Bruce Sterling's Blog

http://www.comscore.com/blog/2009/04/twitter_traffic_explodes.html

"Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend. More specifically, 45-54 year olds are 36 percent more likely than average

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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/04/kindle-readers.html

What's the right price for an e-book? No more than $10, says a group of Amazon Kindle e-book owners — and they have found a novel way to make themselves heard.

Some 250 Kindle readers are using Amazon's own book-tagging system to mark e-books priced more than $10 with the tag '9 99 boycott'. Their argument: A Kindle book is more restricted in its use than a paper book and therefore should not cost as much.

"It just doesn't seem right,"

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http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/22/an-introduction-to-global-warming-impacts-hell-and-high-water/

*I'm not asking you to do anything in particular; just don't moan and whine that nobody
ever told you about this.

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http://www.wired.it/news/archivio/2009-04/06/sei-celebrity-chef-creano-mini-ricette-in-formato-twitter-.aspx

*Buon tweetin' appetito to a doubting world.

Ma è possibile scrivere ricette più sofisticate in meno di 140 caratteri, ovvero nel formato Twitter? Altrochè. Ecco perché Wired.it ha deciso di lanciare una sfida.

Abbiamo contattato alcuni degli chef più importanti d’Italia e abbiamo chiesto loro di mandarci delle mini-prelibatezze in meno di 140 battute.

In esclusiva per i nostri

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*"It has an orbit kind of shaped like a kidney, and I'm also a fan of moving cities..."

*As for fans of science fiction on conventional commercial television,
these aging wretches can't die and get buried fast enough:

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/04/star-trek-burie.html

"Now, Eternal Image has signed a deal with Paramount and CBS to distribute Star Trek-themed urns and coffins. Soon, you can be buried in a full-size re-creation of the torpedo tube (above) used to launch Spock's c

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*Nice "social intelligence embedded in urban objects" riff.

http://vimeo.com/2860274

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

*Maybe the theorists are right, and viral video really IS gonna kick the ass of commercial television. I just blogged two classic pieces of viral video here, while my commercial television has empty hand-wringing about the recent Italian earthquake.

*I get it that earthquakes are terrific human tragedies requiring news coverage, but inste

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*Via Core77. I especially like the embedded soundtrack and the acts of
hackerly recursion on the Rube Goldberg assembly line.

*Obviously everybody and his sister is gonna link to this guy's cutesy
viral-entertainment here, but what the hell, bring on that monolithic
block of eyeballs. That was hard work.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/gifter-in-chief.html

Gifter-in-Chief? Michelle Obama gives Carla Bruni a Guitar

April 05, 2009 8:07 AM

From Sunlen Miller and Yunji de Nies

Much has been said about the Obama’s gift giving recently. The Queens Ipod, the DVDs given to Gordon Brown after his visit to the White House.

But Michelle Obama may have struck the right cord (((that's "chord"))) with her gift to her newest friend, Carla Bruni -Sarkozy.

After meeting the wife of

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*Hmm. Looks like I'd better pick up this Shedroff book and read it.

*I don't have THAT many books stacking up, come on.

http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/design_is_the_problem_an_interview_with_nathan_shedroff_13049.asp

(...)

"Shedroff: (...) The last third of the book is all about design strategies. There are about 12 strategies that designers of all types can put into practice immediately, on any project, to make it more sustainable. I've organized these under the fa

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http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/

1. Robotics. This is probably the most well-known of these, since Isaac Asimov is famous for (among many other things) his three laws of robotics. Even so, I include it because it is one of the only actual sciences to have been first named in a science fiction story (”Liar!”, 1941). Asimov also named the related occupation (roboticist) and the adjective robotic. (((I wonder why this entry does not mention Josef and Karel Capek. Strange.)))

2.

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