On this day, September 11
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2006 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2006
2009
2011
- Computer-Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction
- ==> Online ads show one of the differences between men and women
2012
- 187 The Westernization of Chinese
- 3D Printing is Set to Revolutionise the Retail Industry
- Army Wants Tiny Suicidal Drone to Kill From 6 Miles Away
- Confronting corporate power in the food system
- Ebook Authors Continue To See Self-Publishing Stigma Disappear
- Eight Points of Reference for Commoning
- How 3D printing will transform the retail industry: The opportunities
2013
- Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime
- High Costs and Errors of German Transition to Renewable Energy
- How the sharing economy could adversely affect consumer capitalism
- In Japan, the Elderly Are Holding Their Own Funerals
- Is higher education a vote changer?
- Politics Wrecks Your Ability to Do Math
- Selected Citations on Open Hardware and Distributed Manufacturing
- Spy Kids
- The Ancient Roots of Punctuation
- Was Your Body Made To Eat Meat?
- Your Steak Is Addicted to Drugs
- why politicians have turned their backs on climate
2015
2016
2017
2018
- We Are Poor but So Many: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India and the Team of the Platform Co-op Development Kit Co-Design Two Projects: Platform Cooperativism
- Africa Leads the World on Sustainable Agriculture, and the World Should Take Note
- Agroforestry is a cheap, scalable way to combat climate change
- Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
- Are Edtech Companies Doing Enough to Protect Student Privacy?
- Automation: The exaggerated threat of robots
- Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns
- How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel the Philippine Drug War
- How craft is good for our health
- Solar Supports Village Livelihoods and Spurs Business in Fiji
- The Han-opticon
- To reduce inequality, Wikipedia needs to start paying editors
- Turan: The Key to Understanding the Russian Logos
- Why America’s a More Violent Society Than You Think
2019
2020
- Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
- ==> Is Open Data for everybody, or not?
- Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic
2021
2023
- Social Atomisation, Alienation and Isolation
- Younger people more likely to doubt merits of democracy
What’s this, and who does it?
I am Marco, tech writer and aspiring polymath, researcher and popularizer of “Digital-Human Studies in many ways, including my newsletter.
Over the years, I have bookmarked thousands of articles and news of all sorts related to those studies, or to my personal interests. This post is a selection of the bookmarks that were published on this day, in several years (1).
I share them as a public service, because memory of what happened and serendipity MATTER. A lot. We are all too distracted and stressed by stuff that has no other merit than being “new”, or limited to our work, instead of being important (if you find broken links, please let me know).
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- This is in the spirit of the “Almanac of the next day”, an italian TV program aired from 1974 to 1994 that presented the most important historical facts happened on each day. This is a snapshot of its opening titles:
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