linkdump for 2007.09.29
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LPFM Slowing Processing of Full Power FM Stations
This is really interesting, even if the authors are total corporate douches. The authors complain that low-power licenses interfere with corporate radio’s requests to upgrade their equipment, just as it should be.
(del.icio.us tags: radio FCC totalcorporatedouches awesome microradio localism)CIO.com: Wikipedia’s Awkward Adolescence
OMG, the anarchists have become bureaucrats!
(del.icio.us tags: production hierarchy wikipedia)No Comments
linkdump for 2007.09.28
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Rough Type: The island of misfit Wikipedia articles
Nick Carr laments the success of deletionists at trimming Wikipedia of marginal topics.
(del.icio.us tags: wikipedia production)Trebor Scholz: A History of the Social Web
“This is a cross-cultural history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net.”
(del.icio.us tags: to:read production Web2.0 history academic)No Comments
linkdump for 2007.09.24
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Trebor Scholz: Playing Class Struggle
A 1970s board game tries to make Marxist political theory fun for the whole family.
(del.icio.us tags: history politicaleconomy gaming awesome)linkdump for 2007.09.18
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Core77: 5 reasons why the iPhone is older than you think
“So how old is your iPhone? I would argue that some aspects of the design were surprisingly dated on delivery.” I suspect that users want iPhones because the UI is familiar. Learning a new phone UI is a pain.
(del.icio.us tags: whatever design Apple)No Comments
linkdump for 2007.09.15
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Texas Fair Trade Coalition: Austin City Council Approves SweatFree Ordinance!
This is old, but good news.This city of Austin will not buy sweated goods in its procurement process. I wish UT - heck the NCAA - had a similar policy.
(del.icio.us tags: publicpolicy clothing labor austin)Word of the day (that I made up)
Matt Haughey says that folks who collect clever t-shirts often face a clothundrum.
(del.icio.us tags: t-shirt humor clothing)del.icio.us: delicious is four today
Wow, it seemed like the service was that old by the time I started using it.
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linkdump for 2007.09.12
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Dia: a drawing program
A co-worker says this open-source package is a decent replacement for Visio.
(del.icio.us tags: utilities useful opensource model chart)No Comments
linkdump for 2007.09.04
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NIck Carr: Rise of the wikicrats
“As Wikipedia has grown, it has developed a bureaucracy that is remarkable not only for the intricacies of its hierarchy but for the breadth and complexity of its rules.”
(del.icio.us tags: hierarchy production wikipedia wiki)Dan Gilmor: It’s Your Stuff? Maybe Not
“the bigger issue is… whether the photos, text, videos, financial information and other things you put online are yours, or whether they end up belonging, in practice if not principle, to the company you use to store and/or display them.
(del.icio.us tags: ethics google Web2.0 labor)

