The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

May 17, 2009

Below is the Sunday Links post, but before we get to that, here are two blog posts where I left comments recently. One was Catherine Novak‘s post about the Shoal Point Moka House tweetup two days ago. I mentioned that Starbucks, for example, has policies around filming/ photographing on their premises that make what happened […]

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Developers v. NIMBYs: Lessons from “Johnny Guitar”

May 16, 2009

Watching Nicholas Ray‘s 1954 classic Western Johnny Guitar, I kept focusing on the antagonisms between Joan Crawford’s character Vienna and Mercedes McCambridge’s Emma Small as ones between developers and NIMBYs. The story is psychologically complex, conjuring objectively social and personally individual reasons for both the desire to maintain the status quo and the will to […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

May 10, 2009

Lifehacker – How to Filter and Manage Your Online Social Life – Social Networks The title is self-explanatory. tags: socialmedia, how_to, reference, gtd Fairy tale or horror story – join the debate | RUDI – Resource for Urban Design Information – Annotated “Urban designer and artist collaborations: what value do they bring?” QUOTE The event […]

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Thought-provoking insights: The Future of Journalism

May 9, 2009

I bookmarked the following article earlier today: The Root Of The Matter: Emily Bell on The Future of Journalism. It’s an excellent summary of a lecture by Emily Bell (head of digital content at Guardian News and Media). She recently presented this lecture at University College Falmouth, where she was just appointed visiting professor in […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

May 3, 2009

The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What’s Next – ReadWriteWeb QUOTE So, here’s a summary. The father of the best web email program on the planet believes that a real-time streaming interface for simplified aggregation of conversation and content from all around the web is going to join the handful of tools […]

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Clarifying what you want

May 2, 2009

I got to meet blogger Victoria Klassen through Twitter at several local tweetups, but I feel I really get to know her through her writing. Today she published a wonderful post, A Forrest Gump kinda interview…, based on customized interview questions sent to her by Raul Pacheco (aka Hummingbird604). I was really impressed by the […]

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Google business cards (but not in Canada)

May 1, 2009

If I still lived in the US, I could do free advertising for Google by getting some of these:

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I’m looking for a job.

May 1, 2009

I’m nearly ready to throw in the towel, asking myself why I bother writing locally, given that letters such as this one get mailed to the editor …and are published, without any opportunity for me to rebut them. The letter is in response to my April 2009 article, It’s the people, stupid. I bolded a […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

April 26, 2009

Heirs to Fortuyn? by Bruce Bawer, City Journal Spring 2009 Article by Bruce Bawer, on why stalwarts of the Left in Europe, gays in particular, are abandoning social-democratic multicultural politics. …But, while things may be ok in Denmark, there are other countries where the backlash is creepy: QUOTE The situation in Spain is a reminder […]

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Comment on Kevin Kelly’s “4 Arguments Against Technology”

April 26, 2009

I just responded to Kevin Kelly‘s 4 Arguments Against Technology. He’s compiling a list, which he wants to flesh out – so that he can write better arguments in defense of technology. So far he has 1. Contrary to nature; 2. Contrary to humans; 3. Contrary to technology itself; 4. Contrary to God. I added […]

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