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dweinberger

  1. UI design from The Avengers cargocollective.com/jayse/Avengers
  2. @Boingboing post on Cognitive Democ makes me more eager than ever to read the article boingboing.net/2012/05/24/cog…
  3. @rmack: "In the digital world, with cross-border networks, we don't have a good way of holding power accountable." #mesh
  4. @rmack: "The Internet is more a variable than a constant." We need to be citizens of the Net, not passive consumers. #mesh
  5. Crowdsourcing globalizing local tv, by @loosewire reuters.com/article/2012/0…
  6. Fascinating list of countries where iPad traffic is highest % of web browsing. royal.pingdom.com/2012/05/16/the…
  7. Customer support - and pr - via Reddit. How it's done. reddit.com/r/gaming/comme…
  8. Sign petition for free access to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. wh.gov/6TH
  9. @hrheingold:I've been interested in mind-amplifying technology for a long time ;-) [me: Howard we can hear your mind all the way over here!]
  10. Be sure to stay all the way through The Avengers credits, not just to the first inserted scene. Alllll the way through.
  11. If "one" takes a singular verb, then surely so should "zero". E.g., "I have zero follower."
  12. Hike through the Alps. In German, but figure-out-able. (Drag the orange vertical bar to jump ahead.) webwandern.ch
  13. Assoc. Ed. of Elsevier's Genomics journal quits over lack of open access to it in developing countries. guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2…
  14. Whatever the "there" happens to be, I am going to be there _and_ be square. That's how I roll.
  15. Terrific post about Reddit and Wikipedia's ways of dealing with falsehoods theatlantic.com/national/archi…
  16. Another advantage of "had an impact": it naturally leads to an object that expresses who/what it had an impact on.