Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history

The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. A talk where Clay Shirky shows "how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly)."

Email Marketing Success Is About Relevance

Email marketing continues to be an effective, low-cost way to inform and retain current customers. Customers like receiving targeted messages from companies they care about. They like when they're emailed about things they've already shown in an interest in. And that's where the email thrives. [Small Business Trends]

What natural and economic disasters have in common

Parallels between the failures of man-made systems, such as the economy, and of similarly complex natural ones offer fascinating food for thought.
(In McKinsey Quarterly)

Google Searches for Ways to Keep Big Ideas at Home

From The Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. is revamping how it develops and prioritizes new products, giving employees a pipeline to the company's top brass amid worries about losing its best people and promising ideas to start-ups.

Free WordPress themes

Under-construction Wordpress free themes list: some cool but unuseful, some minimal but essential and many others in between. Sure you will find one for your needs. More on the way

100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009
15 Portfolio Themes for WordPress
20 Free Minimal Wordpress Themes
45 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes

Out now: WordPress 2.8 “Baker”

The new WordPress version WP2.8 “Baker” is now available for download. WP blog posted about improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, overall speed and over 790 fixed bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. This is a nice video overview of this new version:

Not 3, but 2010.

by ROBERT SCOBLE, @: http://scobleizer.com/2009/05/29/kara-is-wrong-about-2010web/
Via: http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/


The things that are happening are NOT just Twitter and search. Here, let me recount again what is making up the 2010 Web:

1. Real Time.
2. Mobile. 
3. Decentralized. 
4. Pre-made blocks.
5. Social. 
6. Smart. 
7. Hybrid infrastructure. 

How to use Google Bookmarks with Chrome

You may have been testing Chrome, the brand new browser from Google. And you may have questioned yourself how to sync Chrome bookmarks with Google Bookmarks.... That is not yet possible but you can use a bookmarklet to access your data on Google Bookmarks, in Google Chrome.

Sounds nice and is ready to use on Google Chrome help center.