Welcome, again, to another entirely subjective selection of 15 links, humanely culled from my week's online reading and roughly collated under the seven broad categories seen below:
Selected Highlights from Guardian Technology (Because otherwise I just don't get around to reading it now it's no longer in the print edition).
Why the internet isn't as important as we think it is, according to economist Ha-Joon Chang.
The interactive datamap that investigates and charts the growth of Twitter.
Social Innovation Camp: hacking to make the world a better place.
Guardian Tech is a newspaper supplement, again - online.
Social Media
We are all bloggers now, blogging has taken over the world, according to The Independent.
Diaspora - an open-source, privacy-aware alternative to Facebook - to launch on 15th September.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
JotSpeak: audio networking for writers. (More info at The Compulsive Reader.)
3-Day Novel Contest: for those who think a month is just too long, presumably?
Wylie Agency and Random House reach ebook truce; Wylie now in negotiations with Penguin.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
Jolicloud: the free, cloud-based netbook operating system is now in version 1.0 and available to all.
The Polyglot Project: improve your language skills, read foreign literature online with a built-in translation tool. (Has a few flaws, at this early stage, but worth keeping an eye on).
Music
Pitchfork's Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s - and, over the coming week, a countdown of the Top 200 Tracks.
Games & Other Distractions
YouTube UK now has free full-length movies - er, quite a mixed bag at present, though, I think it's fair to say...
Miscellaneous
TIME Magazine's '50 Best Websites 2010'.
The Future of the Internet, as predicted by Smashing Magazine.
Selected Highlights from Guardian Technology (Because otherwise I just don't get around to reading it now it's no longer in the print edition).
Why the internet isn't as important as we think it is, according to economist Ha-Joon Chang.
The interactive datamap that investigates and charts the growth of Twitter.
Social Innovation Camp: hacking to make the world a better place.
Guardian Tech is a newspaper supplement, again - online.
Social Media
We are all bloggers now, blogging has taken over the world, according to The Independent.
Diaspora - an open-source, privacy-aware alternative to Facebook - to launch on 15th September.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
JotSpeak: audio networking for writers. (More info at The Compulsive Reader.)
3-Day Novel Contest: for those who think a month is just too long, presumably?
Wylie Agency and Random House reach ebook truce; Wylie now in negotiations with Penguin.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
Jolicloud: the free, cloud-based netbook operating system is now in version 1.0 and available to all.
The Polyglot Project: improve your language skills, read foreign literature online with a built-in translation tool. (Has a few flaws, at this early stage, but worth keeping an eye on).
Music
Pitchfork's Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s - and, over the coming week, a countdown of the Top 200 Tracks.
Games & Other Distractions
YouTube UK now has free full-length movies - er, quite a mixed bag at present, though, I think it's fair to say...
Miscellaneous
TIME Magazine's '50 Best Websites 2010'.
The Future of the Internet, as predicted by Smashing Magazine.
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