Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 5/7/10

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 5/7/10

I won’t bore you with any editorial today and instead will let you get busy clicking on this week’s astonishing collection of afternoon reading material: A lost 1996 profile of David Foster Wallace from Details magazine.  If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know I’m a huge DFW wonk.  Sue

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Inc. Profiles Tim O’Reilly

Tim O’Reilly is one of the people who inspired me to write for several blogs and proffer analysis and commentary to an unsuspecting public.  The CEO of O’Reilly Media, a $100M company and growing, O’Reilly is a guy who’s completely devoid of pretense.  He’s not playing the game for anyone other than his own passions,

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Merlin Mann: Revaluing Time & Attention

Merlin Mann, blogger-cum-hesitant-guru on productivity, workflow and the modern attention economy, recently was asked to give a talk at Rutgers University. His talk wound up being experimental — in Mann’s own words, he just riffed — but nonetheless it was fantastic. You can see it standalone here. (If you know Mann, you know this is

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 4/30/10

This week’s delivery from the link stork: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart puts the entire lost iPhone/Gizmodo thing in perspective.  Regardless of your stance on Apple, Stewart makes some good points. Absolutely perfect — and I mean perfect — viral video for Lots-o’-Huggin Bear, one of the new characters in Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3. 

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 4/23/10

This week’s fresh, dolphin-safe bounty of fine web treasures: Here’s a TED talk of skeptic James Randi denouncing psychic fraud and irrational beliefs.  Lots of snake oil out there, even with knowing what we know. Facebook made massive announcements at this year’s f8 conference.  Nutshell: they’re going to own the web and make the entire

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 4/16/10

Not a lot of energy for editorial today, mainly because I’m way behind on sleep because I’m a hockey zealot and incapable of not watching a Red Wings playoff game, no matter how late.  And tonight, for game two, I’ll be up just as late as two nights ago, hopefully less frustrated, but still yelling

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