Stowe Boyd examines the new Co Human Issue Tracker. Dependency-based prioritization, smells like PERT-lite (which isn't a bad thing). Though I'd never use an Issue Tracker without it being a Issue TrackerWiki anymore (unless I had a WikiProxy to give me the same effect...).

A few weeks ago, at the insistence of the Securities and Exchange Commission, New Jersey agreed never again to fraudulently hide its underfunding of the state’s public pension system. Meanwhile, in Albany, Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for state comptroller, has asserted that — if you do the math the way any ordinary financial analyst or economist would — NewYork’s Pension system is underfunded by tens of billions of dollars and that, as a result, the state is essentially insolvent.

Stowe Boyd has dropped DisQus for Back Type for his blogs. But the Disqus comment system just doesn’t gibe well with TumblR, or my increasingly Twitter-oriented world.

The Sam Sung Galaxy Tab 7" Android Tablet has launched, well not really. The tablet will be out in Europe first, possibly with Italy as the first to nab it (in September), and the US will come later down the line. (more)

Anil Dash ponders the Culture of the Fork, as reinvigorated by Linus Torvald's Git. One of the best ways for Wikipedia to reinvigorate itself, and to break away from the stultifying and arcane editing discussions that are its worst feature, could be to embrace the idea that there's not One True Version of every Wikipedia article. Some interesting comments, re Wisdom Of Crowds. (more)

The Haystack Anti-CensorShip project has imploded.

== Anti-CenshorShip software == (more)

The Barnes And Noble "nook" has been upgraded to v1.3. It has a Web Browser now (will only work on WiFi, not 3G): kinda weird to have to navigate via the lower color TouchScreen area. (more)

lawyer http://www.vail-law.com/ (more)

This is the first time I've heard of a Personal Learning Network (PLN), contrasting to a PLE. A Personal Learning Network is a structure that reflects relatedness to other people. Information sources (such as Google or databases) can be part of a PLN. A PLN is grown by adding new people or connections. A PLN is a reflection of social and information networks (and analysis methods). Introduction to Personal Learning Networks provides a short overview of PLNs. Connectivism?

activist in Exposing Young Kids To Science (more)

Hmm, Shawn Carlson of LabRats (Exposing Young Kids To Science) and the SocietyForAmateurScientists seems to live in Naperville Il - roughly an hour from Barrington Il.

On GitHub as Lean Startup. As far as numbers go, we have hundreds of thousands of users, tens of thousands of paying customers, and almost a million repositories – with thousands more added each day. All in just over two years... The real office, the place everyone shows up every day, is our CampFire room... Do we make web apps, or just do source control? What do we pay our employees? Should we speak at conferences? How do we approach customer support? All of these might seem like isolated questions, but they’re all directly related to the philosophy of the company. Once you know what the company stands for they’re all much easier to answer. We were having a hard time answering each question individually before we really figured out what GitHub the company was all about (Shared Vision). (Git)

Blog Lines is shutting down. Bloglines has lost much of its popularity, partly due to neglect and also to a movement to alternate news-reading experiences, like Social Networking sites.

In Bath, Maine. (more)

author of the Collapse Of Complex Societies (more)

Stephen Vescio on designing WebApp-s for the IPad. I don't know how much of this is relevant to the IPhone and Android Mobile-s. (more)

Umair Haque on why he wouldn't have invested in Zynga. Including response from Fred Wilson: i did invest in Zynga and it is the best investment i have ever made in twenty five years of venture capital investing.

Transportation? Mode of Trade?

Nathan Lewis believes (scroll down) in the ChemTrails Conspiracy Theory. (more)