success
- 2002.10.16: Test post.
- 2002.10.16: Open Citation Linking. D-Lib Magazine
- 2002.10.16: More experiments with blog clients.
- 2002.10.15: So I'm testing out BlogBuddy
- 2002.10.11: New Visions for Conferences
- 2002.10.11: Let's Hear it for Multilateralsim
- 2002.10.10: National Security and Some Political Commentary
- 2002.10.10: Hacking Culture, the Real Hacking Rules
- 2002.10.10: Bias in the Blogosphere
- 2002.10.01: Pingback and Automating Dialogue
- 2002.10.01: NTIS - information source
- 2002.10.01: Eldred v. Ashcroft approaches the Supreme Court
- 2002.10.01: Howard Rheingold on Smart Mobs
- 2002.09.30: What is the problem with broadband??
- 2002.09.30: MIT OpenCourseWare Continues
- 2002.09.30: XML Friend of a Friend
- 2002.09.27: Reacting versus Creating
- 2002.09.26: U Mich SI Open House
- 2002.09.26: IETF Working Group on Calendaring
- 2002.09.26: What happens after regime change?
- 2002.09.20: Why Johnny Won't Program
- 2002.09.20: Secure Programming
- 2002.09.12: The Internet: Broadcast or Community
- 2002.09.12: Data Extinction
- 2002.09.12: The Dangers of Hyperselectionism
- 2002.09.12: Steven Pinker's Theories of the Mind
- 2002.09.12: Unintended Street Effect
- 2002.09.12: Bullying via Technology
- 2002.09.12: Zen and Psychdelics
- 2002.09.09: Genomes and Machines
- 2002.09.09: Playful Invention and Exploration Network
- 2002.09.09: Invention Playhouse
- 2002.09.08: Robert Wright Makes some Good Points about Terrorism
- 2002.09.08: Millenial Fictions
- 2002.08.13: Europe's Call to Arms on the Internet
- 2002.08.01: Swarming: Technology changes social contact
- 2002.08.01: Bootlegs and the Remixing of Creativity
- 2002.07.31: Copyright's Cudgel
- 2002.07.17: The Evolution of Software Development
- 2002.07.16: Internet Changes Thinking?!?
- 2002.06.25: Just one throw away line
- 2002.06.25: Command Line Bigots and End-User Programming
- 2002.06.24: Your PC under attack?
- 2002.06.21: Debunking Creationism
- 2002.06.21: Fragmentation of Music
- 2002.06.20: Review of Richard Stallman Bio
- 2002.06.14: The End of Patents?
- 2002.06.10: New Wave for Simulation Learning
- 2002.06.07: Old Comments on Star Wars for a New Movie
- 2002.06.04: Reading Exams Get Censored
- 2002.06.04: Showing Boys How to Read
- 2002.06.04: The Stock Market and Perceptions of Risk
- 2002.05.30: Optimum Creative Networks
- 2002.05.28: Microsoft and Privacy
- 2002.05.28: Entrepreneurial Drive
- 2002.05.28: Power : European and American
- 2002.05.28: Modeling the Social Networks of Blogland
- 2002.05.28: Aggregation Nightmares
- 2002.05.24: Future of Adaptive Agents
- 2002.05.22: Trying to Use Anti-trust in the information age
- 2002.05.21: Tony Blair Speaks Up for Science
- 2002.05.21: Derrick de Kerckhove interview
- 2002.05.20: Mimetic Management
- 2002.05.20: Myhrvold's Life After Microsoft - Promoting Innovation
- 2002.05.20: The Missing Political Imagination
- 2002.05.20: The Morning Dose
- 2002.05.18: I'm not done yet...
- 2002.05.18: Houston, Houston, Come In