Anil Dash is now director of Experts Lab, a new thinktank-ish organization started with MacArthur Foundation and the American Association for The Advancement of Science, intended to guide US policy.
- Stowe Boyd
Simon Mainwearing takes the meme 'meaning is the new search' from my recent Defrag keynote and runs with it, taking it into the marketing PR domain.
- Stowe Boyd
BookBlog Blog Archive In praise of semipermeable social boundaries - Adina Levin's weblog. For conversation about books I've been reading, social software, and other stuff too. - http://www.alevin.com/?p=1867
Adina does it again: "The Facebook model is biased against getting to know new people. The Twitter model is biased in favor of getting to know new people – slowly and gradually."
- Stowe Boyd
Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Arrington learns that mobile ads were selectively blocked for his login, although they are still in place on Zygna's Facebook games. These come along with a spammy monthly fee.
- Stowe Boyd
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called “primitive man” and who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 100.
- Stowe Boyd
The NY Times finds itself, once again, on the far side of its own policies on quoting anonymous sources. Isn't this exactly what eidtorial journalism is supposed to be a check against?
- Stowe Boyd