February 2008 Archives

• Le Monde.fr : Réseaux sociaux : des audiences différentes selon les continents
  Analysis of social network popularity by continent from Le Monde, in French, but simple to follow.
  (tags: lemonde social_media regional usage locality)
• Twitter Survey from Thayer Driver
  Informal survey of the habits of people who twitter
  (tags: twitter survey)
• meish dot org » The Seven Deadly Sins of Twitter
  Some sound advice and general guidelines for how to behave in many online context from Meg Pickard
  (tags: twitter behaviour psychology)
• Pluck Social Media : Products : SiteLife
  The people behind the Economist debates, they provide the software
  (tags: economist social_media forum)
• garfield minus garfield
  utter genius, makes Garfield amusing by removing its namesake.
  (tags: garfield cartoon humour satire)

• On the Internet, Everyone Can Hear You Complain - New York Times
  Interview with Lane Becker and Thor Muller in the New York Time about Get Satisfaction
  (tags: getsatisfaction nyt)
• Royal Pingdom » Marketing by downtime, the Apple way
  Something I'd noticed myself, downtime for an online store is delibrate, they use to create dramatic effect, clever marketing.
  (tags: apple marketing downtime)
• Smarticus — Leopard 100% CPU usage caused by syslogd and possibly Time Machine.
  I get this a lot on Leopard, syslogd using a whole core to itself and churning, I moved the asl.db file and things fixed themselves a bit, it was 125MB
  (tags: leopard apple macosx syslogd)
• Open Tech 2008 - 5th July in London.
  I really enjoyed this in 2005, so I recommend you go along this year.
  (tags: opentech london conference)
• Do I need to remind you
  New Yorker cartoon on social software and the internet
  (tags: humour bookinbeta internet follower community)
• Mosquito Ringtones - Download the Mosquito Ring Tone Free
  high pitched ring tones for mobile phones, I can just about sense 17.4khz.
  (tags: hearing aging phone audio mosquito)
• SITE GUIDE for Brian May
  interesting is the word
  (tags: brian_may site_guide navigation)
• The Making of a LEGO
  How lego bricks are made, up to 150 tons of pressure, now you know why they are indestructable
  (tags: lego)

• Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online
  Study on the removal and reintroduction of legoin a mixed class of 5-9 year old in Seattle. Cool pieces and ownership promted the removal. Theory of mind seems to not feature in the discussion, but social control and ownership are discussed, a good read.
  (tags: children psychology lego behaviour chilhood social)
• english cut: bespoke savile row tailors: no strings attached
  The source for the statement no strings attached, it comes from the cloth trade, the strings marked the flaws in the fabric
  (tags: cloth derivation language)

• Mac OS X 10.5 Help: Calibrating a MacBook or MacBook Pro battery
  how to fix your macbook or macbook pro battery, it takes a while, but it does work.
  (tags: fix howto battery macbookpro apple)
• Nature podcasts : Nature Reports Climate Change
  Climate change is urgent and important, at Nature, we have a podcast with real science content, but one that is approachable too.
  (tags: science npg climate_change podcast)

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