Sara Horowitz of Freelancers Union on the growing importance of Free Agent Nation. (more)

Stowe Boyd looks at Debra Myerson's thinking on Swift Trust among temporary teams. (Team Work) Proposition 3. Inconsistent role behavior and “blurring” of roles will lead to a slower build of trust. This presumes that role blurring heightens uncertainty. People who exhibit inconsistent role behavior raise questions about what they will do with whatever is entrusted to them. Attempts to answer these questions slow the development of trust. (more)

There have been a number of riots around London England. Part of ongoing Credit Crisis 2008, Revolts Of 2011, or both? Commentators have attributed the causes of the riots to factors including high Poverty and UnEmployment, the growing gap between rich and poor, gang culture, and the lowest social mobility (Income Mobility) in the developed world. (more)

Stephen Downes is compiling EBook-s of his writing. (more)

A class of Elementary School students published a paper about Bees in the BiologyLetters journal. This study, Lotto admitted, was not sophisticated enough to be published in a top-tier journal. The students did not consult existing scientific literature or perform complicated statistical analyses. But as someone who had previously studied perception in bees, he knew that it was original, high-quality research. It also, Lotto added, flew in the face of some funding agencies that had turned down the project based on the idea young people cannot do real science.

Funny tool to make an Animation by typing in dialogue (more)

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Weird Wiki thought Of The Day. Search engines skip lots of wiki-based pages when returning results because so many words are subsumed into a WikiWord. You search for "Radio" or "Radio Userland" and my wiki pages say Radio Userland. Like some other wikis, I explode WikiNames in each pages 'title' tag. But what if we did it for every occurence of every WikiWord in the page? Might be too non-standard for me to do it myself, and I don't know how many wikis care about public access. (more)

Steven Johnson on the coolness of being able to link to a specific book-page (e.g. from an original Joseph Priestley book) in Google Book Search. But what you can see happening, slowly but surely, is the Memex and Xanadu and the Information Superhighway - all those inspiring dreams of information utopia - finally crossing crossing over into the vast universe of books. Slowly, over time, a page typeset in 1771 might start to get a whole new life, thanks to the growing authority we grant it through that elemental gesture of making a link. I Commented on the irony of his own book having to wait to go out of print before it will fall under the Google Book SearchSettlement. (Information Ecosystem Roadmap)

Independent Software Vendor, player in the Software Industry (more)

Micro ISV guy (more)

From Alexander Patterns: (more)

cartoon-like Video (more)

phrase from a memo from Daniel Patrick Moynihan to President Richard Nixon. (more)

WireLess Back Up appliance for MacOs X, runs Time Machine software. Can also be your WiFi hub.

Rebuild of QDBM (which is rebuild of DBM) Key-Value Data Store. (more)

Which Chicago Neighborhood (Down Town is community-area-32) should we live in? Want Urban Village environment, or East Village style. There are 77 "CommunityArea-s", broken down further into 228 "neighborhoods". (more)

Venkatesh Rao frames Lifestyle Design (a la Four Hour Work Week) as gambling. There are two kinds of resources you can gamble with: time and money. It used to be much easier to gamble with money than with time. That is what has changed in recent times, hence my definition. Newbie drinkers of the 4-hour Kool-Aid don’t seem to get this. They think lifestyle design is a guaranteed path out of their crappy lives in cubicle prisons and the burden of the Middle Class life script, mortgage and all... Without an element of gambling, the sort of lifestyle design model implicit in the question is far worse than the regular middle class lifestyle. If you are not willing to gamble, you shouldn’t attempt lifestyle design. Your paycheck (DayJob) is a much better deal... Lifestyle design isn’t a path to Freedom. It is an opportunity to gamble your way to freedom. Which means you can lose, and end up worse off than if you had taken the traditional paycheck route. But unlike in the Middle Class paycheck life, you have a non-zero chance of coming out on top. (Lottery) (more)

Open Society Game Rule that aims to give everyone a chance at Freedom/success, even if outcomes are unequal. Though things like extreme Wealth Inequality can be a warning sign.