Cory Doctorow’s Overclocked
Cory Doctorow has released his latest book, a collection of short stories called Overclocked. I’ve listened to most of these short stories on Doctorow’s podcasts, but I like to read things in print as well. Luckily, he gives us a choice: buy the book, listen to the stories in podcast installments (for free on iTunes), or [...]
links for 2007-03-29
StreetAdvisor – your street, your voice A new social networking site for rating and reviewing your neighbourhood. Still pretty empty, it will need a lot of user-generated content to make it at all worthwhile. (tags: web2.0 realestate)
links for 2007-03-23
Re-Learning the Art of Impromptu Consultation Great post on using IM to *set up* a conversation, as opposed to using it to *have* a conversation, using the analogy of knocking on someone’s door. I’m always happy when someone IM’s me on Skype first to say “when are you free?” before a call. (tags: collaboration)
Reggae Run
My friend Susan, who has been living with rheumatoid arthritis for over 25 years, will be running another half-marathon this year to raise money for the Arthritis Society and all of the great research that they do to keep people like her running (or at least walking). I’ve written previously about her last run, the [...]
Conserve energy, raise your energy bills
CBC reports today that we’ve been so successful at energy conservation, Toronto Hydro is hurting due to lost revenues and wants to increase our prices. Okay, let me see if I understand this: The government spends a ton of our tax dollars to encourage us to save energy. We (reluctantly, in some cases) comply. Eventually, we [...]
links for 2007-03-20
Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services How web sites are transforming into web services, effectively exposing their information to the world. Difference between API and scraping approaches. (tags: mashups web2.0 webdesign) A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods Very cool table with a pop-up example of each visualization method, and categorization of methods. (tags: [...]
links for 2007-03-16
Extend › Plugins WordPress’ new plugins site, listing and linking to the thousands of extensions that make WordPress great. (tags: blogging webdesign)
links for 2007-03-15
The Gapminder World 2006, beta A subset of the Gapminder world data and a highly configurable interface for playing around with it. Animate over time, change the data represented on the axes, etc. (tags: web2.0)
links for 2007-03-14
IEEE Spectrum: Mary Lou Jepsen: Laptops for All Recent IEEE article on the (female) CTO of the One Laptop Per Child initiative. (tags: opensource) Wikipatterns – Wiki Patterns Patterns of adoption and participants on wikis, applicable within enterprises. (tags: web2.0 enterprise2.0)
How I use LinkedIn
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of LinkedIn. On occasion, people ask why and how I use it, so I started to jot down some notes about and ended up with what you see below. However, it really only takes a couple of minutes every few days — less time that it takes [...]
