Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
FoxNews is reporting that protesters in Venezuela (protesting Chavez's takeover of the leading tv network in the country) are using Facebook and text messaging to organize their protests.
If it is really true, its a great example of Smartmobs in action. The ironic thing is, earlier in the day MSM ...
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Thanks to the unique and original Halley for the pointer
This is a Modest Mouse video done by Max Tyrie as told by Wooster Collective
"There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!".... Max
Read the whole story of how this was done ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
After A dismal attempt (remember Johnny Mnemonic?) to make a film based on the works of William Gibson, now they are bringing Neuromancer to the big screen:
As one of my all-time favorite novels, I am excited and scared - excited that we finally have the visual effects to make the ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
Industrial information economy
stark bifurcation between producers and consumers
june 2002 - deep discomfort in Computing community
4.5 million users of SETI@Home outdid the supecomputers
radicall decentralization of computation, storage and capacity
we are in a situation where we have the tools to cocmm
the most important inputs in to the core economic activities of the ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
Lot of growth in people relying on internet for political info
early days (1996) population was small, predominantly white, male, young, upper income
now looks like a lot more like the rest of america
53% now male - then 63%
median age in 1996 - 33
median age in 1996 - 39
women and ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
blogging late, from the memory
We should all be able to change our name at age 21 (laugh from the crowd) - in reference to there being more info out there, sometimes posted by us or others, that we don't necessarily want to remember, or more importantly share
Access to info unprecedented ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
At PDF today - huge crowd - packed house
Showed up late, leaving early :(SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Personal Democracy Forum 2007", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/05/18/personal-democracy-forum-2007/" });
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
seanbohan.com's bookmarks on del.icio.us
Loving this site...adding to the blogrollll
(tags: zen productivity life skills)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2007-05-07", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/05/07/links-for-2007-05-07/" });
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
links -
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117827827757492168.html
http://scobleizer.com/2007/05/04/msft-to-yhoo/
funnySHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Microsoft and Yahoo - freaky deaky", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/05/04/microsoft-and-yahoo-freaky-deaky/" });
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Turns out Digg may have banned a user for posting a hack.
Jay Adelson of Digg posts the reason here.
Best story title so far:
I'm thinking of a number... it's not my credit score
Live by the community, get pwned by teh communitySHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Digg PWNED????", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/05/01/digg-pwned/" });
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