Go figure: self serving people and organizations overstated risks of various chemicals in order to advance their causes. Oh, and journalists swallowed them hook, line and sinker.

Good article on content development strategies for websites.

Google’s new centralized phone service. Among other things you can record calls on the fly by hitting “4” at any time and automatically have digital versions of the recording saved to your account. You can also route multiple phones through it. Sounds

Interesting site I found because he linked to one of my posts. Need to explore this whole shedworking thing.

A blog all about sheds.

Design blog piece on soft walls.

Seth Godin’s take on the shifting playing field for non-profits. Good thoughts on the changing engagement paradigm initiated by the internet.

How newspapers can work with public to create hyperlocal content.

This is awesome: DC Goodwill launches a fashion blog and then makes more selling the stuff mentioned in the blog via online auctions than they do in the stores.

The actual DC Goodwill fashion blog found via The Bivings Report.

Results of research into pharmaceutical marketing practices shows that the marketing does not unduly influence doctors’ prescription habits.

Website with North Carolina health statistics.

Matt points out we do a good job with data in half of the 4 W’s: When (GMT) and Where (GPS). The who and the what are not so good, but he sees that changing in 2008.

Airlines as social networks. Interesting concepts and implications.

A blog about maps that you wouldn’t want to navigate by. Includes map of “Lost” island, maps as cartoons/art, etc.

For Michael: a map of the island in Lost.

Using Google reader as a personal knowledge management tool.

I should probably follow his advise here, but I’ll need like 6 months to actually accomplish it.

Legal marketing association.

Story in the Greensboro News & Record about the battles that Westbend and Duplin wineries had to battle when they literally started the NC wine movement back in the 70s. Westbend is just down the road from our house so I always take special interest in N

Why network news sucks, by a former Dateline reporter.

Best practices for those who liveblog conferences.

Stapler that is very hard to describe but when you see it you get it. Great for anyone who needs to staple multiple pages in booklet style.

How do you keep expertise from getting in the way of innovation?

An amazing prosthetic arm developed by the company that created the Segway.

Blackwater’s holiday greeting. They have no problems putting Christ in Christmas.

Priests gone wild.

Nice explanation of what it means now that Warner (and the other labels besides Sony) are offering their catalogs in DRM-free (DRM = digital rights management) MP3 format.

Basic advice for anonymous, or as anonymous as easily possible, web surfing.

Search for any non-profits 990 and view them in PDF.

U.S. high school graduation rates are probably inflated due to biases in the data. One big number that caught my eye: in 2001 GED takers were 20% of HS graduates or equivalent. Another interesting factoid: the GED was created to give GIs returning from

Might be handy for C.

Need to see if this is available on Netflix.

Yikes! Beerflation.

Freakonomics on parenting.