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Ricky Gervais in his most 'postmodern' interview ever - Times Online

Ricky Gervais in his most 'postmodern' interview ever - Times Online

data exhaust n. The digitally trackable or storable actions, choices, and preferences that people generate as they go about their daily lives. Some firms will make a living based entirely on mining “data exhaust”, the bits and bytes produced by other activities. One example is Google’s PowerMeter, which not only lets users check their use of electricity online but gives Google access to lots of data to analyse and, not least, sell advertisements against. In Brin’s way of thinking, each of our lives is a potential contribution to scientific insight. We all go about our days, making choices, eating things, taking medications, doing things—generating what is inelegantly called data exhaust. 1998 (earliest) Merchants have a larger problem when it comes to collecting data about customers. Data exhaust is also sometimes called digital exhaust, a term that dates to about 2008. Did you like this entry? © 2015 Logophilia Limited

Most beautiful websites of 2008 | CrazyLeaf Design Blog For our first yearly wrap up we want to bring you the best 50 CSS and Flash website designs of 2008 handpicked from our website showcase, CLD Web Gallery. We are looking for contributors We are looking for talented bloggers, that want to promote themselves and their websites by writing articles for our blog. The topics we are interested in are : Graphic Design, Web Design, Flash, Photoshop, Vectorial Graphics, Design Inspiration, Programming, Print Design, Design Resources, photography or just “top 10 articles”. If you like the idea and want to submit an article or just want to find out more, please visit our Contributors Page.

The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS] A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren't very active. The study looked at around 19 million Twitter accounts (PDF) in order to figure out how people are using Twitter. It started with one assumption: An active or "True" Twitter user has at least 10 followers, follows at least 10 people and had tweeted at least 10 times. By that definition though, only 21% of Twitter users are active users. There's a great deal of interesting data in the breakdown. In terms of tweets, the report estimates that 34% of Twitter users hadn't tweeted even once, while a whopping 73% of Twitter's users tweeted less than 10 times. Barracuda Labs also analyzed Twitter's growth over time, and the numbers are consistent with previous reports that show while Twitter grew like wildfire in early 2009, it has dramatically slowed down in recent months.

Top 10 Last.fm Mashups - ReadWriteWeb Last.fm is generally acknowledged to be one of the best web apps of this era - its music recommendation system literally creates a personalized radio station for you. But the now CBS-owned service doesn't get nearly enough credit for its API. We've heard stories about how 90% of Twitter's use comes from its API. Well, Last.fm also has an API that is used by many external services to add value for end users. In this post we list 10 of our favorites, but there are many more of them to explore. Last.fm API Background First some context. At a high level, this is what Tom Coates was refering to last week at Webstock as the Web of data. 1. A very slick Ajax powered search engine that delivers videos, photos, blog entries, albums and other info about a particular music artist. 2. TokyoStage mashs up music charts, Youtube, LastFM, and LyricWiki. 3. 4. musicmesh Lets you explore music derived from audioscrobbler by a graph of album covers, which are sourced from Amazon. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

A Swedish brownshirt jailed for plotting the theft of the Auschwitz entrance sign. An interesting way to become famous: A Polish judge has jailed a Swedish man for two years and eight months for plotting the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" Auschwitz entrance sign. Anders Hoegstroem, a former neo-Nazi leader, admitted theft under a plea bargain last month and will be moved to Sweden to serve his sentence. The infamous sign was stolen in December last year and recovered in three pieces three days later. The judge in Krakow also jailed two Poles for up to two-and-a-half years. One of the pair, named as Andrzej S, apologised in court for the offence, Polish media report. The 5m (16ft) wrought-iron slogan which translates as "Work sets you free" is a potent symbol of many of the Nazi-era atrocities. The sign has since been repaired although it now hangs in the Auschwitz museum and has been replaced by a replica at the entrance to the former death camp. Three other Poles were given prison terms earlier this year for the theft which was thought to have been ordered by another Swede still at large.

The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) 2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Watch for part 2 and part 3 tomorrow and the next day. (40 photos total) Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008.

THE Q&A: DIETER RAMS, INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER In the realm of industrial design, Dieter Rams is Yoda. The foundations were laid during a 40-year tenure as design director of Braun, a German electronics manufacturer. Rams helped to usher a functional modernist agenda into households the world over. Elevating audio speakers from the carpet and removing the record player from its heavy wooden tomb, Rams ignited a design revolution with a philosophy of “less but better”. He took a functional and aesthetically streamlined approach to everything from alarm clocks to cigarette lighters, and then to arm chairs and shelving units while at Vitsoe, an international furniture manufacturer. His Ten Principles of Design are routinely referred to as “commandments” in the field. Now London’s Design Museum pays tribute to Rams’ body of work with “Less and More—The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams”, a definitive retrospective of his career. More Intelligent Life: You’ve always emphasised the importance of functionality in design. DR: No.

Top 36 (plus one NSFW) viral videos of 2008 « TheNextWeb.com Dagan Cohen presenting the list My co-editor Zee reported about it last night, yet co-editors Boris, Patrick and I actually went there: Upload Cinema. A monthly gig in Amsterdam where organizers Barbara de Wijn and Dagan Cohen take web videos to the big screen. It’s sponsored by Amsterdam advertising agency Draftfcb and invitation only, however you can apply for membership here. On Monday, Upload Cinema presented their fine selection of last year’s best viral videos. Cohen explained that they left out the Idols/ X-Factor stuff, as that’s sooo 2006. We were all surprised by the original and sometimes artistic entries. The list 1. [youtube: 2. [youtube: 3. [youtube: 4. [youtube: 5. Watch this utterly pessimistic movie about the Muslim fundamentalists here. 6.Tina Fey as Sarah Palin [youtube: 7. [youtube: 8. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15.

bäst i världen på interaktivitet - DN.se Publicerad 2010-04-30 11:00 Dagens Nyheter vann första pris i marknadsförings-VM för sina initiativ att skapa interaktivitet och lojalitet med sina läsare. DN vann i kategorin Public Relations i INMA Awards i New York i konkurrens med tidningar från hela världen. Det är olika initiativ som DN-galan, DN under jord och DN:s utrikesdag som nu uppmärksammas. – Vi kallar det för DN Live, som vänder sig till våra trogna läsare med DN-kortet, säger Johan Othelius, upplagedirektör på Dagens Nyheter. – Läsarna är på plats och kan ställa frågor och träffa de som framträder – det har kommit över 10. 000 personer vid varje tillfälle. – Roligt är också att vi blev nominerade i fyra klasser totalt, och i konkurrens med 535 tävlingsbidrag från 47 olika länder. Dela med dina vänner

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