Some links re Clay Shirky's Nov22 Social Software "summit". Photos , pre-announcement , discussion thread re racial/sexual quotas. I wish I'd been invited, too. (more)

For one week in January 2012, data scientists skewed what almost 700,000 FaceBook users saw when they logged into its service. Some people were shown content with a preponderance of happy and positive words; some were shown content analyzed as sadder than average. And when the week was over, these manipulated users were more likely to post either especially positive or negative words themselves... The effect the study documents is very small, as little as one-tenth of a percent of an observed change... when researchers reduced the appearance of either positive or negative sentiments in people’s News Feeds—when the feeds just got generally less emotional—those people stopped writing so many words on Facebook... Susan Fiske had earlier conveyed to The Atlantic that the experiment was IRB-approved. “I was concerned,” Fiske told The Atlantic on Saturday, “until I queried the authors and they said their local institutional review board had approved it—and apparently on the grounds that Facebook apparently manipulates people's News Feeds all the time.” (more)

Rob Dubbin makes me think of TwitterBot-s as Performance Art: the growing population of creative bots that consume, remix, and contribute to the broader culture churn of the Internet.

band (Performing Arts) that's been around since the 1980s (more)

Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.[1] Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently. This principle has frequently been called the "SapirWhorfHypothesis", after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf (more)

*SketchUp is a 3D modeling (CAD) program for applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, film, and video game design. A freeware version, SketchUpMake, and a paid version with additional functionality, SketchUpPro, are available. SketchUp is currently owned by Trimble Navigation,[4] a mapping, surveying, and navigation equipment company.[5] SketchUp was independent from 2000 to 2006 and then owned by Google from 2006 to 2012. (more)

Ambient Genius. In January, 1975, the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt released a set of flash cards they called “Oblique Strategies. (more)

Ny Times noise: (more)

cf Renaissance Man? (more)

Js Bach piece (more)

Google launched Google Cardboard at their Google Io dev conference. A cardboard HeadSet to stick your Android Mobile in and get Virtual Reality? (more)

Online Back Up service I use at home

Etsy is working with Rockford Il to try to scale up Etsy-based Entrepreneurship as Economic Development. One of the benefits of having a strong manufacturing history, however, is that many residents already have skills in the arts (such as watchmaking and furniture making) that were once the backbone of the local economy... Our visit led to a plan for Etsy and Rockford to co-create a Craft Entrepreneurship Curriculum, with Etsy’s platform and marketplace as the learning lab. The aim of the project is to teach people that if they have a craft skill, entrepreneurship and economic opportunity are within reach. (more)

Dave Winer and Paolo Valdemarin on local process integration via a Desktop Web Server (like Userland Frontier/Radio Userland). Paolo raises the idea of local code interacting with a remote Data Store, similar to my Wiki-store thoughts - 2005-10-27-LocalWikiAppCentralContentBase.

LocalWiki is an open content and open source software project that allows communities to share local knowledge (HyperLocal) on the web in the form of city wikis. The LocalWiki project was founded by Davis Wiki creators Mike Ivanov and Philip Neustrom[1] and is a project of Wiki Spot, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community improvement organization[2] based in San Francisco, California... LocalWiki is built on the Django framework in Python. (more)

I went to Chicago Ideas Week's Tech Summit Live Event (CIW). (more)

fork of Instiki WikiEngine (more)

Computer Science guru (more)

Ruby On Rails On MacOs X (more)

Was Douglas Engelbart Wrong? (more)