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Powell’s Books - Review-a-Day - The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, reviewed by American Scientist
The Future of the Internet is about much more than Internet architecture. The same progression from open innovation to open anxiety has played out with the personal computer. Say what you wish about Microsoft’s [...]

The year in review: ‘How should we rate 2008?’ by | Prospect Magazine January 2009 issue 154
Mark Cousins film critic
Overrated The most overrated event of the year, though it was a process rather than an event, was the spread of wireless internet. Everywhere’s a hot spot now. I want far far more cool spots, where [...]

Looks like a cool 2.0 version of copy nd paste:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Erica Wagner on why reports of literature’s demise are exaggerated - Times Online
Erica Wagner on why reports of literature’s demise are exaggerated
I’m working on my thesis - have I mentioned it? Perhaps not, but that could be because I started working on it only when I came to consider what I might say in my [...]

Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Perhaps those who dismiss critics of the Internet as Luddites or nostalgists will be proved correct, and from our hyperactive, data-stoked minds will spring a golden age of intellectual discovery and universal wisdom. Then again, the Net isn’t the alphabet, and although it may replace the printing press, it produces something [...]

Another Adaptive Path presentation, this time on building customer engagement:

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10 Things I Learned from Mental Detox Week | iain tait | crackunit.com

The thing that’ll work for me is to set periods of time where it’s just not allowed.
Amen.

Johann Hari: It’s the policies that count and that means Londoners should vote for Ken Livingstone - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Ken Livingstone with his adenoidal, amphibian populism is the most successful left-wing politician in Europe today. Born into the white working class in the rubble of post-war London, he [...]

“ridcat” is a project that visualizes political speeches “from literary imagery to actual imagery,” producing a cloud of iconic photographs. The transformation is fascinating both in its products and through its process - a psychotherapy technique called Regression Imagery Analysis.
http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/06/18/ridcat-interview/