Richard Florida: The Real Roots of Populism. Political theorist Cas Mudde in defining populists has sharing three key characteristics. They are anti-establishment, having faith in “plain talkers” and “ordinary people” as opposed to the “corrupt establishment” of business, government, academia, and media. They are authoritarian, favoring strong leaders over democratic institutions and traditions. They are nativist, putting their nation first. (more)

I haven't updated the WikiGraph db at least since migrating to WikiFlux, and probably long before then. (I wasn't doing much blogging for the prev couple years, because of shifting my reading to InstaPaper. But still...) (more)

User Experience (more)

Noah Kagan gives Time Management Tips of Insanely Busy People (more)

Longtime Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson is out. The Etsy board is replacing him with board director Josh Silverman starting May 3. (more)

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis – common, universal)[1][2] is a social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the Communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money,[3][4] and the state.[5][6] Communism includes a variety of schools of thought, which broadly include Marxism, Anarchism (anarchist communism) and the political ideologies grouped around both. All these hold in common the analysis that the current order of society stems from its economic system, capitalism, that in this system, there are two major social classes: the Working Class – who must work to survive, and who make up a majority of society – and the Capitalist class – a minority who derive profit from employing the proletariat, through private ownership of the means of production (the physical and institutional means with which commodities are produced and distributed), and that political, social and economic conflict between these two classes will trigger a fundamental change in the economic system, and by extension a wide-ranging transformation of society. The primary element which will enable this transformation, according to this analysis, is the social ownership of the Means Of Production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

Valkyrie Ice believes the New Economy is an Information Economy and thus will run by the Economics Of Abundance, destroying any Old Guard and New Guard (ahem Twitter) companies that depend on the Economics Of Scarcity. In addition, as “software workers” and 3d printers (Desktop Fab) increase in capability while decreasing in price, more and more of the “disenfranchised” from the “Knowledge Worker” tiers that are being replaced by automation will be able to acquire the “Means Of Production” and enter the market as competitors instead of as Consumer-s.

An Italian court has held 3 high-level Google-rs criminally liable for a cruel video posted to YouTube by Italian teenagers. (more)

I've had Time Machine problems regularly with my MacBookPro since moving its Back Up to the IOmega - 2011-06-11-Time CapsuleGettingFull - (more)

7 Ways to Delight Users with Animation | Webdesigner Depot (more)

A growing number of people think their job is useless. Time to rethink the meaning of work (more)

Google announced that it’s killing off Google Reader (RssAggregator) effective July 1, 2013. Earlier Product Manager Brian Shih (more)

Author writing about Good Diet. (more)

Michael Pollan book ISBN:0143114964: for an intro, you could read his "UnhappyMeals" article (more)

newly-invented word http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism (more)

Ben Evans: Ten Year Futures: Electric and autonomous cars (DriverlessCar) will change cities, virtual and Mixed Reality will change the entire computing experience, and Machine Learning is changing the kind of questions that computers can answer. But each of these is also just beginning, (more)

Ben Thompson: Not OK, Google: Fake News, on the other hand, tells people who’ve already made up their minds what they want to hear. Certainly it’s not ideal, but the tradeoffs in dealing with the problem, at least in terms of Facebook, are very problematic (more)

Bob Lefsetz: Twitter Results: By Wall Street standards Twitter’s a diving joke. A company that’s hit a financial wall with no obvious upside. By cultural standards it’s a juggernaut, far exceeding the impact of Facebook and Snapchat, even Instagram. (more)

Mixed reality (MR), sometimes referred to as hybrid reality,[1] is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. Mixed reality takes place not only in the physical world or the virtual world,[1] but is a mix of reality and Virtual Reality, encompassing both Augmented Reality and augmented virtuality.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality

aka Self-Driving Car