Lane Becker thinks Pownce is competing, not with Twitter, but with Thirty7Signals apps. Pownce is a lightweight productivity app, built on top of the stream, and it has all the pluses and minuses of a productivity app... So, who's the reigning king of lightweight productivity tools online, and who have we been using for that purpose up until now? 37Signals, makers of BaseCamp, Highrise, and Campfire, online apps designed to help people collaborate in a predominantly business but occasional personal setting. (more)

Do we need the concept of a Universal Outbox as an aggregator of our various outputs, similar to our Universal Inbox? Is this part of the Open Social Networking Model? (more)

creator of WithKnown IndieWeb Weblog Engine (more)

model of using Open Source Educational Technology to create free Open Content? (more)

Student-centered counter to LMS. Treats the student as the primary actor/creator, rather than as a Consumer of materials. (more)

danah boyd: The Information War Has Begun. Yesterday, Steve Bannon clearly articulated what many people have felt and known for quite some time when he told journalists, “You’re the opposition party (more)

The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia, sciences, art and design. Staff and students have backgrounds ranging from electrical engineering and computer science to sociology and music and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab (more)

Andrés Miguel Rondón: How to Culture Jam a Populist in Four Easy Steps: in one way, Donald Trump and Hugo Chávez are identical: they are masters of Populism. (more)

The Defense Authorization Bill For 2008 included the Kyl Lieberman Amendment which smells equivalent to the vote giving George W Bush to start the War On Iraq, this time for Iran. (more)

There hasn't been an actual Intelligence Authorization Act passed in five years. (more)

scandal during George W Bush administration, where "someone" leaked to multiple Journalism types that Joseph Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. (more)

The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative is buying the Meta science Search Engine, and will make its tool free to all in a few months after enhancing the product... By taking Meta out of the commercial space and refocusing ans maximizing its value, CZI could solve one of science’s biggest problems for a much wider community. Simply put, there’s far too much research for any one scientist or even a whole team to keep up with. 2,000-4,000 papers are published each day about biomedicine alone, yet it’s hard to search across them or figure out which are the most reputable. Meta, formerly known as Sciencescape, indexes entire repositories of papers like PubMed and crawls the web, identifying and building profiles for the authors while analyzing who cites or links to what. It’s effectively Google PageRank for science, making it simple to discover relevant papers and prioritize which to read. (more)

Google Ventures, prev JotSpot, prev one of the founders of Excite. (more)

author, Lean Entrepreneur

Adam Nash was the President and CEO of Wealthfront from January 2014 to October 2016.[1][2] Nash previously served as an executive in residence at Greylock Partners, vice president of product management at LinkedIn, director at eBay and held strategic and technical roles at Atlas Venture, Preview Systems and Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Nash_(executive) (more)

Adam Nash (LinkedIn, now Wealth Front) gave a presentation on HowTo be a Great Product Leader (Product Manager). (more)

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think (more)

Foreign Policy of constraining the growth of a competitor/aggressor (more)

reducing/eliminating government and/or civic interaction with other countries/cultures (more)

aka nonintervensionism, Non Interventionism (more)