Fast Company Now As a result, it’s no longer legal to publish current photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night without permission. Technically, this applies even to amateurs. —– wipe your memories, stop looking at anything, burn your eyes out, mine mine mine.
Read Moreroanoke.com – New River Valley Current -First companies prepare to occupy new incubator Jim Flowers, director of VT KnowledgeWorks, the incubator now under construction, said he is working with 11 companies that could eventually become tenants. He said he expects four of them will be ready to take possession of space in the 45,000-square-foot building […]
Read MoreBird houses in Turkey: http://www.turkishculture.org/architecture/birdhouses.html ——— it is the little things in life that make a big difference.
Read MoreYahoo! News – World Photos – AP ——- oh my… this is a new low.
Read MoreICT Policy: A Beginner’s Guide: The handbook aims to build the capacity of interested persons to understand the issues around policy on ICT development and regulation, to grasp the policy process,and to become involved in this process. http://www.apc.org/books/policy_handbook_EN.zip ———– this could be handy…..
Read MoreWorking with PCs made simpler for people with severe disabilities: Thanks to high-performance sensors, developed by the IPCA project, people with severe motor or speech disabilities can now operate a PC. ——- cool….
Read MoreThe New Atlantis – The Age of Egocasting – Christine Rosen TiVos and iPods will never destroy us. But our romance with technologies of personalization has partially fulfilled Krutch’s prediction. We haven’t become more like machines. We’ve made the machines more like us. In the process we are encouraging the flourishing of some of our […]
Read MoreObituary: Lucien Carr, Beat Generation catalyst and journalist: Lucien Carr, one of the founders – and one of the last survivors – of the Beat Generation of poets and writers, although one who never wrote poetry or novels, died on Friday. ———– one of the last….. of the beats….
Read MoreChris’s Blog: Reflections on Internet governance and the international system ——— this sort of fits with much of my thinking, though my argument is a bit stronger in regards to the powers of code and the power of otherness, i think.
Read MoreWilson Quarterly @ the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Counting everything but its huge endowment holdings, Higher Ed, Inc., is a $250 to $270 billion businessâ€â€bigger than religion, much bigger than art. And though no one in the business will openly admit it, getting into college is a cinch. The problem, of course, is […]
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