With the weather so nice, I hung around outside instead of blogging this weekend. Terrible, I know.
So, here’s an update on some books I’m reading right now.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software - Stephen Johnson
The New City: How the crisis in Canada’s urban centres is reshaping the nation - John [...]
This is the first of a series of posts on free culture and podcasting. I’ll be pulling out some of my favourite podcasts for discussion and highlighting some of the best podcasting available in the commons.
Free Culture Podcasts: One
Canada’s Robert J. Sawyer on TVO’s Big Ideas
Science fiction — or, as it is often wished to [...]
The internets (and old media, too) have been ablaze with the Anonymous declaration of their intent to “disassemble” the disgusting Church of Scientology.
I mostly ignored this.
It is nothing new, really. Scientology versus the internet has been with us, well, since well before alt.relgions.scientology on Usenet. It has continued, at a regular and consistent [...]
INFEST WISELY | a lo-fi sci-fi movie in seven episodes
Brighter Planet · Home · Fight global warming and build a clean energy future - new visa card
Future overlord Freebase takes in $42 million.
More reasons why we need to be moving towards a decentralized Twitter.
If you thought I was an irritating geek before, just you wait!
One of my favourite and much-admired niche-content companies have just launched a new science-fiction blog, io9.
This, like so much else I enjoy reading, is brought to us by Nick Denton’s Gawker Media.
Mr. Denton is forty-one, Oxford educated, and a former writer for the [...]