Ryan Sarver of Twitter posted a roadmap for the Platform, basically firing a shot across the bow of Twitter Client developers. This came right after the hoopla around their Dick Bar announcement. (Free Lunch) (more)

big Live Event in Austin Tx (more)

approach to Design-ing technology (more)

The Ny Times finally launched their Metered Pay Wall. On NYTimes.com, you can view 20 articles each month at no charge (including slide shows, videos and other features). After 20 articles, we will ask you to become a digital subscriber, with full access to our site... Readers who come to Times articles through links from search, blogs and social media like Facebook and Twitter will be able to read those articles, even if they have reached their monthly reading limit. For some search engines, users will have a daily limit of free links to Times articles. Priced at $195/yr (plus extras for special Fat Client apps). (more)

Shop Keeper, trader (more)

Jon complains about the performance of loading (viewing-1st-page) his Tiddly Space space which has 963 tiddlers adding up to 10MB. (more)

Vice President of the USA under Bill Clinton (more)

The term Kosovo War contains 2 conflicts: (more)

LBO fraud-meister (more)

Kevin Kelly wonders whether almost all EBook-s will have their price driven to $1 (actually $0.99). Joe Konrath provides a current example: Eighteen days ago, I dropped the price of my ebook, The List, from $2.99 to 99 cents on Amazon. I was selling 40 copies a day prior to that. Currently, The List is #37 in the Top 100 Bestsellers on the Kindle. It's selling 620 copies a day on Amazon. (more)

Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg wrote The Future Of Thinking: Learning Institution-s in a Digital Age (Education). It's available as free EBook and non-free Printed Book. (more)

HASTAC ("haystack") is a network of individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer for shaping how society learns, teaches, communicates, creates, and organizes at the local and global levels... HASTAC is open to anyone... Many of HASTAC's members are academics or others affiliated with universities at any stage of their careers, from students to senior professors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HASTAC (more)

Professor at Duke University (more)

AOL is buying OutsideIn. (more)

Kevin Kelly on the new possibilities of adding Computational power to an existing area of thinking (D And D). Computational Photography, Computational Biology, Computational Philosophy, Computational Music, etc.

Thin Book published for Amazon Kindle.

Amazon will be promoting a Thin Book format for the Kindle. The company describes these as texts that might be 10,000 to 30,000 words long. That would be roughly 30 to 90 pages of a printed book. Amazon said in a press release that Kindle Single-s could be “twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book,” and would be priced much less than standard books. Also has a Self Publishing spin, since this size is so hard to get published as Printed Book. (more)

attempt to understand behavior/attitudes of number of people (more)

Amazon may be taking a short-term hit in profits to price Kindle EBook-s low enough to build up their Market Share. Before the end of 2012, Amazon could own more than half of the U.S. book business across all formats. How stunning a development would that be? Prior to the launch of the Kindle in 2007, Amazon was widely considered to account, at most, for somewhere around 15 percent of all U.S. book sales in all formats by all retailers... 36 of the top 100 bestselling ebooks in the Kindle Store are published either by indie, direct-to-Kindle authors or by Amazon publishing subsidiary programs such as Amazon Encore, Amazon Crossing, or Kindle Singles. Scary for Book Store-s and (traditional) Book Publishing. (more)

Bill De Hora summarizes the dispute between Tim Bray and Mark Pilgrim about URI-s, PermaLink-s, etc. On the face of things, this is very sensible advice, and is essentially the core W3C dogma - cool URIs don't change. But there are some details that happens to strengthen Mark's position and weaken Tim's. In short - forget about the application software; the Web/Internet infrastructure itself doesn't support cool URIs. And notes that you never really own your own Domain.