The Coolness of Pandora for Advertisers

Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:19 AM EDT (ambient: progressive technology & culture)

Pandora has done a great job in making the application interactive. If it plays a song I don't like, I give it a thumbs down; if I like it, thumbs up.

business, music, advertising, marketing, mp3

Quit Work To Travel » What Would You Do If You Didn't Need Money?

Seeded on Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:54 AM EST (quitworktotravel.com)

Security can sometimes be your worst enemy. Freedom can be just as dangerous, but it's a hell of a lot more fun.

us, travel, world, life, money, work

How to Quit Work » Quit Work To Travel

Seeded on Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:17 AM EST (Quit Work to Travel)

Hard work is a powerful tool for achieving success, and one of the rewards of that success is the opportunity to take time away from it and see the world.

travel, united-states, career, old-testament, quit-work, debt-rule

The Top 10 Human Powered Vehicles

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:07 PM EST (quitworktotravel.com)

technology, travel, environment, science, alternative-energy

Quit Work To Travel » A Thousand Years in Bali and a Long View of the History to Come

Seeded on Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:51 AM EST (quitworktotravel.com)

What do religious rituals have to do with feedback mechanisms in dynamic systems responsible for regulating the ecological and political balance of a region for a thousand years?

travel, politics, science, climate, anthropology, sociology, philosophy

Pot: I'd like you to meet kettle.

Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:26 PM EDT

The Register reports that Republican Representative Peter King has accused the New York Times of treason for reporting on the secret investigations that the US government is performing on financial transactions between Americans and citizens of around 200 other countries.

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us, iraq, politics, war, nsa

The Cost of Dropouts to Society?

Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:22 PM EST

NPR ran a story entitled "Helping Dropouts Break the Cycle of Poverty." It's an enlightening glimpse at the lifetime earning potential for those who don't finish high school compared with those who do.

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college, education, poverty, us-news

Debugging Expert Wins ACM Dissertation Award

Seeded on Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:29 AM EST (campus.acm.org)

technology, tech, software, open-source

Bringing Botnets Out of the Shadows

Seeded on Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:06 PM EST (The Washington Post)

technology, security, tech, internet

Another Look at America's Secret War

Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:12 AM EST

This month has been an eventful one in the Iraq War. Iraq is continually in danger of being ripped apart even further by the different factions, and nations funding those factions, struggling for dominance.

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iraq, war, strategy, world-news

Making smarter readers: Lessons in Trilliscience

Seeded on Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:07 AM EST (ojr.org)

The Online Journalism Review has published my article on an idea for how online publishers can keep readers longer and further monetize their content.

media, technology, tech, internet, journalism, wikipedia, web, trillian

New York Asks Help From Poor in Housing Crisis - New York Times

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 11:06 AM EST (The New York Times)

Typical. New York is one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the poor are being "asked" to lend a hand.

housing, justice, poverty, us-news, oppression

Wikipedia Publishes 1,000,000th Article

Seeded on Wed Mar 1, 2006 9:23 PM EST (wikimediafoundation.org)

Wikipedia published its millionth article yesterday.

technology, tech, wikipedia, new-media

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | A bit of BitTorrent bother

Seeded on Wed Mar 1, 2006 3:29 PM EST (BBC News)

Candid article from a journalist who is savvy enough to see the direction of content delivery and the realities of the internet yet provides perspective from traditional media.

technology, internet, new-media, p2p, bit-torrent

People of the Gap

Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:52 PM EST

The BBC reports that more than half of Britons do not believe in evolution, and that over 40% of them feel that intelligent design or outright creationism should be taught in public schools.

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evolution, intelligent-design, science