Pooping on O'Reilley. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog appears on Fresh
Air with Terry Gross and does a superb take-off on Bill O'Reilley's recent
meltdown on the same show. [Interesting Times]

Social software collectibles. Ross Mayfield offers a Social Software Reader. Thanks for putting this together, Ross!

Assembling these kinds of lists is a low-cost way of adding value (and
providing extra exposure) to older pieces of writing. I should do that
too at some point.

Here are a few of my favorite picks in Ross's list:

• Stowe Boyd: Are you ready for Social Software
• GBN/Shirky: Social Software and the Next Big Phase of the Internet
• Lee Bryant: Smarter, Simpler, Social
• SocialSoftware on Meatball Wiki

[Seb's Open Research]

Today I am. 1. Re-reading Eric Laurier and Chris Philo 's X-morphising: review essay of Bruno Latour‰¥ús “Aramis, or the Love of Technology”. Excellent stuff.

2. Reading Susan Newman's Here, There, and Nowhere At All: Distribution, negotiation, and virtuality in postmodern ethnography and engineering – found via Lucy Suchman's brilliant Sociality of Information Technologies course at Lancaster.

3. Going out for dinner with the fascinating fabulous Joey Berzowska – who will be lecturing on Wearable Technology and Soft Computation at the NRC tomorrow morning.

Also looking forward to meeting speaking more with Steve Marsh – who leads the Socially Adept Technology and Advanced Collaborative Environments research programmes at the NRC-IIT.

More later. [Purse Lip Square Jaw]

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Let's wrap it up. Star presenter wears hijab and apparently gets “a flood of calls”. But, in an odd turn for the BBC, the piece doesn't say what those calls think. Are they all praising the traditional – and controversial – head-dress, or are they up in arms. The story skirts the issue. Islam 101 explains a bit about it. [MetaFilter]