...might just be Zaya Taylor's fault.Found on F-listed.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Breakfast Granola for 8/14/9
The leading candidate for Most Useless Study/Most Obvious Headline of the Century (and possibly the Millennium): Report: Most Twitter Tweets 'Pointless Babble'.The study, conducted by Pear Analytics, explored a range of reasons users tweet on microblogging site Twitter.Which just goes to show that The Mine might be in the wrong business. Securing grants and other funding to study the painfully obvious is where it's at.
However, despite Twitter's recent news focus, the study found that the majority of tweets fell into the usage category of "Pointless Babble." Other reasons included conversational, pass-along value, spam, news and self-promotion.
"Mostly many people still perceive Twitter as just mindless babble of people telling you what they are doing minute-by-minute; as if you care they are eating a sandwich at the moment," said Ryan Kelly, a study researcher, in a blog post.
Found via Google News on CRN.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Aloha
Tiffanie Damian arrives to us from Hawaii. I don't believe she's related to Jozef de Veuster, but she's healing and soothing all the same.Found on F-listed.
Breakfast Granola for 8/13/9
Bar Rafaeli is likely the most interesting thing to come out of Israel since the Uzi submachinegun, but is she as dangerous?Found on Hollywood Tuna.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Between the sheets
I have no idea who Jessica Stroup is, but that's not important right now. What I want to know is if she's listening to the Isley Brothers.Found on F-listed.
Breakfast Granola for 8/12/9
Regex is something I wanted to learn, but didn't quite have the inclination to try to find out where to start. Well, thanks to Lifehacker, there's a primer on NetTuts+. Because in the war against information, knowing is half the...Oh crap, is that Snake Eyes?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Pride & Purpose?
Spotted this on a random peek at Google News:I'm really concerned that [Richmond (CA) Mayor Gayle McLaughlin] seems to have more of a personal agenda that may cloud her ability to effectively negotiate with Chevron. It's common practice for businesses to want and ask for tax reductions and its equally normal for city economic development officials (and that includes the Mayor) to structure rates that help businesses.I'm surprised that the blog's author, Zennie Abraham, seems surprised, but then he might not be hip to Gayle's Green nature. Richmond's reward for the shunning of Chevron is cleaner air and one less industry expanding its footprint, which is absolutely her goal.
In all of my years in the public sector I've not seen or met a Mayor that didn't understand that, but Mayor McLaughlin's a new breed of activist city official. That's all well and good for getting elected but it seems to cloud one's ability to conduct the business of maintaining a municipality's economy. One can have their personal beliefs but when a city's unemployment rate is at almost 20 percent as is the case in Richmond, its a recession, and the job base has decreased by over 50 percent in the last two years, it's time to be more pragmatic and less antagonistic.
Of course, the trade-off is that the near-20 percent unemployment rate doesn't decrease, Richmond doesn't collect taxes from industry that doesn't happen, and the city still has all of the lovely crime to contend with.
The "City of Pride & Purpose" does it again.
Breakfast Granola for 8/10/9
I do believe that only Jenna von Oÿ can save us from this strange Monday.Found on a purposeful hunt of the intergoogles.
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