Mike Caulfield framing of Social Media streams, being history-less. (more)

appropriations bills in the US Congress designed largely to piss tax dollars into the home districts of powerful Congressmen. see Pork Barrel, EarMark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_spending_bill (more)

Projects specifically financed by laws passed by the US Congress, rather than leaving allocations up to administrative agencies. (more)

David Allan Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox.[2] Normally credited as David A. Stewart, he won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Stewart_(musician_and_producer) (more)

Dave Stewart (the Eurythmics) launches the Artist Network, an "artist-friendly" entertainment biz, based on a core indie record label. At its core there is an independent record label, which will offer musicians more generous royalty rates than conventional deals, more transparent contracts and a greater degree of creative freedom and artistic development... "We can have a model which will make money on say 50,000 to 100,000 sales"... Furthermore, the entertainment industry is littered with failed attempts at artist empowerment. In the 1990s, George Michael launched Aegean, a record label with similar aims to Artist Network, but it didn't survive for long. And there was, of course, Tony Wilson's FactoryRecords, which was geared to serve the people that recorded for it. It had a 50/50 profits split between label and artists, a "non-contract contract" which gave the workers ownership of their own products. It went bankrupt in 1992. Given the concentration/corruption in the radio biz and music stores, I don't think this structure is different enough to fly (Business Models For Information). (more)

Dave Stewart book ASIN:B00XIYG8VA (more)

Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American funk music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s. Their distinctive funk style drew on psychedelic culture, outlandish fashion, science-fiction, and surreal humor;[1] it would have an influential effect on subsequent funk, post-punk, hip-hop, and post-disco artists of the 1980s and 1990s,[2] while their collective mythology would help pioneer Afrofuturism.[3] The collective's origins date back to the doo-wop group the Parliaments, formed by Clinton in the late 1950s in suburban Plainfield, New Jersey. Under the influence of late-1960s artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and Frank Zappa, Clinton later relocated to Detroit and began the sister groups Parliament and Funkadelic, with the former playing an eclectic and more commercial form of funk, and the latter incorporating more influence from psychedelic rock.[4] The groups released albums such as Maggot Brain (1971), Mothership Connection (1975), and One Nation Under a Groove (1978) to critical praise, and scored charting hits with singles such as "Give Up the Funk" (1976), "One Nation Under a Groove" (1978), and "Flash Light" (1978). Overall, the collective achieved thirteen top ten hits in the American R&B music charts between 1967 and 1983, including six number one hits. The name "Parliament-Funkadelic" became the catch-all term for the dozens of related musicians recording and touring different projects in Clinton's orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament-Funkadelic

Danny Crichton: The nation-state of the internet. Clearly, the internet is home to many, diverse communities of similar-minded people, but how do those communities transmute from disparate bands into a nation-state? (more)

cf Three One One

Steven Johnson on NYC's 311 info service. The approach of making use of the frequency of requests reminds me of Public Health databases - see 2003-12-30-Public Health Software.

Coups, lies, dirty tricks: The Police's Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father. In 1986, a 69-year-old Miles Axe Copeland Jr gave a memorable interview to Rolling Stone magazine. His three sons were all music industry powerhouses – Stewart played drums in the Police, Miles III was their manager and Ian their booking agent – and Miles himself had been a jazz trumpet-player in his youth. But the interview wasn’t about music. The subject was his days as the CIA’s man in the Middle East between 1947 and 1957, during which time he dined with President Nasser of Egypt, partied with the Soviet spy Kim Philby and, as a pioneer of “dirty tricks”, played a part in removing the leaders of Syria and Iran. Inconveniently for his youngest son, he concluded the interview by implying that the Police were a psy-ops outfit who played shows to “70,000 young minds open to whatever the Police decide to put into them”. (more)

How to mobilize group intelligence. Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World Geoff Mulgan (more)

David Sloan Wilson: Thinking Clearly About Collective Intelligence: A Conversation with Geoff Mulgan about his new book Big Mind. (2018-01-25-HowToMobilizeGroupIntelligence) There is little doubt in my mind that groups can think, and can have true or false beliefs. But the ways groups do these things are not precisely analogous to the ways individuals work. (more)

Jeff Jarvis: A Coming Crisis of Cognition. My greatest heresy to date — besides questioning paywalls as panacea — is to doubt the primacy of the story as journalistic form and to warn of the risk of valuing drama, character, and control over chaotic reality. (more)

Today pardons and clemency are granted in many countries when individuals may have been wrongly convicted of a crime or have demonstrated that they have fulfilled their debt to society. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon (more)

Donald Trump: 'I have the absolute right to pardon myself'. The memo, details of which were published over the weekend by The New York Times, is months old and was sent by the president’s legal team to the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. (more)

Eugene Kim (of the Open Hyperdocument System project) on Interoperability Between Collaborative Knowledge Applications: Towards a Standard Graph-Based Data Model for the Open Hyperdocument System . RDF, IBIS-based systems, Group Discussion, etc. But no mention of Blog Thread, which isn't surprising, since blogs aren't used this way much yet. (more)

http://futureoftext.org symposium run by Liquid Information (more)

Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface (API) used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three.js

Peter Sims book: Little Bets ISBN:1439170428 (more)