I’m having an intensely busy week this week, but I’ll still (somehow!) find time to pop into Web Directions South this afternoon for Mark Pesce’s closing keynote “This, That and The Other Thing”. If you’re there, please say hello.
Links for 23 September 2008 through 25 September 2008
Stilgherrian’s links for 23 September 2008 through 25 September 2008, scrubbed up with a wire brush:
- Australia: Twitter statistics | Laurel Papworth: Twitter usage is up 518.12% in Australia, if you believe (1) that website traffic is the relevant metric, and (2) you can possibly measure this stuff to 5 significant figures.
- Wotnews Australian News Search: Wotnews used to be called Plugger, but they’re now associated with Wotif in some way. Wotnews harvests news from over 3500 different sources including mainstream publishers, niche blogs, direct from companies and government bodies as well as from the relentless stream of company announcements coming out of the Australian Stock Exchange.
- Tax Plans (that’s one for you, nineteen for me) | chartjunk: Viveka Weiley’s re-drawing of charts comparing John McCain and Barack Obama’s tax plans. The difference is pretty obvious.
- Text Messages Seen as Dangerously Distracting | NYTimes.com: “The act of texting automatically removes 10 I.Q. points” and many other scare-quotes.
Stilgherrian Live is tonight, but not from Webjam
Tonight’s Stilgherrian Live won’t be from Webjam 8, unfortunately, because I’m just way too over-committed to insert an outside broadcast into the schedule. I’ll try to make up for that by doing something… unusual. You have been warned.
Cnutful nominations for Episode 28?
Yes, it’s that time of the week, time to call for nominations for “Cnut of the Week” for tomorrow’s edition of Stilgherrian Live (9.30pm Thursdays Sydney time).
It’s the same rules as usual. We’re after people (or abstract forces of nature) who’ve been futilely trying to hold back the tide of digital change.
Who do you nominate, and why?
[Update 9am: It’s been pointed out to me that it’s not just digital change we’re talking about here, but any relentless tide of change.]
“Oh no! Leena’s fallen in the water!”
Actually, the sexiest woman in all Thailand, Leena Jangjanya (ลีนา จังจรรจา), fell into Bangkok’s polluted Khlong Saen Saeb (คลà¸à¸‡à¹à¸ªà¸™à¹à¸ªà¸š) canal while campaigning today. It’s more like sewage than water.
val told me a short time ago, but it’s being reported in Bangkok’s two leading English-language newspaper websites, The Nation and the Bangkok Post.
Leena reportedly fell from a boat near the Pratunam pier, but is unharmed. That is, until she gets the bad case of diarrhoea.
[P.S. Do not do a Google Images search for “leena” just by itself when safe search is turned off. You have been warned. However it’s nice to note that an image search for “leena jang” currently has four of my pages in the top 12.]
Live from Oz-IA/2008
This weekend I’m at the Oz-IA/2008 Information Architecture conference in Sydney.
We’re recording the sessions for distribution later. But, as far as possible, we’ll have a live video stream. Do feel free to pop by and have a chat. If it all dies in the arse I’ll be whingeing about it on my Twitter stream.