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The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video Ebbed in this post below The Shock Doctrine Book and Film Home Page The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism...

Communes make a comeback . . . in Australia

Link for this post : Communes make a comeback . . . in Australia - Brisbane Times. Here is an excerpt from the beginning of this Brisbane Times article: Teepees, dope, nudity and lashings of idealism. These were the essential...

Burning Man Grows Up -- Business 2.0

Link for this Post: Burning Man Grows Up Business 2.0 This article begins with this: America's biggest counterculture jamboree is also a $10 million business. Now, Business 2.0 reports, it's trying to leverage its brand -- and save the planet...

Give Net Neutrality a Chance on Business Week Online

Link for this Post: Give Net Neutrality a Chance by S. Derek Turner in Business Week Online Here is an excerpt from this excellent article: Eliminating net neutrality would turn the open system of the Internet on its head. With...

Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google -- Venture Beat and ZDNet

Updated Links for this Post: Powerset: The natural language search mashup platform by Dan Farber -- ZDNet Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google By Matt Marshall on VentureBeat Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the Venture Beat...

Updated with News Video: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital' Conference

Link for this Post: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital Conference. I first saw Steve Jobs speak at a conference in Santa Cruz back in the early 1980s,...

The Hippies Were Right All Along -- We Knew That

Link for this Post: The Hippies Were Right All Along -- We Knew That. by Mark Mitford in the May 2 San Fransisco Chronicle This essay in last week's SF Chronicle says that the group with "values" in our culture...

Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority

Links for this Post: Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority: by Greg Sterling, .Search Engine Land America: The Growing Digital Divide by Duncan Riley- TechCrunch A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users (the original report) by John...

Pirates of the Multiplex -- Vanity Fair

Link for this Post: Pirates of the Multiplex -- by Steve Daly -- Vanity Fair This long (6 pages) and newsy piece in Vanity Fair begins with this, Under U.S. pressure, Swedish authorities are going after the popular Pirate Bay...

Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium

Link for this Post: Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium According to the folks at the newest social software network on the block Helium, they can best be described as "About, Yahoo Answers. Wikipedia all rolled...

Google & Cisco Planning Digital Billboards & Subliminal Advertising

Links for this Post: LiveScience.com - "The Next Really Big Thing: Digital Billboards" By Bill Christensen. technovelgy.com: Subliminal Billboards technovelgy.com: Digital Billboards Worth Billions According to these stories, the old fashioned American billboards we are used to may be replaced...

The Artificial Islands of Dubai

Dubai is fuxxing nuts! The picture above is: The Palm Islands in Dubai. New Dutch dredging technology was used to create these massive man made islands. They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from...

2006 Web Technology Trends

Link for the Post:: 2006 Web Technology Trends.on Read/Write Web I must admit I did not keep up on web 2.0 and other tech trends as passionately this year as I did in 2005. Web 2.0 fatigue or technology burnout...

Blish Makes It Easy to Buy and Sell Digital Content

Link for this Post: Blish Makes It Easy to Buy and Sell Digital Content. One of the nice things about the web is how it is making things that were either hard and time consumptive or impossible for the small...

BradBlog on Democracy in Crisis: Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Plus Coverage of Lew Dobbs Electronic Voting Scandal Crusade

Links for this Post: "Democracy in Crisis - An Exclusive BRAD BLOG Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr." "CNN's Lou Dobbs: This Congress, This Administration, I Cannot Fathom What They Are Thinking" At the beginning of June, I posted "Was...

Check Into the Habbo Hotel -- Updated with TechCrunch Info

Links For This Updated Post: TechCrunch: Habbo Hotel Microtransacts itself to $30m in Revenue Visit the Habbo Hotel USA The post below this update was done almost exactly two years ago. I was intrigued with the idea of a virtual...

A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor - New York Times

Link: gpt yjod [pdy A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor - New York Times. Here is an excerpt from "A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor" by Saul Hansell and John Markoff" Google, in fact, has decided it will...

"Top 10 Google Applications" on CNET

Link: for this Post:: Top 10 Google Appss - CNET Today's tech news featured a BusinessWeek "look at the glass as half empty" article about Google called "So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits." However, if you take a look at...

Growing Up Absurd -- Remembering Paul Goodman

"LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Paul Goodman" The following excerpt from this tribute blog post to Paul Goodman echoes my feelings about him perfectly: Before Theodore Rozak defined the counter culture as the social movement of the...

Business 2.0: "Feedburner Brands the Feed" -- The Return of "Push Technology"

Link for this Post: "Redefining the RSS Feed" John Heilemann, Business 2.0 Magazine. Those of you who subscribe to my RSS Feed know that I have used Feedburner as my feeding station for almost a year now. Recently, Typepad's developers...

As Online Ads Grow, Eyeballs Are Valuable Again on the Web -- New York Times

Link for this post: "As Online Ads Grow, Eyeballs Are Valuable Again on the Web" by Bob Tedeschi, New York Times. I've had two websites since 1995 and I've noticed that traffic is defiantly increasing on both sites.. My site...

Seed: The Future of Fusion

Link for this Post:: Seed: The Future of Fusion by Britt Peterson Seed Magazine features a hopeful article about the possibility and potential of fusion generated energy.The subhead of the articles title reads: "After years as a purely experimental science,...

Google Seeks More Power New York Times Technology

"Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power" by John Markoff and Saul Hansell in the New York Times Technology section Google is building a giant computing center in Oregon. Here is a couple of excerpts from this article :...

No Tolls on The Internet -- Washington Post

Link for this Post: "No Tolls on The Internet" by Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McCartney -- Washington Post The vote for Network Neutrality is soon and this piece comes as a reminder to what's at stake.

BusinessWeek Online Web 2.0 Guide

Link for this Post CEO Guide to Web 2.0 BusinessWeek Online has one of its magazine long features -- this one on the buzz over Web. 2.0. Here are some of the features in the magazine: Web 2.0 Has Corporate...

What Is Your Domain Worth In the Internet Gold Rush? Free Appraisals at Leapfish

Link for this post: Leapfish Domain Name Resource Center -- Free Domain Name Appraisal If the Internet Boom is compared to a Gold Rush, domain names are something like homesteading unfenced and unclaimed land in those days. Leapfish does free...

AlterNet: How the Right Stole the '60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back)

Link for this post:: AlterNet: How the Right Stole the '60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back). Here is an excerpt from this much commented on Alternet essay by Aston Taylor: Regardless of whether we were raised in the...

"Deadhead" Summer Festivals -- Rex Foundation

Link for this post Rex Foundation" Summer Festivals 2006 . The non-profit Rex Foundation lists three Summer Festivals in the tradition of the "Deadhad." The three are Grateful Fest June 30 – July 4 Nelson Lodges Quarry Park, Nelson, Ohio...

BBC NEWS Business Warner to start movie downloads using Bit Torrent technology

Link for this post BBC NEWS Business Warner to start movie downloads. The same torrent technology that current streams movies to millions around the world is going to be used by Warner Brothers to deliver movies to even more millions...

Digital Be-In 14 "Planet Code" The Earth Day Be-In Updated -- Live Webcast Tonight!

Link for this post: "Digital Be-In 14: Planet Code: The Earth Day Be-In" Updated: email from Michael Gosensy Digital Be-In NetCast & Live Bloggingf or the many people who can't make it in person, we will be uploading video and...

Plausible Futures Newsletter Offers Wide Ranging Coverage of Future Studies News

Link: Plausible Futures Newsletter. Plausible Futures Newsletters covers a wide-ranging set of topics withing the scope of future studies from a diverse set of sources as well as with original articles. For example from recent posts: 2020 - Future of...

Software Out There by John Markoff - New York Times

Link: Software Out There - New York Times. John Markoff comments on the web 2.0 thing.Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the piece: The Internet is entering its Lego era. Indeed, blocks of interchangeable software components are proliferating...

Apple Does Windows Too

Link for this post: "Apple Boot Camp Public Beta: Macs Do Windows, too." With the rumors that Apple would switch to Windows running rampant, it must have been evident to a lot of people that something .. I guess the...

Sidney Blumenthal -- Bush Has Not Heard About the Apocalypse But Followers Ready -- in the Guardian

Links for this post: Sidney Blumenthal | Apocalyptic President.in the Guardian American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury The article opens by mentioning a new book American Theocracy by conservative...

Newsweek Cover Story:Putting the 'We' in Web"

Link for this post: Putting the Web In the Web Special Newsweek Issue Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time,...

Seth's Blog: Flipping the Funnel--new free ebook

Links for this post :Seth's Blog: Flipping the Funnel--new ebook Understanding the Funnel Seth has produced a free ebook on web marketing based. What is "the funnel"? He explains a bit of it on another post: I've been talking about...

"Bound By Law" Free Comic Book Explains Current Intellectual Property Debate

Links for this post: "Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW? Bound by Law? on Joi Ito's Web Joi Ito posts about this fun and educational comic book: Fellow Creative Commons board member and friend James Boyle helped work...

Seasteading Project Aims To Build Sovereign, Self-Sufficient Floating Ocean Platforms

Link for this post: The Seasteading Project What is "seasteading"? Here is the way the site describes it: "Seasteading" means to create permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas. Like the pioneers of old, seasteaders will be...

Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy - New York Times

Link for this post: Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy - New York Times. Blogging is changing the media equation. The best writers have discovered that as Bob Dylan put it, they don't "have...

The Rise of Big Google -- TechCrunch "Google Drive: What we know so far"

Link for this post: TechCrunch Google Drive: What we know so far. I've been following the Google story from time to time here on Vision Things. Previous posts have includes such memorable favorites such as When I Die, I Want...

stocktickr -- Stock Trading Comes To Social Networks

Link for this post: stocktickr. Well there have been fantasy stock exchanges for blogs and fantasy trading websites but here is the real thing. With some resemblance to del.icio.us and the social bookmarks and some some to friendster-like communities, this...

In California, New Kind of Commune for Elderly - New York Times

Link: In California, New Kind of Commune for Elderly - New York Times. This article by Patricia Leigh Brown is about some innovative developments in geriatric living. Begun naturally in California, here is how the piece begins: DAVIS, Calif., Feb....

Mashable* » The Rise of the Memetrackers

Link for this post Mashable* » The Rise of the Memetrackers. The blog "Mashable: Peter Cashmore on the Web" has a post about Memeorandum and three of its "competitors" which the author classifies with the evolicative title "memetrackers." The domain...