Haven't kept up with my backpackit.com organizing/listage, so just logged in (almost forgot password) for first time since August.  I got a new welcome page and had a heart-stopping moment when I thought they'd deleted all my notes and lists!  But phew, no, all there still...

Bloody flickr!  Only three free 'sets' MY EYE!
*goes to picasa instead*

As a few of you have noted, FaceBook invites seem to be going around.  An interesting essay on MySpace vs FaceBook social dynamics and class division here: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html  (US focused of course).

"Most teens who exclusively use Facebook are familiar with and have an opinion about MySpace. These teens are very ( Read more... )

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Go bloggers! Sounds like it needs better organizing, but hope this takes off in Aust too:

http://www.nysun.com/article/50895

"A time-honored Washington practice of trying to extinguish, pre-empt, or redirect news coverage by dumping stacks of previously secret government documents ( Read more... )

An interesting digg-like website where you can rate how positive or negative you're feeling about a company due to a media story.  Eventually, as more people "score" a story/company, a kind of "social-regard" score will build up, which could be helpful to consumers and also let a company know what their consumers think about how they should be ( Read more... )

The complete works of Charles Darwin, online and searchable!  Cool!

Ketchup campaign.

Just fell in ♥ with Ok Go (Quicktime vid).

"...Where can you see lions? Only in Kenya...."

Weekend nice. Not as much guilt over work as I should have had, but quite enough thanks :)

[also Badgers]

(Need sound for full effect).