{"id":314,"date":"2008-02-21T22:08:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T02:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2008-02-21T22:14:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T02:14:22","slug":"links-for-week-prior-to-02212008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/links-for-week-prior-to-02212008\/","title":{"rendered":"More links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be posting a linklog once a week, from now on.  This is actually the second for this week, as I&#8217;m tweaking my script a bit, but in the future it should happen only once a week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkingschools.org\/archive\/21_02\/lego212.shtml\">Why We Banned Legos &#8211; Rethinking Schools Online<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Not what I expected.  A fascinating microcosm of politics, economics, social norming, the rule of law, and the power of despots.  It&#8217;d make a great basis for a book or a PhD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottklarr.com\/topic\/104\/ruby-and-ruby-on-rails-cheat-sheets\/\">Scott Klarr: Ruby and Ruby on Rails cheat sheets<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Good collection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niso.org\/news\/events_workshops\/discovery08\/\">Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting conference at U North Carolia (Chapel Hill), March 27-28<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nichegeek.com\/little_known_boring_websites_that_make_incredible_money_with_adsense\">&#8216;Boring&#8217; Websites That Make Incredible Money With AdSense<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>AdSense has created a whole new economic system.  What legal protections should people have against Google changing its algorithms (which might make them rich, or pauper them)?  It&#8217;s  natural to say &#8220;diversify&#8221;, but Google has a near-monolopy here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/2008\/interview-john-gruber\/\">Interview with John Gruber: A Mix of the Technical, the Artful, the Thoughtful, and the Absurd<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Insights on interviewing, writing, and blogging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/essay.html\">Paul Graham: The Age of the Essay<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Informative and original essay about writing and education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/865-on-writing-john-gruber-paul-graham-joel-spolsky-and-judge-judy\">[On writing] John Gruber, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, and Judge Judy &#8211; (37signals)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Excerpts some choice bits from the Gruber and Graham pieces linked above, if you&#8217;re in a hurry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/386\/\">xkcd &#8211; &#8220;someone is _wrong_ on the Internet!&#8221;<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Unfortunately, I can empathize with this desire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/20\/business\/businessspecial2\/20cowork.html?_r=2&#038;ex=1361250000&#038;en=bdbd5bd3b73df123&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=login&#038;oref=slogin\">They&#8217;re Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side &#8211; New York Times<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting article about coworking spaces, for freelancers who want a commual space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be posting a linklog once a week, from now on. This is actually the second for this week, as I&#8217;m tweaking my script a bit, but in the future it should happen only once a week. Why We Banned Legos &#8211; Rethinking Schools Online Not what I expected. A fascinating microcosm of politics, economics,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/links-for-week-prior-to-02212008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}