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Reminded my of Bruce Sterling’s 2006 ETech talk, which you can read here (I tried to find it on one of Bruce’s properties but couldn’t), and hear here.
“I no longer hunt anxiously for my missing shoes in the morning. I just Google them.”

 Peter Kim of Forrester reports on Twitter usage amongst US adults
Our data shows that 6% of US online adults use Twitter regularly. (from Being Peter Kim: “I just don’t get it.” [i.e. Twitter])

That is patently insane.  I suppose it depends on how you define “online adults,” but even with a very restrictive definition (like, say […]

a shel of my former self: Comments
I utterly reject the argument posited by some very smart people (like Chris Brogan) that the explosion of online video is to blame. With respect to those who have made this case, I have to shake my head in disbelief. If the popularity of video could stifl
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Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator. (from Read/Write Web)

I suppose this is pretty big news for Atlassian wiki customers, especially those that are using Microsoft SharePoint - single sign-on and cross-platform search can be pretty important in the enterprise world.  Plus the ability […]

Ignoring .svn directories with grep | corey gilmore’s blog
…find a bit of text in an unknown file that is buried deep in a tree of directories…grep is included…. While it’s a great tool, it’s also annoying to get a screen full of results from Subversion’s .svn directories.
(tags: grep linux cygwin svn hack reference)

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Fiscal Fitness: Eliminate Debt with 10 Successful Diet Principles | zen habits
Recently I’ve been studying the habits of successful dieters — people who’ve lost 30 lbs. or more and kept it off. And in reading a recent Get Rich Slowly article, I realized that the same successful principles these people follow are the same ones
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Interaction techniques that deviate from common GUI standards can create usability catastrophes that make applications impossible to use.
important stuff, IMHO
(tags: article design interesting software usability interface important!)

terror of tinyurl
The other problem with the tinyurl preview is that it a) necessitates an additional click and b) is useless for judging a url based on the status […]

Jaffe Juice: 23 things every company should be monitoring…
Here’s a thread worth following and continuing. It deals with things every company should be monitoring (and resulting implications)
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Javascript Progress / Percentage Bar with CSS by WebAppers
WebAppers have created a simple Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App. Bare Naked App taught us how to display Percentage Bar with 2 images only by using CSS. And then I used a little bit of Javascript to make
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