Rajarahim 's Public Library

I’m not about to post a test button here! (In part because it’s the kind of ugly only a MySpace user could love.) I can imagine, though, that many people could find this very useful. Meena Trott from SixApart says that the future of social media online lies in very small groups - if you’ve got a friends-only profile page or some other way to reasonably expect a manageable number of messages then this might be just the service for you.

Photoshop allows you to create that ripped, torn and distressed effect that has been seen around lately. It's a simple practice in masking and brush settings. This tutorial will show you how to achieve that ripped effect with little effort, and a lot of flexibility.

The train of change has left the platform and there is no way that it will go back to where it was.’

o while most people can’t make a living this way, I would say that most smart people can.  What if you don’t know whether or not you qualify as smart?  Here’s a good rule of thumb:  If you have to ask the question, you aren’t.

If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral, unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines, then don’t commercialize it.

ia Heather Green at BusinessWeek, YouTube has announced that users can now upload video from their mobile devices.   This sounds like a very good move.  We'll see if it turns into a citizen journalism type thing, documentation like Peter Gabriel's Witness or just more trash like so much of YouTube.  The technology has a lo

Bloglines just announced support for flash-based items inside feeds, like YouTube videos.  Though I'm not a big Bloglines fan and I don't care for the now ubiquitous adjective "pimped" (see Ask ad highlighted on Bloglines news page - ok, I laughed anyway)

Text message your mobile friends.

Although not as powerful as the Diigo toolbar, Diigolet (a browser button) provides an alternative and easy solution to do all the basic "Diigo" functions, ie. highlight, annotate, bookmark and forward without a download.

Click it to highlight, comment, bookmark, and forward.

CORRUPTION

Corruption Perceptions Index (Transparency International)

Global-i is a 3-dimensional interactive globe that
displays information about the world in your browser. The Earth can be
rotated and inspected and displays can be changed to see information in
the most appropriate form.