In Brief

Glass That Glows and Gives Stock Information.

Karoshi - death from over work - recorded cases have more doubled between 2001 and 2002. Via Phil Wolff.

Social engineering still the way to go

Lawrence Lessig and Matt Oppenheim (the RIAA’s senior VP of business and legal affairs) touch gloves but throw few punches.

Importance of permalinks as enabler of global overlapping conversations becoming clearer.

Finally, a couple of earth as a computer metaphors:

• Hard-drive
• Motherboard

[/misc] posted at 09:09 #

A history of Political Spectrum

Over at kuro5hin there is a article covering the history of political spectrums which introduces (to me) the Vosem chart. It is 3-dimensional, the new dimension being pro/anti corporate.

The Nolan was introduced to help the Libertarian debate, and I guess this is being introducted to try to assist in anti-corporate debate.

The ASCII art diagrams are worth checking out.

     Revolutionary     Revolutionary reactionary
        radical   xxxxxx  
               xx        xx  Reactionary
     Radical  x            x
             x              x  Standpat
             x              x
    Liberal  x              x
             x              x Conservative
              x            x
               xx        xx
                  xxxxxx

                 Centrist

[/politics] posted at 08:58 #