6.11.04

Poetry, Travel: Sacred Poetry

"A chaikhana is a teahouse along the legendary Silk Road pilgrimage and trading route linking China to the Middle East and Europe. It is a place of rest along the journey, a place to shake off the dust of the road, to sip tea, and to gather together to sing songs of the Divine..."
Source: Poetry Chaikhana - Sacred Poetry from Around the World: Sufi, Zen, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, amd Yoga Poetry

Technology, Anthropology: Clay Shirky on the Design of Social Software

"Rating, karma, meta-moderation -- each of these systems is relatively simple in technological terms. The effect of the whole, though, has been to allow Slashdot to support an enormous user base, while rewarding posters who produce broadly valuable material and quarantining offensive or off-topic posts."
Source: Shirky: Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software