A Thousand Splendid Reasons For Audiobooks

01.07.2008

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How many books do you read per month nowadays?
Two? One? Half a book?
If you’re a busy professional, perhaps not even that?
I’ve always found reading to be an essential part of personal development. Not blogs - I mean the normal, in-depth, catch every word - not just the headlines - reading ;).
Over the past [...]

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Genes, Memes and Teme Machines

09.06.2008

An absolutely fascinating talk by Susan Blackmore about memes and “temes” and the way they control our everyday life by “having” to survive. A must-see.

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Woopra - Live Web Analytics and More?

03.06.2008

I got my Woopra private beta login today and I’m impressed!
Woopra is an installable (Windows, Linux and Mac) application that displays web site analytics in real time, like a real (and beautifully designed) web general’s HUD.

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Odiogo Turns A Blog Into A Podcast

31.05.2008

Of course there is more to a podcast than just words turned into audio (as you can clearly discover by listening to these fine examples) -
but Odiogo does a very good job of creating MP3 versions of your blog posts and posting them for your readers to play - either on the website itself or [...]

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Phoenix Mars Landing Live

26.05.2008

In about 5 minutes, Mars lander Phoenix is going to attempt to land on the surface of Mars.
The event is being broadcast live at a number of museum events and at NASA TV here.
Here is a live blog from mission control (also following @MarsPhoenix on Twitter).

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Disqus Lets The Conversation Flow

23.05.2008

I’ve just added the Disqus Wordpress plugin to this blog.
Disqus is an interesting application that lets visitors track replies to comments via RSS and even take the conversations across multiple blogs, following trackbacks to your posts and their respective commenters.
Here is my discussion page.

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An Elastic Flash Game

23.05.2008

Sling Jumper - an ingeniously simple and effective Flash game concept.
Crappy graphics, no sound and zero story line - but certainly great gameplay.
Use LEFT and RIGHT to move the ball bouncing off the elastics.

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