John Lam
Rochester NY 14620
social computing, open source, Semantic Web, journalism, architecture
muckraker, photographer, inline skater, software developer …a complex character in a world demanding simplicity
I develop software and help organizations adapt opensource and use social computing in collaborative work.
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social computing, mindfulness, clarity of mind, awareness, EMDR, iconoclasm, genius, innovation, unconventional wisdom, Macarthur fellowships, Ashoka.org, social capital, venture philanthropy, social enterprise, cooperatives, finance, economics, sustainability, Long Now, Arcosanti, Pritzker Prize, tensegrity, architecture, urban design, loft conversions, libraries, sound gardens, bazaars, farm markets, peasant food, wheel building, bicycling, Critical Mass, inline skating, Nordic skiing, )'(, Burning Man, Black Rock Beacon, journalism, social media, media literacy, writing, reading, photography, hiking, backpacking, camping, traveling, Deutsch, Cantonese, 中文, 简体, ✉, ✍, ♪, ✈, ♥, ∞, typography, text, art + design, engineering, music, acoustics, optics, physics, boundary calculus, mathematics, science, history, open courseware, open content, Creative Commons, Unix, life, Scheme, open source, hacking, code, programming, computer science, singularity, informatics, Movielens, collaborative filtering, NextStep, doing things worth doing well, doing things betterJohn's Twines
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Sintered and Spherical Bearings · Triangle Manufacturing CompanyThis page once listed a sintered bronze bearing, 0.75 inch diameter with 0.25 inch bore, used in the knife arm for all fruit parers. It no longer lists a part this small.
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Crochet in Hyperbolic Space: exclusive interview with Margaret Wertheim · TED.comPolymath writer and artist Margaret Wertheim and her twin sister CalArts professor Christine grew tired of knitting and crocheting and began to experiment. By crocheting crooked, they found corals and sea slugs in yarn, and rediscovered the hyperbolic knit of Cornell mathematician Daima Taimina. ...
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Greening the Desert · Permaculture Research Institute of AustraliaIn one of the hottest, most arid and saline places on earth, from this desert grows a garden, a permaculture Eden—nourished only by water and compost farmers otherwise just burn, nourished not even with funding once initial grant money dried up, a true model for sustainability. It's an ...
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current conditions, weather forecast and imagery · Friends of Black Rock High RockFriends of Black Rock/High Rock fosters stewardship for the Black Rock Desert / High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area. This page consolidates various near real-time weather observations and remote sensing imagery.
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Coudal PartnersA self-described “experiment in web publishing, design and commerce”, this exemplar of graphic design shows how an online magazine lays out differently than blogs. Dropping annoying flashy ads draws more readers, thus presumably more visitors, to higher margin commercial projects and products.
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Leaving Facebook... | FacebookHi Meg, if you haven't checked your posts after logging out of Facebook or logging in as someone else, note rarely do folks set Facebook permissions to share outside Facebook. Unfortunately, your Facebook posts cannot be seen by most except you or your friends there. I could see none of three ...
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Coudal PartnersBen, Dora, I remember you thought about creating an online newspaper. Here's a awesome example. Also see this TED video by Jacek Utko on how design boosted circulation while other newspapers are going out of business. JohnJohn Lam added 2 months ago
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Special Recreation Application and Permit: 2006 Black Rock City LLCThe Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 requires agencies to inform applicants of the burden required to comply. According the the Bureau of Land Management, the burden averages 30 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and ...John Lam added to Burning Man 10 months ago
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Google Investor RelationsExcept for the Larry and Sergey connection and the hundred Google camps, what's the connection here?John Lam added to Burning Man 10 months ago
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Burning Man · Groups · UpcomingLess comprehensive, though similar to Eventful and more popular with the San Francisco and Web 2.0 crowd, and now part of Yahoo, Upcoming also collects events related to Burning Man. Members must manually add events to this group.John Lam added to Burning Man 12 months ago



