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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:33:57 PDT
Massively | Key Second Life Metrics for March 2008 New registrations, time spent and Lindex economy measures are still trending up (even if only slightly) but premium memberships are beginning to slide. Interesting data. (tags: secondlife socialmedia metaverse reference trends) Charlie O'Donnell | What Are People Talking About on Facebook? Fun infographic from Charlie - trends the amount of FB chatter about four topics: sex, drugs, beer and studying. Studying takes th prize. (tags: facebook
Immigrant crime: A good old British “fudge” again
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:35:46 PDT
What no policeman or other official can say in Britain is that the big problem is not with Poles but with blacks. And the “British” population now includes large numbers of blacks. So comparing immgrants overall with the “British” population overall is uninformative. On both sides of the ledger you will have a mixed population of blacks and whites. Comparing crime among immigrant blacks with white British crime, however, would reveal a REALLY alarming situation — which is why no such compari
UX Zeitgeist: open for business
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:37:29 PDT
Over the past year or two, we've been working on a new service for the user experience, and it's now ready for you to use and, more importantly, participate in. It's called UX Zeitgeist, and our goal is to profile the books that the UX community uses, and the books that they want to see published. All it takes is getting a lot of people in the UX community to answer three simple questions. We take your answers and aggregate them with information from a host of other UX-related sites. The resu
Is he right?
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:46:03 PDT
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19758.htm Bitter? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. Obama, Bitterness, Meet the Press, and the Old Politics By Robert Reich 16/04/08 "Common Dreams" -- -I was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 61 years ago. My father sold $1.98 cotton blouses to blue-collar women and women whose husbands worked in factories. Years later, I was secretary of labor of the United States, and I tried the best I could - which wasn’t nearly good enough - to help reverse
links for 2008-04-11
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:59:21 PDT
Authentic Communications - 2008I will be speaking at this event on April 22 in NY.(tags: authenticity Events NYC 2008 PR Web2.0)MarketingCharts: Number of Social-Network Users in Latin America Doubles in ???07(tags: SocialNetworking Stats latinamerica)All This Connectivity Is Killing Us - Advertising Age - Small Agency DiaryIn business today, the reality is that we are almost always "on."(tags: workplace culture Trends attention)Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader(tags: rss lifehac
ORME, LE - Uomo Di Pezza (1972)
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:02:15 PDT
Review Permalink | Submit a review for this album | Buy this album from PA partners Proto-Prog (Studio Album, 1973) 4.72/5 (62 ratings) WHO, THE — Quadrophenia Review by Chicapah (Rollie Anderson) Prog Reviewer When this arrived in the mail several weeks ago it marked the first time I had sincerely listened to Quadrophenia as a serious work of art. Thats embarrassing, being a huge Who fan, but its the honest truth. When I bought the LP in late 73 my head wasnt much into ha
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:15:18 PDT
- In this sobering but optimistic manifesto, development economist Sachs (The End of Poverty) argues that the crises facing humanity are daunting -- but solutions to them are readily at hand. The author analyzes economic data, demographic trends and climate science to create a lucid, accessible and suitably grim exposition of looming problems, but his forte is elaborating concrete, pragmatic, low-cost remedies complete with benchmarks and budgets. Sachs's entire agenda would cost less than 3
What’s in a World Record?
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:31:51 PDT
What’s in a World Record? Well pretty much anything you can think of can be a world record. How about this one — “Backgammon Masters Applies for Guinness Gamer World Record in Farthest Backgammon Dice Toss”. What’s the story here? Well imagine a giant backgammon board about an acre in size and giant games pieces too! Not bad? Well then imagine two world renown backgammon players playing the game from a helicopter about 300 feet in the air above the board! Yeah, that’s crazy. The two world-
links for 2008-04-17
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:39:16 PDT
Should we continue to invest in EA? Linthicum's point - not unless we're prepared to be serious about it, rather than pay lip service to strategic thinking ... (tags: SOA architecture governance value) Web 2.0 Expo Meeting Scheduling: Twitpitch Me! Stowe on the new elevator pitch ... (tags: twitter schedule meeting) Andi on Web & IT: Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors? The comments to this post have a lot to say either way ... but Java's place on the
Thinking data
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:00:16 PDT
Lots of talk on data lately. Paul Kedrosky, for example, wants to bring on the data blogs. So in that spirit I wanted to mention some cool data-related sites and APIs and put up some data of my own. Google has its charts API. Swivel and Many Eyes are also familiar to many people who read this blog. To that list I would like to Trendrr, which I first read about on ReadWriteWeb. Haven’t quite tried it out yet, but it definitely looks very interesting. There are a lot of public datasets available
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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:33:57 PDT
Massively | Key Second Life Metrics for March 2008 New registrations, time spent and Lindex economy measures are still trending up (even if only slightly) but premium memberships are beginning to slide. Interesting data. (tags: secondlife socialmedia metaverse reference trends) Charlie O'Donnell | What Are People Talking About on Facebook? Fun infographic from Charlie - trends the amount of FB chatter about four topics: sex, drugs, beer and studying. Studying takes th prize. (tags: facebook
Immigrant crime: A good old British “fudge” again
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:35:46 PDT
What no policeman or other official can say in Britain is that the big problem is not with Poles but with blacks. And the “British” population now includes large numbers of blacks. So comparing immgrants overall with the “British” population overall is uninformative. On both sides of the ledger you will have a mixed population of blacks and whites. Comparing crime among immigrant blacks with white British crime, however, would reveal a REALLY alarming situation — which is why no such compari
UX Zeitgeist: open for business
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:37:29 PDT
Over the past year or two, we've been working on a new service for the user experience, and it's now ready for you to use and, more importantly, participate in. It's called UX Zeitgeist, and our goal is to profile the books that the UX community uses, and the books that they want to see published. All it takes is getting a lot of people in the UX community to answer three simple questions. We take your answers and aggregate them with information from a host of other UX-related sites. The resu
Is he right?
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:46:03 PDT
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19758.htm Bitter? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. Obama, Bitterness, Meet the Press, and the Old Politics By Robert Reich 16/04/08 "Common Dreams" -- -I was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 61 years ago. My father sold $1.98 cotton blouses to blue-collar women and women whose husbands worked in factories. Years later, I was secretary of labor of the United States, and I tried the best I could - which wasn’t nearly good enough - to help reverse
links for 2008-04-11
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:59:21 PDT
Authentic Communications - 2008I will be speaking at this event on April 22 in NY.(tags: authenticity Events NYC 2008 PR Web2.0)MarketingCharts: Number of Social-Network Users in Latin America Doubles in ???07(tags: SocialNetworking Stats latinamerica)All This Connectivity Is Killing Us - Advertising Age - Small Agency DiaryIn business today, the reality is that we are almost always "on."(tags: workplace culture Trends attention)Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader(tags: rss lifehac
ORME, LE - Uomo Di Pezza (1972)
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:02:15 PDT
Review Permalink | Submit a review for this album | Buy this album from PA partners Proto-Prog (Studio Album, 1973) 4.72/5 (62 ratings) WHO, THE — Quadrophenia Review by Chicapah (Rollie Anderson) Prog Reviewer When this arrived in the mail several weeks ago it marked the first time I had sincerely listened to Quadrophenia as a serious work of art. Thats embarrassing, being a huge Who fan, but its the honest truth. When I bought the LP in late 73 my head wasnt much into ha
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:15:18 PDT
- In this sobering but optimistic manifesto, development economist Sachs (The End of Poverty) argues that the crises facing humanity are daunting -- but solutions to them are readily at hand. The author analyzes economic data, demographic trends and climate science to create a lucid, accessible and suitably grim exposition of looming problems, but his forte is elaborating concrete, pragmatic, low-cost remedies complete with benchmarks and budgets. Sachs's entire agenda would cost less than 3
What’s in a World Record?
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:31:51 PDT
What’s in a World Record? Well pretty much anything you can think of can be a world record. How about this one — “Backgammon Masters Applies for Guinness Gamer World Record in Farthest Backgammon Dice Toss”. What’s the story here? Well imagine a giant backgammon board about an acre in size and giant games pieces too! Not bad? Well then imagine two world renown backgammon players playing the game from a helicopter about 300 feet in the air above the board! Yeah, that’s crazy. The two world-
links for 2008-04-17
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:39:16 PDT
Should we continue to invest in EA? Linthicum's point - not unless we're prepared to be serious about it, rather than pay lip service to strategic thinking ... (tags: SOA architecture governance value) Web 2.0 Expo Meeting Scheduling: Twitpitch Me! Stowe on the new elevator pitch ... (tags: twitter schedule meeting) Andi on Web & IT: Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors? The comments to this post have a lot to say either way ... but Java's place on the
Thinking data
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:00:16 PDT
Lots of talk on data lately. Paul Kedrosky, for example, wants to bring on the data blogs. So in that spirit I wanted to mention some cool data-related sites and APIs and put up some data of my own. Google has its charts API. Swivel and Many Eyes are also familiar to many people who read this blog. To that list I would like to Trendrr, which I first read about on ReadWriteWeb. Haven’t quite tried it out yet, but it definitely looks very interesting. There are a lot of public datasets available
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AP CEO: News service must adapt to changing times - The Associated Press
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