Emily Davidow

Clay Shirky: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus — Here Comes Everybody
“Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you’ve been [...]

MoMAudio on MoMAWiFi at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Access MoMA Audio (providing hundreds of commentaries devoted to the museum’s collection and special exhibitions) on free MoMA Wifi through your mobile device.
(tags: museum moma wifi podcast art education mobile)

Edge 243: BREAKING THE GALILEAN SPELL
Stuart A. Kauffman breaks the Galilean spell of reductionism, and points to [...]

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Grounded ( Jane St, New York NY 10014) just introduced sorbets and ice creams, handmade by the multi-talented Sarah (pictured below), who also plays awesome banjo. … Other flavors to check out: spiced strawberry sorbet, Grounded house espresso, chocolate ice cream, mango cardamom sorbet and coconut creamsicle sorbet.

The secret of the secret garden is out…
Gardening is so sexy! Here is some graphic evidence.
(tags: fruit vegetables)

The Serious Play in Saving the World: Gaming gets on the sustainability bandwagon
Shall we play an infinite game? Games based on collaborative design with social networks and group-forming activity could result in powerful community development, online and off-line. As new sustainability-focused, technology-mediated communities evolve
(tags: play games simulation environment sustainability ecosystem)

An Unlit Candle: Solidarity with Tibet at Passover
Beautiful proposal for Jews to include an unlit candle on their Seder tables this year. The candle symbolizes the Olympic torch, whose light has been dimmed, and the unmet hopes of a people still living without freedom.
(tags: tibet passover judaism freedom)

Dalai Lama: Lessons of Buddhism as applied to [...]

Thomas Laird: On the Use of Propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party
Great article on how perspectives of people in the PRC are shaped by propaganda orchestrated by President Hu Jintao and the central committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Since Tibet crisis is about the Party, how can we stop enabling them? Speak up.
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Take a Bite out of Climate Change Anna Lappe’s new Bite Blog explores climate change through the lens of food with up-to-date info, analysis, interviews with experts in the field, tips on diet choices and actions you can take. (tags: climatechange food farming agriculture biotech biofuels hunger meat organic foodindustry ) Detailed Nomadic Taxonomy Paul Saffo’s post on Cyber-Nomads, a functional taxonomy of mobile users , dives more deeply into the metaphors quoted in my New Nomads post (Thanks, Paul!). (tags: nomads digitalnomads globalnomads urbannomads taxonomy metaphor astronauts hermitcrabs cybertrekkers ) Ask Umbra: On Rooftop Gardening Are plants grown on NYC rooftop gardens safe to eat? … (tags: gardening urban containergardening ediblegardens gardens pollution food ) Fring brings VOIP to the iPhone I just received my first VOIP call from an iPhone using Fring ( Hi Dad !).

I had noted “I Was Told There’d Be Cake” by Sloane Crosley as a book to read, but without a sense of urgency. … I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley from Book Videos on Vimeo .

The Quantified Self
Kevin Kelly’s blog on tools for knowing your own mind and body
(tags: surveillance selfknowledge measuring tools)

John A. Wheeler, physicist who named black holes and optimist about nature of reality
The black hole “teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal dot, that time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame, and that the laws of physics that we regard as sacred,’ as immutable, are [...]

My uncle confused me last weekend at a family gathering with the following question: “How many hours a day are you online?” … I looked up from the stream of my friends’ latest photos on my iphone and repeated the question out loud several times, stressing the different words to try to understand what he meant. 10 or 12?