Cloudy Thinking

Jenna Wortham writes about Staying Informed Without Drowning in Data. Nothing earthshaking, but she shares several useful insights.

Larry Dignan explains how Helpstream migrated its customer relationship manager (CRM) computing infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (EC2 and S3).

Jim Bishop started building his castle in 1960. He’s built the massive structure by himself, with donations. Is he a nutcase? Maybe, but this is one fun video. [Be aware, it has a few F-bombs].

David K. Israel has pictures of 18 phone keypad arrangements that AT&T showed to focus groups, back in the day. Worth a look. [via Scott Berkun]

Here’s a handy (long!) list of free screen capture tools and web services.

“Wireless devices will be the primary means of connecting to the Internet for most people worldwide in 2020, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.”

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Mike Johnson used the Tom Sawyer fence painting trick and convinced his readers to contribute to a list of Twitter related services.

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Greasemetal is to Google Chrome as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. I’ve started playing with Chrome, but have not yet adopted it my go-to browser. How about you? [via Vlad Bobleanta]

TrackThis uses Twitter to deliver FedEx etc. package tracking info. [via OffBeatMammal] Note the URL is usetrackthis.com. Easy to forget the “use” — oh well.

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Robert Frank’s photography remains fresh and vivid. Several good Robert Frank resources.

Kosmix is an interesting take on search. Very different than Google. Try it.

Slydial enabes you to send a voice message to any mobile phone. Their site gives several examples of why you might choose to be sly and avoid talking “live” with someone. For example:

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