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The Explosion of Digital Information (via Teknophilia)

This is a beautiful graphic. Where do you find all the good stuff?

The Explosion of Digital Information A fantastic visualization of the growth of digital information in recent years. See the full size here.   Terrific Visualization of Digital Information Explosion [via The Technology Liberation Front]   … Read More

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Twitter Statistics (via Teknophilia)

I didn’t know some of these things. MySpace is losing membership at an increasing rate. Do you think they are related? People jump ship for Twitter?

Twitter Statistics Gerardo Obieta created a beautiful “Twitter on Paper” infographic based on statistics that Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced at the Chirp Twitter conference in San Francisco. For the full size, click the infographic, or click here. … Read More

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I’ve been Interviewed! (via Teknophilia)

I’ve finally met someone famous! So when do you start charging for autographs?

I’ve been Interviewed! I’ve been interviewed! Another blog, Interviewed You, asked me a while ago if I would be willing to do an interview with them; and to which I happily responded. It’s just a few questions, with an example being: “Max Pen: Do you think technology is what is causing our civilization to stay on going, work? Teknophilia: I think technology plays a very large part in keeping our modern society running so smoothly. But I also feel that people are the dr … Read More

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Technofear and technojoy (via Teknophilia)

This guy usually has something interesting to say. I think these words ring true with the surprising popularity of the iPad are. Eddie Izzard is pretty cool too. If you have Netfix they have several of his performances.

Technofear and technojoy Technofear and technojoy are things that I feel come hand in hand; you simply can’t have one without the other. I know because I experience both on an almost daily basis. Eddie Izzard’s parody of these two emotions is funny because it’s true. Most computer issues aren’t actually cause by programming or hardware, they come because of poor usability. Hardware failu … Read More

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ManageFlitter Helps with Twitter Cleanup (via Teknophilia)

I am going to use this tool next. What a nice way to help curate the people who are actually going to benefit from you. On Twitter you get lots of followers who don’t have the best motivation. For example, sometimes you get spam/porn related people who you may not want.

ManageFlitter Helps with Twitter Cleanup If you have a lot of people who you follow on Twitter, it can get pretty confusing. ManageFlitter is a simple tool that helps you figure out who to follow, and who you should get rid of. ManageFlitter also tells you: who’s following you that you don’t follow back people you follow and don’t follow you back persons that tweets a lot who barely tweets inactive accounts To start, simply visit ManageFlitter, and you’ll be able to sign up with your Tw … Read More

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Robotic Drone Flies Itself by Looking at Landscape Below [via ieee Spectrum] (via Teknophilia)

Skynet is not too far off is it?

Robotic Drone Flies Itself by Looking at Landscape Below [via ieee Spectrum] ieee Spectrum “Robotic aircraft have taken to the skies, finding increasing use in military applications, law enforcement, environmental monitoring, and also becoming popular among hobbyists who want to build their own drones. These unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, have varied degrees of autonomy, though typically they depend on GPS and also on supervision from a human operator, who can send commands to the aircraft and receive images from its … Read More

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