October 2010
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Visit the preliminary site for my novel “Edan” at “http://www.edanbook.com
RT @reuseum Open Source 3D Printing has arrived in Garden City, ID http://bit.ly/c227NY #diy
“If you’re in front of a computer screen all day, then the images and icons that...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Stephen Fry: The internet and Me (via adora)
NOOOOOoooooo!
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Watch(via void)
Bruce Sterling Forecasts The Future
today’s sci-fi authors the cyber-svengalis of tomorrow never comes? (hint: I am a sci-fi author)
“Remember the movie Lawnmower Man? Here’s why we’re not even close.”
– Technology Review: Blogs: Mims’s Bits: Whatever Happened to … Virtual Reality? (via techspotlight)
New title for my novel (almost complete) and book cover concept: http://goo.gl/TpiG I would like pos or neg feedback on the title & the art
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The Thinking LMS →
infoneer-pulse:
In an effort ambitiously dubbed the “Learning Genome Project,” the for-profit powerhouse says it is building a new learning interface that gets to know each of its 400,000 students personally and adapts to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their “learning DNA.”
Unlike analog forms of student profiling — such as surveys, which are only as effective as the students’ ability to...
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Be sure to follow my faux twitters from my novel: @Submetatech, @Agilonic, @InwayServices, @Manga9F5 http://goo.gl/sQUA
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom: Utopianism and...
fanboygaymer:
Duke University’s Gerry Canavan is teaching my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom in a class on utopias and he conducted an interview with me on the subject for the course:
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“Those who say that they can control copies are wrong, and they will not profit...”
– Cory Doctorow @doctorow
I have to agree deeply with this sentiment.
(via kunstreichs)
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Google To License Street View Imagery To Game... →
infoneer-pulse:
Will driving games soon be featuring images of real places and roads courtesy of Google’s Street View? That’s the word from the Kmeme blog, which says that Google will make its imagery available to game developers:
A game company will be able to license the entirety of the real world’s roads and all the surrounding areas from Google. The data will be streamed over the network...
Excerpts to my sci-fi novel start here: http://goo.gl/Um4N (please read and comment)
acheverton:
Cory Doctorow interviews William...
marginal gloss: gibson/doctorow →
marginalgloss:
I think I will have to stop going to watch authors I admire talk or read from their work. I go expecting revelations and I’m always disappointed. Not in the ‘you should never meet your heroes’ way — they always seem like perfectly nice, interesting people talking about interesting things — it’s…
Author John Sundman talks about his use of @creativecommons licensing for his book http://bit.ly/b97Klp
Inspiring advice on what to do with your new manuscript before it goes to print: http://bit.ly/9dlz6k
“The integrity of the system had been violated.”
– Hacker infiltration ends D.C. online voting trial (via mikehudack)
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Zero History →
(via guy)
Just snagged Gibson’s latest from the library. I hope it’s as good as the last one.
“Zuckerberg faced no such barrier. For less than $1,000, he could get his idea...”
– Larry Lessig (via ayjay)
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Douglas Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed (by DANGEROUS MINDS)
“We have a choice either to make the software or be the software..”
“Society has moved from an asynchronous culture to synchronized culture…”
