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Noted in brief – 7/11/2010

Posted on 7/10/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• What Could Go Wrong With The Tunnel
  
• Getting Noticed
  
• Revitalising a project, not dumping it.
  
• Winning on Climate May Require Reforming the US Senate
  
• gwiretweets: If you came to our knowledge share on Tuesday, thanks! If you couldn’t make it, we missed you. Video: http://bit.ly/d5GjrD
  
• Mystery art pops up along Shilshole
  
• Genetically Altered Salmon Set to Move Closer to Your Table – NYTimes.com
  WTF.
• Democrats Start to Play Hardball on Climate
  New strategy: combine climate a “spill bill” to break the Republicans. Yeah and hell yeah.

Noted in brief – 6/25/2010

Posted on 6/25/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Do Apps for Democracy and Other Contests Create Sustainable Applications?
  No they do not. Contest hype is just hype.
• Spotted owl surviving 20 years later
  
• Chefs now offering low-carbon diets
  
• Precision Polling founders cash out in deal with Survey Monkey
  

Noted in brief – 6/19/2010

Posted on 6/19/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster – The Boston Globe
  Glad to see this finally getting some notice.
• War for resources: From slander to clarion call – Afghanistan – Salon.com
  Sirota nails it.
• The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks
  
• How To Talk About Energy Policy
  
• Toy Story + The Wire mashup
  
• Auction inspiration from Mitch Friedman
  
• Seeing Past the BP Spill
  
• Central Idaho wilderness bill rises again
  
• The Twitter Devolution – Far from being a tool of revolution … (Golnaz Esfandiari/Foreign Policy)
  
• The Mineral Miracle? Or a Massive Information Operation?
  

Noted in brief – 6/13/2010

Posted on 6/13/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Painfully Funny
  
• Cashing In On The Chasm
  
• Gov't App Contests Are Cool, But Are They Useful?
  
• Pike Place Fish Market plans a sea change
  
• Salesforce.com as free, bolt-on analytics engine for any database app
  
• Report To Me
  
• Calling BS on Social Media Gurus (Slides)
  
• Taking on the Townhouse Scourge
  
• No plan for Mr. Floatie to resurface — yet
  
• Permalinks and hashtags for city council agenda items
  
• Open Data: An Example of the Long Tail of Public Policy at Work
  
• Infrastructures
  
• Attention Designers & Filmmakers: Two New Competitions Announced
  
• HA Exclusive: Leaked audio reveals how Reichert cynically takes environmentalists “out of the game”
  
• Why We Should Fund “Walk Bike Ride”
  
• How to call BS on a social media guru (event)
  
• Luis Villa: Questions for the Diaspora
  
• Don't Try This At Work
  Very clever.
• New ‘OpenID Connect’ Proposal Could Solve Many of the Social Web’s Woes (Michael Calore/Webmonkey)
  
• Jazkarta Blog: Rapid deployment of Plone to Amazon EC2
  

Noted in brief – 4/28/2010

Posted on 4/28/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Welcome to Eaarth
  
• Reality Check From the Gulf
  
• Make “Small” Your Advantage
  Great advice
• Sunday Morning Thoughts: Facebook, Graph API, and Open Graph
  
• Getting depressed with this whole Social Media thing
  
• The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
  So beautiful. Wiping tears from my eyes.
• Understanding the Open Graph Protocol
  
• High-Earners Income Tax Queued Up
  
• A Strategy for Change?
  Great, tough analysis
• Keeping tabs on Canada's Parliament | openparliament.ca
  Very impressive
• XAuth: Somebody, Please, Put Facebook in Check
  And so the identity wars begin.
• Six Doctrines In Search Of A Policy Regime – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
  Great backgrounder on financial reform.
• Lies that Punish the Poor
  
• Ning’s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff
  Exeunt Ning.
• Grantsfire: Transforming Philanthropy Through Open Grants Data
  
• Dim light at the end of the Brightwater tunnel
  
• Books to box office: Gary Snyder and David James Duncan hit the silver screen
  
• News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments
  Well past time.
• Check-Ins are Coupons. Game Mechanics are Bulls**t. … (Dave/Master of 500 Hats)
  
• Resilience and Ruggedness: Why Faster, Bigger and More Complex May Be Better
  

Noted in brief – 4/10/2010

Posted on 4/10/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Obama for America’s Lessons on Technology for Social Change
  
• Magazine Preview: Climate Change – Building a Green Economy
  
• Lexington: A refreshing dose of honesty | The Economist
  The Economist on Maria Cantwell’s cap-and-dividend plan. Good stuff.
• Wave Energy Scales Up Off Scotland
  Cool!
• Salesforce.com Foundation 2010 Grant Round Open – NOW OPEN
  
• The Power of ‘No!’
  
• Canon EOS 550D / Rebel T2i Review
  WANT.

Noted in brief – 4/2/2010

Posted on 4/2/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) – Boing Boing
  Cory’s not drinking the kool-aid. Good on him.
• ‘Missing link’ ruling expected soon
  
• An open letter to conservatives | AmericanDad's Blog
  Wow, amazing rant, amazing foototes.
• Whales spotted near the Ballard Locks
  
• Can’t get rid of your memories? Call Death Bear
  
• Dealing With The Debt: A Brief Note
  

Noted in brief – 3/26/2010

Posted on 3/26/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Jarn: Plone Cathedral sprint after-action report Best sprint report-out ever. Nice work, all!
• Apps 4 Climate Action and licenses
• RedTurtle: “Future is bright, future is Plone”
• PubliQuestion: Voters—Especially Young Voters—Shrug Off McGinn’s Bumpy Start
• Catholic Charity and Sprint Tangle Over Texting – NYTimes.com Sigh. And now we see the dangers of relying on non-open standards and regulated telecoms.
• Caesarean Births Are at an All Time High in U.S.
• Democrats Have Republicans in “No-Win” Position on Healthcare: Will They Pounce?
• JC Brand: Why you should open source your python eggs.
• Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon
• Facebook May Begin Allowing Developers To Store User Data For More Than 24 Hours This could significantly change what’s possible with activism and Facebook.
• Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea But… but… social media is too a strategy!
• The Maine Lesson of Cap and Trade
• November 1941 and the Turning of the Tide
• Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention Long, important blog post about the futility of “routing around” authoritarian censorship.

Noted in brief – 3/8/2010

Posted on 3/8/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• The Unpardonable Absence of a Democratic “Attack Machine”
• “Time to Start Taking The Internet Seriously” by David Gelernter Great read.
• Openness can make citizens collaborators with officials
• Day Traders and Campaign Plans
• Obama Finally Keeps His Word
• Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets – NYTimes.com Alliance of know-nothings. Sigh.

Noted in brief – 2/10/2010

Posted on 2/10/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Faux Friendship – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  Wow, fascinating and damning indictment of “online friendship.”
• How Google Buzz Is Disruptive – Open Data Standards – NYTimes.com
  I would like this to be true. Oh please.

Noted in brief – 2/9/2010

Posted on 2/9/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Worldchanging: Bright Green: Where Did We Go Wrong on "Green Jobs"?
  Some really interesting, thoughtful conversation here.
• David Glick: Reflections on building a member directory using Plone and Salesforce.com
  
• Correcting the Oil Industry’s Errors
  
• Jon Stewart Disembowels, Eviscerates, Then Destroys The Blogosphere (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire
  Funny and on point. Boom!
• State Senate votes to ban chemical BPA in baby bottles
  
• Daily Kos: State of the Nation
  Republicans are actually as batshit as we think they are. I weep for this nation.

Noted in brief – 2/4/2010

Posted on 2/4/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Access Denied: Abuses and Failures Under BC's FOI Act — Dogwood Initiative
  Great report from Dogwood Initiative
• Putting Kemper Freeman Jr. in his place
  
• What Should SR-520 Be?
  

Noted in brief – 2/1/2010

Posted on 2/1/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Recession Forces Nonprofits to Consolidate – WSJ.com
  Hmm, more anecdotes, but no hard data on the actual number of nonprofits merging or closing. Does anybody track this?
• Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight – Charlie's Diary
  Totally fascinating.
• A "shock jock" in Montana has a great fall — High Country News
  Good news for decency.

Noted in brief – 1/26/2010

Posted on 1/26/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• The Six Americas of Climate Change
  
• The Facts of Cap and Trade
  

Noted in brief – 1/21/2010

Posted on 1/21/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Profiting From Haiti’s Crisis
  
• The limits of innovation
  
• New York Times to Charge Frequent Readers of Web Site – NYTimes.com
  NYTimes plans a modern, flexible paywall. I actually hope it succeeds, quality journalism needs a good business model.
• The Seattle Talks
  
• Speaker Chopp unfurls his tax roadmap
  
• “See you lata’” is the new “beta.” Exploring an epidemic of opting out.
  
• New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers — Daily Intel
  I for one would be happy to pay.

Noted in brief – 1/16/2010

Posted on 1/15/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• The future of UI will be boring
  
• Open Source Promoted in New California Policy
  
• Legislators to hold phone-in town hall
  
• David Glick: Come improve Dexterity at the Tahoe Snow Sprint
  

Noted in brief – 1/12/2010

Posted on 1/12/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• And the Second Greenest City Is…
  
• Voting for a Climate Neutral Future
  

Noted in brief – 1/6/2010

Posted on 1/6/2010 by Jon Stahl

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• Skinner Box? There’s an App for That – O’Reilly Radar
  

Noted in brief – 12/31/2009

Posted on 12/30/2009 by Jon Stahl

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• Lean Improvement Initiative Without Technology
  Process improvement first, IT implementation second. Heckyeah!
• UW Grad Student to Launch New Olympia Site
  
• Citizens of Farmville, petition your (real) representatives! :: The Future of the Internet — …
  

Noted in brief – 12/29/2009

Posted on 12/28/2009 by Jon Stahl

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• The Trouser Bomber Effect: Watching Government Cure Incompetence with Idiocy
  
• You Say You Want A Constitution
  
• Tunnel worries
  Presumably by Cary Moon, but byline is unclear.
• Why The President Went Golfing Today