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).
Author Steven Johnson on: innovation and where good ideas come from.
The latest hype, facts and general speculation about Facebook's omni-connected uber-messaging thing.
Google Maps error leads to border dispute in Central America. (Possible consequences of Google's move into fashion as yet unknown).
Alan Rusbridger on: why media organisations shouldn't ignore Twitter (extracted from his lecture 'The splintering of the fourth estate').
Apple and Murdoch to publish new daily newspaper exclusively on tablet computers.
Social Media
Twitter begins inviting selected users to its official Analytics offering, and apologising to third-party developers.
'Facebook Messages? Erm, good luck with that', says experienced email developer.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
A year in digital publishing: The Literary Platform asks publishers for their digital highlights from 2010 and predictions for 2011.
Lifehacker rounds up some handy online tools for language geeks.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
Quick tip: if your hard disk seems to be unexpectedly full, it might be worth checking that BBC iPlayer Desktop has been correctly deleting downloaded programmes from its repository. Another fix for the problem can be found here.
Music
All Day - Girl Talk: the latest release from mash-up specialist Gregg Gillis, free to download.
Games & Other Distractions
The Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast hosts a round-table discussion on storytelling in game design.
Miscellaneous
You Thought We Wouldn't Notice: a blog helping to expose art and design plagiarism.
'20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web': Google's new showcase of what we can expect from the web (and Google Chrome) post-HTML5.
What does Google know about you?
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).
Author Steven Johnson on: innovation and where good ideas come from.
The latest hype, facts and general speculation about Facebook's omni-connected uber-messaging thing.
Google Maps error leads to border dispute in Central America. (Possible consequences of Google's move into fashion as yet unknown).
Alan Rusbridger on: why media organisations shouldn't ignore Twitter (extracted from his lecture 'The splintering of the fourth estate').
Apple and Murdoch to publish new daily newspaper exclusively on tablet computers.
Social Media
Twitter begins inviting selected users to its official Analytics offering, and apologising to third-party developers.
'Facebook Messages? Erm, good luck with that', says experienced email developer.
Books, Writing & Storytelling
A year in digital publishing: The Literary Platform asks publishers for their digital highlights from 2010 and predictions for 2011.
Lifehacker rounds up some handy online tools for language geeks.
Useful Apps, Utilities & Downloads
Quick tip: if your hard disk seems to be unexpectedly full, it might be worth checking that BBC iPlayer Desktop has been correctly deleting downloaded programmes from its repository. Another fix for the problem can be found here.
Music
All Day - Girl Talk: the latest release from mash-up specialist Gregg Gillis, free to download.
Games & Other Distractions
The Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast hosts a round-table discussion on storytelling in game design.
Miscellaneous
You Thought We Wouldn't Notice: a blog helping to expose art and design plagiarism.
'20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web': Google's new showcase of what we can expect from the web (and Google Chrome) post-HTML5.
What does Google know about you?
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