delicious: February 2008 Archives

Analysis of social network popularity by continent from Le Monde, in French, but simple to follow.

Informal survey of the habits of people who twitter

Some sound advice and general guidelines for how to behave in many online context from Meg Pickard

The people behind the Economist debates, they provide the software

utter genius, makes Garfield amusing by removing its namesake.

Interview with Lane Becker and Thor Muller in the New York Time about Get Satisfaction

Something I'd noticed myself, downtime for an online store is delibrate, they use to create dramatic effect, clever marketing.

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

I really enjoyed this in 2005, so I recommend you go along this year.

New Yorker cartoon on social software and the internet

high pitched ring tones for mobile phones, I can just about sense 17.4khz.

interesting is the word

How lego bricks are made, up to 150 tons of pressure, now you know why they are indestructable

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.

The source for the statement no strings attached, it comes from the cloth trade, the strings marked the flaws in the fabric

how to fix your macbook or macbook pro battery, it takes a while, but it does work.

Climate change is urgent and important, at Nature, we have a podcast with real science content, but one that is approachable too.