July 2009
22 posts
“The structural change comes from this point of openness. We talk about this...”
– Mark Zuckerberg, The Wired Interview
Zuck sure loves calling his analogy shots.
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June 2009
57 posts
A View Apart - Images of Tehran before the... →
Iran was already a misunderstood place before this election captured the world’s attention, and as much as the world has now learned about Iran from witnessing these past few weeks, the experience might still lead to an even greater misunderstanding unless we take the time to look deeper. Lost behind the chants of inspiring crowds, the images of bloodied faces, or the grainy chaotic videos, is an...
Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA →
kareem:
Entrepreneurs instinctually realize that the best advocate for their careers is themselves and that there is no such thing as a linear career path. They recognize they are going to have to follow their own internal compass and embrace the uncertainty as part of the journey. In fact using uncertainty as your path is an advantage entrepreneurs share. Their journey will have them try more...
Build an Insanely Great Web Service →
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Understanding Iran's Turmoil: An Expert Weighs In... →
Fresh Air convo w/ Iran Expert Karim Sadjadpour — provides great context for the recent events. You’ll learn things like “how are the Khamenei and Rafsanjani families like the mob?”
“He missed his childhood and now he’s gonna miss his old age. How fucked up is...”
– everyonce in a while lefsetz nails it. this is one of those times.
Lefsetz Letter (via fred-wilson)
Crash Puts Focus on Aging Rail Fleets
ambivalence:
[via Many Cities Have Outdated Rail Systems - NYTimes.com by Michael Cooper]
“More than a third of the equipment in the nation’s seven largest rail transit agencies was rated in marginal or poor condition by the Federal Transit Administration this spring. Replacing all the equipment that has exceeded its useful life and finishing all outstanding station rehabilitations for just...
“I see now that designers are people who can make information emotional and...”
– Becky Bermont (via syntheticpubes)
Creator Jack Dorsey was shocked and saddened this week after learning that his social networking device, Twitter, was being used to disseminate pertinent and timely information during the recent civil unrest in Iran. “Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them,” said a...
WatchUntitled (!!! collaboration with The Field) via Pitchfork: TV
S.F. Mayor Signs First Mandatory Composting Law in...
We recently conducted a waste-stream analysis and discovered that about two thirds of the garbage people throw away — half a million tons each year — could have been recycled or turned to compost. If we were able to capture everything, we’d be recycling 90 percent — preventing additional waste material from going to the landfill, and creating hundreds of green-collar jobs.
San...
Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history. As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people have a universal right to assembly and free speech. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect those rights and heed the will of its own people. It must govern through consent and...
“Ayatollah Khamenei now has a very big image problem among influential Shi’a...”
– EurasiaNet Civil Society - Iran: Rafsanjani Poised to Outflank Supreme Leader Khamenei
“To a certain degree, hardliners now find themselves caught in a cycle of doom:...”
– EurasiaNet Civil Society - Iran: Rafsanjani Poised to Outflank Supreme Leader Khamenei
Two Irans
From Ramin Jahanbegloo in the LA Times, from a few days ago:
Ever since the first days of the Islamic Republic of Iran, there have been two sovereignties in Iran: one divine and one popular. The popular part of the equation is codified in Iran’s Constitution, which calls for the popular election of a president and parliament. Divine sovereignty is believed to derive from God’s will,...
Thoughts On Khamenei’s Speech
I think we find one clue to why he rigged the vote count so crudely. His argument that a majority of eleven million was too big to allow for any irregularities suggests he believed that a big lie was the only one that would work. But if you utter a big lie, you had better hope it could persuade some. It appears to have persuaded no one but a few fools at the...
“Iran has sought independence and some form of democracy for over a century. It...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - City of Whispers - NYTimes.com
This is a must read post from Roger Cohen of the NYTimes who is still reporting from Iran.
“Tehran’s Tiananmen — what if? Reader Tze Ming, a New Zealand Chinese...”
– Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising
“Peggy Noonan bashes Republicans’ Iran rhetoric. A pretty surprising...”
– Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising
“I have a very bad instinct about where Iran is headed. Ayatollah...”
– Facebook | Nicholas D. Kristof
“In 1979, the mullahs came to power in Iran because they mastered unconventional...”
– Facebook | Nicholas D. Kristof
“I like the fact that it is the need for conversation that is driving the real...”
– prescient comment on - Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history | Video on TED.com
“As a medium gets faster, it gets more emotional. We feel faster than we think.”
– Clay Shirky (via sleuth) (via msg)
“The way to do something significant and meaningful and authentic is not to try...”
– Mark Hurst, Three lessons on what’s really important (via kareem)
Will Khamenei Fall?
Ex-CIA field operative Robert Baer has his eyes on Rafsanjani:
If the protests and demonstrations in Tehran cannot be controlled, we should seriously start to wonder about Khamenei’s future. Rafsanjani is rumored to be in the holy city of Qum plotting against Khamenei, seeing if he has enough votes in the 86-member Assembly of Experts to remove Khamenei. A vote recount is unlikely to change...
“That a new information technology could be improvised for this purpose so...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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#iranelection cyberwar guide for beginners
mikehudack:
soupsoup:
Originally found here, reposting it in it’s entirety because the website hosting it is down for whatever reason.
The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through twitter.
1. Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag,...
“Our fiscal future is so dominated by healthcare that if the US can slow the rate...”
– Peter Orszag: A plan to boost America’s fiscal health (via mattlehrer) (via mikehudack)
Of course. Some people forget that damn near one in every five dollars in America is spent on healthcare that costs twice as much as it should because those who profit off healthcare are paid to do and produce...
“I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. There...”
– Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising (via jgh) (via soupsoup) (via mikehudack) (via tedr)
Watch“This issue is not about cheating(election) anymore. This is not about stealing votes anymore. The issue is about a vast injustice inflected on the people. They’ve put a baton in the hand of every 13-14 year old to smash the faces of “the bunches who are less than dirt,” - a female medical student in Iran, on Nico’s live-blog. (via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan)
“Reading your blog over the past 30 something hours makes me realize why the MSM...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
via a reader of The Daily Dish
Iran's political coup →
garysick:
If the reports coming out of Tehran about an electoral coup are sustained, then Iran has entered an entirely new phase of its post-revolution history. One characteristic that has always distinguished Iran from the crude dictators in much of the rest of the Middle East was its respect for the voice of the people, even when that voice was saying things that much of the leadership did not...
“Tehran is calm the day after Iran’s Presidential election and a clear...”
– Ahmadinejad claims victory amid claims of vote rigging - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
While they may quell the unrest for the moment, a movement has started that the theocracy cannot stop…
“[there] is a widening gap between the model of learning offered by many big...”
– Don Tapscott: The Impending Demise of the University
WatchManuel Lima | Visual Complexity on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
About Manuel Lima Manuel Lima is an interaction designer, information architect and design researcher. He currently works as a Senior User Experience Designer at Nokia’s NextGen Software & Services in London. Manuel is also a frequent speaker in conferences and festivals around the world, on the topic of Information Visualization, in...
“The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths...”
– Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness
“One of my earliest impressions of grown-ups in general, was that they were...”
– Nathaniel Branden (via jakelodwick)
