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links for 2009-07-02

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Are You Going to San Francisco
Mat Honan's excellent advice for wannabe San Franciscans.
(tags: sanfrancisco)

links for 2009-06-26

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Kevin Meredith Photography
My photographer friend Lomokev has a new site up using a familiar theme.
(tags: lomokev deposkinny)

Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces by Gayla Trail
My friend Gayla Trail's book about gardening in small spaces is coming out soon. It's gonna be great.
(tags: gardening books GaylaTrail)

Nikol Knows – Milwaukee Magazine
Fray author Nikol Hasler [...]

links for 2009-06-24

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Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab
More on the Guardian's crowdsourced journalism project. (And, of course, it was done by Simon Willison – hi Simon!)
(tags: crowdsourcing community journalism)

links for 2009-06-19

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Investigate your MP's expenses
This is brilliant. The Guardian is using Wisdom of Crowds techniques to crowdsource a political investigation. Open-source journalism. Bravo.
(tags: journalism wisdomofcrowds)

links for 2009-05-28

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Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen – When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink – Companies, Customers and Twitter
Heh. To be fair, I was just making a funny. I think it's great that companies are using Twitter to take care of their customers. It's just too bad they're not paying more attention to the customers that come [...]

links for 2009-05-27

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Fray Issue 1 featured in FPO
(tags: fray fpo)

links for 2009-05-23

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Derek Powazek – The Wisdom of Communities
Webstock just put its video of me doing my Wisdom of Community talk online. I've given this talk a few times since then and interesting (to me, anyway) to see how it has evolved.
(tags: "wisdom of crowds" derekpowazek video community)

links for 2009-05-14

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Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat
This both confuses and delights me.
(tags: video weird)

Elliott Burford illustrates spam headlines
I LOLed.
(tags: illustration spam)

links for 2009-05-02

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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
More on the SPE.
(tags: study psychology community)

Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters … or heroes | Video on TED.com
The Stanford Prison Experiment should be required reading for anyone designing community software.
(tags: community evil zimbardo study video)

links for 2009-04-30

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How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood: Scientific American
Dim light helps you open up, bright light helps you stay alert. Same goes for web design.
(tags: design study)