The Death of the Pageview – ReadWriteStart
"When you're deciding how to incorporate analytics into your strategy, the most important thing is that you are gathering actionable data. By this I mean that you have to be able to use the information you gather to make a decision and take action. If you're not going to [...]
FCC's national broadband plan: What's next? | Networking | Macworld
Good overview of the process and possible implications now that Congress is considering the FCC's National Broadband Plan proposal.
(tags: broadband policy government federal law processes analysis)
Facebook Reaches Top Ranking in US (Hitwise)
"Facebook reached an important milestone for the week ending March 13, 2010 and surpassed Google [...]
Macleans.ca
"From her home in Manitoba, Karen says she is offended that the law labels her and her partners criminals, yet it would have been legal, and more socially acceptable, to disrupt her family life by leaving her husband or having an adulterous affair. As much as she hates the attention, polyamorists have to take a [...]
SXSW: Twitter CEO Launches @anywhere to Tepid Audience Reaction | Epicenter | Wired.com
"With @anywhere Twitter aims to solve two vexing problems of the increasingly crowded, noisy network: Who should I follow? And what is that person’s Twitter handle? Twitter has created recommendation lists, and there are a number of suggestion services. But compiling a crowd [...]
Watch The Mentalist Season 2 Episode 16
Apparently poly-friendly episode of a popular TV drama. I haven't watched it yet, but will check it out later.
(tags: tv video entertainment polyamory)
Ukulele For Geeks: Secrets of the Pentatonic Scales (sxsw 2010)
SXSW 2010 presentation by Christian Crumlish
(tags: music events)
Citizens, journalists join forces to cover the news | Reynolds Journalism Institute | University of Missouri
PEJ's State of the News Media report provides valuable insights into the motivations of people who start community news sites and blogs. It shows that across a highly uneven and chaotic blogosphere, people value news and information in service [...]
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com
Bing maps TED talk
(tags: Bing presentations video maps geodata photos innovation augmented-reality)
Podcast: Microsoft Uses TED as a Platform to Announce Bing Maps Update – Articles
"Last week Microsoft used a talk at TED to unveil some new features for its Bing Maps platform. Goodies included slicker [...]
Oh Get A Grip!: Three-Part Harmony
The three of us are no spring chickens, and I would venture to say it’s entirely possible that is one of the reasons our polyamorous relationship works as well as it does. I believe that security and self-esteem increase with age. The insecurities of youth, the self-doubts of many people [...]
Google's YouTube Adopts Mobile Ads Cautiously | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
"While you may see banner ads on YouTube’s mobile home, search and browse pages, you won’t see ads on the clips themselves. Those will come eventually, Shishir Mehrotra, YouTube’s director of monetization, told Advertising Age, but in the near term, it’s too difficult [...]
Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the 'News Blob' | Shhhaw
"From a news point of view, getting story data from a writer and keeping it in a database is a solved problem. There is excellent free software out there that does this much better than I could ever hope to. What blogware does [...]
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