i know it seems like i've got @github on the brain, but think about it. "The Future of Open Data Looks Like…Github?":

"Why hasn't this been done? It hasn't been done because there is no general understanding that it can be done or no confidence that the research would reach an accurate result. We're in the process now of building confidence in our work process, up to the level at which people naturally think to ask for our input."

"But is this explosion of prose good, on a technical level? Yes. Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago.

so this is why i keep losing arguments to the lawyer

unclear on why people got so fired up about this, given the anecdotal nature. it's an interesting datapoint, but it's just a datapoint.

"Telecommuting's foes couldn't be more misguided. When gasoline costs $4 a gallon, companies shouldn't just be doing all they can to expand telecommuting — they should be scrapping their offices entirely. No, not turning them into toy-filled communal spaces, as advertising titan Chiat/Day infamously did in the early-'90s, but abandoning them outright."

good to see. not that it will make any difference in the RIAA's thinking - they continue to prove themselves fundamentally unable to learn and adjust - but still, good to see.

according to this formula, i'm wicked noisy

i know a small horde of people that suffer from this

"Our vision is to enable one person to invent and run the next revolutionary IT service, operationally expressing a new business idea as a multi-million-user service over the course of a long weekend." - good luck with that. still, interesting.

filed under: "not shocking"

"Airport security lines can annoy passengers, but there is no evidence that they make flying any safer, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday." - i'm not exactly shocked at this news. it's security theater, nothing more, to assuage the easily impressed

filed under "things i'm not surprised about"

need to check this out in more detail, but it seems what Mr. Rose and co have put together is likely to be of interest for artists

interesting follow up look at influence and the industry analyst market

i know these "three-to-five" year things have a history of not panning out, but still, this is cool.

hilariousness, from Senor Shankland

interesting research behind teams and success factors

what is the purpose of this? i know MSFT has no love for the GPLv3, but funding this kind of study? it's ridiculous. MSFT might want to weigh the expected benefit versus the expected cost

"Awareness of virtualization...jumped to...83% from 62% by SMBs." 83% of SMBs are aware of virtualization? then why do i have to keep explaining it to them?

why we don't do commissioned work, in a nutshell

a partial explanation of why Second Life is interesting; still can't say that i get it, but this helps

if you thought the Facebook privacy stuff was bad, give this a read: warning - it's *definitely* not safe for work, very graphic stuff - if i had to bet, i think the "researcher" will be sued

i had the opportunity to meet Tessa at Mashup Camp during a session on email mashups, and she's very sharp, but more importantly - willing to be creative; will be following her work at IBM

very interesting numbers breakdown (via Mike)

no surprise here, i agree w/ O'Reilly and Barr

very important, very good essay from Alex: if you just read one linked feed of mine today, read this one

session on standards at the Berkman center

very cool; can think of a bunch of ways to use this

makes me glad we don't do numbers

leigimate question; my answer? we're all biased in some form or fashion, the key instead is transparency

Yahoo's equiv of Google Labs (via m040601)

new ZDNet research center; i'm a bit skeptical at the moment