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[Review] Civilization
It’s a strange sensation to read a persuasive book by an author who you want to punch in the face. And yet there is something compelling about both his arguments and his form of argumentation.
Héctor de Mauleón: Pedestrianize
Héctor de Mauleón describes the irony and historical importance of the local government’s decision to close the street 16 de Septiembre to cars. His text was originally published in El Universal.
Curation Frustration
Over at Idea Lab I just published my latest about everyone’s new favorite job title: curator. All my peeps these days are opening accounts on Tumblr and Posterous. It’s where they curate the web. Then there are links on Twitter, Delicious, and presumably...Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years
Still playing a lot of catch up. Over at Global Voices I published an interview I did with Caucasus Editor Onnik Krikorian. And over at Idea Lab I published a text version of my talk at Media Camp Kyiv. Teaser: Before movable type, Europeans depended on priests to...
Summary of Cloud Intelligence Symposium
This week I’m trying to put some ending punctuation on all the fragments of projects I’ve left scattered over the past couple months before setting my sights toward new projects for November and December. I received a lot of kind and charitable feedback...
Romania: 20 Years After the Revolution
I remember after the fall of communism in 1989 one of our famous political analysts said that our Romania will need at least 20 years to recover after communism and we were all laughing. And here we are, exactly after 20 years, seeing that he was perfectly right. And...
My Cloud Intelligence Talk at Ars Electronica
A video of my talk is available here. My slides are on SlideShare. What follows is a hyperlinked text of the notes in my slides. Darkness is our natural state. During the 200,000 years of human existence our species has only known electric light for .06% of that time....
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...![[Review] The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, From Edison to Google](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/48285b.jpg?w=425)
[Review] The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, From Edison to Google
When we think about electricity the first name to come to mind is famed American inventor Thomas Edison, who filed the first of his more than 1,000 patents at the age of 21. In 1879, at the age of 32, Edison invented what today we call the light bulb. It was a...
Liberia: America's First Colony
My hope was that I wouldn’t be blogging much about Liberia. Rather, I had hoped to train as many Liberians how to blog as possible and then simply point to what they have to say. Unfortunately, because of lack of infrastructure outside of our cushy hotel, it...Latest Photos
