Green Tea Ice Cream

What’s wrong with whoishi, eh?  Anyway, I’ve just added myself to whoisi.  I’m still thinking about the overall concept (a wiki version of FriendFeed?) but the potential for anarchy is deeply appealing.
Meanwhile, I’m back online, more or less, until the dealines for my MSc research project start to bit.

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Eat more insects, scientists say - Telegraph
Er…pass.
(tags: food environment insects sustainability)

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convergentsystems wiki
Now this is where we need to set up a careers service, not boring old Second Life (just kidding, SL)
(tags: science conference virtualworlds 2.0)

Read what matters - AideRSS
Worth a try - i seem to be harvesting interesting tech blogs far faster than I can read them.
(tags: aggregator analysis 2.0 productivity web2.0 News blog socialmedia)

Missouri_Podcasting_White_Paper.pdf [...]

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Not a Game: Online Only Video: The New Yorker
Therapy for Iraq veterans via video game.
(tags: virtualworlds games Iraq)

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Should I include Shirky’s subtitle, “The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”? I probably should, if only to point out that I disagree with it. But I’ll come to that.
I’ve been reading “Here Comes Everybody” (book blog here) on the commute to work, mostly, for the last couple of days. It takes the [...]

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Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed «
Hmm. How seriously should I treat this? On the one hand, paranoia and conspiracy theory. On the other hand…Well, it’s Microsoft. And members of my team have been chucked off FB before now.
(tags: friendfeed [...]

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I really need to edit this but that’s going to have to wait! Sleeping takes priority.
[9:15]
I suppose it’s whatever is scheduled to take place between 8:30 and 10 before the Big Keynote Speech. Actually, the Big Keynote Speeches are kind of overshadowed by the Special Guest - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, beamed in to [...]

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Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-For-Everybody | HASTAC
Finally a (mildly) dissenting voice.
(tags: Shirky, economics, Web 2.0)

Ars Book Review: “Here Comes Everybody” by Clay Shirky: Page 1
Another eulogy. A lot in the book I like but something’s nagging…
(tags: book clayshirky)

Clay Shirky’s masterpiece: Here Comes Everybody - Boing Boing
I’m obvioiusly missing something. It’s a good book but…
(tags: book clayshirky [...]

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Blip - twitter like music sharing
Do I realy need another twitter? And a noisy one at that? Possibly.
(tags: music socialnetworking online twitter Fuzz)

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Delish, a Del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X by Pine Point Software LLC
This looks intriguing
(tags: Mac Software Apple del.icio.us)

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