Kites Could Become Major Source Of Wind Power : CleanTechnica
According to Laddermill project leader Wubbo Ockels, kites are a cheap way to use energy higher up in the air, where winds carry more power due to high speeds (7 meters/sec). In contrast, turbines harvest energy closer to the ground, where wind speed is...

Seven Slow Movements And Memes That Can Change Our Lives : TreeHugger
[Slow] is a meme that has caught on, the idea that you take it slow, do it carefully, do it right and take the time to enjoy it. The idea can be applied to almost anything we do in life.

For the Elderly, Being Heard About Life’s End - New York Times
Grounded in research at the Dartmouth Medical School, slow medicine encourages physicians to put on the brakes when considering care that may have high risks and limited rewards for the elderly, and it educates patients and families how to push back...

Define Your Personal Leadership Vision - Stew Friedman
Leadership vision is an essential means for focusing attention on what matters most; what you want to accomplish in your life and what kind of leader you wish to be.

Webify Offline Content
Great article on how/why some offline content will or won't work online.

The girl in the window - St. Petersburg Times
Heart-breaking and uplifting story of Dani and her new family.

ACM Queue - Enterprise Search: Tough Stuff: When searching fewer documents, shouldn't it be easier to find what you're looking for?
Social Networks and Use-Based Relevance. An enormous proportion of an organization's intellectual capital resides as tacit knowledge. Social networks include the human element in the information ecosystem. Information usage patterns can be analyzed...

ACM Queue - Enterprise Search: Tough Stuff: When searching fewer documents, shouldn't it be easier to find what you're looking for?
Information extraction and text mining are useful tools for reducing tagging costs. Text mining uses linguistic, semantic, syntactic, statistical, and structural analysis to classify documents or extract persistent entities, facts, events, and their relat

Andrea Vialli - Menos é mais: grupos anti-consumismo ganham espaço com a internet
Na esteira de movimentos ambientalistas, anti-globalização e pró-direitos dos animais, entre outros, os grupos anti-consumismo ganham força a partir do fortalecimento das ONGs e da profusão das redes sociais na internet.

Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail - Yahoo! News
A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said...

Regator, The Social Blog Aggregator, Launches To The Public
Regator, the blog aggregator that acts like a mix between a standard RSS reader and Digg, has launched in public beta.

Is Wis.dm Your Next Web Obsession? - TIME
[A] new breed of social networking site that aims to bring people together based not on their school (as in Facebook), sexy pictures (MySpace) or job (LinkedIn), but rather on their own sense of humor and knack for keeping virtual conversations flowing.

Wis.dm Takes $5 Million
Social bookmarking service turned Q&A style site Wis.dm was taken $5 Million in a round led by North Bridge Venture Partners.

Wis.dm Takes a Simple Look at Q&A
The long-term vision is to match up potential friends and help silo Wis.dm users into interest groups. Matching people based on their answer history is also gives them a clear way to insert contextual advertising into the question stream.

Denver Women's Examiner - Five things you should know about your credit score - Examiner.com
5 Things You should Know About Your Credit Score - Article

How Content Marketing Will Shake the Tree
Content marketing, in my definition, is the ability to produce useful and entertaining information that is worthwhile on its own, but that might also be useful towards a sale or subsequent action. For instance, a really good review of a product from a...

developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library view
IBM Articles about AOP

Ten Newest and Most Effective Link Building Tips
Here are ten of the most effective and best link building methods out there. These have not yet been explored much or have not been given enough importance. Read and comment.

Mashups: Google's Adoption Makes oAuth a Must Have for All Apps - ReadWriteWeb
Open standard based user authentication protocol oAuth has now been implemented across all Google Data APIs, quickly offering this young standard for easy mashups more market validation than it's ever had before.

Mashups: Firefox May Go OAuth, Twitter Apps To Stop Asking for Your Password - ReadWriteWeb
Standards based user authentication protocols, and one called OAuth in particular, allow applications to send you back to home base with a request for permission to access your data - whether that's your email contacts, your Twitter account or other...

Girls' math skills now equal boys' - Education- msnbc.com
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys.

The Clever Monkey: Browser Wars II: The End of Ajax is here
End of AJAX because of the browserwar between IE and FF?

Coding In Paradise: What Is the Open Web and Why Is It Important?
The philosophy of 'open web' explained.

New development techniques using Opera Kestrel (9.5) - Opera Developer Community
Cool new stuff coming, like selecting a particular row in a table.

Krótka piłka - czyli epizod z Tomcatem | jdn.pl
Embedded Tomcat i Jetty howto

Special Report: The girl in the window | Tampabay.com • St. Petersburg Times
Incredible story about a feral girl found in Plant City and finally taken in by people that love her. Amazing. [via dooce.com]

What I Want PR and Marketing Professionals To Know
Since quite a number of people who swing by my blog are either in marketing or public relations, I wanted to address you specifically for a moment. I’m writing to you as part of this new version of media, one blogger not paid to blog, not working for...

How Digg.com uses the LAMP stack to scale upward
The site, which lets its users vote on, or "digg," their favorite news stories hosted on other sites, recently passed the 1.2 million-user mark. [...]Today, Digg.com boasts 100 servers scattered in multiple data centers that host a total of...

Gregory Szorc's blog - Digg, Facebook, Scaling, and PHP
When using the right tools, PHP can transition from an easily-maintained-scripting-language to an easily-maintained-scripting-language-that-can-scale-easily-and-save-you-a-lot-of-money. To make this happen, you need to employ some handy tools. Without...