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zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"A mixture of online game/street art/social network, Lost is a community of people connected through links written down and left in random places all over the world." Tagged by zecg under lost, game, fun, social, six_degrees, network, web, meatspace, interesting,

reddit.com: Why I Will Not Be Using Facebook - Fierce yet detailed attack on the social networking site.

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"I know exactly what Facebook and other social networking sites are." Tagged by zecg under facebook, sociology, society, networking, psychology,

O'Reilly Radar > Supernova 2005: Attention

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"With continuous partial attention we keep the top level item in focus and scan the periphery in case something more important emerges." Tagged by zecg under continuous_partial_attention, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, cognition, collaboration, internet, lifestyle, market, media, mind, network, organization, productivity, social, social_software, web, technology, culture, future, for:mandrak, for:to_mi, for:ognjen, email, geek, history, interesting, article,

Habermas’ heritage: The future of the public sphere in the network society

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"In a sense, the public sphere has always been virtual: Its meaning lies in its abstraction." Tagged by zecg under book, culture, democracy, media, networks, philosophy, public, research, social, society, sociology, theory, web, Internet, habermas, article, social_software,

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? — HBS Working Knowledge

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Finally, the social welfare result that a Windows monopoly is not always worse than a Linux-Windows monopoly was also unexpected. This questions the social desirability of policies aimed at guaranteeing Linux's survival." Tagged by zecg under debate, economics, business, article, opensource, FLOSS, free_software, innovation, linux, windows, technology, research, Microsoft,

The Truth About Homework

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Even if you regard standardized test results as a useful measure, homework (some versus none, or more versus less) isn’t even correlated with higher scores at these ages." Tagged by zecg under children, education, kids, learning, parenting, parents, pedagogy, psychology, school, science, social, statistics, study, teaching, unschooling, research, homework,

Against School, by John Taylor Gatto

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"If children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would never truly grow up." Tagged by zecg under activism, class, college, culture, education, essay, family, gatto, history, indoctrination, libertarian, life, opinion, parenting, philosophy, politics, psychology, public, reading, reference, school, schooling, social, society, sociology, learning, for:mandrak,

The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"This is the triumphant culmination of two centuries of flawed white-people thinking, a preposterous mix of authoritarian socialism and laissez-faire profiteering, with all the worst aspects of both ideologies rolled up into one pointless, supremely idi Tagged by zecg under america, fascism, corporatism, iraq, war, corruption, profiteering, history, halliburton, privatisation, rollingstone,

Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation Tagged by zecg under einstein, socialism, essays, capitalism, culture, economics, economy, education, history, ideas, society, sociology,

Suicide Circle (2002) - The Pirate Bay

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"A dark and twisted commentary on social disaffection in modern Tokyo, Suicide Club chronicles a bizarre suicide fad that is quickly escalating out of control." Tagged by zecg under japan, 日本, film, movie, 映画, suicide, 自殺, weird, surreal, torrent, bittorrent, 東京, tokyo,

Guns and Government: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan | Journal of World History, vol. 6, no. 1 (1995)

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Stable traditional civilizations were built to resist change. This entailed either resisting new technology or channeling the effects of new technology into socially acceptable patterns." Tagged by zecg under history, 歴史, japan, 日本, europe, technology, tradition, culture,

Thinkature

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Real-time collaboration for the web." Tagged by zecg under AJAX, collaboration, communication, diagram, drawing, free, graphics, interactive, maps, sharing, visualization, productivity, presentation, web_2.0, web2.0, web, software, social,

8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Leary claims that this model explained the social conflict in the 1960s, where the mainstream with circuit 4 active and characterized as tribal moralists by Leary, clashed with the counter-culturists, said to be those with circuit 5 active..." Tagged by zecg under leary, psychedelics, drugs, theory, interesting,

Furious Seasons: Love American Style: Web 2.0 And Narcissism

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"What he's getting at is that this whole Web 2.0, social networking, virtual community business is essentially a pornography of the self—a projected, fictionalized self that is then worshipped by the slightly less-perfect self." Tagged by zecg under web_2.0, opinion, rant, culture, society, internet, web, commentary, essay, psychology, funny,

How Capitalism Threatens Your Health By Julian Edney

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"In short, each community has a social gradient. The steeper the gradient, the more that community is a killer. We can expect this new scientific evidence to be resisted with every sinew--it runs frontally against our free market beliefs." Tagged by zecg under distribution, wealth, health, society, market, capitalism, socialism,

The Chronicle: 11/17/2006: The Social Responsibility in Teaching Sociobiology

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Exhortations to extreme selflessness are easy to parody, as not only unrealistic but also paradoxically self-serving insofar as the exhorter is likely to benefit at the expense of the one exhorted." Tagged by zecg under article, biology, society, education, essay, ethics, evolution, genetics, interesting, morality, philosophy, psychology, Sociobiology, science, for:mandrak,

Wikipedia comes clean quick

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Halavais hypothesized that the obscure errors would "languish online for some time," the Chronicle reported. Instead the Wikipedia volunteers eliminated all the fabrications within three hours of being posted." Tagged by zecg under wikipedia, encyclopedia, internet, social, wiki, experiment, research,

UK report: knowledge should be public good first, private right second

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Furthermore, the authors believe that making knowledge a social good first will actually foster increased innovation and therefore more money for UK businesses." Tagged by zecg under article, copyright, europe, interesting, law, news, patents, politics, public, social, society, UK, britain, cc, intellectual_property,

The Dollar's Full-System Meltdown

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"The financial crisis is intended to destroy the labor movement, crush the middle class, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, reduce US foreign debt by 50 or 60%, force a restructuring of America’s debt, privatize all public assets and resources..." Tagged by zecg under america, fascism, economy, corruption, dollar,

Trampoline Enron Explorer »

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Enron Explorer analyses each person's main contacts and the themes they're talking about. Launch the Visualiser to see each person's social network (Java required)." Tagged by zecg under enron, visualization, economy, law, corruption,