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So How Do You Find People on Twitter?

One of the benefits to spending time on Twitter is that it's a great way to network. But if you are new to Twitter, it can seem difficult to find people that are in your industry or that share your interests. Here's some tips to help get you started meeting new friends on Twitter!

Bird brains suggest how vocal learning evolved

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Study: Blog Reading Can Be Addictive

As someone that's checked the Drudge Report once an hour, every hour for the last 10 years of my life, I can certainly accept the idea that the sites I read and like has to do with habit, as opposed to just content. WSJ's BuzzWatch blog interviews two researchers Eric Baumer and Bill Tomlinson, both at UC-Irvine, on their new study about why and how people read the blogs that they read. Their argument: habit is key. But beyond that point, it's sort of hard to tell what implications to take. For one thing, the study was just conducted by monitoring 15 individuals all of them under-40 bloggers so it's hard to say that they got a representative population. And even though habit plays a big role on what and how people read, they acknowledged that there are still a lot of factors at play, in terms of why people read what they do, and how they

Poll: How do You Prefer Our RSS?

Ok, we need your help for a second, especially if you're an RSS subscriber. How do you prefer our RSS feed? Do you want to see just headlines, full articles, or are you content with how it is now (with the "read more" link after a few words)? The result of the poll will determine what we do with the feed going forward.

Blog Reading: Kind Of Like Getting A Nicotine Fix: Study

As someone who’s checked the Drudge Report once an hour, every hour for the last 10 years of my life, I can certainly accept the idea that the sites I read and like has to do with habit, as opposed to just content. WSJ’s BuzzWatch blog interviews two researchers Eric Baumer and Bill Tomlinson, both at UC-Irvine, on their new study about why and how people read the blogs that they read. Their argument: habit is key. But beyond that point, it’s sort of hard to tell what implications to take. For one thing, the study was just conducted by monitoring 15 individuals—all of them under-40 bloggers—so it’s hard to say that they got a representative population. And even though habit plays a big role on what and how people read, they acknowledged that there are still a lot of factors at play, in terms of why people read what they do, an

Why sites do redesigns

The BBC redesigned their site today (well, they launched their redesign) and they had some interesting comments about why they did the redesign and what it means for their site and their readers. As you may know, About.com is working on a redesign right now. We're doing an A/B test - so some people see the old design and some the new. Another way to do a redesign is to create an iterative redesign - this is how sites like Amazon add new features. How do you set up redesigns on your sites?

If I had a robot ...

So, if you had a robot, what would you want it to do for you? I'm sure you were just thinking about that very same question. If you are now asking yourself "How does this have anything to do with parenting?" let me ease your mind by blowing some smoke up your ... um, we parents are real busy people. The kind of people who need robots to do stuff for us.

Artists and places: engaging creative minds in regeneration

Why do so many new developments seem unimaginative and lack the qualities people enjoy in established places created in the past? And more importantly, what can we do about it? Artists & Places provides practical advice for clients and developers, drawing together the lessons learnt from PROJECT, a two-year scheme created by CABE and Arts & Business, in which artists were brought into the development process. Essays from prominent urban commentators explore why and how artists can make a difference, and six case studies demonstrate how the process works. An evaluation of the approach shows how value can accrue from engaging artists as development consultants.

Newest Metal Sculptures by David Buckingham: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

MMGalleries is proud to present the newest metal sculptures by David Buckingham. David Buckingham, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People opens on March 15 and runs through May 3, 2008. Buckingham's inspiration -- graffiti, snippets of dialogue overheard in office hallways, advertising, guns and their effect on the American psyche, the culture of celebrity (and celebrity guns), cartoons, movies -- have all sunk into his consciousness over the years and they are starting to make their way back out. In his first solo show at MMGalleries, David Buckingham reiterates all of it, together with his inclination for anything with a history. First he appropriates the title of Lenny Bruce's autobiography (who took it from a famous self-help book by Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People).

Griffin Elan Form Cork iPhone Case Review @ ThinkComputers

Griffin makes all kinds of products for iPods and the iPhone. An iPhone is quite an investment for most people, usually people do not spend more than $150 on a phone. I have seen so many people drop phones and have them break. I'm pretty sure if you bought a brand new $400 iPhone and dropped it you would be very upset, so why not protect your phone with a case. So many iPhone cases are the same but the Elan Form Cork case offers something different and unique.”

Podcast: Getting Around the Solar System

Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a spacecraft off the Earth and into space. And how managers at NASA can actually navigate a spacecraft to another planet? And how does a gravity assist work? And how do they get them into orbit? And how do they land? So many questions…

Setting Up Shop: A Checklist for New E-tailers

E-commerce has come a long way, baby, over the past 10 years or so, with prospective online business owners having more options than ever before when it comes to where and how to set up shop. In fact, there are so many choices — from where to register your domain name to who should host your site to how it looks to which shopping cart to use to how to optimize your site so the search engines and customers will find you — it's often hard know where to begin.

Can The DMCA Be Used To Stifle Speech?

Last summer, we wrote about a very questionable DMCA lawsuit filed by Coupons.com. The company lets people download coupons using its own software. The software is designed to limit how many copies of a coupon people can make. The company accused John Stottlemire of violating the anti-circumvention part of the DMCA by offering up some software that would help people get around the copy limit. However, he didn't just offer up software to do it, elsewhere he explained how you could do it manually, just by deleting a couple of files on your computer. That's hardly a "hack." There was no encryption to defeat, just some files to delete. Basically, Coupons.com couldn't be bothered to come up with a system that was actually secure and put in only the weakest of "protections.

How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers

cremou writes "As part of an Ars Technica series on how one developer migrated from Windows to OS X (and why), this second article concentrates on how Microsoft bungled the transition from XP to Vista. The author looks at some unfortunate decisions Microsoft made that have made Windows an unpleasant development platform. 'So Windows is just a disaster to write programs for. It's miserable. It's quite nice if you want to use the same techniques you learned 15 years ago and not bother to change how you do, well, anything, but for anyone else it's all pain... And it's not just third parties who suffer. It causes trouble for Microsoft, too. The code isn't just inconsistent and ugly on the outside; it's that way on the inside, too. There's a lot of software for Windows, a lot of business-critical software, that's not maintained any more.

Opinion: Why Do Good People Make Bad Games?

Opinion: Why Do Good People Make Bad Games? [04.11.08] In this editorial, originally published in the April issue of Game Developer magazine, Game Developer editor Brandon Sheffield wonders why people with passion, creativity and the best intentions end up making licensed games that... fail to make the grade.

Poll: How many colors do you prefer in your color palettes?

Color is a very subjective aspect of Web design. Colors that I like, you might hate. While colors that you find hideous may be the perfect colors for a specific job. But when you create a color palette for a website, you are creating the template for the entire site. So it's important to come up with a limited set of colors. But how many is too many or too few?

In the Field: Sony PMW-EX1

The perfect camera. That phrase means different things to different people, depending on whom you ask, the type of work they do, and how they’ve developed their workflow. How we decide what constitutes the perfect camera is usually determined by frustration with our current camera’s limitations and/or omissions. Typically, we find elements we like about certain cameras, but almost inevitably we find them lacking other features we desire. For instance, I loved the HD imagery of the Sony FX1 but found the 12x zoom limiting and was disappointed that it didn’t have progressive shooting modes. Naturally. I bought Sony V1Us when they came out because they addressed these issues with a 20x zoom lens and shot true 24 and 30p. However, because they had only 1/4" chips, their low-light performance was even worse than my FX1s’, which were ju

Wire Tap V20 is a master code slicer for the Decepticons. No matter how tough the encryption, no matter how tight the security, Wire Tap V20 will find a way through. He's a genius at compromising people's home computer systems.

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Wire Tap V20 is a master code slicer for the Decepticons. No matter how tough the encryption, no matter how tight the security, Wire Tap V20 will find a way through. He's a genius at compromising people's computer systems.

One of the most interesting toy lines to come out of the Transformers Movie toys has been the REAL GEAR ROBOTS. Although technically these characters were not featured in the movie, in a sense, they were implied.

Donkey Kong and Me

MBCook sends us to the blog of one Landon Dyer, who posted an entry the other day entitled Donkey Kong and Me. It describes how he was offered at job at Atari after writing a Centipede clone and ended up programming Donkey Kong for the Atari 800. It's full of detail that will be fascinating to anyone who ever programmed assembly language that had to fit into 16K, as well as portents of what was to come at Atari. "My first officemate didn't know how to set up his computer. He didn't know anything, it appeared. He'd been hired to work on Dig Dug, and he was completely at sea. I had to teach him a lot, including how to program in assembly, how the Atari hardware worked, how to download stuff, how to debug. It was pretty bad."

How Google Eats Its Own Dog Food, Or How Do You Actually *Use* All These Web Tools?

Sometimes it's hard to imagine how a small business might use all of today's Web-based tools and services.

Twitter Expands to Japan, Includes Ads

Popular social media network, Twitter, has announced its expansion to Japan. But this time, ads will be rolled out with the launch of the service. The Twitter blog said that users will see “media from two clients.� So far, it seems as though the Japanese ads are display ads placed on the Twitter site, while rumors of contextual ad testing in the US have creeped up on blogs in recent weeks.

Scientists find genetic variations linked to cigarette addiction, lung cancer

WASHINGTON: Why do some 90-year-old chain smokers avoid lung cancer, while other people who smoke far less wind up dying of the disease? How can some people light up now and then without getting hooked, while others are addicted practically from their first puffs?

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