I heard Santiago Siri present at the Techcrunch 50 event a month or so ago, and I thought that his WhuffieBank project would be a good fit with the Future Of Money series. The project is an ambitious one: it seeks to quantify connection and to...

Claude Lvi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called “primitive man” and who towered over the...

Brian Solis dedicates far too much text to the topic of news embargoes, while coming to a status quo ante result on their future: The reality is that embargoes are an important and fundamental part of the news ecosystem. They mustn’t lose their...

I am happy to announce that Alan Viars will be heading up a new project for Microsyntax.org, called Open Mobile Health Exchange: via www.microsyntax.org OMHE (Open Mobile Health Exchange), pronounced “ooommm” is an open-source microsyntax...

The Sex Diaries - A Critical Reading of New Yorkers' Sexual Habits & Anxieties -- New York Magazine Fascinating analysis of New York magazine's sex diaries: how text and IM have changed everything sexual (tags: Lifestyle...