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Unpolished short posts, statuses, tweets, links, videos, and brief thoughts.
Why do I have to choose?
I find it so frustrating I have to make this choice. I am a Brit, living in Canada, who consumes a mix of content from the Americas, Europe and elsewhere. I don't want to restrict what DVDs I can play. Like the geo-restriction of TV content, which I wrote about earlier, this is just another example of how the technology infrastructure of the 90s and early 2000s has failed to catch up with the reality of the global village we live in today.
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How to split up the USA using Facebook data
This is really interesting… Someone has analysed Facebook data to discover which parts of the USA are most connected to each other. Based on what little I know of the USA, these clusters do seem to represent the different cultural divides within the country. It’s amazing what you can find from social network data.
Make sure you check out the application too, which lets you see which countries are most connected, what their favourite celebrities/topics are, and their most common names.
Update: This article on ReadWriteWeb is well worth a read too, and explores the subject in more depth.
http://www.bitcurrent.com/why-you-should-let-your-computer-spy-on-you
Discussing how we can help computers to help us if we share more information with them
Read MoreA different take on Apple iPad and the Apple Ecosystem
.. Thought-provoking. The downside of buying into the Apple ecosystem. More discussion on digg. More info about the Defective By Design organisation here.
What on earth is wrong with the BBC News website?
I just logged onto BBC News and this is what I got… Character encoding problem? Hackers? Bizarre.
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