Marc Canter is moving to Cleveland Oh to launch his DigitalCities meme. I'm focusing on innovating in the area of workforce development (Economic Development), we're going to use our People Aggregator platform and live Video Help to get people comfortable using computers and learning the job skills they'll need - in the future (Education)... Oh yah - we'll also help build out a software infrastructure that will enable a NEO wide alliance of cities, municipalities and neighborhoods to have their own Platform-s, dashboards, etc. - and mesh us all together. He'll be teaching a course at Case Western and trying to get grants. (more)

Alan Cabal gives a short profile of the NYC Occult/Magick crowd from the 70s to the 90s. Herman Slater had vigorously encouraged and supported the creation of the Schlangekraft Necronomicon, edited by "Simon." No doubt he'd grown weary of explaining to customers that H P Lovecraft's fabled forbidden tome was a fiction, a plot device for great horror stories and nothing more. He was savvy enough to sell leftover chicken bones as human finger bones to wannabe necromancers, so he surely knew that the market for a "genuine" Necronomicon could be huge-with the right packaging. In 1977, the book made its debut in the window of Herman's little shop of horrors in Chelsea. It generated a scene of its own, a scene bursting with mad, unfocused creativity and slapstick mayhem. Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea had just published their Illuminatus Trilogy, and interest in secret societies and occult lore was sweeping through counterculture circuits. Grady Mc Murtry was attempting to jumpstart the long-dormant OTO in California and had just succeeded in having Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot deck published.

those darn little plastic bricks (more)

Writer of Robot Wisdom (more)

Ex-GooGle person (more)

Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American Software Engineer who is best known for his work as the co-creator of the Mozilla FireFox internet browser with Dave Hyatt. In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine's top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart. He was also a part of Rolling Stone magazine's 2005 hot list.[1] From 2007 (after they acquired his Para Key venture), he worked for FaceBook as Director of Product until resigning in early 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Ross

AIML server/service run by AIML creator Richard Wallace. (more)

Intelligent Software Assistant AIML Android app from Pandora Bots. (more)

GitHub, Inc., wrote the first version of Hubot to automate our company chat room (CampFire). Hubot knew how to (Robot) deploy the site, automate a lot of tasks, and be a source of fun (ChatBot) in the company. Eventually he grew to become a formidable force in GitHub. But he led a private, messy life. So we rewrote him. Today's version of Hubot is open source, written in Coffee Script on NodeJs, and easily deployed on platforms like Heroku. More importantly, Hubot is a standardized way to share scripts between everyone's robots. https://hubot.github.com/ (more)

*Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is a machine performance art group credited for pioneering the genre of large-scale machine performance.[1][2][3] After about 30 years in San Francisco, California, SRL spent most of 2008 moving to Petaluma, California.[4] (more)

At XOXO, Paul Ford spoke a bit about his Un Scroll TimeLine project/product....

a particular kind of Network, that exhibits the SmallWorld/Power Law phenomenon

pseudo-AmatEur Spectator Sports with super duper Sports Stadium scam potential

Please edit system and help pages ONLY in the master wiki! (more)

mechanism for donating smallish amount of money to someone (more)

aka Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (more)

Google has today launched a new platform that aims to reinvent how content creators on the Internet make money. It’s called Google Contributor, and it involves readers committing to a certain monthly payment of $1-3, which will in turn give visitors an ad-free browsing experience on some sites... This contribution only happens when you actually visit websites, so the cut of your monthly contribution level will get split up depending on which sites you visit most often. (Business Models For Information) (more)

Enterprise Resource Planning (more)

ScottHotchkiss wonders whether Annotation Systems could function as Peer Review. (more)

Ed Tech ERP (more)