LINKS FROM March 2005
Blogaholics: "The world of business is intertwined with conversations - the industry is talking, your customers are talking, your competitors are talking - you need to be a part of those conversations."
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Learning programming via web apps
Ask Metafilter question about how to start programming web apps
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Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
"This is just a small Ruby book. It won’t crush you. It’s light as a feather (because I haven’t finished it yetâ€â€hehe). And there’s a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn."
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Britney Spears: "Do you, Us Weekly, In Touch, Star and other desperate magazines want employees who are honest, or those who are liars? "
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Lots of markers and other so-called graffiti supplies
Enhances Searching with Firefox
"Now Google's faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on it, you'll get to that page even more quickly."
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Type in a search term and we'll show you the Max Bids and listings for that term.
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Thinking About Design Thinking
Design thinking is "Finding Alternatives . . . Ideation and Prototyping . . . Wicked Problems . . . A Wide Range of Influences . . . Emotion"
Tags: creativity design posted
Google Desktop Search: Download Plug-ins
Welcome to the Google Desktop Search Plug-in Download page. Google has not tested or verified the features or security of the third party software listed on this site.
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Free online invitations and local event listings
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Some sites that people would like to see get RSS feeds
Federal Express
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United Parcel Service
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MediaPost Communications is an integrated publishing and content company whose mission is to provide an array of resources to super-serve media planners and buyers.
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Ummm . . . yeah
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A faux-blog for Captain Morgan's
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Brought to you by GEICO Auto Insurance
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How do I get a Sainsbury's-style cookie outside London?
Trying to find the answers to my lifelong quest
del.icio.us popular trends graphs
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David Byrne launches internet radio station
Boing Boing: "There's value in being exposed to things you didn't know you want. When you walk down the street, you have experiences that are unplanned and accidental that may expose you to new ideas, new things... it isn't just a matter of running an err
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The Event & Venue Database
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A list of 42 fallacies
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An interview with a guy who got an RFID chip implanted in his hand
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A List Apart: "What if we could have one clean, well-structured menu which would combine the dynamism and code-ease of dropdown menus and do away with their main problems (not to mention degrade beautifully)?"
Microstructure in the Long Tail
The Long Tail: "I've assumed that demand can shift down the tail and quality can rise up it, almost without limit. But there may indeed be a threshold at which this egalitarian mobility no longer works."
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Like just about everything Crispin Porter + Bogusky does, the Subservient Chicken ad campaign is risky and extreme. It's also very, very smart.
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Creating Passionate Users: "The more we learn about the brain, the more we learn about learning, and learning is the key. Not just as something to get better at (i.e. learning to learn), but learning as exercise for the brain."
Tags: brain creativity learning lifehacks posted
On the Internet, 2nd (and 3rd and . . . ) Opinions
NYTimes: "Not all lists are so much fun. There are plenty of boring lists on the Web. Everyday, Web contests list their winners. Every blog has a running tab of favorite Web sites. Many of them take a good part of a minute to scroll through."
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General approved extreme interrogation methods
Guardian: "The highest-ranking US general in Iraq authorised the use of interrogation techniques that included sleep manipulation, stress positions and the use of dogs to "exploit Arab fears" of them, it emerged today."
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Paul Graham writes a short essay on how to write
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Trendmapper is a tool to generate historical data from search engines.
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Canine birth control for a more humane world
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Illegal file-sharers under attack
Economist: The entertainment industry has taken its battle against illegal downloading to America’s Supreme Court. But attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems
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Time: In a wireless world, teenagers are driving the hottest new technologies since the dotcom era
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Incremental vs. revolutionary improvements
"If you're competing for market share, with products or services that are hard to differentiate, incremental improvements might be a waste of time and resources!"
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How did you get your f*&%ing awesome job?
An interview with Incredibles' director Brad Bird
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Barack Obama - U.S. Senator for Illinois
The Latest from the Office of Senator Barack Obama
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Interview with the Search Engine
SatireWire: "Jeeves of AskJeeves.com granted SatireWire Editor Treat Warland the opportunity to actually interview a search engine."
Most Useful CSS Properties with Examples
From open source to open services to open information
Jon Udell: "Don't lock in my data. Services that try to do that will fail because, in the final analysis, social applications are powered by the people who co-create them."
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"Outdoor writing products for outdoor writing people."
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Experts agree it takes 21 days to break a bad habit and form a new one.
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StopDesign: An answer to the question "How do you stay organized?"
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College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds
Washington Post: "College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says."
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New Yorker: "New York is witnessing “without a doubt, a dramatic increase in bedbug activity. We hadn’t seen bedbugs in New York in sixty years. Then, all of a sudden, bingo. Who’da thunk it?�"
Slate: Will somebody please help the Los Angeles Times' David Shaw get a grip?
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Wooster Collective: "Tano is an artist in Chicago who pastes photographs over no-parking signs throughout the city of Chicago. We're told that these images are not manipulated."
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"It looks as if blogging will be very good for our brains. It holds enormous potential in education, and it could take societal communication and creative exchange onto a whole new level."
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Sweep the Leg and Wake the Gimp
The Johnny Lawrence Story. Answering all your questions about the Johnny Lawrence connections between Karate Kid and Just One of the Guys.
Lessons learned from Just One of the Guys
Including some serious revelations about up-to-now unknown connections between Just One of the Guys and Karate Kid. Conspiracy?
A web based FTP client
Implausible Claims Made by Vanilla Ice in His 1990 No. 1 Hit "Ice Ice Baby."
"I go crazy when I hear a cymbal and a high hat."
"As promised, some huge changes to Upcoming.org! The short list: support for personal and self-promotional events, tagging of events, a complete API, improved visual design, and e-mail/SMS reminders."
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Describing and predicting behavior: The Big Five
Kuro5shin: A look at methods of explaining personality. "I will focus on the trait-based approach, which is one attempt at describing individual differences and predicting individual behavior."
Tags: personality science posted
They're In on the Joke: Hollywood's Funniest Clique
A look at how Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Co. are changing the way movies are made by keeping the whole process insular.
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Index: "Legendary musician, producer, and artist Brian Eno would much rather talk about urbanism, new computer applications, or emergence theory than something as pedestrian as EQ levels or his own brilliant musical history."
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Salon: "Sam Prekop, whose new record, "Who's Your New Professor?" was released last week, is the lead singer of the Sea and Cake. Here's a list of some of his current favorite music."
Over 400 playable flash Nintendo games . . . also a flash version of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster
Mark Cuban is funding the Grokster defense. "Its about our ability to use future innovations to compete vs their ability to use the courts to shut down our ability to compete. its that simple."
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EXCELLENT web hosting deal -- less than $10/year
Digg story with coupon code to get $100 off from DreamHost
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Best Restaurants in New York City
A list of great NYC restaurants
The social wish list repository
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Family of the lawmaker involved in the Schiavo case decided in '88 to let his comatose father die.
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Army Sets Up Video-Game Studio
The U.S. Army, riding the success of its action video game America's Army, has set up a video-game studio with industry veterans to write other kinds of software to simulate training for a variety of armed forces and government projects.
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"The obvious implication of Tom's and similar UX illustrations is that one person can't be expected to demonstrate expertise in all these areas; organizations need to invest in multi-disciplinary *teams* if they're serious about UX."
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Diagramming User Experience (GIF)
A great diagram of user experience
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There are pubs everywhere in London. Usually at least one every two or three blocks on the larger streets.
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Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast
Featuring a random cycling of some of the most sleep-worthy tracks ever created.
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Sony MDR-G56V Street Style Headphones with In-line Volume Control
Good cheap headphones, very comfortable
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Pez to dispense MP3s instead of candy
They're making Pez MP3 players. A possible iPod killer?
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A handful of blog-evangelists, a couple of key buys and some libertarian friendly moves have turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes.
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Must have Mac OS X applications
A list of 20-some-odd free must have OS X applications
Choose a website and see what would happen if aliens attacked or coffee spilled on it . . . kind of like those Sim City disasters
The Internet, ranked No. 1, changed the world
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A very small camera at a good price, recommended by Engadget
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More web design resource links than you could shake a stick at
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any webpage to change it's behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a webpage's style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect
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A Greasemonkey script that auto-completes tags for you in del.icio.us
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MP3s from Ryan Adams' lost Destroyer Sessions
Twenty-Six Entrepreneurs We Love
Martha Stewart tops the INC Magazine list
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YPulse: An AOL Red survey said "...Half of the country's teenagers would rather open up and discuss their feelings with a blog than with their parents."
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All the pictures of "transparent screens" that you could ever want . . . very cool
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Today's New York Airfare Report
Every day, airlines lower a few, or a few hundred, fares to amazingly low levels. No one knows why. This blog tells you about these amazing fares.
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Guardian: Tom Coates is a BBC web producer and is behind www.Plasticbag.org, which just won Best British Weblog award at the SXSW Festival
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Travel search that searches over 100 different sites for the best fares available
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Thieves make off with three-bedroom brick house
"Board by board, shingle by shingle, for nearly three months, thieves dismantled a three-bedroom brick house in this East Texas town and carted it away until only a pile of rubble was left."
It's Not Graffiti, It's Grafedia
Wired: "Geraci wants grafedia to make people think about the idea that the boundaries of the web are totally arbitrary. If you can put links in different places, he said, you're essentially extending the internet."
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Bright Eyes, Big City
In this installment, Elisabeth goes to the Bright Eyes concert with her R.A. and continues to avoid her T.A.
Here are some hints on how to construct a mind map.
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Ross Mayfield: "One of the most popular sessions at PC Forum was the Roundtable on User-generated Metadata."
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Wooster gets hold of the Reuters article " British Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top NY Museums"
Just another urban legend: The final interview with Ol' Dirty Bastard
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"Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching"
glassdog: "Boing Boing has not only embraced advertising, but appears to be giving it a vigorous reach-around in the process."
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Homepage for future reference . . . currently showing Damien Hirst in Chelsea
Consumers Want Their Media On Demand And Online
Digital Connect: "People are exercising greater control over media and entertainment nowadays by accessing content through a variety of digital channels and devices"
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BrandShift: "In co-creation, customers truly feel like they are a part of the company (family, ecosystem, etc.) and that their voice is heard."
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It's the Content, Not the Source
Wired News: "But the way for EFF attorneys to win this case would be to attack Apple for its definition of a trade secret. What exactly does Apple lose by the publication of Asteroid's specs and a diagram?"
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PSP, I Love You: For Gamers, The Date Has Finally Arrived
Washington Post: ""What portable gaming does is take video games to the public in the same way that the cell phone took communication out of the homes and into the street . . ."
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Jeff Hawkins new company. Numenta is developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex.
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Type in the address of a site and get back the colors
Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News
NYTimes: "Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations . . ."
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13 things that do not make sense
13 of science's unanswered questions
New Yorker: "Do ads still work?"
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Newsmashing with del.icio.us - y.a.b. (yet another bookmarklet)
Kokogiak: "Add the bookmarklet to your browser, then you can get a look at what del.icio.us users are saying about (or at least how they are tagging) nearly any web page with one click."
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Creating Passionate Users: "Give a compelling, personally motivating reason/benefit for the thing you're teaching, before you teach it!"
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Outakes from The New York Times Article
Banksy makes the New York Times
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An opinion on the Terri Schiavo case from the New England Journal of Medicine
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Very inexpensive webhosting -- only $8 a month for 3000 megs and unlimited bandwidth
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Essentially it looks like del.icio.us with the addition of notes -- which makes a lot of sense
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Music and Video Downloading Moves Beyond P2P
Pew: "About 36 million Americansâ€â€or 27% of internet usersâ€â€say they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to swap their files"
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Gives you all the CSS you need for rounded boxes
What is the difference between i.e. and e.g.?
A good thing to know
Create RSS feeds from any site without any programming knowledge
Five designs that imagine the future of Apple
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"Sigla magazine was launched in March 2004 as an online magazine that isn’t singularly about arts or politics, photography or creative writing; it’s about all of those things - and lots of other stuff as well."
Rockers Flex BitTorrent's Muscle
The Decemberists are releasing their new video via BitTorrent
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Apple Becomes a "They" Company
A VC: " "We" companies are built by and for a community of users. "They" companies are traditional companies that seek to optimize profitability at the expense of everything else."
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What is it? And how has it affected he media?
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Epithet Morphs From Bad Girl to Weak Boy
New York Times examines the use of the word "bitch," especially directed towards males
NYTimes: "When does saving a life mean stealing a death?"
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All your word questions answered. Like why do police have the nickname "the fuzz?"
Professional secrets from those in the know
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What must I see/do in NYC? | Ask MetaFilter
Got some interesting recommendations of things to do/see/eat in New York
Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums (All of them)
Banksy put up his own masterpieces in the city's big museums . . . amazing
Some instructions for bypassing talking to someone and connecting directly with their voicemail
Meant for Space, but Useful on Earth
NYTimes: "fter nearly two decades of research, NASA is testing a device that would recycle astronauts' sweat, urine and even the moisture from their breath into drinking water."
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NYTimes: "The founders believed in a nation in which, as Justice Robert Jackson once wrote, we would "submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules." There is no place in such a system for a special law creating rights for only one family."
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For Those of You Who Wonder How That TV Show Began
Fox is going to start offering DVDs for $10 that include a few episodes from the first season of shows and a $10 rebate to buy the full DVD
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A Night Out With: Keren Ann: Shore Leave in Home Port
NYTimes: "Places where you can get lost, where there are people everywhere but you're used to isolation, to being on your own, they suit people like me."
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The Register: "Schoolchildren are developing a "problem-solving deficit disorder", and losing the ability to analyze."
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Of Recent Note: For Spring 2005
The Morning News: "The Writers spring on you the stuff they’re into right nowâ€â€including what they’re reading, hearing, watching, finding, eating, using, installing, applying, and, yes, even scratching this season."
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From the Better Sleep Council
A Guide to Ethnic Fried Doughs Around the World
Most likely everything you ever wanted to know about fried dough
The Medium is Having A Massage
Ahhh . . . postmodern McLuhan humor at it's best . . . almost as good as the old postmodern semicolon joke . . .
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Folksonomy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess
ETECH conversation with Clay Shirky, Stewart Butterfield, Joshua Schachter and Jimmy Wales
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So You'd Like to... See the Mountain Goats' list of Music You Should Hear
A guide by Amazon.com Music Store, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats
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Warner Brothers Sponsors Podcaster
ClickZ: "The company will sponsor podcasts of the Eric Rice Show and provide exclusive audio content from one of its bands."
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EFF is listing devices that would be deemed illegal if MGM wins over Grokster
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One of us is smarter than all of us
"The wisdom of crowds comes not from the consensus decision of the group, but from the aggregation of the ideas/thoughts/decisions of each individual in the group."
JupiterResearch: RSS Adoption Not Really Simple
Article about marketers using RSS that takes a very negative stance. Also includes some strange oversights, like saying you can't measure audience.
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Interview with Blake Ross of Firefox-Part I
Red Couch interview that especially focuses on the use of blogs to help Firefox grow
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New Search Tools for Del.icio.us
A few different search bookmarklets for del.icio.us
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Her semi-new album Extraordinary Machine album available for free download at 192kbps
This library is a simple way to implement tabs on your page using CSS, a little JS, and semantic markup which degrades gracefully on browsers with CSS unavailable or disabled.
How to grow your (blogging) audience
Susan Mernit gives some tips on how to get more people to read your site
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To-Do List: Shop, Pay Bills, Organize Brain
Using mind mapping software to help you get things done
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The global home for grassroots media
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I remember seeing these Japanese greasers eight years ago when I was in Japan, I am always trying to describe them
Why Britney Spears Hates HDTV!
The top 10 best and worst looking celebrities on HDTV
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SNIF: Social Networking in Fur, a system that allows pet owners to interact through their pets' social networks.
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Anil Dash: "some of the common steps of evolution within a blogging community"
Another discussion about formalizing the tagging process to correct the problems inherent
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The iTunes $.99 Breakdown: Will Online Music Stores Ever Make Money?
Some speculative number crunching over just how much money online music stores really make
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Learning a Language in the Digital Age
Some good tips on learning a new language
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The wiki for 43 Folders: The web site all about getting things done
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Students Use Tags to Protest Chinese Govt Restrictions on BBSs
Smart Mobs: "This is a very effective way to aggregate "sensitive information" through a distributive process in a politically censored cyberspace ."
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Aubrey de Grey is helping humans live forever, whether or not he's a real biologist.
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Suddenly on the Internet: A flood of unreleased bootlegs sung by a goddess. What gives?
On This Wiki, Everyone's a Critic
to a collaborative Web sitStanford's Lawrence Lessig, whose next book will be revised by visitorse, explains "user-supplied innovation"
New York Times article on sneaker culture
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Are Socialites Still Networking?
Wired: "To draw new members, they're finding it helps to present themselves as the virtual equivalent of belonging to the "in" crowd."
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Wired: "Tens of thousands of Japanese cell-phone owners are poring over full-length novels on their tiny screens."
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A History of Communications 35,000 BC - 1998 AD
Timeline of communication from 35,000 BC to 1998
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Acoustic folk with a hint of rock.
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cityofsound: "aesthetics recede as behaviour becomes more important - that behaviour is the aspect people actually engage with."
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'I've literally just heard the 500th Strokes clone'
Guardian Unlimited: "Beck talks to Dan Glaister about his rental car, bathrooms and the struggle to be original"
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A forum discussion question that attempts to answer how many five-year-olds you could take on at once
Ta-da Lists rewritten in java
Good-bye, computer; hello, world!
CNET: "Now think about what would happen if you had a word processor . . . a music jukebox, and any other "software application" running inside a Web framework that's as fast and responsive as any desktop you've ever used."
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Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories
eWeek: ""There is a behavior around tags that has nothing to do with categorization," Schachter said."
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The leading free stock photography site
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In the first of an occasional series in which the greatest recording artists reveal their favourite records, Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished albums of all time.
MacRumors: "The intent is to provide our best recommendations regarding current product cycles, and to provide a summary of currently available rumors for each model."
Flickr group of photos of circular objects in a square frame
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Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr
Post from the Flickr blog on the acquisition by Yahoo
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A good list of the best BitTorrent sites
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The Largest BitTorrent Community
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OSX inventories, tips & hack collections
43 Folders: "A one-stop-shopping link for people who want to quickly ramp-up on “what’s out there� in the OSX world that they might not know about, with a focus on how one given person has put it all together."
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Essential Mac OS X Applications
MacUpdate watches the latest Macintosh software updates every day, all day long, so you can keep your software up-to-date with the most current bug fixes and features.
Do you tag stuff in the most individual way possible, or do you let tags overlap?
A fairly interesting conversation on tagging over at Ask Metafilter
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A quarter of American adults who have cell phones have used the devices' text-messaging features within the past month, a new study finds.
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A pretty cool viral site for the new EA sports Fifa Street game
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angiemckaig.com: "Instead of implementing a business model that doesn't make sense just to protect your bottom line, why not come up with something that DOES make sense?"
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Read the label, love the product
Words brand as strongly as visuals
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Sample chapter from Don't Make Me Think
Users don't actually read websites, they just kind of scan them
Why Logic Often Takes A Backseat
The study of neuroeconomics may topple the notion of rational decision-making
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Ontology is Overrated: Links, Tags, and Post-hoc Metadata
Clay Shirky: "The Web's main virtue, in handling data, is to transmute organization from an a priori, content-based judgment to one that can be ad hoc, context-based, socially embedded, and constantly altered."
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The 30 least hot things you can say to a naked woman
This one cracks me up: "Want to join me in the shower? Grouting's more fun with two!"
An evolving framework for accessing and
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Interview: father of "life hacks" Danny O'Brien
"Geeks are able to memorise almost any trivial fact, apart from the trivia of their own lives. So, the trick is, tell a nearby geek the trivia of your life, and they’ll remember it better than you do. And vice-versa."
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"I've never seen a man who seems more comfortable with who he is than Jose Canseco. Not with who we think he is, like our current president, or with his best idea of himself, like our president's predecessor, but with himself: charmer and snake . . ."
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DVD Jon: buy DRM-less tracks from Apple iTunes | The Register
PyMusique allows DRM-less downloads and ability to download tracks from iTunes again
5000MB Web Space, 5000 Email Accounts, 75Gig Transfer $4.95/mo.
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What Speakers Can Learn from Bloggers (and Vice Versa)
Beyond Bullets: "Look for the story. Don't contribute to our culture's Attention Deficit Disorder; help us to cure it. Out of all the information you see, what's most important? What does it all mean?"
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Rock's Oldest Joke: Yelling 'Freebird!' In a Crowded Theater
It's a Request, a Rebuke, A Cry From the Heart, A Tribute to Skynard
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Couple Sells Candles That Smell Like Jesus
A South Dakota couple makes and markets candles they say smell like Jesus.
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NCAA® March Madness® on Demand
Watch NCAA games On Demand or Live on the web
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Drinking Game Can Be a Deadly Rite of Passage
People die when they take 21 shots in an hour . . . is that news?
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An SAT Without Analogies Is Like: (A) A Confused Citizenry...
NYTimes: "Since the SAT no longer contains analogy questions, here is one: A nation whose citizens cannot tell a true analogy from a false one is like - fill in your own image for precipitous decline."
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Adventures in Opinion Writing: No Easy Answers
Why are there fewer female opinion writers? Another possible factor.
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The Collaborative Effort to Edit: CODE
"Professor Lessig is using this wiki to open the editing process to all, to draw upon the creativity and knowledge of the community. This is an online, collaborative book update; a first of its kind."
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How much can your mind keep track of?
"It's difficult to measure the limits of processing capacity because most people automatically use problem solving skills to break down large complex problems into small, manageable "chunks.""
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Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?
New York Times writes about newspapers deciding to charge for content online. Foreshadowing?
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Masses of iPods will trigger Mac market share growth
AppleInsider: "Apple will gain share in the personal computer market over the next 2-3 years due to the iPod "halo effect," . . . and the company's ability to drive innovation with high-quality, realistically priced products."
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My new stance on linking technologies, six guidelines to judge
Scoble steps back from his anti-AutoLink stance and gives some guidelines to tell whether an automatic linking technology is really pro-user
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ClickZ: "A full 63 percent of cell phone users in the Generation Y demographic use SMS (define) compared to 31 percent of Generation X (ages 28 to 39) mobile phone users."
Tags: research mobile youth conference posted
A semi-satirical look at annotation software and blogging
New game of tagging may be "it"
Seattle Times: " Categorization fights the tyranny of infoglut. Compare a Google search on folksonomy with the del.icio.us tag and you quickly fathom the advantages of tagging for learning about a given topic."
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New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose?
Is the BBC engaging in some viral marketing?
Black Mountain: Black Mountain
Good old-fashioned rock music. Album's a good length. I'm especially fond of track four, "No Satisfaction."
Tags: rating:80% music 2005 urn:asin:B0006SNKTY
Andrew Bird: Mysterious Production of Eggs
A truly complete album, it's great to listen to from start to finish. Switches genres smoothly. A mix between David Byrne and . . . (Sufjan? Vanderslice? Anyone?)
Tags: rating:100% music 2005 urn:asin:B00070Q7VY
No Need to Stew: A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances
The things people do when they're annoyed
Interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales: "I was recently on a panel with the head of USAToday.com. He said they have 300 million pageviews a month. I said that's good; we have 400 million."
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Changing world is leaving the SAT behind
As so-called SAT skills gets automated and moved overseas, the test is going to need to adapt to test skills required in the 21st century
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The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens.
Bnoopy: "Said another way, there is a long tail of very custom process problems that software is supposed to help businesses solve."