Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

The Ecology of Blog Posts

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

 ChartWhen I hit “Publish” on my blog editor something interesting happens. Well, lots of things happen actually and  Matthew Hurst, an artificial intelligence researcher who studies this ecosystem at Microsoft Live Labs, has mapped the process in a sexy little chart. Here’s how the whole process goes down during “the big game”.While some of this is fairly obvious if you sat down and thought about it, it’s still pretty interesting  to look at. And the cool Flash chart is a great design. Make sure you check out the dataminer’s website as well.Link (via Wired)

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Scoble on Bono on Friedman on YouTube on Qik in Davos

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Robert Scoble, in a meta moment on Qik, records “sort of” rockstar Bono recording himself on YouTube. Bono talks about fighting extreme poverty and climate change for the Davos Conversation, then quotes Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat) by saying “Don’t change light bulbs, change your leaders.”Bono on YouTube (see Scoble top left)

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