Monthly Archives: October 2008
October 23, 2008 – 6:31 pm
Cairo Activists Use Facebook to Rattle Regime
Back in March, Maher and a friend launched a Facebook group to promote a protest planned for April 6. It became an Internet phenomenon, quickly attracting more than 70,000 members. The April 6 youth movement — amorphous, lacking a clear mission, and yet a bull's-eye to the zeitgeist — [...]
October 23, 2008 – 3:02 pm
Cairo Activists Use Facebook to Rattle Regime
Back in March, Maher and a friend launched a Facebook group to promote a protest planned for April 6. It became an Internet phenomenon, quickly attracting more than 70,000 members. The April 6 youth movement — amorphous, lacking a clear mission, and yet a bull's-eye to the zeitgeist — [...]
October 22, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Editorial - Water and What Else? - NYTimes.com
NYT goes tapped. And says that maybe ur bottled water isn't that pure.
"While a lot of bottled water may be as pure as promised in those alluring commercials, the real problem is telling which is which. Public water supplies are regulated by the federal government. Not so [...]
October 22, 2008 – 3:01 pm
Wakoopa - Discover software & games
a website that tracks what apps/websites you're using the most and show you the results from the community, efficiently giving you an overview of your computer use and allowing you to discover new apps & websites
(tags: web tools statistics)
Free Time Management Software | RescueTime
(tags: statistics productivity tools management lifehacks)
October 15, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Fan Labor: Exploitation or Empowerment? - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
"… we demonstrate the importance of the (unpaid) work fans do in spreading this music beyond the border of Sweden, making it a globally accessible and appreciated commodity, and we pose the question of whether this is exploitation or empowerment.
There is a critique of Web [...]
October 15, 2008 – 3:02 pm
Fan Labor: Exploitation or Empowerment? - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
"… we demonstrate the importance of the (unpaid) work fans do in spreading this music beyond the border of Sweden, making it a globally accessible and appreciated commodity, and we pose the question of whether this is exploitation or empowerment.
There is a critique of Web [...]
October 11, 2008 – 2:56 pm
GNR's 'Chinese Democracy' Gets Release Date
The most awaited music album of this century gets a released date:
"More than a decade after its conception, Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" will finally see the light of day before year's end, sources close to the situation confirm to Billboard. As first reported here, the set will be a [...]
October 10, 2008 – 6:25 pm
GNR's 'Chinese Democracy' Gets Release Date
The most awaited music album of this century gets a released date:
"More than a decade after its conception, Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" will finally see the light of day before year's end, sources close to the situation confirm to Billboard. As first reported here, the set will be a [...]
October 10, 2008 – 2:59 pm
Banksy's Pet Projects Continue To Spring Up In NYC | News | Animal
More on Banksy
(tags: arts)
Where Chicken Nuggets Dip Themselves - The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 10
Banksy in NYC! Yeah!
(tags: arts)
Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image | Wired Science from Wired.com
(tags: technology)
October 9, 2008 – 6:25 pm
Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image | Wired Science from Wired.com
(tags: technology)
Smart cow problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Listening to The Hour, featuring Michael Calce, aka famous script kiddie (another i learned today) mafiaboy, lead me to the smart cow problem:
"The smart cow problem is the concept that when a group of individuals is faced [...]