>I read a really interesting and provocative essay about the web a few days ago that has really stuck with me. I thought I’d share it with my five loyal readers, and ask what they thought. Here is the essay: The Web is a Customer Service Medium, by Paul Ford I think it is worth…
> What’s the big deal with Twitter? This post is about the “latest” social networking craze of very short personal updates, sent fairly often.People do this on Twitter, or on Facebook status updates. Many people think these status updates are frivolous, trivial things that young people with too much time on their hands do. I…
> Have you all heard of amazon’s Mechanical Turk? Basically it is a place where you can post a task to be done over the web, and how much you want to pay for it, and then people can sign up and do the task. Basically it is for tasks which a large group of…
> The head of IT at Amherst College compiled the technology use habits of his incoming freshmen (class of 2012). Here it is.Some tidbits:There are 438 people99% have facebook accounts1% have landlines The personal landline is a technology that will be obsolete relatively soon. Why have that, when you have caller id, and even web…
> I’ve seen some of the videos on concepts that Mozilla has done on the future of the browser, and I haven’t been all that impressed. You can see for yourself if you are interested: It is called Aurora But this new thing is definitely much more in line with what I think could be…
>From McSweeney’s internet tendency (those who brought you the hilarious lists), comes…Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition) A favorite excerpt… The queen is worried about Ophelia. Ophelia loves flowers. Flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers. Oh, look, a river. Ophelia joined the group Maidens Who Don’t Float.
>Here are some links for managing email (both those you have and those you send) For those of you who sometimes have problems managing email, it can seem like you spend more time doing less work. Below are a number of resources for various aspects of managing email, from getting your own inbox under control,…
>Google video is putting video from the National Archives online for all to use. Pretty cool idea, except it is a little buggy right now. WWII newsreels, NASA films, and films from the departmet of the Interior are up for the first round. http://video.google.com/nara.html from lifehacker
>Some tips on how to manage your behemoth of an inboxhttp://www.43folders.com/2006/02/06/email-ninja/
>Tired of clip art? Google Images not giving you what you want?Try this link for a list of places that provide free imageshttp://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/01/where_can_you_f.html from lifehacker
