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Pamela Samuelson: The Audacity of the Google Book Search Settlement
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/the-audacity-of-the-googl_b_255490.html
Pam Samuelson on downsides of Google Book Search settlement. http://bit.ly/1NFuK I would much rather that Google had won their case.
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Listbox.com: Your Mailing List Solution
http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2009/07/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/2:105/20090718112518:31F1F188-73AF-11DE-A0BF-E84CBA7BDD05/
Reversible transactions. A great idea for solving the financial crisis, inspired by recent Kindle news. http://bit.ly/9zieq
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Wikipedia Papers - How to improve Wikipedia and University Studies Quality - O'Reilly Broadcast
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/07/wikipeadia-papers.html
Wikipedia Papers: Great idea from @finnern to improve wikipedia while also improving higher education: http://bit.ly/lXwQt
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AMEE - The world’s energy meter » Blog Archive » First open, real-time grid-emissions monitoring system
http://www.amee.com/RealtimeCarbon
RealtimeCarbon.org calculates the carbon intensity of the UK grid every five minutes according to the fuel mix http://bit.ly/15Nv4v
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One Lesson from the Crisis: It’s Time to Create Your Own Economy | Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/137/create-your-own-economy.html
Thought-provoking: "create your own economy" - Twitter/web as production, not consumption. http://bit.ly/1hyV9C via @dalepd
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Transparency: HMO Donations to the U.S. Senate | GOOD
http://www.good.is/post/transparency-hmo-donations-to-the-us-senate/
RT @Bill_Romanos: RT @EbenEsterhuizen: Infographic showing how health insurance providers are paying off Congress. http://bit.ly/RSixm
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NiMH Batteries, Chevron Patents and the Future of Plug-in Hybrid Cars - Scientists & Engineers for America Action Fund
http://sefora.org/2009/02/26/nimh-batteries-chevron-patents-and-the-future-of-plug-in-hybrid-cars-2/
Chevron patents on NiMH batteries holding back future of plug-in hybrid cars. http://bit.ly/awwJ3 Learned about in conversation at #aif09
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SSRN-Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An Empirical Analysis under the American Jobs Creation Act by Raquel Alexander, Stephen Mazza, Susan Scholz
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082
Paper on ROI from lobbying -22,000% in one case. http://bit.ly/2IW9R via @lessig at #aif09
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One Planet Seven Theatres | Carbon War Room
RT @jseelybrown: check out http://www.carbonwarroom.com/ ; ...explore all the widgets most of which will soon be on iPhone, i bet..
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I-LABS: Patricia Kuhl, Ph.D.
http://ilabs.washington.edu/kuhl/
Fascinating talk by Patricia Kuhl http://bit.ly/UUSov at #aif09 on the brain science of reading.
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Exhibition Review - 'Mannahatta/Manhattan - A Natural History of New York City' - Manhattan - An Island Always Diverse, at the Museum of the City of New York - NYTimes.com
http://www10.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/arts/design/04manhatta.html?_r=5
Exhibition w computer simulation of natural history of Manhattan sounds like a must-see if you're in NYC: http://bit.ly/xgmGE
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Devis With Babies: Monday Musings: Love in the Time of Stochasticity
http://deviswithbabies.blogspot.com/2009/06/monday-musings-love-in-time-of.html
Heartwarming, funny, thoughtful. Read to the end. RT @arwenogriffith: Love in the Time of Stochasticity: http://snurl.com/lqeby
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The State of the USA
State of the USA looks like a valuable attempt at a national dashboard for stuff that matters: http://www.stateoftheusa.org/
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The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print
Controversial, provocative: Rolling Stone on Goldman Sachs and the great American Bubble Machine http://bit.ly/uS6c0 (via @Michael_Finberg)
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Canada and Japan blocking climate-change deal, Sir David King warns - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6620438.ece
RT @TomRaftery Canada and Japan blocking a deal on climate change at the Copenhagen summit, Sir David King warns http://bit.ly/qUdVC
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The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/the-four-pillars-of-an-open-ci.html
The four pillars of an open civic system: http://bit.ly/IVR5v Why transparency isn't enough. #gov20
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With Software as a Service, Is Only the Network Luddite Free?: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, San Jose, CA
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/7865
RT @mjasay: This promises to be an awesome OSCON session: http://bit.ly/1bXnb I agree. Tried for 10 yrs to get OSS community to take notice
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http://ia351403.us.archive.org/2/items/TheWebIsAgreement/web.PDF
http://ia351403.us.archive.org/2/items/TheWebIsAgreement/web.PDF
Fantastic LotR-like poster: The Web is Agreement http://bit.ly/TRfmR Hover to see captions or get hi-res PDF http://bit.ly/3fDly (via @gnat)
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The Web is Agreement on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1805709102/
Fantastic LotR-like poster: The Web is Agreement http://bit.ly/TRfmR Hover to see captions or get hi-res PDF http://bit.ly/3fDly (via @gnat)
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Agoraphilia: Recipe for a Force Field
http://agoraphilia.blogspot.com/2009/07/recipe-for-force-field.html
Recipe for a force field. Fun speculation on how something resembling that sci fi invention might be built. http://bit.ly/49wEB