Big article on Nettle

Earlier today I wrote and published Part Eight of a long series of reviews of the Netflix online DVD rental service over at Nettle, my other blog.

Fred Turner on the Rise of Techno-Utopianism

Fred Turner of Stanford's Communications Dept recently gave a talk at Terry Winograd's fantastic HCI lecture series at Stanford. Fred's talk is interesting -- especially for WELL users, since his talk is all about Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth techno-utopian influence on culture in the 1990s.

Here's Fred's abstract page, and here's a link to a high-bandwidth video stream (ASX format) of the actual talk he gave on Apr 11th.