Sina Weibo

Why You Might Join China’s Largest Social Network has a great summary of why Sina Weibo is well ahead of Facebook and Twitter in terms of features. Just wait until the English version is launched…

The effect of external brains

Minds like sieves looks at some new research on how the human brain is adjusting to the common availability of information (mostly on the world wide web). It suggests we are remembering less actual information and more about how to find information. This may or may...

America in decline

America in Decline sees Chomsky devastating and depressing on the state of politics in the US. e.g. transplant a UK-style health system (with all its flaws, but equivalent outcomes) and the US deficit would disappear.

Twitter Updates for 2011-08-09

Blog: Pour on water and help tidy up http://raggett.net/2011/08/09/pour-on-water-and-help-tidy-up/ # Blog: Tencent: March of the Penguins http://raggett.net/2011/08/09/tencent-march-of-the-penguins/ # Blog: Her maj, Korean style...

Google Voice is great value

Google Voice just charged me (USD) $0.40 for 30 minutes of calls to landlines to check that my London-based family was OK (answer: yes). Great value. If I had called mobiles, it would have cost $2.00. Again, great value. Easy to set up and only asks for a $10 credit...