the end of Educating Kids (more)

Open Innovation guru (more)

Caroline O Donovan of Nieman Lab on various fresh attempts at Annotation-s and Blog Comment-s. How do you elevate the practice of commenting on media while also making conversations across the web frictionless? Below are some examples from Quartz, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and SoundCloud’s time commenting to Medium’s still-developing Notes platform, as well as entrepreneur DanWhaley’s search for an open, annotated browser (HypothesIs).

Wiki Summaries provides free book summaries that anyone can contribute to, currently there are 2,748 summaries and 8 multi-volume series, arranged in 104 topical subjects. (more)

asynchronous (more)

Discussion Forum, online discussions, Threaded Discussion, online conferencing, Virtual Community, etc. (more)

Audrey Watters has gotten interested in the idea of a "Scratch for HTML-5" IDE, inspired by work like 2011-03-01-HtmlHackingTools. (I'm not sure how far beyond a Gui Html Editor this would go.) (more)

Baldur Bjarnason, inspired by some Kathy Sierra tweets, contemplates EBook Mental Model needs, as we leave the physical cues of a Printed Book... I read a book and a part of how I remember what I remember is spatial mapping. I remember roughly how far into the book the passage was and where on the page. Hmm, is that just because that's all you've got with a Printed Book? (more)

Maker of Anthrax vaccine. (more)

Economist (more)

Place to store computer files besides your local machine. Online Storage. (more)

Dan Sheffler: Two Goals of Note Taking. A lot of what I think is garbage, and most of what I hear in lectures should be promptly forgotten. Because the very act of writing sharpens and makes manifest the thought, however, I don’t realize that a thought is garbage until it is already written down. (more)

educational arm of Silicon Valley (more)

PointyHairedBoss (more)

Social network analysis is focused on uncovering the patterning of people's interaction. (in Social Software or other software) (more)

Looking for Hand Held Vacuum again in 2013 - old DC16 making jet-engine noises... (more)

Effort (more)

Laotian WiFi http://www.wirelessreview.com/ar/wireless_lee_felsenstein/ (more)

Homebrew is a package management system that simplifies the installation of software on the MacOs X operating system. It is a free/Open Source software project to simplify installation of other free/open source software. It is similar in aim and function to MacPorts and Fink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_(package_management_software)

Matt Linderman is seeking a less pretentious label than "boutique" for a category of SmallCo. One that’s small and cares about quality and is trying to do something great for a few customers instead of trying to mass produce crap in order to maximize profit Lots of suggestions in the comments. I rather like "craft" (The Craft). cf Neo-Victorian (more)