collaboration

Burkeman, a reporter for the UK paper, the Guardian, was in a bad mood when he went to SXSW, but this is a good recap of several people and things at this year's conference. He covers McGonigal, Shirky, and O'Reilly, and most of his reactions seem reasonably balanced. Not a true believer, but not a Luddite either. And he skewers a would-be 'Next Zuckerberg', which is amusing.

Trendy, Los Angeles, fusion restaurant Red Medicine keeps a food critic from the LA Times waiting 45 minutes after her reservation. Then one of the owners walks up to her and her party with a camera, takes a photograph of her, and throws all of them out, saying he and his partners don't like her column and don't want her reviewing their restaurant.

An article in the Economist mentions Zipcar and seems more open-minded about the possibilities of sharing than one might expect.

An article about 'Design in the Age of Sharing', by Massimo Menichinelli, mentions the Social Bicycle System; and also recent books The Mesh (Gansky) and What's Mine is Yours (Botsman and Rogers); while pondering what the rise of sharing might mean for design.

Back in October, NASA director Charles Bolden made a trip to China to talk about the possibility of joint-projects with Chinese scientists, including some on the International Space Station.

This didn't exactly please Congress, but reports noted how this was basically a response to the state of the agency's funding.

As one Slashdotter put it: "When you screw someone over, don't be surprised if they go elsewhere."

The url on this post will lead you to an m3u file of the Resource Sharing call (it is stored on Internet Archive).