MASSIVELY PARALLEL

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.

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Moderator: John Dovovan (JD)

For the Motion

Simon Jenkins (SJ), journalist (The Guardian) and author.
Jacob Weisberg (JW), editor of Slate, author of The Bush Tragedy

Against the Motion

William Kristol (WK), editor of The Weekly Standard
Karl Rove (KR), former Senior Advisor [...]

I’m very proud to have helped design David Cohn’s Knight News Challenge-award-winning crowd-funded journalism site. Spot.Us provides a platform for ordinary citizens to commission stories from freelance journalists, giving (1) the public a say in what stories get written, and (2) creating a new revenue stream for journalists who’re confronting budget cuts and layoffs in [...]

This morning I woke up for the second time in a country with a President Elect Barack Obama. It’s starting to feel real. My endorphin and dopamine receptors are completely burned out, but at least I’m no longer spontaneously breaking out into tears, so let’s take a look around. There’ve been a lot [...]

I just sent out a mass email, something I do very rarely.  (I think the last one announced my engagement / need for a new home for my cats when I got engaged to my feline-allergic wife.)  If it was important enough to send to everyone I care about, its important enough to reproduce here.  [...]

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
I’d like to add that I’ve recently found a highly cogent rationale/alabi for posting this raw, sloppy, first-draft-of-history note-taking in Clay Shirky’s notion of “first publish, then sort”.See? Its not just that I can’t be bothered to [...]

Inspired by barack obama is your new bicycle as well as a few remixes of the same idea (e.g. McCain, Hillary, Steve Jobs) I felt like the meme was ignoring the elephant in the room. Hence, George W. Bush Wrecked Your New Bicycle
Note that (not unlike GWB’s presidency) the link doesn’t go anywhere. That [...]

The Badness of Dave’s Paranoid Brain led him to sound the alarm: get off facebook now! Get yr email onto a small ISP! Keep your data away from big companies that hold profits or subpoena’s above their user’s interests!The concerns are valid, but the remedy doesn’t scale. Its hard enough to [...]

Kiva is so overwhelmed with lenders that its limiting loans so everyone has a chance.  Microfinance FTW!

Shorter David Brooks: There’re two kinds of music fans: snotty kids and virtuous baby boomers.