Don Marti

Sun 03 Jun 2012 03:08:46 PM PDT

Mindless link propagation, semi-automated

Dave Winer, in How to end junk news, writes, "I posit that if we had a handful of people who read lots of news sites and pass on their non-junk discoveries in the form of feeds, it wouldn't take many such people to provide a service that was a serious upgrade to what is currently being offered."

OK, good idea. Try this: new "Read the Whole Thing" feed. This is what I'm now using to create the mindless link propagation posts on this site.

Bruce Schneier: Hawley Channels His Inner Schneier

Jonathan Kahn interviews Lisa Welchman on "implementing web governance, enabling collaboration and cross-functional working in organisations, and developing your career as a web manager."

Noah Smith: Down with particle physics, up with Big Energy Research!

Cool Tools review of Rules for Radicals

Science for all: Sign the White House Petition on Open Access to Research Today!

For a minute I though that The US President's Hit List or "Death by PowerPoint" meant they were actually showing the PowerPoint to the terists. But I guess that's over the line, even today. Another one on the same subject from Reason magazine: Obama's Secret Kill List

Rent-seekers lose one: FDA: High-fructose corn syrup will not be called ‘corn sugar’

ANARCHY BURGER! HOLD THE GOVERNMENT! The Punk Rocker Who Would Be Judge