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email delivery Read Weblogsky via email:itinerary EFF-Austin Cyberdawg Social, November 2003. Austin: Wireless Future, ongoing project / meetings; conference (March 12-16) SXSW Interactive, Austin (March 12-16) Polycot Polycot helps organizations determine how to build and use effective web technologies to solve problems, build loyalty, share knowledge, and organize projects. For more information, email consult at weblogsky.com, or check out the Polycot Consulting web site. projects CEO, Polycot Consulting. Polycot is a network services company: network consulting, installation and administration, as well as web solutions (architecture and development). Member of the blog team at Another World (worldchanging.com) Co-Founder of the Austin Wireless City Project Manager of the Wireless Future Project for IC² Institute Associated with Rheingold and Associates, Online Social Networking Moderator and co-administrator at the Dean Issues Forum Writer of various interviews, reviews, essays, and articles. President of EFF-Austin Member, Board of Directors, Austin Freenet Local advisor for South by Southwest Interactive Steering Committee Member and Webmaster, Austin Clean Energy Initiative Member of the blog team for Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs weblog. Cohost of The WELL's Inkwell.vue, discussions and interviews. Webmaestro for Viridian Design Co-instigator of Austin Bloggers Member of Mindjack's Board of Advisors. links worth traveling weblogsky archives Email jonl at weblogsky.com ![]()
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Friday, November 30, 2001
Taschen is wild — where've these guys been all mylife? They've got Tomi Ungerer's Erotoscope and All-American Ads of the 40s! "Shaking up the often conservative standards of traditional publishing, TASCHEN squashes prices and has a lot of fun doing it." — Elle Decoration, Paris Wednesday, November 28, 2001 Tora Bora? or Cheyenne Mountain? We're packing and moving from Boulder, Colorado back to Austin, where I'll be working with Jeff Kramer and Matt Sanders, my partners at Polycot Consulting. I'm having my first Ryder Truck experience. When we moved to Boulder, somebody was footing the bill, so we had actual movers who even packed for us... The relevance of this move is that there won't be any activity on this blog for a few days... should be back at it, though, by midweek next week. For those of you who support and build community networks, join us at The Fourth Annual Community Network Conference in Austin beginning Sunday. Sunday, November 25, 2001 Cool interpolated rotoscoping at Flat Black Films. This is the technology employed in creating Rick Linklater's Waking Life. More about the film in my other blog, which is part of Cory Doctorow's Fourblogs experiment. Wednesday, November 21, 2001 For the upcoming Gravity Recovery And Climatic Experiment (GRACE), scientists mapped the earth's gravity, and the resulting map show's that gravity is lumpy and variable. People in India weigh 1% less than people in the U.S., for instance. When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime too and your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through, don't put on any airs. Monday, November 19, 2001 Remember those posters of Osama with fuzzy muppet Bert in the background? This is even better. Check this reference once you've read the Rotten piece. Makes you wonder over the credibility of other supposed threats. Sunday, November 18, 2001 Interviewing web designer/communitarian Derek Powazek in Inkwell.vue on the WELL. Derek's just written one of the very best how-to books about virtual community, called Design for Community. If you want to participate in the conversation but you're not a member of the WELL, just send your questions or comments to inkwell-hosts@well.com and they'll be posted. Saturday, November 17, 2001 Leonids Tonight! | Followup on Sunday, Nov 18 (originally posted on the WELL): Marsha and I grabbed the neighborhood mathematician and drove to Heil Ranch north of Boulder, where we parked and spread out on the grass, with blankets and pillows like we were kids sleeping out, and we lay there watching the sky so clear the stars weren't twinkling, watching the show, one meteor after another, some subtle and some brilliant, speculating whether the meteors were ice or dirt or both, sipping applie cider spiked with Jim Beam and moonbeam. We lasted an hour or more before the chill dug deep enough to get us moving again, back home. Before bed I stepped out back and saw half dozen more.More on the Leonids here! Stole this from jimwich: Japanese Family Crests are cool, elegant designs that evidently began appearing around AD 600 on Emperor (or Empress) Suiko's flags. Friday, November 16, 2001 Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart prescribes drumming for health. "About 15 years ago I played for my grandmother, who had Alzheimer's. She hadn't spoken in about a year, and then she said my name. That's what keyed me to this. I see amazing things with the Alzheimer's patients. They're in a darkness you know, and after an hour of rhythm, they can say their names." Monday, November 12, 2001 Remember when a spacewalk was a big deal? Two astronauts went EVA today and we hardly noticed... the linked account was buried on the CNN site; I found it by accident while looking for info about the Leonid Meteor Shower, coming next Sunday, November 18. We'll be taking a jug of wine and loaf of bread into the mountains for this one... Sunday, November 11, 2001 ![]() Saturday, November 10, 2001 Letter from Senator Patrick Leahy to John Ashcroft regarding the Justice Department's implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act. Leahy was shocked to hear of the decision to allow monitoring of formerly privileged conversations between clients and their attorneys: Today I also learned through the press of another troubling development: Your unilateral executive decision to authorize interception of privileged attorney-client communications between detained persons and their lawyers. As I noted to you this morning, after having worked closely with the Department to equip Federal and State law enforcement to combat terrorism and after having received no request from you for statutory authorization to take this controversial step, and with no warning that you were contemplating such a step, I am deeply troubled at what appears to be an executive effort to exercise new powers without judicial scrutiny or statutory authorization. Friday, November 09, 2001 For some Taleban commanders, the war in Afghanistan is more important for its impact on the donkey market than anything else. "In principle, the Taleban could bring the Northern Alliance to its knees if they managed to prevent the donkey convoys getting through. However, in many areas, Kabul regime commanders prefer money to victory." Thursday, November 08, 2001 Why screw around with a noisy, potentially explosive rocket when you can float into space dangling from a helium-filled balloon? Andy Elson and Colin Prescot are going to do just that, ascending (they hope) to 132,000 feet with QinetiQ's balloon. Saturday, November 03, 2001 Ghost Sites of the Web has been around for a while, but the list of sites archived in its Museum of E-Failure has grown quite a bit since we last looked at it. Dig the alternative Pathfinder blurbs for the OJ Simpson trial: Guilty vs. Not Guilty...! |
interviews Interview with David Weinberger for SXSW Interactive Conference's Tech Report Discussion with Bruce Sterling at The WELL, January 3 - 17, 2003. Jon L. interview for South by Southwest Interactive conference's Tech Report. Jon L. interviewed by Adam Powell (5/13/2002) jonl interviewed by R. U. Sirius (A version of this interview appeared in The Austin Chronicle) Conversation with Bruce Sterling at the WELL's Inkwell.vue Forum Interview with R.U. Sirius at CTHEORY interview conducted by Yoshihiro Kaneda in conjunction with the publication in Japan, in the book CyberRevolution, the essay "Inforeal." interview with Allucquere Rosanne Stone. No Stone Untenured: May '98 Interview with Sandy Stone Bruce Sterling interview for bOING bOING #9 The Tedium is the Message, Assholes: Interview (for AltX) with R.U. Sirius and St. Jude Don't Believe the Hype (Austin Digerati Roundtable published January 28) Why We Listen to What They Say: Interview with Doug Rushkoff Interviews with Projecting the 21st Century: An Interview with Gary Chapman Information Junkie, an interview with Reva Basch (Researching Online for Dummies) Wired to Virtual Reality: Interview with Howard Rheingold Interview with Carla Sinclair, author of Signal to Noise Making Movies on Cyber Location: an interview with director Doug Block (Austin Chronicle, February 1998) Untangling the Web: interview with Gene Crick of MAIN and Sue Beckwith of Austin Freenet reviews Review of Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, in Whole Earth Magazine. review in HotWired of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Cyber Top Ten for 1997 (Austin Chronicle, December 1997) essays
What Happened to the Cyber Revolution? A Few Points about Online Activism in the March '99 issue of the UK journal Cybersociology ZapSpace, published as A Fistful of DOS in the Australian magazine 21C The Cyborganic Path from the April '97 issue of CMC Magazine Essay: Are We a Nation? We Are Devo in The Ethical Spectacle. articles Little Nemo in Slumberland (bOING bOING, February 1998) Technopolitics, a 1997 essay on cyberactivism originally appearing in the Australian magazine 21C. Your 15 Minutes Are Up, Mr. Gates!1998 Top Nine List from the Austin Chronicle! Dungeons and Draggin's: a look at the Ultima Online phenomenon "We Do Cool Things": a profile of Austin's George Sanger, aka The Fatman, and Team Fat The Opera Ain't Over 'til the Cyber Lady Sings: Honoria in Ciberspazio (Austin Chronicle, November 1997) Shout Spamalam! The Austin Spam Suit Who Are You? Who Owns You? A consideration of Amazon's privacy policy. Amicus Brief filed with Supreme Court regarding the "Communications Decency Act" 11.25.96 Freewheelin' in Austin 1.7.97 Cyberdawgs and CyberRights: EFF-Austin 2.25.97 VR in 3Space: Brian Park 1.28.97 Going Native in Cyberspace: Bob Anderson 3.25.97 A Parisian Spring in Austin: Joseph Rowe and Catherine Braslavsky 4.22.97 On a Rock and Roll Firetruck: Shawn Phillips ![]() |