Saturday, March 8, 2003

World of Ends. Doc Searls and David Weinberger.  Really Good! The Nutshell 1. The Internet isn't complicated 2. The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement. 3. The Internet is stupid. 4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value. 5. All the Internet's value grows on its edges. 6. Money moves to the suburbs. 7. The end of the world? Nah, the world of ends. 8. The Internetís three virtues:    a. No one owns it    b. Everyone can use it    c. Anyone can improve it 9. If the Internet is so simple, why have so many been so boneheaded about it? 10. Some mistakes we can stop making already     comments? [] 12:29:10 PM     Some goodies from Richard Patterson's WebLog Interactive Art - A New definition Look for the "blob" on the circle and move it Exceptional reviews of "Tipping Point" (Gladwell) and "Grooming and Gossip" (Dunbar) Here from the New Scientist are two great reviews that have an exceptional set of links as well that take you deeper Captology, persuasive technologies and web credibility. Last couple of days almost everyone points to Persuasive Design: New Captology Book. It's not common for Jakob Nielsen to focus his Alertbox column describing work of others so positiely :) comments? [] 12:10:42 PM     Swimming With MIT's Virtual Fish. This summer at MIT, a virtual aquarium full of fish that respond to passersby will help ocean engineering students learn more about the way aquatic animals move -- and give people strolling the famous Infinite Corridor more to stare at than bricks.  [Wired News] [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] comments? [] 11:57:08 AM     Official Python Blog? Should we have an official Python weblog as part of www.python.org? [Kevin Altis: Python] Yes.   The DailyPythonURL is a daily checkup-item for me.  But who would contribute?  How would it differ from the newsgroups.   Perhaps what you mean is a group blog like LazyWeb, that aggregates python blog-posts.  Hey that's a good idea! comments? [] 11:55:42 AM     Where we live. Great map of the world and the population densities. Makes some things a little clearer. [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog] comments? [] 11:51:50 AM     Ideagraph, a Visualization Tool for the Semantic Web release 0. some annoying bugs appeared in the 0.5.3 build, turns out I was using two different versions of the libraries... [Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF] comments? [] 11:46:04 AM     Comprehensive worldwide wISP directory: Bj[^]aut;rn Thorngren, an analyst at BrainHeart Capital, sent a link to a company resource they've developed that lists every known wISP in the world. Click through on each wISP to read details about current and planned deployments. [80211b News] comments? [] 11:34:55 AM

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