Ars Electronica Symposium on Cloud Intelligence – September 5
This coming Saturday September 5th I will be joined by an illustrious group of speakers (and friends) here in Linz to map a new framework to think about collective intelligence in the era of cloud computing. A schedule of the day’s events is available on the Ars...![[Review] What I Talk About When I Talk About Running](https://i0.wp.com/farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/3811751236_7797b9bec2.jpg?w=425)
[Review] What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Somerset Maugham once wrote that in each shave lies a philosophy. I couldn’t agree more. No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act. Sometimes I wonder how many miles – and in...
HIV Positive Bloggers Defy Stigma and Silence
Wherever you may be reading this – at the kitchen table with a spoonful of cereal in your mouth, at the office while you should be working, on your cell phone as you wait for the bus – please stop and consider this: what if your doctor calls you in the...
Visiting Yemen
“Sana’a(Yemen)” by eesti I am often asked what countries I’d like to travel to that I have yet to visit. Ethiopia and Lebanon have long been two standard answers (probably because I love the food and music from both). Victor Kaonga’s blog...![[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media](https://i0.wp.com/farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2641356707_a55a75c8d9.jpg?w=425)
[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media
The following is my translation of Paula Gonzalo’s interview with Juan Arellano about the Lingua Project on Global Voices. Links have been changed to their English-language equivalents when possible. Juan Arellano is one of the bloggers who, beginning in 2007,...![[Review] Darwin Among the Machines](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/themes/oso/images/bottom_mark.gif?w=425)
[Review] Darwin Among the Machines
George Dyson asks us this most reasonable question: if biologic life derived organically from the basic elements, then is it such a stretch to believe that biologic life will also one day derive from mechanical elements? After all, as Paul Romer asks, what is...
A View from Bad Gastein
It took me a while, but I finally got the hang of producing a QuickTime Virtual Reality 360 degree panorama. To have a look around hover your mouse over the image above, click, and drag it to the right or left. It’s far from perfect – I have to get better...
The Intriguing Accounts of Hemant Lakhani and Hiroo Onoda
On my run yesterday I came across two of the most interesting stories I’ve ever heard. The first came from Petra Bartosiewicz, a Brooklyn-based freelance writer who is working on a book about the Justice Department’s terrorism trials since 9/11. She...
Intangible Immortality
There are those uttered phrases that stay with us for longer than they ought to. They rise to the surface of our thoughts while we are cooking and echo inaudibly during long walks in solitude. One of those persistent utterances came to me a few weeks ago from Sunil...Latest Photos
