Mal Booth highlights some information on how social media is breathing new life into some public collections of images and other things.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
100 years of Big Content fearing technology
[ kottke ] 100 years of Big Content fearing technology. Unsurprisingly, as long as there have been new technologies providing game-changing approaches to sharing and replicating content, people who have made money from the existing system have sought legal solutions to their problems.
Measurementcamp: Tools For Measurement
A collection of online Tools For Measurement – measuring traffic, and search tools. Not just twitter, lots of other bits and pieces.
Movie: Up
Movie: Up (3D) Let’s start with the 3D. I don’t think it added much to the experience of the film: the sense of depth is already present in this Pixar work, and ultimately the glasses were a distraction. It did mean, though, that when I looked across to see if Kel was enjoying the film, …
the myth of multitasking
I know this is an old one, dating back to late August, but thoguht it was worth a revisit: Media multi-taskers pay mental price – Stanford university put together a test, and tested “low” and “high” multi-taskers on how well they could cope on accomplishing one task when they were provided with additional streams of …
bite sized technology advice
[ servant of chaos ] Quick Smarts – a blog devoted to quick technology tips.
Postcards from Splitsville
Sad to look at: Postcards from Splitsville – Children Expressing Themselves About Divorce
alternative to the cardboard coffee cup tray
[swissmiss] I’ll take that to go – why aren’t these more prevalent – instead of the tray style coffee cup holder, these carriers make it much harder to spill those multiple cups.
book: the wisdom of crowds
Book: The Wisdom of Crowds When first released, this book had a lot of blog coverage, and has been often cited, so I borrowed it from the library to see if its reputation was deserved. Why is it that a group of people with no specialist knowledge can – when you average their guesses – …
book: And then there were none
And Then There Were None I read this in an unusual way: a friend was blogging his way through it, and encouraging others to read just a chapter a day, and then comment on their thoughts of that chapter. If you’d like to do something similar, you can start at chapter one of And then …