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"...a generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software such as forum systems, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code." [via stupidfool]

Nice post about commercial illustrator Frank Soltesz who drew cut-away illustrations in the 40's and 50's.

Visualize the most viewed wikipedia articles, or compare the views of different articles. Here's more information about the launch from Jeff Veen: Announcing Wikirank.

"I've always thought their status updates design was brilliant. Not because it was usable or attractive, I've always thought it was terrible. But because their design didn’t make promises they couldn’t keep." Painful and true advice: make sure you can deliver what you promise through design. [via rc3]

"The pupil measurements showed that 3-year-olds neither plan for the future nor live completely in the present. Instead, they call up the past as they need it."

Cameron expands on the Economist article: "...while the average Facebook user communicates with a small subset of their entire friend network, they maintain relationships with a group two times the size of this core."

"...people who are members of online social networks are not so much 'networking' as they are 'broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren't necessarily inside the Dunbar circle'..."

SBJ's talk at SXSW about the future of news. "...in times like these, when all that is solid is melting into air, as Marx said of another equally turbulent era, it's important that we try to imagine how we'd like the future to turn out and set our sights on that, and not just struggle to keep the past alive for a few more years."

"Las Vegas casinos increasingly pay attention to their customers - their likes, dislikes, moods and patterns - in order to create an engaging experience." This was my favorite talk at Gel 2008.

"What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09."

"It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves -- the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public -- has stopped being a problem."

Andy Baio and Joshua Shacter whip up a political blog ideology rating system by analyzing their linking patterns and scoring with Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).

Nice update of the Washington Post tax plan comparison graph that went around a while back, weighted by population.

"Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless drive on any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer." Cool, I've been wanting this feature for the iPhone. [via ckohtz]

Nice Flash control for navigating graphs by date.

Daytum is a home for collecting and communicating your daily data.

Greebles, Nurnies, Tiles, and Flair--a talk by Michal Migurski about interace design.

"For a planet plagued by rising energy prices and rising temperatures, better energy management has gigantic potential." Good summary of the current state of 'smart metering'. [via veen]

Frank Rich on Obama's overseas tour. [via TPM]

Blog by book cover designer shows how some covers evolve. [via Book Design Review]

Blog by Kevin Kelly about "Tools for knowing your own mind and body." [via peterme]

A Web2.0 presentation by Matt Jones and Tom Coates on organizing our personal data. [via peterme]

JavaScript library for creating graphs. [via Hackszine]

New IBM project for social data visualization and analysis. Could analyzing data with others be more popular than sharing photos and videos? ;) [via O'Reilly Radar]

great images from Wikipedia articles. It's unusual to me to see wikipedia content in a slightly different context. Similarly, there's Wikiworld Comics and the Picture of the day (a pod feed is only available offsite because Wikipedia doesn't provide one.)