We don't need to remember: how google is changing our brains

<p>Remembering is not as important as it used to be. </p> <p>Before the internet (or before this moment in history) technicians or crafts people HAD to learn how to do things, and relied upon that knowledge over and over again to do their jobor what have you. You needed to learn how to get from point a to point b (literally, in terms of travel).</p> <p>And while this still holds true for skilled craftsman, it doesn't hold true accross teh spectrum of jobs or tasks. We no longer need to have a mental map of the entire city, or county or state, we can google map directions.</p> <p>a coworker just asked me how to do a redirect in an .htaccess file. I ahve made maybe dozens of these file sin the last year (i know that is not too much) but for the life of me, i can't ever remember how to make them, i always refer back to a previous one or I type .htaccess redirect into google and find my answer.</p> <p>The internet has become a collective memory, and google is the way we access it. Knowing how to access information is important, but knowing information…not so much, in a connected age we can always just google...

Rasiej publishes first VBlog of the campaign

<p>Advocates for Rasiej just sent out an email (6:53pm from Micah Sifry) announcing the campaigns first Video Blog, and as far as I know it is the first ever Video Blog in NYC politics. You can view the 2 minute spot [l:http://www.advocatesforrasiej.com/2005/05/24/the-start-of-our-videoblog|Here].</p> <p>In it, Andrew talks about his experience running Irving Plaza and later founding [lk:mouse.org|Mouse] a non profit that helps wire schools for the internet (an interesting aside is that in 2000 when I was fresh out of grad school I interviewed with Mouse, I can't remember if it was for a job or just informaitonal, but regardless, I never wound up working...

FUH2

<p>So someone decided it would be really great to start a [l:http://www.fuh2.com|website where people could post pictures of them saluting the H2].<br /> <img src="http://www.fuh2.com/images/2624-1.jpg" /><br /> This is a great picture of one of these gass guzling behemouths sporting a "support our troops" ribbon (probably one of the knockoffs made in china).</p> <p>Ugh! Some people.</p> <p>In some good news, it seems that [lk:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00715F93D540C778CDDAC0894DD404482&incamp=archive:search|americans are buying fewer SUVs] [l:http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/23/business/suv.php|and this article says higher gass prices are having an...

Free Press : Stop News Fraud

<p>[via <a href="http://www.freepress.net/action/petition.php?n=fakenews">Free Press : Stop News Fraud</a>]:</p> <p><cite>Together we forced an investigation of pundits on the government payroll. With your help, we can force Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and local broadcasters to crack down on covert propaganda and keep fake news off the air.</cite> </p><p>Take a minute to <a href="http://www.freepress.net/action/petition.php?n=fakenews">Sign the petition against tax payer funded Video News...

Protect Online Political Speech: Principle Archives

<p>[via <a href="http://fec.cdt.org/archives/principle/index.html">Protect Online Political Speech: Principle Archives</a>]:</p> <p><cite>1. The Internet is a unique and powerful First Amendment forum, which supports speech as "broad as human thought." It empowers ordinary people to be speakers and publishers with the ability to reach millions. As such, the Supreme Court has afforded speech on the Internet the highest constitutional protection.</cite> </p><p>Anyone publishing on the web, or involved in political (and campaign) technology, should read the [l:http://fec.cdt.org/archives/principle/index.html|Principals] and sign on to the principles.</p> <p>The [l:http://fec.cdt.org|Center for Democracy and Technology] is working to defend the broadest freedoms of speech on line. Their stance is similar to that of [gh:node/151|Doc Searls as presented at the Pdf] The internet is different than anything that has come before it, it is both particle and wave (like light) but we must defend it as particle, a place where free speech can happen.</p> <p>[l:http://fec.cdt.org/signup.php|Sign on to the...