Want to see all of the data we have reported? Here's all the data we've covered over the last two years, that's almost 600 spreadsheets linked from one spreadsheet

"(..) This shows where the real money is. Not in quality reporting, but more in a product for a massive audience that translates into eyeballs (what a term) that, in turn, will be monetized — especially if you add a good layer of software algorithms to the product. (..)"

research also seems to support Ms. Boyd’s contention that social media “mirrors and magnifies” our social divisions, rather than removes them. “We can use technology as a tool to connect with people, but we can’t assume that it will eliminate all of the serious issues we have to face in this country,” Ms. Boyd said at PDF. “Pervasive social stratification is being reified in a new era.

The world of the classroom is so unlike anything the real world has to offer – with the exception of other classrooms – that kids can excel at school only to find themselves utterly lost in the real world. Some people think this is the result of failed schooling, but a few of us suspect otherwise. We suspect that this sense of displacement and confusion is actually the result of schooling that succeeds in its most basic unwritten objective: to keep you dependent, timid, worried, nervous, compliant, and afraid of the World. To keep you waiting. To keep you manageable. To keep you helpless. To keep you small. Educated, confident, creative people are dangerous to the status quo, dangerous to a centralized economy, dangerous to a centralized system of command and control. Those in power don’t want you educated. They want you schooled.

At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining.

I think that there's something to be said for how today's youth are thinking differently than their parent's generation. But I don't think that it's simply "caused" by new technologies. I think that we're living in a society that has different priorities and I think that multi-tasking is more deeply prioritized than sustained attention by professional circles today. I think that we are being trained to be "creative" thinkers rather than productive doers and I think that this means that we are encouraged to draw connections between new things. I think that we are living in an environment that is structurally divided and that sociality is increasingly mediated. But I don't think that the technology is to blame. I would argue that we're addicted to our friends, not the computer.

The one major idea behind the Del.icio.us Lesson is that personal value precedes network value. What this means is that if we are to build networks of value, then each person on the network needs to find value for themselves before they can contribute value to the network. In the case of Del.icio.us, people find value saving their personal bookmarks first and foremost. All other usage is secondary.

WattzOn gives you tools to track your energy consumption, compare it to others' and understand its consequences in order to discover how to reduce your role in climate change.

Privacy is often mistaken for secrecy, which it is not. Secrecy is the impossible task to totally conceal sets of information; it can work for awhile, but ultimately, the data gets out. Organizations like governments, corporations, and peer groups continue to utilize secrecy because it sometimes serves short-term goals. I don't think anyone expects it to be perfect, or even remotely near perfect, or last forever. Privacy, on the other hand, is the ability to control the use of your information. It isn't about keeping it from everyone -- and here's where we get obvious -- for that would make communication impossible.

In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance. "A statistically significant difference" simply means there is statistical evidence that there is a difference; it does not mean the difference is necessarily large, important, or significant in the common meaning of the word.

People are calling Google Chrome a "Web Operating System" and a "Cloud Operating System". Some are even calling it a Windows killer. I think it's time to nip this horseshit in the bud, before it gets out of hand.

Chrome incorporates many of the sandboxing techniques developed by GreenBorder to protect its users. It is no longer possible for the modules that parse HTML and run Javascript to compromise the entire system. Google Chrome’s design is also reminiscent of the OP Browser (available here), which locks down browser components to prevent system-wide exploitation.

GovTrack.us is a tool for you to keep tabs on the U.S. Congress. Use our feeds or research pending and past legislation. GovTrack is a community & open source project.

Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning "open source" move

"So what I did is I modified the SocialHistory JS so that it polled the browser to find out which of the Quantcast top 10k sites were visited. I then apply the ratio of male to female users for each site and with some basic math determine a guestimate of your gender." - Social web engineering, wtf!

Shirky distils his observations of passive and interactive activities into a general principle: "It’s better to do something than to do nothing." But Stephenson makes the case that both activities have their place. Sometimes switching off your brain and w

Follow the Oil Money is an interactive tool that tracks the flow of oil money in US politics.

What follows below is the kind of research Jeff Atwood should have done in preparation of giving that money. What I think would have been most useful to Jeff is researching what has already been done, though I suppose he's not got time for such trivial th

Google is clearly favoring Knol content over content from older, more highly linked sites on the Web. I won't bother with the question of whether Google is doing this on purpose or whether this is some innocent mistake. The important question is "What are

Europe's demographic developments will strongly influence the future of the continent.

Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that's composed of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X'ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X. As the Boomers fade into retire

If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened--ri

Who sent you the most email messages last year? What hour of the day do you receive the most new messages? Which of all the mailing lists you're on are the most active? A new command line tool called Mail Trends works with Gmail over IMAP and can give you

We don't need 'leadership' or 'leaders'. What we need is experimenters.The way to create working models that work better than the dysfunctional ones we have now, in a complex system where no one is in control and no one has the answers, is to try things.

To blame all the woes of the music industry on illegal downloads is poppycock. It's time for some new thinking

Henk Blanken vervolgt zijn blogserie over de transitie van massamedia-consument naar infoclan-consument. We maken deel uit van netwerken, en zijn minder makkelijk te bereiken door de steeds bredere media-markt.

Until the development of water and wind power, humanity burned carbon-based fuels like wood and coal to power our civilization. These very same fuels are now polluting the air and water with heavy metals, ozone pollution, and acid rain.

"No, not to be funny and snarky, but to be bold and to do a better job of cutting through the fog."

BlogPulse Trend Search allows you to create graphs that visually track "buzz" over time for certain key words, phrases or links. Compare search terms/links in isolation, or use all three fields to compare search terms/links against others.

"Over the last six months, i've noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That's only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it's not a shift so much as a fragmentation

Link Spice allows you to "tag" your links with campaigns and terms enabling you to track incoming clicks from ad campaigns, newsletters, emailings and any other form of external link you have control over.

Google Analytics has tons of features that could fill a series of articles, but today I'll just point out a few of the useful ones that can help you improve your web site and find out more about your visitors.