Don Marti
Tue 14 Aug 2012 07:10:26 AM PDT
Assorted links
Enjoy.
The Unbearable Stasis of "Accelerating Change" (via Charles Stross: Deconstructing our future)
A Day in the Life of a Developer Evangelist
Failure of Leadership in the GitHub Model of Collaborative Software Development
Maybe We’d Behave Better With Horrible Winters
News from the patent wars: Don’t Feed the Troll!
Engendering Change? Gender Advocacy in Open Source
Ikea data viz hack FTW: Desk with Meters
What Are The Politics Of The Internet?
Google On The L Train: Sci-fi, Wifi And The MTA
Intellectual Ventures Loses Its Shine: Will Its Business Model Ever Work?
We Have Too Many Patents, Not Too Few
Why Is Job Growth Tepid?—Posner
Reinventing Affordable Housing: Tiny and cheap instead of large and expensively subsidized
Alameda to allow construction of new apartments
Fight For Your Right to Go Paleo
The End of Free Conference Calls
Japanese Robot Can Beat Humans At Rock-Paper-Scissors Every Time
The Best Sales Reps Avoid "Talkers"
Earn Customer Loyalty Without Losing Your Shirt
Developer evangelism tasks: pre-emptive writing
The Twin Cities' broadband challenge
Dumping iron at sea can bury carbon for centuries, study shows
I can understand that it wasn't Free from day one, but why not code escrow to protect your favorite applications from being acq-hired into oblivion? The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition
Walkability, Mobility, and Freedom (and you don't have software freedom either, if you don't know how to use it.)
The economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband
Parking Policy in Seattle Gets Less Bad
The Guerilla Guide to Social Business
Ask A Writer: In Which I Exhort You To Care Less
How to work from home and not suck at it
HuffPo, The Daily and the flawed iPad content model
The new environmentalism: where men must act 'as gods' to save the planet | Paul Kingsnorth
Effective web managers tackle digital governance
Man, if someone could combine the addictivness of gaming with the benefits of exercise, life would be good. Hope this guy can pull it off: The Most Ambitious Project I’ve Ever Announced
Do Not Track in the Windows 8 Setup Experience
What Google Fiber Says about Tech Policy: Fiber Rings Fit Deregulatory Hands
MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia
Karen McGrane – Content Strategy for Mobile
Is the Hacker Dojo worth saving? (spoilers: yes!)
Important DMCA/SEO connection that I'm surprised wasn't there already: An update to our search algorithms
And a response: Paved with Good Intentions
It’s A Dark Time To Be A Consumer In The Cloud
Google Copyright Transparency Report
All Your Work Should Be Sand Castles
Good demo video, showing email as part of workflow: Alfresco demo showing rule based on lat/lon, Mobile App, & CMIS
I could not sleep after I read this in hardcover: Hugo-nominated sf novel Blindsight available for free
Better than some of the crazy crap they're selling at the Post Office now: How to Save the Postal Service
Atul Gawande: Can hospital chains improve the medical industry?