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06 Apr 2009 11:26

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Tech: Facebook’s big problem: Too many photos, too much content

  • $2 million amount Facebook reportedly spends each week on buying new servers for all of its fresh social networking data to keep all you annoying, fat users happy with them.
  • 850 million number of photos that get uploaded to Facebook each month, the biggest bandwidth-killer; they’re trying to stem the cost with a new system called Haystack. source
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03 Mar 2009 09:43

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Offbeat: Ah, porn. The one thing everybody’s wallets can agree on

  • When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different.
  • Benjamin Edelman • Harvard Business School professor, on a new study regarding pornography usage by region, a study based on anonymous credit card data nationwide. Red states like it a little more than blue, but everyone dips into the porn bin a little. (The top users? Utah and Mississippi.) • source
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02 Feb 2009 07:50

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U.S.: Despite tough economic times, welfare numbers are down

  • 18 states cut their welfare numbers in 2008; welfare was cut back in the ’90s in favor of encouraging work
  • -13% cut in Michigan’s welfare numbers despite the state’s high unemployment rate of over 9% source
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30 Jan 2009 09:45

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Music, Tech: Meet another kindred spirit of ours, Very Small Array

They have broken-down stats on Pitchfork’s (and Billboard’s) top 100 songs of the year. Whoa. source
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27 Jan 2009 11:56

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Tech: Meet our kindred spirit, the Sprint Now widget

Sprint’s latest advertising campaign is like a really, really busy ShortFormBlog. source
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27 Jan 2009 10:11

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Offbeat: A MP3 player with sensitive U.S. data crops up … in New Zealand?

  • He just wanted to listen to tunes. Chris Ogle, a 29-year-old New Zealand man, came upon the data when putting songs on his new tech toy. “The more I look at it,” Ogle says, “the more I see and the less I think I should be looking.” Most of the files are from 2005 and are unlikely to compromise security, but the files did include things such as social security numbers of troops. If asked, Ogle would give the MP3 player to the U.S. Government. source
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12 Jan 2009 12:35

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U.S.: The math of getting a traffic ticket in North Carolina

  • -1% drop in revenue in N.C. one year leads to a …
  • +30% increase in traffic tickets the next year source
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09 Jan 2009 22:48

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U.S.: Unemployment maps shouldn’t be cool. But this one is.

MSNBC broke down the numbers. Michigan is worst, obviously. source
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