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iPhone users find gadget-ownership three times more attractive than a college education in a person (in fact, more than anything else in a person), while the reverse is true for BlackBerry users. Both groups think old gadgets are a turnoff at a similar rate: 29 percent for BlackBerrys and 34 percent of iPhone users. (via Does Owning Old Gadgets Really Make You Less Attractive?

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les membres de réseaux sociaux ont 40% plus de chances d’aller dans un bar (via Les réseaux sociaux tissent des liens bien réels - Etreintes digitales)

Les reseaux rendent … alcoolique (??)

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Giulietta masina

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Alexey Galushkov

Retroatelier

Nice

Members of the public were asked to vote on 10 of the greatest achievements in science, engineering and technology, selected by the museum’s curators. Nearly 50,000 votes were cast by visitors to the museum’s London galleries and online via its website. (via X-ray voted most important modern discovery - Telegraph)

The poll, one of the events marking the museum’s centenary year, singled out the X-ray machine as the scientific advance with the greatest impact.

Penicillin came second, followed by the DNA double helix, the Apollo 10 capsule, the V2 rocket engine, Stephenson’s Rocket, the Pilot ACE - one of the first computers, the steam engine, the Model T Ford motor car, and the electric telegraph.

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David Bowie - Life On Mars

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Not fond of Bowie here but this one is decent

Gauging traffic to these sites is notoriously difficult. Digg, for example, gets a unique pageview from a shared link, even if the user doesn’t actually go to Digg.com. According to recent figures from Compete, Digg has 44 million unique users per month, StumbleUpon has 5 million unique users, and Delicious 1.5 million. Bob Buch, vice president of business development for Digg, argues that the first step for newspapers that want bookmarking to work is to trim the number of options they offer—what he jokingly refers to as “Iconistan”. Then, he suggests newspapers better integrate Digg into their site using a widget. Finally, he recommends that they think of the Web as a beat rather than a repository for print articles. (via Social Media ROI: Digging for Traffic - Newspaper Association of America: Advancing Newspaper Media for the 21st Century

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