Category: Friday Five

Friday Five: contextless links

Cleaning the RSS reader:

It was 20 years ago today that Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for an information management concept that became known as the World Wide Web. (See also here.)

March Madness: Syracuse vs. Connecticut. Longest. Basketball game. Ever.

Tech billionaires have lost a bunch of money — $81.5 billion — but are still collectively worth $203.4 billion.

Stewart vs. Kramer – BoingBoing’s take.

What to expect at SXSWi, the last in a four-part series (with links to parts one, two and three). Good reading for those of us who can’t go.

Bonus link: What not to expect at SXSWi, the top 10 questions a panel of branding experts not selected to present at SWSXi would have answered, had they been selected.

Friday Five: odds and sods, March 6, 2009

We’re getting ready for our annual St. Pat’s Week festivities here in Rolla, so that means light blogging ahead for the coming week. Hope these contextless links tide you over for a while.

1. Doodling: good for the brain. According to a new study, “doodlers actually remember more than nondoodlers when asked to retain tediously delivered information, like, say, during a boring meeting or a lecture” (via How blog).

2. Cloud computing: 10 questions answered, via HighEdWebTech.

3. Karlyn Morissette on the power of compliments.

4. Charlie Melichar on The ragged edge, where “messy can be strategic.”

5. For the music lovers: Thanks for sticking with me. Happy Friday.