Trackers focused on their health want to ensure that their medical practitioners don’t miss the particulars of their condition; trackers who record their mental states are often trying to find their own way to personal fulfillment amid the seductions of marketing and the errors of common opinion; fitness trackers are trying to tune their training regimes to their own body types and competitive goals, but they are also looking to understand their strengths and weaknesses, to uncover potential they didn’t know they had. Self-tracking, in this way, is not really a tool of optimization but of discovery, and if tracking regimes that we would once have thought bizarre are becoming normal, one of the most interesting effects may be to make us re-evaluate what “normal” means.

"Are you hosting or sponsoring a 'technology' related event in Michigan? Great -- we want to here about it!"

Boring-ass podcast about innovative Michigan businesses, each post has a short promo piece podcast and a link to a Wikipedia page.

Interview with the creators of, among other things, the SMS Guerilla Projector: "We try to create what we feel has been lost from products; a subjectivity and a narrative, a concept that goes beyond fitting 10,000 songs in a box."

"...is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction. It is a journal of fashion, music, misapplied technology and chaos. And fiction." Volume 1 out now, free download or $3 by mail.

Report from Chaos Communication Congress.

"A team of experts has drawn up five 'grand challenges' in order to evaluate the safety of nanotechnology."

November 17, 18 & 19th, 2006 at USC.

Wonder if we could get traction for an SE Michigan party? Probably not.

"Why aren't the streets clogged with angry Americans demanding to know why their president lied and deceived them so he could attack a country that had absolutely nothing to do with his so-called war on terror?"

Date: May or June.

April 28, 2006, help orgs inventory their tech stuff w/ TechAtlas.

"An abridged history of the development of the Internet from its early routes for any interested reader, particularly school and college students."

From Compute! issue 113, October 1989.

March 22--24.

"Welcome to the final Carnival of the Mobilists of 2005, where we feature the very best online writing about mobile."

Recent O'Reilly pubs available through the libraries -- cool!

Mike Evangelist is blogging / writing a book about his experiences in marketing at the Mothership (he worked on some of their multimedia apps).

Hilarious collection of photos of "Ambient Findability" O'Reilly book around Ann Arbor by its author.

Listing of all episodes w/ links to video, audio, transcripts.

"We will bring together over 100 key program and operations managers from humanitarian NGOs, government disaster assistance staff, and concerned technologists to meet in Washington, D.C. to address the lessons learned in the Katrina and tsunami responses

Friday lecture series, some topics may be of interest to SI community.

"The book is an edited collection of social and cultural studies of keitai (mobile phone) and pager use over the past decade or so in Japan. We included our own research as well as research by a variety of mostly Japanese scholars whose work we translated