moritherapy/internet

This is from Google about Chrome google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ [google.com/googlebooks/chrome/] ). Please take a close look at the map and tell me what you see. Or don't see. Especially interesting given that they talk about Denmark. As one commenter said, "Denmark has grown quite big!"

You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you've written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers. Let's say it's Super Bowl Sunday and you're blogging about beer. You see Budweiser's blockbuster commercial and have a reaction you'd like to share. Thanks to search engines and aggregators that compile lists of interesting posts, you can reach a lot of people -- and Budweiser, its competitors, beer lovers, ad critics, and your ex-boyfriend can listen in. "You just need to know how to type," says Matthew Hurst, an artificial intelligence researcher who studies this ecosystem at Microsoft Live Labs. Here's how the whole process goes down during the big game.

google goes open source

When I saw this post, which I found through someone's twittering (which took me about 1 second to read), within about 10 seconds I thought, oh, that's something to stumble! Which illustrates the point of this article. Excerpt: "It's official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow.

Roughly once every three minutes, typical cubicle dwellers set aside whatever they're doing and start something else--anything else. It could be answering the phone, checking e-mail, responding to an instant message, clicking over to YouTube (GOOG), or posting something amusing on Facebook. Constant interruptions are the Achilles' heel of the information economy in the U.S. These distractions consume as much as 28% of the average U.S. worker's day, including recovery time, and sap productivity to the tune of $650 billion a year, according to Basex, a business research company in New York City.

Draper gets down and dirty with the calculator to show why Twitter can't make it as a business. As a fervent twitterer, my only hope is that he's wrong because he hasn't looked at out-of-the-box possibilities.

A long an interesting article about the (myth of?) the Long Tail, complete with rebuttal and re-rebuttal. Excerpt: "My research also answers the question, How much enjoyment is derived from obscure versus blockbuster products? We can all easily imagine the extreme delight that comes from discovering a rare gem, perfectly tailored to our interests and ours to bestow on likeminded friends. This is perhaps the most romanticized aspect of long-tail thinking. Many of us have experienced just such moments; they are what give Chris Anderson's claims such resonance. The problem is that for every industrial designer who blissfully stumbles across the films of Charles and Ray Eames, untold numbers of families are subjecting themselves to the likes of Sherlock: Undercover Dog."

Another post about reading print instead of on the internet. Researcher Dr. Amryanne Wolf ... "her intention was to describe the "miraculous" deep reading process. When it comes to reading, she said, "the point of it all is to take what you read and then think and infer and gain insight. It is really beyond what a lot of people think about as 'just' reading. It's deep thinking .. and it takes place in one hundred to two hundred milliseconds. Over the eight years that she was writing the book "I had a completely different world on my hands".

A list of links to scambaiters. Get to know your scammers, waste their time! I'll be sure to check those guys out.