The United States military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday even as violence continues to plague the country and the Muslim world remains distrustful of American power. (War On Iraq) (more)

page was renamed from z2007-06-07-SpivakCollective Intelligence (more)

see IOS for Internet Operating System (web2.0, etc.) (more)

VoIP over WiFi (more)

Venkatesh Rao on the strategy of Trading Up instead of Acting Dead and following the Middle Class scripts that are becoming obsolete. (more)

Nokia N800 but with physical Keyboard (more)

WikiEngine used for Wikipedia (more)

Apple Macintosh Evangelist (more)

Nuclear Power reactor near NYC. (more)

the institutional process of Educating Kids (more)

Linda Stone spoke at ETech on the challenges of remembering what's Meaningful in a world of Continuous Partial Attention. Connect, connect, connect has brought us to a place where we feel overwhelmed, over-stimulated and unfulfilled. We want protection, we want more filtering, we want a sense of meaning and belonging - this is the pendulum shift that emerges. These qualities characterize the products and services we want, the marketing messages that resonate with us and the types of leaders and corporate cultures that engage us... Whether it's products or services, recruiting strategies, leadership, marketing or coporate cultures, we will increasingly be inclined to resonate with messages of meaning, belonging, protection, and trust... Discerning opportunity - what do we REALLY need and want to pay attention to? Attention is our scarcest and most valuable resource (Attention Economy). What we do with our attention defines us... The new Mantra, the new differentiator, the new opportunity for all of us is: improves Quality Of Life. Does this product, service, feature, message - enhance and improve our quality of life? Does it help us protect, filter, create a Meaningful connection? Discern? On the other hand, maybe this is chasing in the wrong direction, and her earlier comment was more on-target: For those of you who think that you are witnessing a 50 year old's meltdown, consider this - a 20-something said to me recently, "Linda, I quit every social network I was on so I could actually have dinner with people." Maybe it's really just about the Real World.

aka Programmer (more)

Software Developer-s who don't want to be completely dependent on Microsoft (or anyone else). (more)

Carrier Iq is an app running on most Smart Phone-s that, despite the original claims of the company, does keylogging. (Privacy) (more)

Mozilla's FireFox revenue deal with Google has just expired. It's not clear where things stand right now, given that they are really competitors - 2011-12-02-ChromePassesFirefoxInUsage. (more)

Hunch, the Collaborative Filtering site founded by Caterina Fake, has been bought by EBay.

The Wife is considering buying some sort of Tablet. Her primary UseCase is reading magazines on airplanes (she spends lots of time on international flights). I'm going to assume that WiFi isn't available/free/simple. (more)

Google Chrome seems to have passed FireFox in usage. (Though I'm always dubious about the accuracy/precision of stats like these.) Both are just over 25%, with MsIE at 40%.

Chris Dent [notes](http://cdent.tiddlyspace.com/#Tiddly SpaceIdentity) how the Node Web aspect of Tiddly Space encourages Collaboration around a Shared Vision. In Purple Wiki, and now with Tiddly Web, my goal is to allow granular access, by reference, to small chunks of content, the exact pieces that matter. In Purple Wiki we called it a node, in Tiddly Wiki it is called a Tiddler. Purple broke existing documents down into addressable nodes, while Tiddly Wiki builds up documents from tiddlers (Transclusion). Tiddly Web makes tiddlers first class members of the web. In either case, node or tiddler, the chunk can be referenced and used directly to create larger wholes and support networks of referential information... Tiddly Space adds to this milieu by respecting and engaging the individual in the collaborative process. Rather than group members working on the same artifacts, they share individual artifacts which are easily compared. Through this sharing they have the opportunity to a) expose their information to feedback b) evolve their information as a result of the feedback... So, to me: Tiddlers are a tool for people to gather their individual thoughts in small chunks. Tiddly Web is a tool to make those thoughts accessible in a network. Tiddly Space is a tool to compare thoughts with others, and learn more.

Egypt is facing a big uprising as well. (more)