Early October Quickies

Actually, they’re more like late September links, but still…

• History of the Internet
  • ZERO SECONDE: Les 6 cultures d’Internet (par Martin Lessard)
    1. Military personnel (DARPA)
    2. Academics (universities, colleges)
    3. Programmers/Coders (Alpha Geeks)
    4. Virtual communities (BBS)
    5. Entrepreneurs (Web 1.0)
    6. “Web 2.0” (bloggers, social networking, user-generated content…).
  • Of course, there’s a lot of overlap, some categories could be reshaped, and the term “culture” is applied somewhat loosely, but it’s an interesting perspective.
  • It’s hard for me not to think of the specific cultural turn there as it seems that the West Coast of the United States has had a tremendous impact through this history. Still have to read the article but some people are making connections between “geek culture” (linked to the third step above), specialty coffee (Peet’s, Starbucks), and the “craft beer revolution.” The thlot pickens.
• Celebrity Chefs, Culinary Philosophy, Personality
  • Rick Tramonto
  • Hungry Magazine #24: TRU Character
• NewAcademic Journals Online
  • Sociolinguistic Studies
  • Oral Tradition becomes eOT
• Now online, CMoS: The Chicago Manual of Style Online
  • As the printed manual is a bit bulky and costly, having an online version can be very useful.
• Academic Podcasting
  • Should start podcasting my lectures, next semester.
  • Academic Feeds
  • Using Moodle: New Podcasting module (login as guest)
  • Oncourse CL Podcasts
  • ProfCast – Features
  • Other approaches to online content
    • Yale to post courses on Web for free
• Editing structured texts
  • My Wandering Wiki: MultiMarkdown
  • From a simple email-like syntax to XHTML, LaTeX, PDF, RTF…
  • We really need a new approach to editing and “word processing.” XML is likely to be a key in this respect.
• Canadian Politics: Stéphane Dion
  • Stéphane Dion, candidat à la direction du PLC
  • My own personal opinion: he does seem to be on a “charm” campaign but his ideas sound like a rather rigid application of Leviathan instead of a principled take on direct democratic representation.
• Jane Elliott’s discrimination experiment (1968 through 2006)
  • Open Source » Blog Archive » Race, Class and Racism
  • La leçon de discrimination
    
  • Pascale Turbide et la discrimination
• Religious tolerance, atheism/secularism/agnosticism, multiculturalism, and peace
  • Thoughtful, level-headed, public discussion on these subjects could help.
  • Les institutions québécoises et les communautés culturelles
  • HEATHER MALLICK: Atheists don’t get it
  • Friendly Atheist » Canadians
  • the eBay atheist » Blog Archive » Video: Sam Harris Interview
  • The Blog | RJ Eskow: The Sad State of Atheism Today | The Huffington Post
  • The Blog | Sam Harris: Science Must Destroy Religion | The Huffington Post

Is that Disparate enough for you? 😉