Cloudy Thinking

Flatworld a startup open textbook publishing company. I like this idea a LOT.

Brian Carroll writes How to use social media for lead generation. Maybe there is some tangible benefit from using social media. [smile]

Ann Handley writes Why Do People Use Twitter? It’s well worth your time to read.

(more…)

Jennifer Van Grove compares 15 Twitter directories.

(more…)

After a run of 35 years, the famous Santa Barbara Writers Conference is taking a one-year hiatus. The reason: Not enough writers signed up for the event, even though 450 people attended last year. Registration for the conference was $675 this year, or $875 after March. In Santa Barbara, Lodging and food for six days would more than double that amount.

(more…)

Seth Grimes writes about open source text analytics, focusing on four tools: Gate, NLTK, R and RapidMiner.

(more…)

Brett Glass has written Ensuring Effective Broadband Stimulus, An analysis of the broadband-related provisions of the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009. The PDF is here.

(more…)

Who can claim that social media does not improve the quality of our lives? Click here if you are hungry for news via Twitter about Governor of Illinois Rod R. Blagojevich who allegedly tried to sell a US Senate seat. Or maybe you wish to follow the activities of Drew Peterson, accused of murdering a wife or three.

The Book of Common Prayer has a Facebook page with 1,824 fans (as of January 6, 2009). This is an unusual, innovative way to use social networking. [via Fr. Warren Hicks]

Dell sends me special offers via email maybe once a week. Today for only $419 I configured a sweet desktop PC. It was pretty cool: Core 2 system with lots of memory, fast front side bus, 250 GB 7200 rpm hard disk and best of all included a 22 inch LCD monitor. I even spent $10 extra to have both a DVD writer and separate DVD reader.

(more…)

Gregory F. Treverton writes in Foreign Policy about The Secret Briefing Obama Needs on Day One. Good stuff.

(more…)

Howard Lindzen says of economic, business and stock commentary:

(more…)