Biweekly links for 04/11/2008

• David Crow: Measuring community success
  • Thoughts and questions about what it means to say that a community-forming activity is “successful”.
• Alexei Gilchrist: Mindmaps in lectures
  • Alexei talks about using mindmaps as a replacement for Powerpoint.
• BoingBoing: Bioethics and cognitive liberty
  • Cognitive liberty is the freedom to not have our brains tampered with / scanned. A new fundamental right?
• Marc Andreessen: Birth of Newspapers, part 1: The very first newspaper
• Cityofsound: The street as platform
  • Hill has the great eye of an outstanding novelist, who makes us see what is right in front of us: “We can’t see how the street is immersed in a twitching, pulsing cloud of data… constantly logging… patterns of behaviour. The behaviour of the street
• Google App Engine
  • Google follows Amazon into the web services game. These kinds of services are an amazing boon for developers, but I wonder about the business model for the providers- they’ll need to work hard to prevent commodization.
• Jacks of Science
  • Entertaining general science blog from Waterloo-Toronto.
• Lorcan Dempsey: The amplified conference
  • Nice term for the way many conferences are becoming extended, with an online ramp-up and afterlife.
• Agile Release & Testing Procedures
  • Lots of lip service is given to testing. Ilya asks what’s actually done in real, high-quality projects.

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