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• Visualization from IBM researcher
  Great visualization and you can upload your own data
  (tags: analysis data IBM visualization)

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• Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
  Good stuff, to understand how the web works.
  (tags: article architecture w3c standards rest reference)

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I have become addicted to twitter. There is something about twitter that makes me feel like I am ease dropping on other peoples conversations. At times the bits of conversation I gather are informative and interesting, other times they are nothing but non sequiturs and noise. It’s the latter that drives me nuts. I have commented that twitter is a means of distributing the awareness of the future that has already occurred. I still believe that to be true but I also believe that titter will also go the way of every other common space.

This is why:
There exists within twitter an asymmetry that favors the so called “A” List. I don’t know that I believe the whole “A” list BS but I do believe that there exists a group of people that exploit the herd that follows them on twitter. Jason Calacanis provides a classic example by putting up his “You Should Follow” posts. With this request he creates an audience for the person he recommends (I wonder if he charges for this, I bet Scoble does.). At the same time the audience gets limited value. The recommended person now can send endless plugs for their start-up, book, service, ect.. to no end. At the same time the person following the recommended gets little or no attention from the person Jason just pimped. In my book it is all about quid pro quo, tit for tat. I search for those that interest me and I try to provide some interesting and valuable bits.

In the case of the so called “A” List it’s all one way and it isn’t in your favor.

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• IBM HTTP Server Questions and Answers
  IBM HTTP Server 2.0 and above is essentially limited by the amount of memory. You can configure up to 20,000 threads per child process, and configure up to 20,000 child processes, for an overall limit of 400,000,000.
  (tags: ihs ibm faq tuning config)

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• Here’s the proof: Strategic IT enables business success
  (tags: Architecture CIO it)
• Music Video: Back in Black by Wing
  (tags: acdc video back-in-black wing music)

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• How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients - ReadWriteWeb
  An intersting look at some of the data you can gather from twitter usage.
  (tags: analysis apps data statistics web2.0 twitter)

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• 2.009 Product Engineering Processes: Archimedes
  really fun stuff at MIT
  (tags: article history science)

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• Centre for Technology Management
  The Centre for Technology Management (CTM) focuses on helping managers to make the most appropriate use of current and future technological resources.
  (tags: innovation research)

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• Seth’s Blog: Labor Day
  
  ure, you’re working long, but “long” and “hard” are now two different things. In the old days, we could measure how much grain someone harvested or how many pieces of steel he made. Hard work meant more work. But the past doesn’t lead to the future.
  (tags: gtd work)

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