Recent posts: May, 2008


Today’s example of maddeningly vague language

If you’re like me and find the New York Times News Quiz application on Facebook to be a great way to confirm your elitism and general hoity-toity-ness, you probably saw the third question in today’s quiz:
Question 3 of 5: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won a strong victory over Senator Barack Obama in Tuesday’s primary in […]

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Posted by Chris on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Future Of Social Networks

Plenty of blogosphere and media commentary over the past couple of days about the big three social networks (Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn) and their ongoing struggles to convert their millions of users into hard cash. Opinion falls into two camps - those who think it’s only a matter of time before the networks start generating […]

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Posted by Jeremy on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Food deserts in urban areas

Smart Mobs ran a great piece recently on urban food deserts—vast areas in urban environments where food is virtually non-existent or at the very least difficult to find. This interested me greatly as I have long held the opinion that no one will move back to downtown Detroit—despite huge expenditures on trendy lofts and entertainment […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Monday, May 12th, 2008

Obama Bigger Than God

Talking of Google Trends. Interesting to note that God is bigger than Jesus, Clinton, and McCain but none of them can hold a, ahem, candle to Obama. I’ll leave it up to our readers to figure out how Jeremiah Wright stacks up in the scheme of things.

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Posted by Jeremy on Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Drunk vs. Sober

Have you tried out Facebook Lexicon? Fun and useful, new tool. Like Google Trends or BlogPulse, it aggregates the occurrences up to five terms, trended by volume over time. What’s unique is the data source: The comments left on Facebook Walls.
A nifty slider makes narrowing a date range much faster than clicking on a […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Saturday, May 10th, 2008