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Largest Cities Through History The largest cities at moments in time, from Tertius Chandler's (somewhat controversial) compilation of the population of cities throughout history, Four Thousand… Read More »links for 2011-01-26

Food for Thinkers: The Rise of White People Food – Food – GOOD Critique of the NYTimes for overfocusing on a small subset of NYC… Read More »links for 2011-01-21

?! Mission-based game platform that encourages kids/teens to explore the real world and find answers to complex questions through experimentation. Team includes the SF0 guys…… Read More »links for 2011-01-17

Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter: Slang terms like y'all, yinz, koo, coo and suttin predict location of tweet authors Very clever. Using… Read More »links for 2011-01-08

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com) Really great Paul Ford essay on what sorts of behavior is native to the web, and how… Read More »links for 2011-01-07

Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution | Wired Science| Wired.com Jonah Lehrer's smart response to Gladwell on activism and social media. Actually, looks like it's weak… Read More »links for 2011-01-06