Links for 2011-03-03

  • “All subatomic particles — electrons, protons, neutrons and so on — are composed of extremely small gnomes.

    While relatively unknown, the gnome theory of matter can successfully explain many physical phenomena, including gravitation, electromagnetism, the photoelectric effect, and the wavelike properties of matter.”

  • “The bright light of social media has attracted the attention of followers in every discipline, from media and academia to corporate marketing and social causes. There was something for everybody today in the talk by researcher Sasha Costanza-Chock at Harvard’s Berkman center on Transmedia Mobilization. He began with a stern admonition to treat conventional and broadcast media as critical resources, and moved ultimately to a warning to treat social networks and other peer-driven media as critical resources. I hope I can reproduce at least a smidgen of the insights and research findings he squeezed into forty-five minute talk”