image screenshot from web of fate a startup site called web of fate launched in july 02008 crowdsources a timeline of users predictions goals and other ideas about the future web of fate is a social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future and historical events. maybe its the liberal use of bold type that makes thi...
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... the wisdom of crowds and wikis. these collaborative efforts are being used to manage all sorts of information and in the case of facebook even to carry out language translation. but is this phenomas visualthesaurus.com points out in a recent interview with oxford english dictionary editor jesse sheidlower the oed has been using a type of crowdsourcing for years originally in a very lowtech mannerth...
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mark forbes was kind enough to introduce me to a neat little widget that i havent seen since its beta version many moons ago.a its a trippy thesaurus forget the analog and check out this cool tool when you need another word for the obvious.a really handy when trying to find out another word combo for a domain name as i was with new client thehiddenglobe.com cool website and detailed info to follow...
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vocs viram que tem navegador novo no pedao o nome cuil s deus sabe como pronuncia e parece bem bom. segundo a reportagem foi criado por ex funcionrios do google. eu gostei um thesaurus visual absolutamente sensacional tente mas no funcionou no firefox.......
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things im tracking for july 21st through july 25th is online advertising losing its luster imediaconnection.com randy pausch author of last lecture dies at 47 wsj.com apart from becoming more and more unpleasant recently business travel is also becoming far less necessary. with videoconferencing technologies improving and fuel prices rising more businessmen and women seem to be choosing the...
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annemieke marie farrow master of the portable portfolio today at 9 p.m. cst my time for 60 minutes check out the singing office animal shelter vs. school bus drivers joey fatone nsync and mel b. spice girls are on a fun mission to discover hidden talent in workplaces across america. mel b. is searching at the spcala while joey scours the pupil transportation cooperative. annemieke farrow daughter ...
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i had a tough time with this c.w. stewart puzzle. i eventually finished it without help but it wasnt easy. brian has already detailed the ball theme so ill leap right into the trouble spots. in the top right i had 8d. hey over here psst and 16d. hidecovered abode tepee and 31a. chef boyar dee. but the rest was a mystery until i was somehow able to come up with buttercup and 12d. nail down se...
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i drive a car with a stick shift and a clutch. ive been teaching my daughter to drive and i think what she hates most is stalling in traffic. since most people drive cars with automatic transmissions ill explain that to stall a standard what you need to do is engage the enginewhich is running at or near idle speedwith the wheelswhich are stopped without giving the car time to get rolling. the engi...
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biertijd.com media a train trip is this real tags video funny chinese internet censorship an inside look network world tags censorship internet china volume 13 number 3 3 march 2008 first monday an online peer reviewed academic journal tags web2.0 journal internet theory academic iraq war infographic movie data visualization visual design information aesthetics tags datavisualization ...
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words with many unrelated meanings word of the day malkin mokin malkin noun 1. an untidy woman a slattern. 2. a scarecrow or a grotesque effigy. 3. a mop made of a bundle or rags fastened to a stick. 4. a cat. 5. a hare. from middle english malkyn little molly diminutive of the name maud or mollymary. a related word is grimalkin referring to an old female cat or an illtemper...
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... girl a whippingtop. 4. a kind of harpoon with barbs for spearing fish. from spanish fisga fish spear. 5. a police informer. australian slang. todays word in visual thesaurus httpvisualthesaurus.comw1fizgig quote of the week a designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. antoine de saintexupery webs...
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...eg from late latin gamba hoof from greek kampe bend. verb tr. intr. to deceive or to fool. of uncertain origin perhaps from the game of backgammon. todays word in visual thesaurus httpvisualthesaurus.comw1gammon quote of the week a designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. antoine de saintexupery webs...
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its nothing privy i just have a thing for words and because today is national literature day its not ive filled this post with some wordrelevant oddsandends. theyre designed to facilitate creativity alleviate writers block and inspire. a kettle of hawks an army of frogs a destruction of catssupposedly all collective nouns. those ones they check out. but a vomit of goblins a cuckpowder of bull...
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seventeen years ago on april 10th 1991 a plane landed in john f. kennedy airport. that plane had just crossed the atlantic carrying amongst others passengers escaping the crumbling soviet empire. one of whom was me. i walked off that plane with a first ever taste of cocacola in my mouth a lame teenage mustache and not a clue about what to expect. when my sister emailed me on april 10th 2008 and re...
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writers block the dreaded enemy of all authors. this post features ideas on how you can scale it get over it and be on your merry way in a flash. 1. read blogs about your subject. 2. cover your computer screen and go stream of consciousness. 3. get some fresh air and go for a walkrun. 4. visit a museum. 5. browse photos at istockphoto.com. 6. interview people regarding your topic. 7. visit an onl...
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because im busy finishing a brief to change someones mind and greg mayat the california blog of appealis also engaged in making a living instead of answering my idle questions what they dont pay us to do this he sends along this link at raymond wards blog the new legal writer which links to a site well all be wanting to visitchangingminds.org is a web site covering all aspects of how we change wha...
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whether youre writing an ebook formatting it or trying to get the word out this list of resources will provide you with a launch pad. if you know of an additional resource that should be listed here email me travelwithme at gmail dot com. locating experts absolute write list your specialist subjects a fantastic list of people who are experts on a variety of topics. good for browsing if youre looki...
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visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. when data is large or abstract visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. another use of visualization is to map out your social network connections which lets you gain more insight into who your friends are and what they are doing. there are visualization tools for search music networks and almost anything...
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these are my links for october 16th through march 4th subprime works google docs an intro to the coming economic meltdown shakesville caffeinefree diet pepsi is the most hideous thing humans have ever created really scathing review of diet pepsi enturbulation.org view topic where did hubbard steal scientology from from a german book written in 1934 he had read once. now through the miracle...
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ddi per downloadblog.it se siete appassionati della lingua inglese o soprattutto delle parole e delle relazioni tra di esse allora non perdetevi visual thesaurus. si tratta di una specie di dizionario dei sinonimi costruito in maniera visuale che da la possibilita di vedere sinonimi contrari aggettivi e avverbi solitamente riferiti a una determinata parola. un utile strumento insomma per costruirs...
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