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Readings for the week of July 19, 2010
- An ‘Immortal Life’: How one woman’s cells helped cure a generation (theGrio)
- 8 Political Lessons From LeBron’s Decision (The Atlantic)
- Newly Published Mark Twain Essay, ‘Concerning the Interview’ (PBS NewsHour)
- Belly-buttons key to success in sport: study (AFP)
- Three Things Google Can Learn From Apple (Fast Company)
- William Faulkner Goes Online, 50 Years Later (NPR)
- Is Mel Gibson too talented to boycott? (Salon.com)
- Jonas Bergstrand Gallery
- How To Succeed Like Apple (Jason L. Baptiste)
- Intel Social Media Guidelines (Intel)
- The Web Means the End of Forgetting (NYTimes.com)
Readings for the week of July 5, 2010
- New Nicaraguan sign language shows how language affects thought (Discover Magazine)
- Online Canadians Report a Large 35% Decline in the Amount of Email Received (Ipsos)
- Taking Advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 with Modernizr (A List Apart)
- MapQuest comes Alive (Underconsideration.com)
- Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark)
- Why Isn’t Anyone Trying To Beat Twitter? (The Big Money)
- Daily Mail breaks iPhone 4 recall scoop (The Register)
- For a New Generation, an Elusive American Dream (NYTimes.com)
- Open Core is the New Dual Licensing (Redmonk.com)
- The Abstraction Point (CSS-Tricks)
- David Johnston to be named Canada’s next governor-general (The Globe and Mail)
- Still here, and more alienated than ever (Macleans)
Readings for the week of June 21, 2010
- The Mother of All Invention (The Atlantic)
- Moleskine notebooks for Kindles (Unclutterer)
- A terminology nightmare: blogs, sites, networks, and the super admin (Andrew Nacin)
- Flatland : a romance of many dimensions
- Can you disappear in surveillance Britain? (Times Online)
- Smart, Young, and Broke (Newsweek)
- The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs (The New Yorker)
Readings for the week of June 7, 2010
- Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed (Mashable)
- California Election Results: GOP Winners Will Be Hard to Elect (The Daily Beast)
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (The Atlantic)
- The End of Men (The Atlantic)
- JUNE 2010 Trend Briefing covering “MASS MINGLING” (Trendwatching.com)
- Find an airplane to jump out of (Scripting News)
- Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water (Slashdot)
- The Next Empire (The Atlantic)
- The Decline and Demise of Music Television in Canada (Maisonneuve)
- Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price (NYTimes.com)
- Pandoras briefcase (gladwell dot com)
- Spill reveals Obama’s lack of executive experience (Washington Examiner)
- Terrariums Make a Comeback (NYTimes.com)
- New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It (The Onion)
Readings for the week of May 24, 2010
- Packing Tips From Professional Travelers (NYTimes.com)
- New Media, Old Media (Pew Research Center)
- Sounds of Hamburg
- Even Google Can’t Reinvent Lobbying (The Big Money)
- The 25 Most Valuable Blogs (Business Insider)
- 4GB USB Flash Drive Cufflinks (Cufflinks.com)
- Seniors could outnumber children within years (CBC News)
- 12 Events That Will Change Everything (Scientific American)
Readings for the week of May 17, 2010
- 21 Rules for Social Media Engagement (Mashable)
- Ten Big Marketing Risks That Paid Off for Brands (Advertising Age)
- The Reimagining Of Seattle’s Best Coffee (PSFK)
- At the end of the day, they are journalism’s worst cliches (News.com.au)
- Investigation: Apple vs Nokia vs Google vs HTC vs RIM (Wired UK)
- Boeing’s Social-Media Lesson (Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com)
- Greek Wealth Is Everywhere but Tax Forms (NYTimes.com)
- Should you avoid Gulf seafood? (Salon.com)
- An afternoon observing “suspicious activity” in Times Square. (Slate Magazine)
Readings for the week of April 26, 2010
- Hugo Chavez Asks Fidel Castro to Join Twitter (Mashable)
- News Analysis – As Greek Drama Plays Out, Where Is Europe? (NYTimes.com)
- Gulf of Mexico oil spill may hit fragile coast this weekend (National Post)
- Thoughts on Flash (Apple.com)
- The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash (Charlie’s Diary)
- Note & Point (A gallery of Keynote and PowerPoint presentations)
- Iceland Volcano Eruption: How Social Media Helped Travelers (Mashable)
Readings for the week of April 19, 2010
- Mashable’s Google Wave API Contest Winners (Mashable)
- Politico’s Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To (NYTimes.com)
- Volcanic ash cloud: Pilots warn against ‘rash’ decisions to allow flights (Guardian)
- Buying carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming (The Christian Science Monitor)
- Clive Thompson on Why We Should Learn the Language of Data (Wired Magazine)
- 8 Social Media Strategies to Engage Multicultural Consumers (Mashable)
- In pictures: Weird and wonderful species discovered in the Heart of Borneo (The Guardian)
- PSFK Good Brands Report 2010 (PSFK)
Readings for the week of April 12, 2010
- Library of Congress to Preserve Tweets for Eternity (Mashable)
- Obama Goes Dancing With the Heads of State (NYTimes.com)
- The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites (Smashing Magazine)
- Pentagon Video of Baghdad Journalist Attack Wikileaked (TIME)
- Social Media Demographics: Who’s Using Which Sites? (Flowtown)
- Internet Polls Found to Be Unrepresentative (NYTimes.com)
Readings for the week of April 5, 2010
- The Tea Party – Top 10 Alternative Political Movements (TIME)
- Rude for Reid (WSJ.com)
- The search for an intellectual GOP presidential candidate – 2012 Elections (Salon.com)
- Omar Wasow: Steve Jobs is Right About the iPad (The Root)
- The end of the hipster – Nonfiction (Salon.com)
- Why suicide bombers haven’t struck American subways (Slate Magazine)
- Four Steps to Success for Enterprise Social Media (CIO.co)
- The Amazonian tribe that can only count up to five (The Guardian)
- Can doctors refuse to treat patients based on their political beliefs? (Slate Magazine)
- Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and the long road to the iPad (Slate Magazine)
- Swing vote effects explored with swingometer (FlowingData)
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