Blog-related
- The BBC Sound Index accumulates the top artists over several sites
- Improving reader comments (Freakonomics)
- Six mash-ups that inform you about music while you listen (Mashable)
- Leadership the Cosa Nostra (mafia) way (Guardian)
- Why software and media companies should sometimes encourage piracy (Slate)
- Gimmicky cameos to boost TV ratings (AV Club)
- Reuters’ attempt at the Semantic Web - Calais
- Cory Doctorow short story on branding (Adbusters)
- 7 random objects sold as exercise machines (Cracked)
Random
- Mad Magazine fold-ins (New York Times)
- 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of all time (Nerve)
- Create your own paper models of Dr Zoidberg, Kirby etc (Cubecraft)
- 20 respectable rock and rap acts that peaked with their debut albums (AV Club)
- Why Superman will always suck (Bamkapow)
- Look back at the Aeron Chair (as featured in one of Malcom Gladwell’s books) (Creative Review)
- Charlie Brooker’s top videogames (Guardian)
- 10 badass geeks (Always watching)
- Account of a man shut in a lift for 41 hours (New Yorker)
- We are powerless to resist web grazing (Wall Street Journal)
- What happens to lost airport luggage (BBC)
- Joe Queenan loves Keanu Reeves (Guardian)
- 100 best TV shows of all time (Time)
- The man that has written 200,000 books (New York Times)
- New 7 wonders of the world (Condé Nast Traveller)
- Typo hunt across America (new blog)
- The economics of happiness (Freakonomics)
I would particularly recommend
Blog-related: Six mash-ups that inform you about music while you listen, Leadership the Cosa Nostra (mafia) way and Why software and media companies should sometimes encourage piracy
Random: 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of all time, 20 respectable rock and rap acts that peaked with their debut albums, Look back at the Aeron Chair and Account of a man shut in a lift for 41 hours though the random section this week is of a particularly high quality, and I would recommend all of the links to those with a bit of time on their hands
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