July 2008
Gotta love Sydney: balmy 20C - the cabbie said, “You want the air conditioning on?” Now: beer and Thai food, stat… - http://bkite.com…
For the more paranoid among you (you know who you are), a report on trends in espionage in the US http://bit.ly/3Dw0A1
Google Lively, yet another pointless virtual world →
“But tech difficulties are the least of Lively’s troubles. Its oppressive dreariness is more worrisome.”
I seem to spend an inordinate amount of my time telling people what colours they can & can’t use… like a kindy teacher on crayon patrol.
…and so begins two weeks leave <phew />
A sort-of-unified definition of public relations →
Jim Grunig on the definition of public relations: good exchange in the comments.
Anatomy of the Linux kernel →
History and architectural decomposition
Communication (and Coordination) in a Modern,... →
This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many…
Great Unread Books http://ping.fm/TUbJj Joyce, Cervantes & the Bard feature in the comments… Your shame?
OMG! del.icio.us 2.0 is on the verge of release http://bit.ly/458Tft
NIH "open access" policy causing publishing... →
“Nobody’s quite figured out how to make an open access business model work, but even most publishers recognize that the public and scientific community benefit from having access to the research…
AUT - World Internet Project →
The survey investigates internet access and targets internet users as well as non-users; who uses this technology and what they do online. It also considers off-line activities such as how much time…
How the Mind Works: Revelations - The New York... →
Consciousness, in this view, is neither recalled representations nor the immediate present, but something different in kind (as colors are different in kind from the lightness and darkness of…
Politicians' Wiki entries altered →
Federal public servants are systematically sanitising the Wikipedia entries for federal politicians and have shown MPs how to change their entries.
Essential Skills of a Community Manager |... →
Some really good points in the post and lively discussion in the comments…
Hunkering down to watch ‘Eastern Promises’ http://bit.ly/1RbxPL I’m only sightly afraid…
Reading a review of a new book on Han van Meegeren http://bit.ly/9THr1 the master forger and inspiration for Wyatt Gwyon…
Add 7z (7-Zip) File Archive Support to Ubuntu |... →
Zip utility for Ubuntu
Smiley’s People - Hoover Digest →
Timothy Garton Ash on the not-so gradual erosion of Britons’ privacy and other civil liberties…
Open source spooks? From a CIA white paper: “C21 intel will be primarily about information, and less about secrets.” http://bit.ly/3n7y9T
Thinking it is cool that The Atlantic uses Flickr Creative Commons photos on its front page banner http://ping.fm/PU6wH
Wondering why the (de facto) home of cinema, USA, hasn’t produced a director of the calibre of Bergman, Kurosawa, Bertolucci et al?
Just given the 9 DVD box set of Tarkovsky films http://bit.ly/2vQ2AQ Приветственные восклицания!
Good article on the ‘democritization’ of taste in contemporary US cinema http://bit.ly/2Cd1Dz
David Denby on The Dark Knight, “At times, the movie sounds like two excited mattresses making love in an echo chamber.” http://ping.fm/ …
The Return of Religion →
Roger Scruton trades lyricism for validity where he attempts to assert that consciousness implies divinity. And he doesn’t appear to understand the central point of the Bhagavad Gita either…
Government Blogs: Is the Era of Web 1.0 Government... →
Good list of US government blogs (& some Twitter accounts).
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13) →
Jackie Orszaczky
Tibor Tátrai-Jackie Orszaczky
Pharoah Sanders
Albert Ayler
Cameo
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Change My Address http://bit.ly/3tmoo7 fails on so many levels that my spirit is crushed by the experience…
Anyone know details re the Government 2.0 LinkedIn group? http://bit.ly/NewyO
Identity is That Which is Given →
“In order for a culture to be lost, it must be separable from one’s actual behaviour, and in order for it to be separable from ones actual behaviour it must be anchorable in race.”
Migrated all my email from Evolution to Thunderbird: straightforward enough. Contacts, otoh, proving a real pain…
Linux.com :: How to migrate from Evolution to... →
Spies: bureaucratic window-dressing for a job that is deeply unsavoury, crushingly expensive & embarrassingly ineffective http://is.gd/PTU
Key messages are easy. Getting managers to stick to them, now there is a challenge…
http://www.invadenewzealand.com/ Genius via @terrencewood
Stoked to see that a Fiona Hall exhibition is coming to Wellington http://bit.ly/fhall
Over the millennia, human intelligence has increased. Behaviour, on the other hand, has pretty much flatlined…
Twitter / Jason Ryan: Rules for your CV #4 →
No emoticons. Ever.
The end is nigh! The Internet is breeding a generation of imbeciles http://is.gd/NEM More news at 11…
No new blog post. No tweet, follower or subscriber milestones passed. No product at all…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-6) →
Sonny Sharrock
Archie Shepp
Don Cherry
Albert Ayler
John Coltrane
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Customizing chrome in Firefox 3…
Citizens’ views on Govt 2.0 | NPSC Blog →
A look at the recent Canadian qualitative research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies by government.
Juno (3): “We move & move & move until we die. That’s cool, isn’t it?” Absolutely…
Wishing people would give up on CVs entirely and just create a LinkedIn profile…
Smattering of snow falling at the top of Horokiwi Rd…
Rules for your CV #9: Refrain, no matter how tempted you are, from using the third person - unless you are a Peer of the Realm…
Rules for your CV #4: No emoticons. Ever.
Rules for your CV #7: “Advanced MS Word” is not a competency that is marketable for anyone other than secretaries or dullards.