Monthly Archives: November 2009

links for 2009-11-30

Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 by Rex Hammock

Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help | NYTimes.com People sometimes ask me why people contribute knowledge to a wiki like SmallBusiness.com. Now I can tell them that we're wired from birth to help. (tags: research)

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A 40-year-old hand-held, mobile reading device — and you can re-cycle it

Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 by Rex Hammock
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The end of the CrunchPad, the beginning of something else

Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 by Rex Hammock

I’ve always thought people drawn to creating content should probably steer clear of producing hardware on which to distribute that content. But from Edison to Sony (and Conde Nast, perhaps), there seems to be this belief that vertical integration of … Continue reading →

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Hints for creating small business and non-profit Twitter Lists

Posted on Friday, November 27, 2009 by Rex Hammock

[Notes: You can view all my "Thoughts on Twitter" posts displayed chronologically here: http://www.RexBlog.com/thoughts-on-twitter.] During the past few weeks, I’ve been spending a few minutes each day creating Twitter Lists as part of a set of directories on SmallBusiness.com (a … Continue reading →

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You don’t get Wikipedia, so stop trying

Posted on Monday, November 23, 2009 by Rex Hammock

For years, I’ve been reading that Wikipedia is dying. (Of course, on the internet, anything successful attracts an “is dying” movement.) Today, there’s a Wall Street Journal article that does a half-way decent job of glancing at the history of … Continue reading →

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