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Don’t just read the news, predict it! - Predictify

Thursday at 10:03 pm - Link

Predictify provides a simple, fun way to predict the future. You can research, discuss and predict what will happen, build a reputation based on your accuracy, and even get paid real money when you're right (tell me more). Best of all, it’s free – no points or bets required. - Joi Ito

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Luminous landscape

Thursday at 8:56 pm - Link

Fast Lenses for the Epson R-D1 - Joi Ito

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Hacking In Progress

August 23 at 4:37 pm - Link

Everything you need to know about HIP, a hacker festival in the Netherlands which took place on the 8th, 9th and 10th of August 1997. - I wonder where my images from this event are... - Joi Ito

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Battlegrounds holiday - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

August 22 at 4:32 pm - Link

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Holidays occur during all weekends, starting on Thursday night at midnight and continuing until early Tuesday morning. During a holiday, emissaries from that Battleground will be found in the major cities, and honor/faction rewards for performing objectives in that battleground are increased. - Joi Ito

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“Is it stupid to visit Dubai during Ramadan?”

August 19 at 3:23 am - via Ping.fm - Link

Yes - Mo Jawhari

Not really, In the tourist areas where most people stay you wouldn't notice a difference. - Cains

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@Cains, there is a difference in Ramadan. Dubai is too small to be broken down into tourist areas. @Joi, Ramadan comes with its rules and Dubai, being a muslim city, enforces them on the public during fasting hours from sunrise to sunset. 1) No eating or drinking in public places (even if you're really hot in the car, you shouldn't reach for water and drink it). 2) Most (90%) restaurants are closed from sunrise to sunset. 3) No alcohol is sold throughout the month (even in hotels). Ask Google for more. - Mo Jawhari

I thought basically the Burj Al Arab and surrounding area remained the same? - Cains

It might actually be interesting to observe the fast. Will people still be available to meet? I assume restaurants are open at night then right? - Joi Ito

I was in Pakistan once during Ramadan. Everybody was grumpy and tired all the time during the day. - Rebecca MacKinnon via twhirl

Yes, restaurants open around 6pm. You'll actually find indoor restaurants in hotels do remain open during the day. It's considered rude to eat/drink in public during the daytime and could land you in trouble. But apart from that, business as usual. - Cains

Yes. My daughter did it and didn't even get to eat during the day - Francine Hardaway

I don't know but wouldn't recommend if you don't have some food stored at backpack etc. (and you are eating it somewhere inside). ;) - Daniel Schildt

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Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software - NYTimes.com

August 14 at 12:45 pm - Link

The federal appeals court in Washington said that just because a software programmer gave his work away did not mean it could not be protected. - Joi Ito

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Levi van Veluw on the Behance Network

August 12 at 6:42 am - Link

Freaky faces - Joi Ito

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PvP List (Jonkichi)

August 11 at 11:46 am - Link

My PvP gear wishlist - Joi Ito

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South Ossetia War (2008) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

August 8 at 5:22 pm - Link

Wikipedia entry with lots of detail on the Russian troops moving into Georgia - Joi Ito

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Free souls - 译言PRO

August 8 at 5:03 pm - Link

Chinese translation of Freesouls book text - Joi Ito

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“Picked eggplant, kale, okra and romaine from the garden. The okra this year are abnormally gigantic...”

August 6 at 4:07 pm - via Ping.fm - Link

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Fantastic! Flickr? Also, why do you think the okra are so large? My sunflowers have done fantastically well even potted and in a New York summer. - joshua fouts

I should photograph them. I will when I get back. I have no idea whether its a different kind or maybe the crazy compost I've been feeding the soil. - Joi Ito

It's not this big though: http://www.veggiegardeningtips... - Joi Ito

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“I wish slideshare spoke Keynote”

August 6 at 10:38 pm - via Ping.fm - Link

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agreed. needing to create pdfs to use slideshare from keynote is a frustrating loss of fidelity. - Nate Koechley

Yeah... everyone says I can just convert to PPT or PDF but my fonts and backgrounds often get screwed up when I upload to slideshare for some reason - Joi Ito via twhirl

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ExpertFlyer.com - Empowering the Frequent Flyer

August 1 at 10:45 pm - Link

ExpertFlyer.com - fares, seat maps and flight information, award and upgrade availability for 100s of airlines worldwide in real time. - Joi Ito

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ExpertFlyer.com - Empowering the Frequent Flyer

August 1 at 10:45 pm - Link

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ExpertFlyer.com - fares, seat maps and flight information, award and upgrade availability for 100s of airlines worldwide in real time. - Joi Ito

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Converting Technorati Japan to a Joint Venture

July 31 at 6:17 pm - Link

Why convert to JV? In China everyone tries to get away from JVs... - Paul Denlinger

I find JVs are usually better to aligned interests - Joi Ito

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Joi Ito / Joi Ito's Socialtext Workspace

August 1 at 5:11 pm - Link

My list of affiliation and investments - Joi Ito

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Joi Ito / Joi Ito's Socialtext Workspace

August 1 at 5:11 pm - Link

My list of affiliation and investments - Joi Ito

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Are my investments a conflict of interest as CEO of Creative Commons?

July 31 at 6:30 pm - Link

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The problem with avoiding conflict of interest is that there has to be both the appearance of lack of conflict as well as actuality. From what you said the actuality part you can/have managed. The appearance part not so much. I think you have a problem since from what you say your investments in the same realm as your CC duties. Not sure what you can do about it though -- maybe declare your investments publicly, completely and keep the declaration current? - Brian Sullivan

I really thought this was important and am disappointed that after asking such a question at least in FF Joi is not engaged in a conversation(nor is anyone else for that matter). Was the question mostly rhetorical? - Brian Sullivan

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There are only two comments in response on his original blogpost, which seem to support your comment, Brian. I don't think this is that big of a deal, especially since Joi is disclosing it. As one of the commenters on his blog stated, the board of CC would not likely have offered him the job had there been a conflict. Meanwhile check out his new book! http://www.boingboing.net/2008... - joshua fouts

As far as I can see he has disclosed nothing. I think this is an issue not only for the CC board though. I think those affected have a right to know as well - which would include everybody that licenses material under cc. (BTW from what I can see Joi Ito is personally above reproach but that is not the point) - Brian Sullivan

Poking a little further I see that Joi has disclosed all of his investments and assuming the wiki nature of the location implies that he is updating it regularly -- I am not sure what more he could do other than perhaps reveal the size of the investments (pretty sensitive info though) - Brian Sullivan

Brian, I've been replying to the comments on my blog...but I don't know how I can engage in a conversation unless people ask questions. ;-) The general size of the investments is disclosed in my conflict of interests statement at CC which I think is probably publicly available... maybe through the 990 filing. I can find out if anyone is interest. Basically, CC and most organizations separate "material interests" and others. Material usually means some sort of management control or 5% stakes, etc. - Joi Ito

I'll mark companies where I have a major stake. I've already marked the ones where I am on the board. http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki... - Joi Ito

Joi: I am not sure what more you can do publicly -- the rest is probably between you, the staff and the board. - Brian Sullivan

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The Bruce Wayne of WOW, Shawn Fanning is My Idol | World of Ming | WoW Riot | World of Warcraft, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, WoW, TBC, WotlK

July 30 at 12:25 am - Link

Shawn Fanning is my idol too - Joi Ito

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The Bruce Wayne of WOW, Shawn Fanning is My Idol | World of Ming | WoW Riot | World of Warcraft, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, WoW, TBC, WotlK

July 30 at 12:25 am - Link

Shawn Fanning is my idol too - Joi Ito

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OurWorld 2.0

July 29 at 11:12 pm - Link

A great site at the UN University in Japan about Climate, Oil and Food issues. - Joi Ito

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OurWorld 2.0

July 29 at 11:12 pm - Link

A great site at the UN University in Japan about Climate, Oil and Food issues. - Joi Ito

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The World's Hardest Game - Free Arcade & Classic Game from AddictingGames

July 28 at 8:29 pm - Link

The World's Hardest Game, a Free Arcade & Classic Game from AddictingGames: Don't Get Hit By Blue Balls! Keep your Red Square away from the Blue Balls on your way to the Green Zone or you'll DIE! And trust us; you'll die. A lot. This really is the World' - Joi Ito

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The World's Hardest Game - Free Arcade & Classic Game from AddictingGames

July 28 at 8:29 pm - Link

The World's Hardest Game, a Free Arcade & Classic Game from AddictingGames: Don't Get Hit By Blue Balls! Keep your Red Square away from the Blue Balls on your way to the Green Zone or you'll DIE! And trust us; you'll die. A lot. This really is the World' - Joi Ito

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U.S. Treasury - SDN List

July 28 at 7:57 pm - Link

List of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked Persons. - Joi Ito

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U.S. Treasury - SDN List

July 28 at 7:57 pm - Link

List of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked Persons. - Joi Ito

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Ping.fm / Your Dashboard

July 28 at 7:42 pm - Link

Ping.fm is a simple service that allows you to post to multiple social networks with a single message. - Joi Ito

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Ping.fm / Your Dashboard

July 28 at 7:42 pm - Link

Ping.fm is a simple service that allows you to post to multiple social networks with a single message. - Joi Ito

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“roughly agreed upon standards like fair use are less vulnerable to lobbying”

July 28 at 5:49 pm - Link

Why? Pushbach? Admitted cotporatist overreach or visible consumer opposition? Failure of DRM? There is current push in Conhress to pishbthrough more strinhent copyright & trademark protection mechanisms - tax-payer fund too? Observations of actual fair use-like services? Very curious. - Scott Moskowitz

Well legal exceptions are written into law in a process driven by bureaucrats vs fair use, which is fought in court. I would say courts are less vulnerable to lobbying. - Joi Ito via twhirl

I do wish the old Boucher amendment I advocated during LoC DMCA comments way back in Nov 2000 did get legislated ... Thanks for the reply! - Scott Moskowitz

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My pool picture ban over paedophile fears | Metro.co.uk

July 28 at 5:38 pm - Link

An amateur photographer was told she could not take snaps of an empty paddling pool because she might be a paedophile. - Joi Ito

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