April 2008
70 posts
Split-rail fence - Wikipedia, the free... →
Apr 30th
Trendpedia (beta) - Social media monitoring, buzz... →
Apr 30th
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
Rethinking the blog comment policy →
vasta: Ever read something on this site and feel like you need to respond? Apparently, you’re not the only one. In the past two weeks, I have received at least ten emails or Twitter messages asking me why I have disabled comments on Eloquation; most of them requested that I open up comments and allow the conversation to grow around my writing. I’m thinking about it. But before I do, some...
Apr 29th
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : The vanishing personal... →
Nice post from JZ on the outsourcing of personal content publishing. “Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content.”
Apr 28th
Filene’s Basement – Where Bargains Were Born →
Apr 28th
Meme genies and a meeting of minds →
Apr 28th
“As the government contemplates a law to criminalise “reckless”...”
– Guy Fawkes’ blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: How to Hack Harriet Harman
Apr 28th
Apr 27th
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New York Manhole Covers, Forged Barefoot in India... →
Apr 26th
Social Media still on rise: Comparative global... →
Universal McCann has recently published its comparative study following Social Media trends by three waves: September 2006 (Wave 1), June 2007 (Wave 2) March 2008 (Wave 3).
Apr 26th
Exactitudes →
Interesting exhibition of people spotted on the street who dress alike - fashion tribes?
Apr 25th
Making the voice of the Daleks →
Heh.
Apr 25th
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Four sound effects that made... →
The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, a pioneering force in sound effects, would have been 50 this month. Ten years after it was disbanded, what remains of its former glory?
Apr 25th
Full Circle Associates » A Slow Community... →
Have we been “communitied” to death? Has the abundance of choice, the speed with which commercial ventures have yet again jumped on to the “community” bandwagon anesthetized us to what…
Apr 25th
“I have never before, during all my time in the capital city, witnessed such a...”
– Boris V Ken V Brian
Apr 25th
NHK "MOJA-MOGI" by Yugo Nakamura →
Weird hair thing. Move your mouse to change his hairstyle.
Apr 24th
Apr 24th
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“Ghoti” before Shaw →
nostrich: The word “ghoti” — a respelling of “fish” that demonstrates ambiguities in English spelling — is usually attributed to George Bernard Shaw. But this blog entry on Language log discusses a letter that has been found that cites a source from 1855 using the word, which is an antedating of over 80 years before the last known source of the word, and 1 year before Shaw’s birth. Incredible. ...
Apr 24th
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24 hours in pictures →
Apr 24th
10 top folk festivals →
Apr 24th
Video: Lion cub triplets →
Apr 24th
Farewell to the SuperSaver as train tickets change... →
Apr 24th
Apr 24th
Photo Histories →
Tales from Photography
Apr 23rd
Brazilian priest missing after balloon lift-off →
Apr 23rd
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Test: Six Spaces of social media →
Brilliant article from Matt I forgot to bookmark when he first published it.
Apr 22nd
“Knock knock Who’s there? Philip Philip who? Knock knock Who’s...”
– Music Jokes, Phillip Glass
Apr 22nd
Apr 22nd
Co-op clashes with organic group over CO2 and food... →
Apr 22nd
Khoi Vinh -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New York... →
Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com, is answering questions from readers April 21-25.
Apr 22nd
Apr 21st
Can User-Generated Content Generate Revenue? -... →
In the US, eMarketer projects that the number of user-generated content creators will rise from 77 million in 2007 to 108 million in 2012.
Apr 21st
Learning what makes Facebook tick →
The Psychology of Facebook is the brainchild of Professor B J Fogg, a pioneering persuasion psychologist who founded the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford (though the BBC news site has it down as…
Apr 21st
The Long Tail: What would radical transparency... →
We don’t know (and neither does anyone else) but what’s clear is that the landscape and reader expectations have changed dramatically since the mid-90s, when wired.com was first taking shape
Apr 21st
Apr 21st
Martin Wainwright on the shortage of fig roll's in... →
Apr 21st
Flickr tools | mentalaxis →
Apr 20th
BBC NEWS | Technology | London skyline time-slip... →
A circular photo gallery on London’s Southbank is capturing images every five seconds for three days.
Apr 19th
Apr 19th
TUJIKO NORIKO →
Apr 18th
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Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media -... →
Apr 17th
INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM →
Apr 17th
London teen orders 'cab, innit' | The Register →
Retail display supplier duly obliges
Apr 17th
The Rather Difficult Font Game →
I got 27 right. It’s fiendish, though.
Apr 17th
Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme →
Apr 16th
Planypus : Make plans with your friends →
Apr 16th