Twitter Backgrounds | Free Twitter Backgrounds | twitrounds.com Lists Coming For Everyone – What To Do With Them 29 October '09, 10:07pm Follow Twitter is in the process of opening the lists functionality to everyone at the moment. Follow @nk for live updates of the process. To help everyone who is just getting lists today acclimated quickly, we took a poll this morning as to exactly what people are using lists for at the moment. Quickly, lists are the biggest piece of functionality that Twitter has released in recent memory, other than a few servers to help keep the service online. Here are the results of our very scientific poll: “what are you using lists for?” NASA and Microsoft Let You Explore Mars Like Never Before Microsoft Research and NASA have teamed up once again and brought the "most complete, highest-resolution coverage of Mars available" to WorldWide Telescope. Microsoft's app lets you explore space either through a zoom-and-pan interface or guided tours. This imagery is the handiwork of a group informally called the Mapmakers, led by NASA's Michael Broxton. Their job is to take satellite images from Mars and elsewhere in our solar system, and turn them into maps. Yes, it sounds like every geek's dream job, and having a name that sounds like something from a William Gibson novel doesn't hurt, either. “NASA had the images and they were open to new ways to share them. As far as what kind of imagery you can expect here, one example is a new dataset from the University of Arizona’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), which is a remote-sensing camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Tweet Release: Timeline of @LiberateLaura As exuberance following the release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea rules the trending topics on Twitter, I asked Richard Horgan for a statement on his e-activism through @LiberateLaura and the WordPress blog. He describes a chain of events that truly reached Twitter's sixth degree of separation, and if I knew how to make a Huffington Post jump quote this would be it: "Biz Stone and Evan Williams' brilliantly simple communication tool is without a doubt the most powerful activism tool to ever hit the Internet." Richard Horgan Here's the timeline, in his own words: "It started innocently enough: I recommended - via Twitter - @LauraLing's NARCO WARS @current report to L.A. Update: @Current TV Co-founders Joel Hyatt and Al Gore have released this welcome home Statement, and Gore welcomed the two journalists and President Bill Clinton home.
TwitBacks Olivier Fredon Blog Pendant pas mal de temps - trop surement - j'ai délibérément boudé la scène musicale française, tout comme j'ai pu faire la mou devant une assiette de tripoux au saindoux, et le peu de choses produites en hexagone qui parvenaient à atteindre mes oreilles me filaient la nausée pendant des semaines durant. Et puis un jour, le miracle tant attendu fini par ce produire, on finit par tomber sur LA bonne recette. Non pas celle qu'il suffit de réchauffer dans un four micro-ondes pour lui redonner de son goût frelaté made in France mais usinée dans des maisons aseptisées ayant pour principale motivation le goût du profit et de la consommation de masse sous couvert d'une direction marketo-commerciale de renommé interplanétaire. Non pas celle-là. Le mieux étant de goûter, voici un doggybag de Margaret On The Rocks lors de leur passage à Toulouse 2006. Ça vous a ouvert l'appétit ? Pour les plus gourmands, il y a toujours des restes si on prend le soin de bien saucer le plat.
6.5 Million Twitter Lists Created So Far 1 November '09, 07:49am Follow Just, it seems, a few hours into the full release of Twitter lists, some 6.5 million Twitter lists have been created. Just ask Google, it will tell you. This must count as a stunning success thus far for Twitter. It so rarely builds new features, that indeed to see the first one in seemingly ages succeed bodes well for the company. Assuming some thirty million Twitter users, or whatever guesstimate you prefer, most users have yet to be listed. I’ll be damned, but Mashable does know how to run a social media campaign. How many lists are you on? H/T Atul for the tip.
Geo-tags reveal celeb secrets - tech - 12 July 2010 The web has opened up new opportunities for stalkers: celebrities' home addresses are becoming easy to figure out because the stars aren't taking care when they upload pictures online. And tech-savvy thieves could even find out when they – or you – are away from home. So say a group of US computer scientists, who have shown that address information can be gleaned from photo and video sharing sites. That's because many images and videos now contain geo-tags – latitude and longitude data. Often these are added automatically to material captured by devices such as smartphones. To illustrate how easy it is to get this information, Gerald Friedland and Robin Sommer at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, have created software that identifies YouTube videos shot close to their institute and tagged with words like "home". Home movies The software then looked to see whether the same users had recently uploaded videos made more than 1500 kilometres away.
The Primitivist Critique of Civilization--Richard Heinberg The Primitivist Critique of Civilization Richard Heinberg A paper presented at the 24th annual meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, June 15, 1995. I. Prologue Having been chosen--whether as devil's advocate or sacrificial lamb, I am not sure--to lead off this discussion on the question, "Was Civilization a Mistake?" From the viewpoint of any non-civilized person, this consideration would appear to be steeped in irony. Nevertheless, despite the possibility that at least some of our remarks may be ironic, disturbing, and pointless, here we are. The first has to do with certain deeply disturbing trends in the modern world. Now, it can be argued that civilization per se is not at fault, that the problems we face have to do with unique economic and historical circumstances. Many primal peoples tend to view us as pitiful creatures, too--though powerful and dangerous because of our technology and sheer numbers.
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