otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

In which the I recognize my own political beliefs in the term “civic republicanism.”

underground forest © rachel sussman 1998-2009

For the past several years, Rachel Sussman has been traveling the world taking photographs of organisms that are 2,000 years or older. Her photographs are superb, but I highly recommending visiting her blog where she has been chronicling her journeys around the globe and the extraordinary organisms she’s met along [...]

Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution has written a roller coaster of an article on how the Web has affected our attention spans. It’s not the usual argument that the explosion in information has shortened our attention spans. In fact, he turns that argument on i’s head and raises a rousing cheer: Three Tweets [...]

Joanne just received a Direct Message on Twitter from someone she follows, but doesn’t actually know. It read “Hey is this you on here?” followed by a link and looked like this:

The link took her to a site that looked like Twitter and asked for her Twitter password:

If you receive a similar DM, do [...]

Using Tweetie 2 with the current release of StatusNet requires a bit of tweaking, but it should be fully supported with the next release of StatusNet.