Christmas is on Tuesday, and I'm flying across the country to see my family. This evening I will be busy as millions of my closest friends and I decide to fly somewhere this weekend. Here are five things I'm doing on-line to help me cope:
1. Check in for my flight
Yes,...
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday of this week (December 18, 2007) NPR's new morning show The Bryant Park Project did a segment on the local perception of Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul, and his large and ardent Internet posse came up. Like many others Bennett Roth of the Houston Chronicle guesses that Ron Paul supporters "are a little bit younger,...
Continue ReadingCyberjournalist has the scoop on the BBC launching a beta version of their redesigned homepage. You can view the beta site here and the current version here. Note that this redesign affects only the main BBC homepage and not the BBC News homepage, which is where I spend most of my time....
Continue ReadingThrough my work on ImpactWatch, I spend a lot of time analyzing data. I’m also a pretty big sports fan. Unless you live under a rock, you probably heard that the Mitchell Report on steroids and baseball was released yesterday. Given that, I thought it would be interesting to use ToCloud.com to create a tag cloud showing the words mentioned most often in the report....
Continue ReadingIs it just me or has Facebook just dropped "is" from its standard status update formula?
Until today a user was forced to mold their status updates to follow the format "Steve is [custom text]." Of course, some people's updates didn't make sense with the "is" — whether this was intentional or just from the common lack of concern for grammar on the Internet. ...
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