…pickhits…

These are my pinboard links for January 2nd through January 21st:

• Applidium — Vim – Craziness. Or crazy-cool.
• Port Huron Statement at 40 – Article by Hayden et al about the state of the SDS's Port Huron Statement after 40 years. This being the 50th anniversary, look for an update citing occupy, Arab spring, eyc.
• Has Microsoft Word affected the way we work? – Over owe of recent research into computer impacts on writing.
• ORIGINAL BEATS – YouTube – Short documentary about Herbert Hunke and Gregory Corso.
• r/geb – Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Reddit organized readthrough of GEB, running ~1 chapter/week from 17 January.

Mike alerts in passing that the long awaited first volume in the Pogo reprints series is finally available. My old pulp copies are all sitting on shelves, too delicate for reading. Destroyed, in no small part, by my youthful joy at their stories and ideas.

Now to see if our local vendor has it in stock, vs the discounted local-destroying behemoth from the West..

How loud is too loud to play London Calling?

These are my pinboard links for December 27th through January 1st:

• Missing Pieces: The Activity Stream Aggregator – Framing of a conceptual model for enterprise activity streams
• Muslim Christmas – Having just finished Samarov's "Hack" and thia, there is a definite richness in taxi literature…
• prostheticknowledge: “Facebook Is The New Suburbia” by Hugh… – Another artifact in the own your online thinking.
• The rise of poetronica – Not really new wxcept cor the electronica / dubatep base. refs the excellent Jamie xx and Gil ScottmHeron release of last year, and a few more names to check out.
• The New Inquiry – Publication focused on literature and social politics. Essays and criticism. Think of post-grad-NYRB.

From a piece in the Guardian, ostensibly a review of the new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows phone…

In my time working as as software consultant, I’ve been to many clients where cells of users act in resistance to new software rollout. (Yes, some software resisted against has been mine.) We know this happens because the software doesn’t build trust with the users. Click this button when filling out a quote and the quote is lost, or print a report and the paper size is set wrong so the paper won’t emerge without manual intervention. Or how about management insisting on a way of working that doesn’t fit with reality on the factory floor? There are thousands of examples of software projects that failed because they did not win the user’s trust.

Words for the coming year, indeed.

Is 13 years cycle enough for a relaunch? What was I doing then, handcoding?

Not that any of the remaining pages are anything snazzy to look at.

These are my pinboard links for December 27th from 10:01 to 12:35:

• How I got here in the end – my non-writing careers – Delightful history of technologic and self-knowledge development.
• Thinking big in space – Brief piece about the Paul Allen Stratolaunch device.

  Summary – big.

• I was saved by music – Music blog from 2008/2009 with downloads of various types.
• songsfortheday | posting a song each day you should hear. – One Song a Day (or so). Maybe based in Chicago?
• Shifting Mind » Postalicious – Autoposting tool for WordPress (from 2007!!) which supports, among other tools, pinboard.

• WikiRebels – The Documentary | SVT Play
  Swedish documentary on the background of Wikileaks. Not entirely dispassive, and ends with the classic "remains to be seen" ending, but a useful history.
  (tags: video documentary wikileaks computerHistory)

• Scribes Sounding Off: What We Did Isn’t Secret Anymore, or The Very Best Proto-Post-Punk Books of 2010
  Some recent music book recommendations. H/T Ksthy Fennesy…
  (tags: music punk postPunk)
• Why is Skype Moving to The Web? Hiring Binge Explained: Tech News «
  Posits that Skype is trying to position itself as a Lync competitor. Also, news to me that David Gurle had moved to Skype, but it does explain some things.
  (tags: Skype collaboration lync)

• Lync Server 2010 SDK Documentation
  (tags: microsoft lync collaboration)
• Lync Server 2010 Group Chat SDK Documentation
  (tags: lync groupchat collaboration microsoft)
• Unified Communications Managed API 3.0 Core SDK Documentation
  (tags: UCMA collaboration microsoft lync)