McCain and Obama as Piles of Words (9)
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John Schwenkler wrote an interesting short piece for the Boston Globe by putting together profiles of the US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, drawn from the most-used words from their respective blogs: It’s nothing major: just a use of Wordle to pull out the most prominent words from the official McCain and Obama campaign blogs, and then some brief analysis of a few of the most interesting ones. But it is sort of ...
FREAKANGELS 0024 (2)
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The end of Book One. Book One will be released as a nice cleaned-up print edition from Avatar Press in time for Xmas, in three flavours: hardback, paperback, and, as seen below, the special limited signed edition. Next week, Book Two starts.
Scamorama: book explains how to get into scambaiting as a hobby (10)
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Every idea implies its opposite, and there's no clearer proof of this than the amazing Internet practice of "scambaiting," well-documented in Eve Edelson's Scamorama: Turning the Tables on Email Scammers. You know those ridiculous fraud emails you get from deposed princes, corrupt bankers, desperate widows (and so on), with weird capitalization and punctuation, asking you to advance them some money so that they can liberate a giant, multibillion-dollar sum and give you ten percent for ...
Cooliris Lets You Enable Your Web Site For 3D In Minutes (12)
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We've been fans of Cooliris, the browser plugin formerly known as PicLens, for quite some time. This plugin transforms a normal 2D web page into an immersive 3D experience for viewing photos and videos. It allows you to fly through all the media on a page, zoom in and out, watch the videos full screen or view the pictures in a slideshow format, and so much more. However, the one problem with Cooliris was the ...
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I recommend CoolIris for Firefox just for its base abilities: hover over a link and a few seconds later a new browser window appears. Invaluable in FriendFeed, GReader, and pretty much everywhere.
Spider-Man Webs Up This Week's Comics [New Comics We Crave] (2)
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If you're heading to the comic book store this week, I hope that you like Spider-Man. Otherwise, you may find yourself with a surprisingly light shopping bag on the way out. The post-San Diego slump hits now, with next-to-no new launches or trades allowing Marvel's webbed-wonder to try and steal all the money from your wallet. DC's big releases of the week are probably Countdown: Arena, which is much more fun than any comic with ...
DailyCandy Bought by Comcast for $125 Million (8)
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Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that Comcast has bought newsletter service DailyCandy for an unconfirmed $125 million. The site caters to women interested in fashion, food, travel and other cosmopolitan topics. Comcast apparently beat out Viacom with its willingness to pay $5 million more than Viacom’s offer of $120 million. Bob Pittman of Pilot Group Ventures, the holding company of DailyCandy, says the service was expected to hit $25 million in revenue this year with ...
Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends' (15)
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Benjamin Waber has a grim piece of news for managers and CEOs: You're out of the loop. Waber, a PhD student in MIT's Human Dynamics Group, studies the way groups interact socially — based on who's talking to whom. But unlike most social scientists, who simply ask people about their behavior, Waber and his colleagues measure it. They outfit employees with special badges that work with base stations to log all conversations between employees, including ...
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Josh said:
"A new field called 'reality mining'." Swooooon.
