"We think Foursquare is a shining demonstration of our principle that cities are always already smart, that this smartness inheres in the currents of daily practice, and that significant value is realized when these patterns are brought to light. And it’s already up, already running at scale, and costs a municipality precisely zero. Both the heroic, top-down systems being urged upon municipalities by the big vendors and the claims made on their behalf seem pretty impoverished next to it, don’t they?"

Case took notes at my session.

"What is Atemporality?

"…Let’s call it the end of “the end of history.” Atemporality is the simultaneous co-existence of many histories and futures at once. It’s steampunk and re-culture. It’s intimately connected with “network culture.” It’s the convergence between our renunciation, because of technological and theoretical forces, of a single “historical narrative” and the increasing chaotic state of the world. Sterling put it this way, which made my stomach drop a little.

"The maps in our hands don’t match the territory and that’s why were upset."

"…You’re going to be hearing a lot about these terms (“atemporality,” “network culture”) in the near future. These are going to be our meta-scale discussions for quite a while to come."

Entertaining comix about Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, and the difference engine.

Interesting presentation from an unconference on sexuality.

The DrupalCon Paris site design has some serious WTF.

Directory of posts for Ada Lovelace Day.

The website for Code 'n Splode, a programming group for women (and supportive men) in Portland.

Rick Turoczy did a guest post for Center Networks about our Silicon Forest, including a mention of Calagator.

Hacker spaces around the world, and how to start your own.

"If we’re developing this software with society at large, for society at large, why is absence of half of society from the process not the largest topic of discussion in the OSS world?"

Very relevant to current Portland tech business conversations.

Mentoring is key.

The tone is a little silly: "Look, attractive women are geeks too!" but it's generally a positive article.

Not that you can tell from the post, but I'm the software developer quoted here. And I do think our local tech industry is getting better all the time. OPB should do a show about that.

If a successful female tech entrepreneur dies, does anyone notice?

LUNARR talks about why they're in Portland and not San Francisco.

"Four successful IT women tell how they managed to survive and flourish in a career that many women find unappealing or daunting." I'm disappointed that this focuses almost entirely on women trying to balance childrearing with their career. All…

Seth Godin recently called the Online Community Organizer role a Job of the Future. This brings me to the most common question: “What exactly do you do?” I see the online community manager role as having several key elements: ongoing facilitation,…

"Back in the early 1990s, I wrote and published The Art of ‘Ware (M&T Books, 1995), a reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, a 6th century BC treatise on conflict and warfare. My reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s maxims applied to developing an…

Virginia Postrel on the effects of money in Silicon Valley. The link to an article by Ed Leamer is also very much worth following, even if you don't have time to read all of it.

I wish the interviewer had asked if Gabe thinks his site shows a balanced selection of tech blog content, or if it tends to have any inadvertent biases. But would he own up to that?

Nice analysis of how ebooks fit into the overall economics of publishing (and why piracy of digital texts is not a huge ding to authors' and publishers' revenue).

Bad encounters with the BSD community.

It's really awkward being the only female in the room. Particularly when the guys you're with start talking about their girlfriends or wives. I'm not very patient around "I'd do X, but my wife wouldn't approve, and you all know how bad it is to make you