Welcome, again, to another entirely subjective selection of 15 links, humanely culled from my week's online reading and roughly collated under the seven broad categories seen below:
Selected Highlights from Guardian Technology (Because otherwise I just don't get around to reading it now it's no longer in the print edition).
Patent laws need reforming, says Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
Facebook introduces Groups, to better reflect users' actual relationships and help increase privacy (or perhaps not).
An interview with Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business & The World.
Social Media
The Facebook that never was: why did Columbia's Campus Network lose out to Harvard's Facebook?
Malcolm Gladwell expresses his doubts about digital activism... and here's just some of the inevitable backlash.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
The Paris Review's exemplary archive of interviews with writers is now available online - in full, and without charge.
Slate.com has been testing the conventional wisdom that long-form journalism just doesn't do well on the web - with heartening results.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
WP-Snippets: for WordPress users, a directory of handy, free code snippets to enhance your WordPress theme.
Music
Why brands are set to be the new record companies.
Fluid Radio: online radio station for fans of experimental, ambient, modern classical, post-rock etc. And an excellent source of associated news, reviews and downloads (such as this live solo performance by pianist Nils Frahm).
Games & Other Distractions
4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness: John Cage inspired video game; plus, an interview with its creator Petri Purho (also responsible for Crayon Physics Deluxe).
2010 Interactive Fiction Competition: all but a few of this year's entries are available to play online.
Miscellaneous
Hilarious Tweets to Famous People: a troubling insight into the minds of those who tweet the famous...
Boring Conference 2010: a day of interesting people talking about boring things - on 11th December 2010.
Why philosophers are fascinated by procrastination.
Selected Highlights from Guardian Technology (Because otherwise I just don't get around to reading it now it's no longer in the print edition).
Patent laws need reforming, says Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
Facebook introduces Groups, to better reflect users' actual relationships and help increase privacy (or perhaps not).
An interview with Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business & The World.
Social Media
The Facebook that never was: why did Columbia's Campus Network lose out to Harvard's Facebook?
Malcolm Gladwell expresses his doubts about digital activism... and here's just some of the inevitable backlash.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
The Paris Review's exemplary archive of interviews with writers is now available online - in full, and without charge.
Slate.com has been testing the conventional wisdom that long-form journalism just doesn't do well on the web - with heartening results.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
WP-Snippets: for WordPress users, a directory of handy, free code snippets to enhance your WordPress theme.
Music
Why brands are set to be the new record companies.
Fluid Radio: online radio station for fans of experimental, ambient, modern classical, post-rock etc. And an excellent source of associated news, reviews and downloads (such as this live solo performance by pianist Nils Frahm).
Games & Other Distractions
4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness: John Cage inspired video game; plus, an interview with its creator Petri Purho (also responsible for Crayon Physics Deluxe).
2010 Interactive Fiction Competition: all but a few of this year's entries are available to play online.
Miscellaneous
Hilarious Tweets to Famous People: a troubling insight into the minds of those who tweet the famous...
Boring Conference 2010: a day of interesting people talking about boring things - on 11th December 2010.
Why philosophers are fascinated by procrastination.
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