Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_fitzgerald_adventures_in_twitter_fiction.html (Duration: ~12:00.) related : http://storify.com/wstonesoxfordst/the-call-of-cthulhu-1 Mena Trott: Meet the founder of the blog revolution http://www.ted.com/talks/mena_trott_tours_her_blog_world.html A founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type’s Mena Trott talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people the power to share our lives online is the way to build […]

  We have teamed up with our partners at Fight for the Future, Demand Progress and Restore the Fourth-NYC to create an educational (crowd-funded) short film about NSA surveillance, and you’re invited to its debut on Tuesday, October 15, at9:00 PM. This will be an outside viewing, near Washington Square Park, where the film will be […]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day#bartolome   definition: visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data. (from google) tag cloud (from wikipedia):  visual representation for text data, typically used to depict keyword metadata (tags) on websites, or to visualize free form text….This format is useful for quickly perceiving the most prominent terms and for locating a term alphabetically to […]

The government shutdown http://www.forbes.com/sites/jesscollen/2013/10/04/you-cant-copyright-the-budget-shutdown-in-washington/ You Can’t Copyright The Budget Shutdown In Washington . Engadget FiLIP is an electronic leash for your kids’ wrists and it’s coming to AT&T Electronic leashes for the 21st century kid? You knew this sort of thing was inevitable. FiLIP, a smartwatch and ‘locator’ for kids that takes helicopter parenting to […]

Engadget Iran seemingly lifts restrictions on Facebook and Twitter access It hasn’t been outrightly confirmed by the government of Iran, but at least some within the nation’s borders are now able to access to both Twitter and Facebook. For those keeping score, public access to the networks has been banned since 2009, shortly after the […]

Harlem READY Harlem Emergency Preparedness Summit . Wednesday September 25th, 2013 8:30am-12:30pm * This event is free but space is limited. Register Today! www.bit.ly/harlemreadysummit * Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building 163 125th Street, 2nd floor, New York NY 10027 * September is National Preparedness Month. Is Harlem prepared to handle a large-scale crisis […]

  CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS HOSTS UNITE TONIGHT A national day of action on September 25th to defend against extreme attacks on women’s health care   09/24/2013—(PRESS RELEASE) On September 25, the Center for Reproductive Rights will host Unite Tonight, a national day of action rallying supporters across the country to demand that Congress take action to create stronger federal protections […]

See more at http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/basic-tips-and-etiquette-nyc.html   lifehack.org NYC Basic Tips And Etiquette In Delightful Illustrations Even if you don’t live in New York, most of illustrator Nathan W. Pile’s animated NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette will still be something you can appreciate. That’s because the series covers issues like kissing in public, eating on public transportation, using a […]

This week on technocolorshow we talked about WHCR Emergency Broadcasting Team, news in the world of Technology, and a TED talk about hacking. Harlem READY Harlem Emergency Preparedness Summit . Wednesday September 25th, 2013 8:30am-12:30pm * This event is free but space is limited. Register Today! www.bit.ly/harlemreadysummit * Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building […]

Android 4.4 Named “KitKat” Engadget’s back to school guide 2013: printers UCSF study shows gaming makes you cognitively younger (video) Run-n-Read keeps e-book text steady while you’re on the treadmill (video) Topsy lets you search tweets from 2006, look up old cringeworthy posts Yahoo issues first transparency report, replete with governmental data requests Google accelerates encryption initiative in wake of PRISM controversy […]