News Aggregators sans Tech

I love human powered news aggregators. For my dose of entertainment news I look at Drew Curtis’s Fark.com and Jason Kottke instead of Digg. If I’m exploring new topics I turn towards Guy Kawasaki’s “online magazine rack” Alltop instead of the leading blog directories – Not even Googles.
To get my local fix I can always [...]

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Marketing terms in the digital landscape

Buzz / Conversation = Number of comments
Conversation of visitors into leads = Conversation rate
Credibility = Links to the site
Engagement = Duration of visit
Intertextuality and future intentions = Where they click next
Reach = Number of unique visitors
Reputation = Pagerank
Stickiness = Return visits

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If poor people worked they wouldn’t be poor anymore would they?

In Singapore, the average monthly household income from work per household member for the bottom 10% with the lowest income this year is SGD$310 (USD$211.33). This represents approximately 459,000 Singaporeans. (PDF via Singstats)
At the same time Singaporeans have donated at least $23 million for the tragedies in Myanmar and China. (PDF via New Creation)
Turns out [...]

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Free software inside

The University of Washington has released a free software to track if your laptop is stolen. If the computer comes with a built-in camera, it will even send you a photo of the perpetrator at the keyboard.
Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a [...]

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Hello, World

Welcome to day one of this blog. No longer are you at the mercy of the mainstream media to get your healthy dose of intellectual stimuli. Be prepared to be, stimulated, intellectually. Ok. Well, I have absolutely no clue where this is headed.
On the other hand, I hope to center this blog around the topics [...]

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