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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Forgive this author a moment of own-horn-tooting. It was always flattering and humbling to me to hear Dreaming in Code spoken of in the same breath as The Soul of a New Machine. With Say Everything I also had a model in mind: Hackers, Steven Levy’s groundbreaking and still-valuable account of the pioneering mavericks of hacker [...]
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
... hijacking of the term "hacker" by an uninformed press over the last 30 years. Steven Levy tried his best to fight the misuse of the term in his entertaining and informative book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Penguin, Updated edition, Jan. 2, 2001; ISBN 978-0141000510; AMAZON ). The film opens with some authentic perspectives from several simpatico non-criminal...
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Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... Facebookâs mobile application, look each other up. Last year, for example, I met Wired columnist Steven Levy at a conference in Boston. After a few minutes chatting about mundane tech stories, we quickly pulled out our laptops, zipped along to Facebook.com and sat for an hour discussing who we knew in common. via bits.blogs.nytimes.com Nick Bilton must be a gossip. Or maybe he's onto...
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Steven Levy in Wired: Last August, the people who putatively run Twitter — the small crew that three years ago launched the world’s fastest-growing communications medium — announced a relatively minor change in the way the site functions. The tweak...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... not much else".Should he succeed it will be a remarkable victory for simplicity. As Wired's Steven Levy : "Essentially, Twitter left a ball and a stick in a field and lurked on the sidelines as its users invented baseball." How to referee this unending game is the challenge Twitter heads now face. Sign up to the and receive weekly updates from the teamPost this article to Post your...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
An intriguing tweet yesterday from Steven Levy of Wired Magazine, which, if true, could open huge doors for future-safe archives . Brewster Kahle is talking about the Internet Archive making public S3 storage (what Amazon rents) free on their servers. Does anyone have any more info on this? If this is true, I will be building on it.
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Scripting News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
An intriguing tweet yesterday from Steven Levy of Wired Magazine, which, if true, could open huge doors for future-safe archives . Brewster Kahle is talking about the Internet Archive making public S3 storage (what Amazon rents) free on their servers. Does anyone have any more info on this? If this is true, I will be building on it.
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Efinditnow (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Who is actually running Twitter? Thousands of clever coders and power users want what they want and implement it, no matter if the founders who try to run the service agree. By Steven Levy
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Best of 3 (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
and try something different today: Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter by Steven Levy It’s easy to write off Twitter as a happy accident, a right-place, right-time fluke. But that misses the point. When Twitter’s creators designed the service, they made a series of crucial and deliberate decisions — ones that seem brilliant in retrospect — that created the conditions...
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Law Department Management (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
By guest author Steven Levy of Lexician. Recently the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted a session titled “"Inexpensive/Free Applications for Your Law Department.” The speakers extolled the virtues of open source software as “free applications.” Every parent understands that there...