David Brin’s ‘centrigugal’ net, taxonomy of eschatology, BSFA monthly meeting guest list, fabbing surgical implants…

• 1 – Top 10 Blogs for Writers
  “The endless nominations arrived. The nominees have been carefully examined. What follows are the top 10 blogs for writers. These blogs all provide extremely useful information for writers…”
  (tags: copywriting list resource writers blogs best)
• 2 – Today’s “centrifugal” net is NOT an “arena” or commons.
  “And the enthusiasts are in some ways more harmful! Because they seem to think (and spread the notion) that all of the pieces for utopian cyber-democracy are already in place!” David Brin in full contrarian mode.
  (tags: quality competition accountability progress tools development utopia society media social internet)
• 3 – Must know terms for today’s intelligentsia
  “Today’s intelligentsia, in order to qualify for such a designation, must have the requisite vocabulary with which to address valid social concerns and effectively assess the future.” I’m doing okay, going by this list…
  (tags: society ecology technology sociology futurism vocabulary intellectual intelligentsia)
• 4 – An Eschatological Taxonomy
  “Here, then, is a first pass at a classification system for the varying types of “end of the world” scenarios.” Frightening futurism from Jamias Cascio.
  (tags: eschatology taxonomy extinction human risk existential catastrophe environmental futurism)
• 5 – Can you make money in the Long Tail?
  “Well, it depends who “you” are. If you’re an aggregator, sure. But if you’re like the majority of Long Tail microproducers, direct revenues can be harder to come by.”
  (tags: economics stream revenue producers aggregation content Tail Long)
• 6 – Early Signals of Acceleration as 2007 Begins
  Melanie Swann reads the entrails and looks ahead at changes in economics, politics and society.
  (tags: acceleration technology change culture society politics economics futurism)
• 7 – BSFA monthly meetings – interviews list for 2007.
  A good selection indeed. I shall try to attend quite a few of these, and perhaps live-blog them if technology permits.
  (tags: UK sf scifi fiction science interviews meetings monthly BSFA)
• 8 – Rapid prototyping to be used for human implant development
  “Colorado-based Medical Modeling is set to begin using an EBM (Electron Beam Melting) Metal Rapid Manufacturing and Prototyping System to design and build titanium implants for insertion into the body.”
  (tags: design engineering body human implants medical EBM fabbing prototyping rapid)
• 9 – How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer
  “…I’d argue that all this Utopian revolution has achieved so far in my sector is to disempower individuals, strengthen the hand of multinational businesses, and decrease the pool of information available to audiences.”
  (tags: business media social material stock photography online journalism internet content copyright)
• 10 – It’s not just the OPACs that suck
  “I have a confession to make: I do not use my local public library. I have been in there twice.”
  (tags: administration design space promotion marketing management library)