• Facebook Grows Up: Can It Stay Relevant?
  (MSNBC)
  (tags: article facebook sns)
• HopStop
  subway and bus directions for select US cities (Chicago, SF, NYC, DC)
  (tags: maps directions tools)

• Worldmapper: The world as you’ve never seen it before
  “a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest’
  (tags: maps stats)
• techPresident
  “How the candidates are using the web, and how the web is using them.”
  (tags: blogs politics elections08)
• heard on tv
  finding music from TV shows (contribute info you know)
  (tags: tv music reference)
• Wikiscanner
  “List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations”
  (tags: tools wikis wikipedia)

• Sermo
  social networking for doctors
  (tags: sns health medicine social)
• INmobile.org
  “The Exclusive Community For Executives In Wireless”
  (tags: sns social wireless)
• AdGabber
  SNS for advertising professionals
  (tags: sns social ads)
• design:related
  “a social-based website that brings together creative people from different disciplines (and parts) of the design world”
  (tags: sns social design)
• Wonkosphere
  site tracking the political blogosphere’s coverage of the 2008 pres elections
  (tags: blogs politics elections08 blogosphere resources)
• Gender and Student Evaluations: An Annotated Bibliography
  research showing the gendered aspects of student evaluations
  (tags: teaching research gender)

• Twelve Tips for Growing Positive Communities Online
  (tags: community web internet tips social)
• 80 cool Photoshop text effects
  (tags: howto tips design graphics tutorial)
• Employers restricting Facebook access
  (tags: facebook sns workplace)

For months now I’ve been erasing all sorts of files from GMail as I neared my storage limit (right now above 88% despite all those deletions) so I was very happy to see that the company has finally rolled out a paid version. The jump between 6GB for $20 and 25GB for $75 (annual fees) seems a bit abrupt, but 6GB should last a while. (Yeah, I know, famous last words.)

• A Match Made In Romashka
  Article about two friends of mine getting married this weekend. I can’t wait for both the event at Joe’s Pub and the actual ceremony.
  (tags: article friends music)

• FERPA Allows More Than You May Realize
  The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act that protects student privacy is not as restrictive as many think
  (tags: education legal students article)
• World Toilet Organization
  who knew that such an organization exists?!
  (tags: organizations health education)

• Cardboard kids on the road slow drivers
  (tags: funny interesting news video)
• People of the Web – Strokes of Genius
  portrait of an artist with a large Web following
  (tags: arts artist video)

• Book Tackles Old Debate: Role of Art in Schools
  (NYTimes)
  (tags: arts education youth article nytimes)

• Subway Fun
  make your own NYC (MTA) out-of-service subway sign
  (tags: funny fun tools nyc subways)
• Image Generator Links 2007, Make Custom Graphics/Clipart Online
  (tags: tools graphics fun personalization)
• Golfland
  (tags: sports fun)
• The Presurfer
  “your daily dose of diversion” – that’s for sure
  (tags: random blogs)

• Melanie Kellar – Data Collection on the Web: Logging IE
  (tags: tools software)
• Research on Social Network Sites
  bibliography
  (tags: research sns reference)
• Goodbye to Newspapers? – The New York Review of Books
  (tags: ToRead books article)

• GoLoco
  ride sharing
  (tags: travel transportation environment social)