Lazy Linking, 86th in an Occasional Series
What I liked lately on the Internets:
86.1 Mesmerizing time lapse video of Philly http://bit.ly/12dyFgm
@westphillylocal
86.2 Tina Fey’s lasting impact on the industry she so
ruthlessly and deliciously mocked http://nyti.ms/X1Kl07 @nytimes
86.3 ND literally on fire: now 2nd largest oil
producer in the US
http://bit.ly/WDJTH7 @kottke
86.4 Making OJ “1 of the most complex applications of
business analytics…1 quintillion decision variables” http://bit.ly/UKEQnV @consumerist
86.5 IMHO thus far the best and fairest coverage of the Penn
Alexander lottery decision http://bit.ly/W4TCqz @pkerkstra
Comments
86.1, 86.4, and
LOVED 86.5! I went ahead and bought an annual subscription to Forefront.
"Connecting cities and informing the people working to improve them." I'm staking my claim as one of those people, and my hope is that one day such work will be my day job and not something I have to beg, steal and borrow to do. Part of my willingness to subscribe is a hunch that reading it may actually help me make that transition.
I'm going to be scouring the website's archives for material on metro regions.
Keep in mind, I'm not an "I", I'm an "E"-- so that means when I see people tweeting, my instinct (often) is to tweet something back. And that's just Twitter-- don't get me started with Facebook. And LinkedIn has some interesting stuff going on on it too... Do you feel me? I could blow all my waking hours, doing nothing but reading blogs, commenting on them, tweeting, linking, liking, Digging, +1'ing... and then rinse and repeat.
Hey! I think I just discovered my new job!
There should be a search box in the upper left of my blog, where you can search.
Re: your question about Twitter, I almost rarely read my feed. You're right, even though I follow a relatively small number of people (~150), at any given time there might be dozens of interesting things I could look at. So I don't even bother, because I don't have the time.
I do like Twitter as a place to post things, whether for others to read and riff off of, for my mom to see what we're up to, or for me to document something to look at later. It's surprisingly often that all I have to say can be captured in well under 140 characters!