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).
The Guardian's editor on the future of the fourth estate, and the launch of a new series of Comment is Free long-form blogs.
The internet is not ruining your attention span. You are.
Personal productivity apps: a help? Or another source of procrastination?
Greater Manchester police tweet their workload, to prove a funding point and show the reality behind the statistics. (The three police Twitter accounts.)
Social Media
Finally, social networks may be catching on to how we live in the real world.
Evan Williams on decentralised social networks.
Not on Facebook? Facebook still knows you.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
Douglas Rushkoff on publishing, the internet and his new book Program or Be Programmed: "If you don't know anything about the software, then you are the software."
"The majority of Great Britain has yet to download an e-book and say they are unlikely to do so in the next six months," says a new survey by Book Marketing Limited.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
The Archivist: free, browser-based or stand-alone (Windows-only) utility to search, archive and analyse tweets.
Music
Soundart Radio 102.5 FM: award-winning experimental arts radio station, available online.
Games & Other Distractions
Infinite Blank: a multi-player online world, drawn by its players.
Miscellaneous
Atlas Obscura: "A compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities and esoterica"; a collaborative online cataloguing of the strange and wonderful sights and places that traditional guidebooks ignore.
Grain Edit: a design blog focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and the contemporary designers it continues to inspire.
Brian Dettmer performs autopsies on old books, carving them open to artfully reveal their insides: gallery 1; gallery 2.
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).
The Guardian's editor on the future of the fourth estate, and the launch of a new series of Comment is Free long-form blogs.
The internet is not ruining your attention span. You are.
Personal productivity apps: a help? Or another source of procrastination?
Greater Manchester police tweet their workload, to prove a funding point and show the reality behind the statistics. (The three police Twitter accounts.)
Social Media
Finally, social networks may be catching on to how we live in the real world.
Evan Williams on decentralised social networks.
Not on Facebook? Facebook still knows you.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
Douglas Rushkoff on publishing, the internet and his new book Program or Be Programmed: "If you don't know anything about the software, then you are the software."
"The majority of Great Britain has yet to download an e-book and say they are unlikely to do so in the next six months," says a new survey by Book Marketing Limited.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
The Archivist: free, browser-based or stand-alone (Windows-only) utility to search, archive and analyse tweets.
Music
Soundart Radio 102.5 FM: award-winning experimental arts radio station, available online.
Games & Other Distractions
Infinite Blank: a multi-player online world, drawn by its players.
Miscellaneous
Atlas Obscura: "A compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities and esoterica"; a collaborative online cataloguing of the strange and wonderful sights and places that traditional guidebooks ignore.
Grain Edit: a design blog focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and the contemporary designers it continues to inspire.
Brian Dettmer performs autopsies on old books, carving them open to artfully reveal their insides: gallery 1; gallery 2.
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