Joho the Blog

An article in PC Gamer is titled: “Birth of a Nation: Does Eve Online’s Budding Democracy Represent the First Virtual Sovereign State?” Well, no, because the Council of Stellar Management that as elected by gamers does not have any

Watching the YouTube of Obama’s weekly talk, in which he promises a huge stimulus package focused on rebuilding our schools, fixing our infrastructure, and investing in alternative energies, I had a sense of emotional deja vu … I had had

I’ve published a new issue of my free newsletter Our strange new home: A talk to the people in the Chinese government designing ways to use the Net to deliver government services. Has the Internet been saved?: Obama’s appointments t

LOLfed — all the economic news you want, now in LOLcat. [Tags: economics lolcat humor ]

From today’s Boston Globe, about Framingham, MA: For five weeks, butcher-quality cuts of red meat - it appears to be beef - have been appearing regularly beneath a tree in the historic Town Centre Common It’s be fun to see this ripped-fr

A three-year research project, headed by Mimi Ito, involving 28 researchers and 800 subjects, and sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, finds that the stereotypical idea of the Internet as a soul-devouring, anti-social wasteland for our kids is jus

Monty Python has announced that it’s making all many of its works available for free on YouTube. Yay! What is the best Python-referencing headline for a post announcing this? “A hovercraft full of reels”? “Not pining for the f

WhoVoted.net tells you who voted, based on public election records. So far it’s only ratting out those dirty stinking voters in four states (Florida, Idaho, Ohio, and Washington). Who voted and who contributed money to campaigns has always bee

I gave a lecture at my alma mater, the University of Toronto, a few weeks ago, at the Faculty of Information. The video is here. (Nit: The slides have the wrong font.) [Tags: university_of_toronto knowledge moi_moi_moi ]

Harvard Free Culture, ROFLCon, and Public Radio Exchange Proudly Present… INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY TWO: THE SECRET HEADQUARTERS EDITION A Gathering Of Boston Tech November 29th, 2008, 8:00 - 12:00 Berkman Squared, 50 Church Street, Cambrid