{"id":356,"date":"2008-04-11T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-04-11T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T10:53:08","slug":"biweekly-links-for-04112008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-04112008\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 04\/11\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/davidcrow.ca\/article\/6715\/measuring-community-success\">David Crow: Measuring community success<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Thoughts and questions about what it means to say that a community-forming activity is &#8220;successful&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quantumnoise.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/12\/mindmaps-in-lectures\/\">Alexei Gilchrist: Mindmaps in lectures<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Alexei talks about using mindmaps as a replacement for Powerpoint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/04\/07\/bioethics-and-cognit.html\">BoingBoing: Bioethics and cognitive liberty<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Cognitive liberty is the freedom to not have our brains tampered with \/ scanned.  A new fundamental right?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pmarca.com\/2008\/04\/birth-of-newspa.html\">Marc Andreessen: Birth of Newspapers, part 1: The very first newspaper<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofsound.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/the-street-as-p.html\">Cityofsound: The street as platform<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Hill has the great eye of an outstanding novelist, who makes us see what is right in front of us: &#8220;We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see how the street is immersed in a twitching, pulsing cloud of data&#8230;  constantly logging&#8230; patterns of behaviour. The behaviour of the street<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/ServiceLogin?service=ah&#038;continue=http:\/\/appengine.google.com\/_ah\/login%3Fcontinue%3Dhttp:\/\/appengine.google.com\/&#038;ltmpl=ae&#038;sig=2441550b0617bb4eb9e7f8c3eb9e63b1\">Google App Engine<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>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&#8217;ll need to work hard to prevent commodization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksofscience.com\/\">Jacks of Science<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Entertaining general science blog from Waterloo-Toronto.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/orweblog.oclc.org\/archives\/001404.html\">Lorcan Dempsey: The amplified conference<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Nice term for the way many conferences are becoming extended, with an online ramp-up and afterlife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igvita.com\/2008\/04\/07\/agile-release-testing-procedures\/\">Agile Release &#038; Testing Procedures<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of lip service is given to testing.  Ilya asks what&#8217;s actually done in real, high-quality projects.<\/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>David Crow: Measuring community success Thoughts and questions about what it means to say that a community-forming activity is &#8220;successful&#8221;. 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. 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