- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to the Intestinal Parasites I Managed to Pick Up in West Africa This Summer. – From the series: ‘Open letters to people or entities who are unlikely to respond’. Genius. [via:John Tolva]
- Taskbin.com: Group task management,share tasks, online to do list – Have not tried it yet. Looks interesting. [via:not-quite-spam email]
- Citizendium – “We aren’t Wikipedia” “We use our real names, not pseudonyms.” “All new articles will be available under an open content license yet to be determined.” [via:Jimmy Wales keynote at OI07]
- How to Embed Flickr Slideshows – That’s handy. [via:um, a friend of Steve Bowbrick on Twitter]
- Public – Phone your Mum – “Nicholas Jeeves gave a lecture to the BA Graphic Design Students at Winchester School of Art. Nick’s mum attended the lecture and was there to witness its finale, in which all the students in the theatre phoned their mums at the same time”. Wow.
- kottke.org: Feed reading – Jason Kottke on how he organises his feed reading folders. I’m similar, in that I organise by mode rather than genre.
- RCOPIWS (Randomly Curated Other People’s Images White Background Sites) – “A new mutated strain of design blog has evolved: The Randomly Curated Other People’s Images White Background Site, or RCOPIWS”
- FFFFOUND! – ‘Image bookmarking’ site. Gorgeous. I’m ffffound.com/home/rooreynolds
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Re Citizendium:
An obsession with people using their real names is the wrong way to go about it I think. A web of trust type thing, where other people can certify you as an expert on an area by you giving them appropriate evidence (either anonymously or unanonymously) to them has no need that you reveal your personal details to the world. Like a more serious version of Jyte, with certificates.
Peoples real names aren’t important (in many countries, there is no such concept in law anyway, and that’s a good thing). What’s important is their continuity (things posted by the same pseudonym are posted by the same person), and their credentials. In an ideal world, I should be able to take exams as a pseudonym and receive qualifications that can be certified as belonging to that identity without ever telling anyone my ‘real name’.