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Happy New Year

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It's not the size of your firehose but what you do with it - Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features

so just because the average Joe will have easy access to the massive social dataset doesn't mean it's going to be easy to figure out what or how to deal with it..

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From the comments section of an article about Twitter opening up their api limit.

Do we all need a personal dashboard?

I think it’s about time for a personal dashboard to track and view what happens to what we share online. This would have two primary uses: 1) Privacy: I’d have a better idea of what’s publicly known about myself, and 2) Analytics: Like any content publisher, I’d be interested in checking my stats and trends.

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Feltron.com is behind Daytum

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Ah, of course.

Steve Outing's last column for Editor & Publisher

10. I continue to write about the future of news on my personal blog, but don't emphasize newspapers so much.

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A look back and forward at the newspaper industry. Some interesting thoughts about local. Hopefully the site will stay live and someone will pick up the mantle in some form.

Nice wireframe sketches

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May have to get some drafting tables for the office.

Blio: Kurzweil Reinvents the Book | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

If this seems a little like the promise of the “interactive multimedia” that was the CD ROM, it is. The difference here is the library of titles, with more than a million available.

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It's déjà vu all over again.

LightLane Personal Bike Path

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Very cool find on Cool Hunting. Two lasers on the side of a rear LED create a personal bike path alerting drivers to clearance. Hope this product gets made.

Tom Waits Upsets Mom With Devil Role

It's hard to imagine, but Tom Waits has a mom, and she's just as disappointed in him as yours is in you.

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Wishing all of you creative makers and thinkers an exciting 2010

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Caterina Fake "curates" 20x200

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20x200 has a bunch of interesting "notable" people curating selections of prints from their offerings.

Wash Post article about the state of book video hybrids

And Stein of the Institute for the Future of the Book says that whatever assumptions we might make now about hybrid books, there's a good chance they won't hold true when the medium grows up. "Things like the Vook are trivial. We're going to see an explosion of experimentation before we see a dominant new format. We're at the very beginning stages" of figuring out what narrative might look like in the future. "The very, very beginning."

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My Second Half - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

In many ways, this kind of two-way communication is well suited to the implicit complexities and uncertainty attending life on a crowding planet that is showing signs of strain from the blazingly fast expansion of this human experiment. When I was 12, in 1968, there were about 3.5 billion of us. We’ve nearly doubled since then and will approach triple that number around mid-century. And our appetite for energy and other resources has grown even faster. So far, technological and social innovations have enabled our species to burst through predicted walls. Can we keep that up? This remains  an open question, to my mind.

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Andy Revkin, the creator of the Dot Earth blog on the NYT site is leaving the paper to become a fellow at Pace's Academy for Applied Enviromnetal Studies. His post about his news has some great examples of how the web can be used to create better understanding of our relationship to the environment.

Brokelyn great gifts under $25 list

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Brokelyn is a great new Brooklyn based blog covering ways to save money in the Borough of Kings. They also have great tips of DIY and general savings.

I also love the gifts at the Brooklyn Super Hero Supply Company. We keep a small can of anti-matter in our cupboard.

Ah yes the power of reactions
   

Bye Bye MyBlogLog Next Month

MyBlogLog was a wildly innovative service that grew fast after launching and was acquired in January 2007 by Yahoo! for $10 million. It made a deal with users: give us your personal information and we'll show you the faces of people who read your blog. That was a compelling offer and the resulting data amassed could have proven invaluable, had Yahoo! chosen to cultivate it and a developer ecosystem around it. That potential was so great, in fact, that sunset for MyBlogLog is downright tragic. It's also likely to anger bloggers all around the web.

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According to Read Write Web Yahoo is going to shut down MyBlogLog 5 years after it was founded.

The article has a nice quote from the co-founder explaining that acquired services need strong executive champions in the ranks of the buyer to survive and flourish.

Stepping in to this vacuum is the great Typepad profile widget which can be seen on the upper right of my blog. Built into the service it is helping me gain new readers and people to follow on a daily basis. The Typepad BlogIt button, another Typepad feature, has also caused me to drop Delicious, another formerly great service that has languished under Yahoo too.

One Woman's Quest to Make Absinthe

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I think my friend Alice essentially met a kindred spirit in her New York Times profile of Cheryl Lins, who is distilling absinthe in a small town near the Catskills.

alaina browne lives here: Bonnie Fuller: Not Helping

Women see celebrities as mirrors of their own lives, so when they're looking at celebrities, in many cases, not all, they are evaluating the situation and relating it to something in their own lives or comparing it. It enhances your life,she concludes brightly. It's helping women. Of course it's healthy. Bonnie Fuller in an article on the globe and mail.

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Call me a crazy feminist, but I'm going to go out on a limb and argue that celebrity gossip sites *don't* help women.

Alaina pulling out a choice quote from an article just full of them. I really just felt sorry for the poor women sitting in their cubicles being yelled at about headlines. Fuller may have moved to digital but it sounds like she is keeping up with her old print ways. Nothing new here.

the real design challenge on e-books and mags of the future is creation workflow

So a real design challenge for e-books isn’t to design the user experience (which is dependent at the end of the day on the device capabilities anyway, which are pretty much unknown) but rather on designing a system that would allow existing publishers to transition their operations from ramshackle print to All Knowing Digital.

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Wallace & Gromit iPhone Comic Free

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In the past week I've downloaded two from Panelfly; one a sort of dark x-men type of thing and the other a graphic novel. This is next.