December 2010
5 posts
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““The general idea is that it’s absolutely threatening to admit you’re wrong,”...”
– Are We Too Dumb for Democracy? The Logic Behind Self-Delusion | Personal Health | AlterNet
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“Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the...”
– Are We Too Dumb for Democracy? The Logic Behind Self-Delusion | Personal Health | AlterNet
I’ve heard this expressed as idea/theory, but I don’t think I’ve seen any empirical evidence for it until this story. In any case, this has profound implications for anyone doing...
MarshallK on the Death of Delicious
it’s a loss for the future - for what could have been. Five years later, people are just beginning to appreciate the value of passively published user activity data made available for analysis, personalization and more. That could have been you, Delicious.
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There are so, so many things that a simple service like Delicious was good for, saving things for reading later just being one...
Infographic: The Facebook Map of the World →
Via @timoreilly and Co.Design’s Cliff Kuang, a map of the connections between 2 percent of Facebook users:
Quote from Paul Butler, the intern who created this:
What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while traveling, a family member...