Amazing Video: Felix Baumgartner’s Free Fall from Space
Via GoPro (this is the sort of thing GoPro was made for!). “Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are.” The post <span class='p-name'>Amazing Video: Felix...
View ArticleGetty images embeddable
This is pretty great: Getty Images are now free to embed. This is a test embed (recent image from the Ukraine). The post <span class='p-name'>Getty images embeddable</span> appeared first...
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Hottest June Ever!
“June was the 352nd consecutive month in a row with temperatures that were above the global average,” per Climate Central. Why? “The lengthy stretch of hot months is being driven primarily by the rise...
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Bukowski
Saw this at bOING bOING (via Cory Doctorow) and ported it over here: In comments on the video at Youtube, someone posted this Bukowski quote: “I think my writing is really pretty fucking powerful stuff...
View ArticleCivil asset forfeiture, yikes!
In 2013, The New Yorker published a revealing, troubling piece called “Taken,” an in-depth investigation into the practice of civil asset forfeiture, where American citizens can have their property...
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Trends 2015
Here’s a list of trends I see going into 2015, created for this year’s “State of the World” conversation. Privatization of outer space: A number of companies are developing spaceware, and there’s one...
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Was the development of the Internet a wrong turn?
[I posted this on Facebook, seems it struck a nerve based on the likes and responses. Reposting here, perhaps time for a blog revival.] I argued in the early 90s that the Internet would connect...
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Fiction that Bleeds Truth: Lenny Bruce
We were watching the excellent new Amazon series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which featured Lenny Bruce as a catalyst for Mrs. Maisel’s decision to do standup comedy: “Do you love it?” she asks him,...
View ArticleIndieWebCamp Austin – December 9-10, 2017 – Austin, Texas
Attending IndieWebCamp Austin - December 9-10, 2017 - Austin, Texas IndieWebCamp Austin 2017 is a gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists, to designers, UX engineers,...
View ArticleOn the Radar, 2018
I created the list below for the State of the World 2018 conversation (which is something I do every year with Bruce Sterling). 2017 was a nervous year of overwrought blustery political cultures, a...
View ArticleTechnopolitics
Originally published in 21C, 1997 The global Internet’s awash with email lists, chats, and online conferences for discussion of governance and what goes with it: the politics of issues and of...
View ArticleInfoReal
I wrote this in the late 1990s for a book called CyberRevolution, edited by Yoshihiro Kaneda – this was translated into Japanese and was published only in Japan. Yoshihiro also interviewed me via...
View ArticleACTLab 2019: Making Community Real
A talk presented by Jon Lebkowsky and Kevin Welch at ACTLab 2019. Online communities preceded social media as a way to participate meaningfully online – truly social spaces like the WELL (Whole Earth...
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Being Green in 2001
Originally published in the last issue of Whole Earth Magazine (aka Whole Earth Review), Spring 2003 History In the sixties and early seventies my g-g-generation caught fire with concern for the...
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