Group of people assembling around 2018-12-09-50thAnniversaryOfEngelbartMotherOfAllDemos. Includes Mark Bernstein and Jack Park. (more)

Hugh MacLeod on the dangers of Cool Hunting. instead of a reasonable, normal reaction (i.e. "Who the hell cares"), you find yourself going, "Gosh! That's so interesting!"

PKM/Self Improvement/productivity person. http://www.fortelabs.co/ (more)

Michael Fogleman: Building a Second Brain in Emacs and Org-Mode. I haven’t always had a good system for personal knowledge management (PKM). (more)

vs Just-in-Case - comes from Lean Manufacturing

see Lean Manufacturing

The year social networks were no longer social. The concept of wide networks of social ties with an element of broadcasting is dead. (more)

Helen DeWitt Has Your Number. Though she’s famous for her big first novel, “The Last Samurai” (2000), her comedy, committed to serial absurdities, doesn’t always flourish best in long forms. It blooms into riffs and fugitive ideas, rebellious asides and quick conceptual tryouts. She is a master of the paragraph-length flareup. (more)

Foundation created by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife.

Audrey Watters: Funding Edsurge and 'the Future of Learning'. Edsurge announced in July that it had received grants from the Gates Foundation and from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative totaling $1.45 million. And in December, the media company announced it had raised $2.5 million in venture capital. The latter brings the total of its venture funding to $8.2 million (according to Crunchbase); it’s taken in almost $7 million in grants from the Gates Foundation alone. (more)

Computer algorithm that speaks written words. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech computer or speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis (more)

Audio Book: recording of book read by a human, not text-to-speech.

see Printed Book, EBook, Book Publishing

Personal Development writer. https://taylorpearson.me See Effective Entrepreneur course.

tuition-free (until 2014) Architecture/Engineering School university (College Education) in my East Village/NYC neighborhood (more)

Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking (ASynch) Web Server and Web App Framework written in Python.[1] It was developed for use by FriendFeed; the company was acquired by FaceBook in 2009 and Tornado was open-sourced soon after. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_%28web_server%29 (more)

Malware attack disrupts delivery of L.A. Times and Tribune newspapers across the U.S. Technology teams worked feverishly to quarantine the computer virus, but it spread through Tribune Publishing’s network and reinfected systems crucial to the news production and printing process. Multiple newspapers around the country were affected because they share a production platform. (more)

Instant Messaging app

FaceBook with enforced smaller Social Network? Semi-Social. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(social_network) (more)

The evolution of evil chatbots is just around the corner. Thanks to advances in machine learning, chatbots can now be exploited by hackers in order to deceive unsuspecting victims into clicking dubious links and handing over sensitive information. (more)