There is an interesting piece on BusinessWeek.com (via Slashdot ) that talks about the Dell Battery Recall program and how the blogosphere “kept the heat on the manufacturers to do something about it and helped the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) conduct an investigation into the burning batteries.”
As mentioned in the BusinessWeek.com article,...
Continue ReadingIf you have a thing for cool graphs and trivial information, you might want to check out IVillage's Baby Name Voyager. This Java-enhanced graph displays alphabetically the 1,000 most popular names for Americans since the 1880s. Any name that ever made into the top 1,000 is on this list, and you can see in what year the name was most popular,...
Continue ReadingWhen I first read that Apple was recalling batteries on certain laptops, I didn't think for a minute that the iBook G4 I own had anything to do with it. Sure, the battery did get extremely hot at times, but if anything, it was comforting, not unlike a sleeping cat. I certainly didn't (want to) think that my innocent little iBook would ever explode....
Continue ReadingIn the swarm of new social networking/personal database websites popping up everywhere, here's a new application that I'm surprised didn't pop up earlier. MyNoteIT is an online app specifically designed for students. And, unlike Facebook, it is geared toward academics, not toward social networking.
The functionality of the application is well developed. ...
Continue ReadingWe recently completed a "mini-study" that examined the websites of Canada's top 20 newspapers. We discovered that Canada is yet another country where newspapers are lagging in their adoption of Web 2.0. Here are the newspapers we looked at, followed by their weekly circulation figures, as of March 2005, courtesy of the Canadian Newspaper Association:
Toronto Star: 3,236,655
The Globe and Mail: 1,970,216
Le Journal de Montréal: 1,909,510
La Presse,...
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