Links
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Weekend linkings
Infrastructure Robert McMillan in Wired: How Heartbleed Broke the Internet — And Why It Can Happen Again Dan Kaminsky: Be still my breaking heart (also on Heartbleed) Connectivity Infrastructure (a piece I wrote for Linux Journal in 2002) Opening Minds to the Spheres Among Us (this month’s column for Linux Journal) Returning to Ground from… Continue reading
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Closing tabs
Mobile (especially Auto) Phil Windley: Auto Industry is Ground Zero in Technology Disruption 10-4 Good Buddy! Vehicle to Vehicle Communication Vehicles That Get Better Over Time Education Ayesha Adamo in Alternet: The School of Belle Knox — The Duke Porn Star on One Way to Pay for Outrageous College Costs Clay Shirky: The End of… Continue reading
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Weekend Linkings
Photography Stephen Lewis in Bubkes: A Tale of Urban Expansion: Late-19th-Century “Çarʂı” Row Houses, Functional Integration, Street-Life, and Class Mobility. ” The downtown end of Pirotska eventually was lined with European-style apartment houses. At the Üç Bunar end of Pirotska an older form of architecture still dominates: Two-to-three-story row-houses built in çarʂı (Turkish for ‘arcade’ and… Continue reading
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Linkies
Funny: Reverse vigilantism sweeps London, violent crime plummets Media company lays off dozens of unskilled bloggers Audio +/vs. Video Is this thing on? Why audio never goes viral. By Stan Alcorn in Digg. Pandora faces FCC setback in bid for South Dakota FM radio station. By Jeff John Roberts in Gigaom. Radio’s answer to Spotify? Less… Continue reading
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Weekend linkings
Photography Stephen Lewis in Bubkes.org: The Mosque of Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa, Istanbul: The Creation of Space, Floor-Level Views, and Architecture Through a Normal Focal-Length Lens. He begins, Sometimes, I try to picture the growth of cities and the evolution of architectural styles as short stop-motion films or animations that capture at high-speed centuries of morphological change as… Continue reading
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Almost daily link pile
Thinkings Quote of the day: “You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprising that you get a plant.” Jeremy England of MIT, in A New Physics Theory of Life, by Natalie Wolchover in Quanta. David Brin in Bloomberg: What… Continue reading
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Deep Winter Reading
Well, it’s not all reading, because I’m starting with photography, notably the latest from Stephen Lewis, whose prose runs as deep and broad as the soul in his work. — DS Photography Stephen Lewis in Bubkes: A Short-Lived Project: Chaos, Intentionality, and the Symmetry of Friendship The Women’s Market, Sofia, Bulgaria, Mid-1990s: One Poem, Two… Continue reading
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Into the dark
The power will be out for a while. That’s what the guys in the hard hats tell me, down where they’re working, at the intersection where our dead-end street is born. Many trucks are gathered there, with bright night-work lights illuminating whatever went wrong with the day’s power pole replacement job. The notices they left… Continue reading
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Seeing Deeply
Cities aren’t simple, especially mature ones. They are deep and complicated places that require equally deep attention to appreciate fully. That’s what I get from Stephen Lewis‘ insights about the particulars of present and past urban scenes and characters in Sofia, New York, Istanbul and other cities he knows well. His latest post, titled The Women’s… Continue reading
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Links for today
No time to turn these into linky text. So I’m just giving you the links. If I have a chance later, I’ll turn them into text. Meanwhile, dig: Photography Stephen Lewis http://bubkes.org/2013/12/01/sofia-rooftops-one-view-many-stories/ http://bubkes.org/2013/12/01/sofia-rooftops-one-view-many-stories/ http://bubkes.org/2013/11/22/ghost-of-commerce-past-abandoned-storefront-tahtakale-quarter-eminonu-istanbul/ http://bubkes.org/2013/11/18/mattresses-brooms-and-art-in-bulk-tahtakale-istanbul-commerce-direct-and-unadorned/ http://bubkes.org/2013/11/15/eminonu-waterfront-pickles-in-cups-grilled-mackerel-sandwiches-and-invented-traditions/ http://bubkes.org/2013/11/07/waterside-commerce-flower-vendor-with-coat-to-match/ Duncan Davidson http://duncandavidson.com/ http://jdd.io/ Thomas Hawk http://thomashawk.com/ http://thomashawk.com/2013/12/why-i-dont-support-black-day-at-flickr.html Tech http://www.sprinklr.com/resources/whitepapers/social-media-dream-team/ https://www.dropbox.com/s/xghrnmsq9jq8h8s/Best%20Practices%20for%20Enterprise%20Social%20Media%20Management%20by%20the%20Social%20Media%20Dream%20Team.pdf http://pribook.me/blog/ http://pribook.me/ http://opensource.com/business/13/12/fintp-to-open-source https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Who-Runs-the-Internet-graphic.png http://www.businessinsider.com/new-google-takeout-feature-2013-12#ixzz2muYKmynO Surveillance vs.… Continue reading
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Daily Diggings
Broadcasting Audio Future Festival: #hivio2014. @hivioSD. The SD is for San Diego. Infrastructure NET EFFECTS: The Past, Present, and Future Impact of Our Networks. By Tom Wheeler, new FCC Chairman. Journalism Jay Rosen: Out of the press box and onto the field Stringwire. Talking about itin Jay’s class right now. Bonus link. No Twitter executives are… Continue reading
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Weekend Reading
In order of closing tabs: I hope my father dies soon. By Scott Adams. Strong shit. Stoic Week. Too late to participate, but not to be stoic. PeeperPeeper Catches Who Has Been Snooping on Your Private Messages. Yo, mall rats: Facebook and Cisco in Wi-Fi hookup to track your retail, social life. “Swap your data… Continue reading
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Linkings
Science, Tech & Politics A spectator’s view of the JFK funeral procession. (Shot by old friend Donald Hughes.) A photographer for his high-school yearbook, Hughes decided he had to document the passage of the president’s coffin on its horse-drawn caisson as it made its way from the White House to the Capitol on Nov. 25, 1963. … Continue reading
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Sunday reading
A short list today, posted from a plane about to depart for London from Newark… Culture Eminönü Waterfront, Istanbul: Invented Traditions, Pickles in Cups, Grilled Mackerel Sandwiches, and the Pitfalls of Nostgia. By Stephen Lewis in Bubkes. About the realization that most “national” traditions — be they architectural, musical, dance, culinary, sartorial, folkloric, etc. —… Continue reading
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News with a Fuse
Culture Bubkes.org: Waterside Commerce, Istanbul: Cotton Candy Vendor At Day’s End and Waterside Commerce, Istanbul: Flower Vendor with Coat to Match. (Which get my votes for a perfect posts.) Prose in prison. By Andrew Sullivan. Source: Letters from Incarcerated Writers, by Andrea Jones in The American Reader. Perspectives Life on the Forked Road. By yours… Continue reading
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News to Use
Privacy vs. Surveillance On the privacy side: Surf safely with Web Pal. From Emmett Global and Customer Commons. Surveillance and Internet Identity. Francisco Correla in Pomcor. How to erase yourself from the Internet. By Andrew Tarantola in Gizmodo. Naked Capitalism: NSA Whistleblower: Government Failed to Stop Boston Bombing Because It Was Overwhelmed with Data from Mass Surveillance… Continue reading
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Almost Daily Outline
Journalism The rise of the reader: journalism in the age of the open web is a long and excellent lecture by Katharine Viner, deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia. Sample: So being open has many advantages for journalists. But to do it, you need to be part of the web’s ecosystem, not… Continue reading
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Today’s outline
The Net Why the NSA’s attacks on the internet must be made public. By Bruce Schneier in The Guardian. Subhead: By reporting on the agency’s actions, the vulnerabilities in our computer systems can be fixed. It’s the only way to force change. Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C. By Danny O’Brien… Continue reading
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Today’s raw bibliography
If I had world enough and time, the Fargo outline below would turn into one of my (less than) daily outlines. Instead I’m publishing it in raw form: links alone. Trust me: they’re all worthwhile. And I like them better this way than in as many open tabs spread across three browsers, all of which… Continue reading