FACEBOOK FUN
I saw a cool idea on techcrunch.com some time ago, where Frenchman Alexandre Oudin had made use of the small thumbnails on his Facebook page as a part of his profile picture. I thought I ought to try it out myself and here's the result:
SENTENCES YOU WILL …
... probably never read in a published article. I'm not exactly going for a Ph.D., but I've been reading a lot of articles the past months, so I found this one from PHD Comics quite nice:
GOOGLE DEPENDENT?
Thanks to @oddf, I'm sitting here, listening to NRK P2, where they discuss how Internet changes us, the way we work and the way we think.
On that note, I checked out my Google History, and realized that I use Google quite often and I thought I'd share the statistics with you.
Top 3 searches:
Top 3 searches, web addresses and popular links the past year.
Two of the three top links belong to my project, where I use TeXnicCenter to write my reports, and I work a lot at NTNU Nanolab. PHP is an interest of mine, and will probably stay on top of the list for quite some time :)
I'm pretty happy with the centre column, topped by the English and Norwegian Wikipedia. UbuntuForums.org reaches third thanks to my Radionette Menuett HTPC, running Ubuntu (lots to learn for year long Windows user).
The third column is also related to my HTPC and my project (LaTeX).
Daily and hourly search statistics:
Weekly search statistics
The weekly trend is that I'm quite "search happy" Monday through Thursday, while I do a little less searching during Friday and Saturday.
On the hourly chart, I guess I can say that for the most part, I go to bed before midnight. Further I seem to stop searching around 17-18 (maybe dinnertime), but I start again in the evening).
So what does this tell me?
To be honest, it was a bit scary to see how much I actually use Google. However, I found it quite interesting, and it relates well to my feeling of what I look up on the internet.
Hourly search statistics
WHAT REALLY MOTIVATES US
Another short post, this time with a great video I came across through Remi Allegre on Twitter. It a very neatly made presentation video about what really moticates us at home and in the workplace. It's a talk by Dan Pink at the RSA, and is really worth a look!
Eyjafjallajökull
I think that's how it's spelled, the name of the Icelandic volcano that has caused problems for European airtraffic the past month. Anyways, I came across a pretty neat time-lapse video of Eyjaf... the volcano. You can see it here or in HD if you click your way to Vimeo.