be 'Proactively Nice'
Operation NICE[minor details]Don't you love it when people go out of their way to be nice? Like when someone waits to hold the door for you. Or when a stranger waves you into a line a traffic. Or even when a coworker shoots you a friendly smile along with a "have a nice day." If everyone was a little bit nicer to the folks they encountered each day, perhaps the world would be a more pleasant place. Operation NICE was initiated to remind you that a little NICE goes a long way.
rediscovered this morning...
Some Photographs of That DayBackground information at Wikipedia:
Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956 - October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979 and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid camera.
'social knowledge'
Panmind – "Knowledge sharing, online collaboration and social networking: three big potentials of the Web in a single platform."'a step closer'
Toward the Semantic WebIf the current Web is like a giant text file - which you can search for instances of particular words – the Semantic Web would be like a database, where every item of information is categorized, and new queries can combine categories in any imaginable way. You could, for instance, search the Web for a restaurant within a mile of a railway station in a town with a theater that offers vegetarian lasagna and at least one lamb dish. And if you wanted the restaurant’s menu, you could pull up just the menu – not page after page of review sites that happened to use the word "menu."
live traffic cam datasets
TfL Live Traffic Cameras | London DataStore (see usage example) [Simon Willison]an homage to letters
Interesting Letterhead Designs | Letterheady[Rick Chlopan < Bruce Arthur]Much like its sibling, Letterheady is an online homage to offline correspondence; specifically letters. However, here at Letterheady we don't care about the letter's content. Just its design.
another hyperlocal effort
Raise the HammerRaise the Hammer is a group of Hamilton, Ontario citizens who believe in our city's potential and are willing to get involved in making the city a more vibrant, livable, and attractive place to live and work.
'subverts the profit model'
One Hour Photo – "Photographic works will be projected for one hour each, after which they will never be seen again, by anyone, in any form."'relaxation and liberalization'
Canon to begin acquisition of the ".canon" Top-Level Domain name [Surfstation]bravo for saying it
Advertising is devastating to my well-being[dotcoma]I run my own website(s) at a loss specifically because I'd rather pay out of my own pocket than force people to look at ads. Admittedly my sites are so small that it's not much money. But there you have it. If I had to generate revenue to keep my sites going, I would find a way other than advertising to do it. Or I'd shut them down.
learning aid prototype
Noteput – "An interactive music table with tangible notes, that helps students to learn the notation of music."on 'Google and its partners'
- Google Click Fraud Inflates Conversion Rates and Tricks Advertisers into Overpaying (January 12, 2010)
- Google Still Charging Advertisers for Conversion-Inflation Traffic from WhenU Spyware (January 5, 2010 - Updated, January 7, 2010)
- How Google and Its Partners Inflate Measured Conversion Rates and Inflate Advertisers' Costs (May 13, 2009)
which comes first
Excessive internet use is linked to depressionOur research indicates that excessive internet use is associated with depression, but what we don't know is which comes first - are depressed people drawn to the internet or does the internet cause depression?
'impersonal and irrelevant'
Zach Klein: "I liked the Internet better when it was nebulous, and now I’m depressed that it shaping up to be a social pyramid."'resisting the temptation'
NegativityIt’s incredibly hard to ignore the toxic whirlwinds of negativity that crop up all the time in online communities...
