Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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In a SPIEGEL interview, Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of US technology and culture magazine Wired discusses the Internet's challenge to the traditional press, new business models on the Web and why he would rather read Twitter than a daily newspaper.
Did Anti-Drug Propaganda Help Bring About a Psychedelic Renaissance? | DrugReporter | AlterNet
As the anti-drug program spread into 3/4 of all school districts by the '90s, America's youth enjoyed a psychedelic renaissance.
California: Oakland Voters Approve Nation’s First Marijuana Business Tax | DrugReporter | AlterNet
Approximately 80% say they want to bring the pot industry into the city's tax base.
Is Big Pharma Trying to Take All the Fun out of Pot? | DrugReporter | AlterNet
Drug researchers are trying to replicate marijuana's therapeutic effects, but without the "side effect" of getting people high.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
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There's an important battle going on now, not a very well-publicized one, but one that, among other such battles as and when they occur, will determine the shape of the future Internet. Whether you call this Internet "Web 3.D" as...
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Friday, July 24, 2009
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_Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ » Blog Archive » _Social Tesseracting_: Part 3
A working manual discussing the formation and evolution of synthetic environments.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
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Pho.to - Online Photo Enhancement and Presentation Platform
Pho.to makes the best of your digital photos with automatic yet powerful editing tools and services. Enhance your pictures, have fun with them and share your photos for free.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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America has a huge reservoir of untapped engineering talent in its young women--women who are not going into engineering because of roadblocks like lack of encouragement, cultural norms, peer pressure and most importantly, failure to understand how engineers can contribute to the world around them." />
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xHarvesting Rain : Why Using Rainwater Is Better for You, Your Plants and Your Water Bill (By John C. Davis)
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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The Click Heard Round the World: TV network premiere of ICC documentary
Tomorrow, July 14, will be the US network premiere of "The Reckoning," a moving and powerful documentary about the International Criminal Court. I've seen most of the film in a near-final cut, and I can't say enough good things about...
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MixedRealities :: Blogging: where it came from, where it’s going, what it means
A Blog about Philosophy, Economics and Virtual Worlds
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
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Africa UnPlugged for the Future – President Obama in Ghana « Africa in Virtual Worlds
Africa UnPlugged for the Future – President Obama in Ghana
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
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Realtime Information Graphics Show International Data Interchange | FlowingData
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New Intelligence for a Smarter Planet: advanced analytics, simulation, modeling, and forecasting for the world's operating systems: energy grids, healthcare, transportation, supply chains, retail, finance and more.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Post to Monitor 07/09/2009 (a.m.)
Facebook Fan Boxes: Embeddable Facebook Pages
Facebook continues to extend outside the walls of its social network. The latest: Facebook Fan Boxes, which lets Facebook Page admins embed the latest activity
Jack Schofield: Digital Britain? We haven't even got decent digital radio |Technology |The Guardian
Jack Schofield: Britain still doesn't have the infrastructure it needs to support an information society
Google's Chrome OS Threatens Linux, Is Good For Microsoft - Google Blog - InformationWeek
InformationWeek writers blog on a range of business technology topics: digital life, personal tech, enterprise mobility, Windows/Microsoft, Google, outsourcing, security, IT careers, IT salaries, leadership/management strategy and more. ">