ATT wants to buy T-Mobile. As if there's too much competition in WireLess? (more)

Mike Arrington's tech-rag (more)

Carol Bartz has been dumped from CEO position by Yahoo.

Toilet which converts human waste into harmless humanure. (more)

As Sovereign Debt crises hit lots of EU members and soon perhaps the US, it's worth noting exceptions to the standard playbook. (more)

John Robb is being interviewed by Jon Lebkowsky. Resilient Community, etc. (more)

Taxonomy described via MetaTag-s (more)

practice of creating Resilient Community, esp in response to Peak Oil: SmallWorld (more)

Ryan Avent sees Urbanization as a Job Creation strategy. How great are the benefits of density? Economists studying cities routinely find that after controlling for other variables, workers in denser places earn higher wages and are more productive. Some studies suggest that doubling density raises productivity by around 6 percent while others peg the impact at up to 28 percent. Some economists have concluded that more than half the variation in output per worker across the United States can be explained by density alone; density explains more of the productivity gap across states than education levels or industry concentrations or tax policies. He definitely has a point, but seems focused on people/city metric, leading him to prefer 1M/city, vs people/sqmi Population Density, which supports smaller Traditional City opportunities.

A more aggressive variant of Word Of Mouth Marketing. Designing a product or story specifically to get people to tell other people about it. (more)

John Markoff's What The Dormouse Said ISBN:0670033820 looks pretty interesting. Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Stewart Brand, Bob Taylor, Fred Moore, etc. (a lot of those same people were discussed in Howard Rheingold's Tools For Thought). If the War On Drugs had started earlier, would there be a PC? (more)

Amy Goodman and Ex-Bush Official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Glenn Greenwald connect Barack Obama's "put the past behind us" mentality to Dick Cheney's shameless book promotion. That has taken these actions outside of the criminal realm and turned them into just garden-variety political disputes. And it’s normalized the behavior. And as a result, Dick Cheney goes around the country profiting off of this, you know, sleazy, sensationalistic, self-serving book, basically profiting from his War Crime-s, and at the same time normalizing the idea that these kind of policies, though maybe in the view of some wrongheaded, are perfectly legitimate political choices to make. And I think that’s the really damaging legacy from all of this.

Les Orchard is toying with the idea of doing a Tiddly Wiki clone that's tied to Amazon S3.

spreading via carriers, aka a disease, Epidemic (more)

Duh, it turns out the green things falling on the ground around here are Walnut-s.

Jesse Stay notes that RSS is disappearing from FaceBook and Twitter. It seems in 2011 and the era of Facebook and Twitter we've completely lost any care for open standards. Maybe it's not just RSS that is dying - it's the entire premise of open standards that is dying, and I think that's really sad, and really bad for not just developers, but users in general. (more)

stuff for Eating (more)

group hosted by Jerry Michalski (more)

PreIndustrial society, even pre-AgriCulture (more)

top dog (more)