"... no longer needed to be shown the hollow hypocrisy of the bourgeois social order or whatever." <em>Or whatever</em>

"iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems."

"The author finds that users are shifting from more traditional 'authority' methods of credibility determination, where users cede determinations to trusted third parties, to a 'reliability' approach where users seek commonalities and coherence among multiple information sources. This has led to an increased pressure for participation and openness at all levels of the internet."

Compare any two terms used on Twitter, such as: Zenyatta (legendary, beautiful), Rachel Alexandra (fast, perfect).

Newspaper page searches (goes through 1922).

"He pulled away from the fast traveling Hoodwink as a great horse should ..." (Lawrence Realization)

"Here's a list of a few wild ideas we had for using Wave ..." Particularly like the possibility of connecting Google Voice with Wave to record and archive interviews.

"This flourishing ecosystem of startups is just one sign that scientific publishing is moving from being a production industry to a technology industry. A second sign of this move is that the nature of information is changing."

Search scanned DRFs from the 1890s through the 1980s. Partial resource, ongoing project, helpful to racing history buffs. (Via @colinsghost)

Site adds a subscription research service. “What the blogs were to traditional media, we hope this will be to the research firms.”

Re: new OpenX system: "Along with buying on specific Web sites, Cadogan says that ad buyers will be able to use third-party data on Web users' personal interest, browsing history and demographics to find desirable segments of readers across all publishers participating in the market."

Aesthetics matter; appearance affects usability. What web designers have long believed has now been proven.

See Big Brown (Race Horse), etc. A great example of how to organize and make useful a massive collection of archives.

Popularity of search queries in US states.

"What's offered is qualitative analysis of search results through more intelligent filtering than is available in any other tool I know of."