On December 17, a 26 year old Tunisian man named Mohamed Bouazizi reached the end of his rope. An unemployed university graduate, Bouazizi had become… Read More »What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?
My beloved wife, the Velveteen Rabbi, is now a real rabbi. She was ordained on Sunday by the Jewish Renewal movement, a group founded by… Read More »From Velveteen to Real
Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter: Slang terms like y'all, yinz, koo, coo and suttin predict location of tweet authors Very clever. Using… Read More »links for 2011-01-08
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com) Really great Paul Ford essay on what sorts of behavior is native to the web, and how… Read More »links for 2011-01-07
Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution | Wired Science| Wired.com Jonah Lehrer's smart response to Gladwell on activism and social media. Actually, looks like it's weak… Read More »links for 2011-01-06
Tuesday was my birthday, and I spent the day largely offline. That meant that Wednesday morning, my email inbox featured hundreds of messages from Facebook,… Read More »Algorithms, Unbirthdays and Rewiring Facebook