contentious.com

UK site about what folks would build with public information. Great brainstorming!

“Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.”

“Determine how often authors/speakers use positive or negative emotion words, self-references, big words, or words that refer to sex, eating, or religion.”

“Takes as input the currently selected text in the frontmost app, and then displays an alert showing the number of words in the selection.”

Built into Mac OS X, but often neglected, is the concept of ‘services’. They are small and targeted tools you can use in almost any program to insert text or do something useful with the current selection.

I’m just starting to use this tool to make some tasks easier…

Wow, look at all the Twitter IDs the BBC has! WAY COOL!!!

This post is under creation. Its based on a conversation happening around the question on how to change email (ab) use into a healthy relationship while enhancing right relationships and collaboration.

My online team uses IM, Twitter, SMS, Facebook, blogs, and Google groups much as IBM’s Suarez does. They improve communication greatly within and without work. But, alas, they haven’t perceptibly cut email volume.

Privacy, anyone? A court has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom “every YouTube username, the associated IP address and the videos that user has watched on YouTube.”

Best part is in the comments: “To paraphrase Jefferson, were it left to me to decide whether we should have newspapers without an Internet, or and Internet without newspapers, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

But at the same time, mobile phone use continues to grow at all income levels. Another bit reason for media projects to focus on mobile as a core venue!